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Family/Education: Sexual Abuse

Meredyth Goldberg Edelson

Meredyth Goldberg Edelson

Professor of Psychology

College of Liberal Arts

PhD University of Illinois
MA University of Illinois

Meredyth Goldberg Edelson is a clinical child psychologist who publishes and teaches on topics related to the psychopathology of children. She regularly offers a seminar on child sexual abuse, works one day a week at Liberty House—a local child abuse assessment center where she conducts interviews with children suspected of being abused—and has recently published research related to the legal outcomes of sexually abused children. Edelson specializes in abnormal child and adolescent psychology, including autism and other child/adolescent behavior disorders, and has published articles related to the intelligence of children with autism.