Sheila Eyberg is a professor 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 Nicholas Hobbs Award from the Society for Children and Family Policy and Practice, 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. Eyberg have published and reviewed many articles throughout her career, and one of the most well known book she published was "Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Protocol" the 2011 edition.
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. She went on to receive her PhD in psychology at the University of Oregon in 1972.
After receiving her PhD, Eyberg held many academic positions including an assistant professor of Medical Psychology at Oregon Health Science University from 1974-1985 and then a visiting associate professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Florida from 1984–1985. Then from 1985–2005, she was professor of Clinical Health and Psychology at the University of Florida, and in 1987 she held the position of affiliate professor in pediatrics and in 1988 in psychology at the university, which she continues to hold. Later from 2003–2006, Eyberg was the University of Florida Foundation Research Professor and from 2003-2007 she was part of the Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. Eyberg also held the position of distinguished professor in the University of Florida from 2005 to the present 2019.
She was also recognized for many of the positions she held in hospitals and communities through the rewards she received. For one, she was an 2005 Honorary Consultant of Community Services Division of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals in Hong Kong, 2006 Atlantic Coast Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences Alliance Research Award from the University of Florida, and 2006 a fellow member of the American Academy of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
Eyberg's interests include clinical child psychology, behavioral assessment, parent-child interaction therapy and treatment research methodology. Eyberg is an Editorial Board Member for many different journals including Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Clinical Child and Family Review, and Child & Family Behavior Therapy. She is the past-president of Society of Pediatric Psychology, the past-president of Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (Division 37,APA) in 2001, the past-president of the Southeastern Psychology Association, and the past-president of the Division of Child, Youth and Family Services. She currently works at the University of Florida in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology as a professor.