Marion Forgatch, Ph.D

Dr. Marion Forgatch's professional interests blend intervention and basic research. She began doing intervention under the tutelage of the OSLC group in the 1970's, working as a therapist and school specialist with families of youngsters referred for problems ranging from aggression to chronic delinquency.

In the 1990's, she shifted focus from clinical work to prevention, designing and evaluating interventions based on the OSLC parent management program (PMTO) to prevent conduct and substance problems with at-risk families.

Late in the 1990's, Dr. Forgatch extended small training projects into an implementation of PMTO nationwide in Norway by training and certifying communtiy mental health providers.