Richard P. Barth (Biographical Statement)Richard P. Barth is Dean, School of Social Work, University of Maryland. He has previously served as the Frank A. Daniels Distinguished Professor at the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1998-2006) and the Hutto Patterson Professor, School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley (1992-1998). His AB, MSW, and PHD are from Brown University and UC Berkeley, respectively.His books (all co-authored or co-edited, except the first) include Social and Cognitive Treatment of Children and Adolescents (1986), Preventing Adolescent Abuse (1992), From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning: Pathways Through Child Welfare Services (1992), Families Living with Drugs and HIV (1993), The Tender Years: Toward Developmentally-Sensitive Child Welfare Services (1998), The Child Welfare Challenge (1992, 2000, 2009), Beyond Common Sense: Child Welfare, Child-Well-Being, and the Evidence for Policy Reform (2006), and How Does Foster Care Work? International Evidence on Outcomes (in press). He has also authored more than 180 book chapters and articles, dating back to 1979. His research articles have been cited more than 1300 times, by other authors, according to the ISI. This work has benefited from the work of more than 150 different co-authors.He was the 1986 winner of the Frank Breul Prize for Excellence in Child Welfare Scholarship from the University of Chicago; a Fulbright Scholar in 1990 and 2006; the 1998 recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Research from the National Association of Social Workers; the 2005 winner of the Flynn Prize for Research; and the 2007 winner of the Peter Forsythe Award for Child Welfare Leadership from the American Public Human Services Association. He has been honored to testify before Congressional and state government sub-committees.He has directed more than 40 studies and perhaps, most significantly, served as Principal Investigator of Berkeley's Child Welfare Research Center from 1990 to 1996 and as Co-Principal Investigator of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, the first national study of child welfare services in the US. He has served as a lecturer and consultant to universities and governments in many states and countries. He has served on many editorial boards including Social Work, Research on Social Work Practice, Adoption Quarterly, Social Service Review, Social Work in Education, the International Journal of Social Welfare, and the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research. He served on the Board of SSWR from 2002-2006. He has also served on the boards of numerous child and family serving agencies.