R. Chris Barden, Ph.D., J.D.
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- 5193 Black Oaks Court North, Plymouth, MN 55446, USA
- 801-230-8328
- psyris.com/rchrisbarden
Company Name: RC Barden & Associates
Blog Address: http://psyris.com/rchrisbarden
Education and Credentials:
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Child and Adult Clinical Psychology - 1982
J.D. cum laude Harvard Law School - 1992
L.P. Licensed Psychologist Texas (1984 to the present ) #22624
L.P. Licensed Psychologist Minnesota (1988 to the present ) #1460
Licensed Attorney at Law, Minnesota (1992 to the present) and many other states pro hac vice.
National Research Award for Young Scholars in Social and Affective Development, Foundation for Child Development, 1982 - 1983.
National Research Award W. T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholar Award (Coping and Resilience) 1987.
Harvard Medical School / Harvard Law School, Law & Psychology Program , 1992
J.D. cum laude Harvard Law School - 1992
L.P. Licensed Psychologist Texas (1984 to the present ) #22624
L.P. Licensed Psychologist Minnesota (1988 to the present ) #1460
Licensed Attorney at Law, Minnesota (1992 to the present) and many other states pro hac vice.
National Research Award for Young Scholars in Social and Affective Development, Foundation for Child Development, 1982 - 1983.
National Research Award W. T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholar Award (Coping and Resilience) 1987.
Harvard Medical School / Harvard Law School, Law & Psychology Program , 1992
Specialties:
- Dr. Barden has testified as an expert witness in over 20 states in multiple areas of knowledge including: Child Psychology, Adult Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Methodology, Investigative Methods, Memory-Suggestibility-False Memory, Parental Alienation Processes, Proper and Improper Interviewing Methods with Children, Proper and Improper Criminal Investigative Methods, Coping and Resilience in Children, Families, and Adults, Borderline Personality Disorder in a Parent, Major Depression in a Parents, Proper and Improper forms of Psychotherapy, Optimal and Non-Optimal Educational Environments. Daubert hearings (junk science and controversial expert testimony). Licensing, Ethics, and related issues and others.
Experience:
R. Christopher Barden, J.D., Ph.D., LP is a licensed attorney, licensed psychologist, research scientist, speaker, writer, expert witness, and national science-litigation-legislation consultant. He has published in the leading journals and texts in child psychology, social psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, surgery, pediatrics, and law. Dr. Barden has helped draft and enact successful legislation to reform the U.S. emergency medical system for children. As an attorney, Dr. Barden’s litigation clients have received a world record jury verdict and a world record settlement in complex health care-science litigation. Dr. Barden has published in, and/or served as an editor or reviewer for, several of the most highly regarded journals and texts in a number of professional fields including Developmental Psychology, Child Development, Psychological Bulletin, Cognitive Therapy and Research, Ambulatory Pediatrics, Advances in Child Clinical Psychology, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the Harvard Journal on Legislation.
Dr. Barden has held university faculty positions in a graduate science department, a medical school, and law school. He has given invited national training addresses to the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Bar Association, the U.S. Surgeon General's Conference, the International Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, the United States Military Academy at West Point, at the International Sports Psychology meetings of the Beijing Olympics, and to other groups. Dr. Barden has also testified as an expert witness in state and federal courts on psychological, scientific and/or legal issues and before several state legislatures. Dr. Barden has also provided training and consultation to state and federal investigators including F.B.I., Sheriffs’ Office staff and Police Investigators. He has also served as a member of a State Higher Education Coordinating Board (MN), a member of a State Licensing Board of Psychology (MN), and a State Special Assistant Attorney General (UT) prosecuting misconduct by mental health professionals.
PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAINING: Dr. Barden received his training in psychology from the University of Minnesota, the University of California at Berkeley, and the U.S. Veterans Administration/Stanford University Medical Center with additional specialty training at the Harvard Medical School/Harvard Law School Program in Forensic Psychology/Psychiatry. As a result of his research and publishing efforts in the field of psychology, Dr. Barden received several Fellowships from the National Institute of Mental Health and was awarded a national Young Scholar Award from the Foundation for Child Development and a national Faculty Scholar Award from the W. T. Grant Foundation.
LEGAL TRAINING: After years of psychological research, teaching and clinical work, Dr. Barden turned his attention to legislative, social and public service issues. As the psychologist for the Craniofacial Surgical Teams of the University of Utah School of Medicine and the Humana International Craniofacial Institute, Dr. Barden studied the ways children, families, and adults cope with highly stressful and traumatic situations. Intrigued by the legislative and public policy issues such patients presented, Dr. Barden attended Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude) with additional specialty training at the Harvard Medical School/Harvard Law School Program in Forensic Psychology/Psychiatry.
LEGISLATIVE REFORMS: With colleagues in law, medicine and public policy, Dr. Barden drafted the Emergency Medical System for Children Act -- model legislation mandating improvements in the emergency medical system for children. This work was published in the Harvard Journal on Legislation. Some version of this legislation has apparently been adopted in more than 20 states. Dr. Barden wrote the “Truth and Responsibility in Mental Health Practices Act” and has worked to draft and enact multiple laws banning “rebirthing therapy”, ending “coercive holding therapy”, and preventing the abuse of committed patients in experimental drug studies.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY REFORMS: Following successful efforts to reform the Emergency Medical System for Children, Dr. Barden began systematic efforts to reform the mental health system. Using a five prong approach of education, regulation, litigation, legislation and prosecution Dr. Barden focused on eliminating dangerous, pseudoscientific notions such as "recovered memory therapy", "multiple personality disorder" and coercive "holding therapies". Thanks to the collaborative, multidisciplinary efforts of scientists, concerned families, mental health practitioners and attorneys, after years of successful civil litigation, legislative hearings, prosecutions and licensing actions these dangerous, junk-science methods and procedures have been greatly reduced or eradicated across the United States. Dr. Barden’s current projects include reform efforts in the family law, mental health licensing, public education and criminal justice systems.
RESILIENCE & PERFORMANCE PSYCHOLOGY: Dr. Barden is also working on the development of Optimal Performance Systems™ (OPS™), a science-based, performance enhancement program for students, athletes and professionals. OPS™ is the result of Dr. Barden’s performance consulting work with Harvard Law students, Harvard College students, NBA All-stars, Olympic athletes, surgeons, attorneys, military leaders, the F.B.I., and business leaders.
MEDIA: Dr. Barden has been interviewed regarding complex science and legal issues by U.S. Congressional Quarterly, CBS 60 Minutes, ABC NIGHTLINE, the CBS Evening News, TIME Magazine, Newsweek Magazine, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT Magazine, INSIGHT Magazine, THE NEW YORKER, the L.A. Times, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the London BBC, U.S. National Public Radio, ABC NEWS 20/20, National German Television, National Finnish Television, 60 Minutes Australia, Canadian Public Radio, PBS FRONTLINE, NBC DATELINE and many other media sources.
Dr. Barden has held university faculty positions in a graduate science department, a medical school, and law school. He has given invited national training addresses to the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Bar Association, the U.S. Surgeon General's Conference, the International Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, the United States Military Academy at West Point, at the International Sports Psychology meetings of the Beijing Olympics, and to other groups. Dr. Barden has also testified as an expert witness in state and federal courts on psychological, scientific and/or legal issues and before several state legislatures. Dr. Barden has also provided training and consultation to state and federal investigators including F.B.I., Sheriffs’ Office staff and Police Investigators. He has also served as a member of a State Higher Education Coordinating Board (MN), a member of a State Licensing Board of Psychology (MN), and a State Special Assistant Attorney General (UT) prosecuting misconduct by mental health professionals.
PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAINING: Dr. Barden received his training in psychology from the University of Minnesota, the University of California at Berkeley, and the U.S. Veterans Administration/Stanford University Medical Center with additional specialty training at the Harvard Medical School/Harvard Law School Program in Forensic Psychology/Psychiatry. As a result of his research and publishing efforts in the field of psychology, Dr. Barden received several Fellowships from the National Institute of Mental Health and was awarded a national Young Scholar Award from the Foundation for Child Development and a national Faculty Scholar Award from the W. T. Grant Foundation.
LEGAL TRAINING: After years of psychological research, teaching and clinical work, Dr. Barden turned his attention to legislative, social and public service issues. As the psychologist for the Craniofacial Surgical Teams of the University of Utah School of Medicine and the Humana International Craniofacial Institute, Dr. Barden studied the ways children, families, and adults cope with highly stressful and traumatic situations. Intrigued by the legislative and public policy issues such patients presented, Dr. Barden attended Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude) with additional specialty training at the Harvard Medical School/Harvard Law School Program in Forensic Psychology/Psychiatry.
LEGISLATIVE REFORMS: With colleagues in law, medicine and public policy, Dr. Barden drafted the Emergency Medical System for Children Act -- model legislation mandating improvements in the emergency medical system for children. This work was published in the Harvard Journal on Legislation. Some version of this legislation has apparently been adopted in more than 20 states. Dr. Barden wrote the “Truth and Responsibility in Mental Health Practices Act” and has worked to draft and enact multiple laws banning “rebirthing therapy”, ending “coercive holding therapy”, and preventing the abuse of committed patients in experimental drug studies.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY REFORMS: Following successful efforts to reform the Emergency Medical System for Children, Dr. Barden began systematic efforts to reform the mental health system. Using a five prong approach of education, regulation, litigation, legislation and prosecution Dr. Barden focused on eliminating dangerous, pseudoscientific notions such as "recovered memory therapy", "multiple personality disorder" and coercive "holding therapies". Thanks to the collaborative, multidisciplinary efforts of scientists, concerned families, mental health practitioners and attorneys, after years of successful civil litigation, legislative hearings, prosecutions and licensing actions these dangerous, junk-science methods and procedures have been greatly reduced or eradicated across the United States. Dr. Barden’s current projects include reform efforts in the family law, mental health licensing, public education and criminal justice systems.
RESILIENCE & PERFORMANCE PSYCHOLOGY: Dr. Barden is also working on the development of Optimal Performance Systems™ (OPS™), a science-based, performance enhancement program for students, athletes and professionals. OPS™ is the result of Dr. Barden’s performance consulting work with Harvard Law students, Harvard College students, NBA All-stars, Olympic athletes, surgeons, attorneys, military leaders, the F.B.I., and business leaders.
MEDIA: Dr. Barden has been interviewed regarding complex science and legal issues by U.S. Congressional Quarterly, CBS 60 Minutes, ABC NIGHTLINE, the CBS Evening News, TIME Magazine, Newsweek Magazine, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT Magazine, INSIGHT Magazine, THE NEW YORKER, the L.A. Times, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the London BBC, U.S. National Public Radio, ABC NEWS 20/20, National German Television, National Finnish Television, 60 Minutes Australia, Canadian Public Radio, PBS FRONTLINE, NBC DATELINE and many other media sources.
Years in Practice: Psychology 1984-present ; Law 1992-present
Number of Times Deposed/Testified in Last 4 Yrs: 1 to 5 per yr.
Listing Attachments:
– Dr. Barden has testified as an expert witness in over 20 states in multiple areas of knowledge including: Child Psychology, Adult Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Methodology, Investigative Methods, Memory-Suggestibility-False Memory, Parental Alienation Processes, Proper and Improper Interviewing Methods with Children, Proper and Improper Criminal Investigative Methods, Coping and Resilience in Children, Families, and Adults, Borderline Personality Disorder in a Parent, Major Depression in a Parents, Proper and Improper forms of Psychotherapy, Optimal and Non-Optimal Educational Environments. Daubert hearings (junk science and controversial expert testimony). Licensing, Ethics, and related issues and others.