Anita Barrows

Biography

B.A. English/Creative Writing, San Francisco State University, 1969 M.A. English Literature, Boston University, 1970 M.A. Italian Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1982 Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, The Wright Institute, 1988   Dr. Barrows came to psychology with a background in English and European literature. She is an internationally published poet and translator, as well as a clinical psychologist maintaining a private practice in Berkeley. She was awarded her doctorate from the Wright Institute in 1988, having specialized in child development and treatment, and she received pre- and postdoctoral training at the Department of Psychiatry and the Child Development Center at Children's Hospital Oakland, and in the pediatric trauma and oncology divisions at San Francisco General and Moffitt (University of California, San Francisco) Hospitals. Dr. Barrows' dissertation explored clinical approaches to the treatment of autism.

Research Interest

Clinical Psychology , pediatric trauma and oncology