Maura Wendland, Ph.D.

Education & Training:

• Undergraduate: B.A. (Psychology and Political Science), University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL;
• Postgraduate:
  • Ph.D. (Clinical Child Psychology):University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS;
  • Internship: Clinical Child/Pediatric Psychology: University of Florida Health Science Center, Gainesville, FL
• Postdoctoral Internship: Developmental Disabilities Center and Behavioral Pediatrics: University of Kansas Medical Center,Kansas City, KS

Licensure and Certification:

• Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board

Professional Societies:

• American Psychological Association (APA) Division 54: Society of Pediatric Psychology

Research Presentations:

• Lewis, R., Duke, M.W., & Walker, L.S. (1997, March). Mother’s perceptions of the causes and remedies for their children’s chronic abdominal pain. Poster presented at the Sixth Florida Conference on Child Health Care, Gainesville, FL.
• Duke, M., Jackson, Y., & Friesen, C. (2000, March). Perceptions of illness in children with recurrent abdominal pain. Poster session presented at the Great Lakes Conference on Child Health Care, Cleveland, OH.
• Kamps, D., Crockett, J., Lien, S., Duke, M., Sobel, A., & Kravitz, T. (2001, April). Utilizing prescriptive assessment to improve academic and behavioral functioning in elementary school children. Poster session presented at the Conference of the Council for Exceptional Children, Kansas City, KS.
• Duke, M., Jackson, & Friesen, C. (2001, April). Adaptive functioning in children with recurrent abdominal pain. Poster session presented at the Eighth Florida Conference on Child Health Care, Gainesville, FL.
• Crockett, J., Kamps, D., Swaggart, B., Lien, S., Sobel, A., & Duke, M. (2001, May). Prescriptive assessment procedures to improve early childhood services: A two-year review. Poster session presented at the Twenty-Seventh Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis, New Orleans, LA.
• Duke, M. & Kamps, D. (2002, May). Functional assessment as a tool for designing interventions for young students. Paper presented at the Twenty-Eighth Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Toronto, Canada.

Manuscripts in Submission:

• Gelfand, K, Reich, J., Duke, M., Geffken, G., & Storch, E. Intensive obsessive-compulsive treatment involving extinction and differential reinforcement (submitted to the Anxiety, Stress, and Coping: An International Journal)

Publications:

• Walker, L.S., Guite, J.W., Duke, M., Barnard, J.A., & Greene, J.W. (1998). Recurrent abdominal pain: A potential precursor of irritable bowel syndrome in adolescents and young adults? Journal of Pediatrics, 132 (6), 1010-1015.