Sheila Eyberg

Sheila Eyberg is a professor emeritus at the University of Florida where she is a part of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. Eyberg was born in 1944, in Omaha, Nebraska to Clarence George and Geraldine Elizabeth Eyberg. She is recognized for developing parent–child interaction therapy. She is the president and CEO of the PCIT International.

Eyberg received numerous awards including the 2009 Trailblazer Award from the Child and Family Special Interest Group of the Association for Cognitive and BehavioralTherapies, 2008 Distinguished Career Award from the Society of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 2007 Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training Award from the American Psychological Association, and 2006 Atlantic Coast Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences Alliance Research Award from the University of Florida.

Biography Eyberg received her Bachelors of Arts from the University of Nebraska Omaha in 1967, and her Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from the University of Oregon in 1970 before becoming a medical psychology intern at Oregon Health and Science University in 1971. Other awards Eyberg received included, the past-president Society for Children and Family Policy and Practice(Division 37, APA) and Who's who of the Emerging Leaders in America. Not only had Eyberg contribute to many studies, but also took part in multiple professional service in this field. She was part of the board of director from 2005–2007 in the National Foundation for Mental Health and a member of the American Psychological Association from 1974–1984. and The Dyadic Parent-Child Interacting Coding System: Standardization and Validation.

Eyberg created a scale with colleague Donna Pincus, MA, called the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI) by using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). Eyberg examined interparent agreement using the ECBI. This study found strong associations between maternal and paternal reports.

In 1998, Eyberg and Elizabeth V Brestan reviewed psychological interventions for child conduct problems. In 2008, Eyberg, Melanie M Nelson and Stephen R Boggs wrote an article that reviews the literature from 1996 o 2007 and updated the 1998 Brestan and Eyberg report for children and adolescent behavior. In 1978, Sheila Eyberg and Arthur W Ross, wrote a paper that presented validation data for a behavioral inventory of child conduct problems. These studies all showed the way children behave, and showed the data of child conduct problems.

Representative publications

Boggs, S. R., Eyberg, S., & Reynolds, L. A. (1990). Concurrent validity of the Eyberg child behavior inventory. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 19(1), 75–78. Eisenstadt, T. H., McElreath, L. H., Eyberg, S., & Bodiford McNeil, C. (1994). Interparent agreement on the eyberg child behavior inventory. Child & Family Behavior Therapy, 16(1), 21–27. Funderburk, B. W., Eyberg, S. M., Rich, B. A., & Behar, L. (2003). Further psychometric evaluation of the Eyberg and Behar rating scales for parents and teachers of preschoolers. Early Education and Development, 14(1), 67–82.