J. Christopher McGinnis, Ph.D.
Florida Licensed Psychologist PY6149
Maryland Licensed Psychologist 04483
Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA-D)
Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP)
Health Service Provider in Psychology (HSPP)
Trained
under the scientist-practitioner model, Dr. McGinnis is a behavioral
psychologist committed to the provision of effective, efficient,
evidence-based treatment with a supportive and empathetic touch.
A frequent
presenter around the community, Dr. McGinnis has co-authored a dozen
peer-reviewed articles in professional psychological and medical journals
including the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and the
Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. Besides serving as an ad
hoc manuscript reviewer for several professional scientific journals, his
editorial activities have included assisting with the National Autism
Center’s much acclaimed National
Standards Project (2009) as well as the National Association of School
Psychologists’ fourth edition of Best Practices in School Psychology
(2002) and second edition of Interventions for Academic and Behavior
Problems: Preventive and Remedial Approaches
(2002).
He is an
associate member of the Medical Staff of the Lee Memorial Health System and
has served as an adjunct faculty member within the College of Education at
Florida Gulf Coast University where he has taught graduate level courses. In
2004, he was appointed to the Executive Committee of the School Health
Advisory Committee which reports to the Superintendent of the School
District of Lee County in an advisory fashion on timely medical and mental
health issues. He has also served for a number of years as chairman of the
Professional Advisory Board of the Lee County chapter of CHADD (Children &
Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Following his tenure
on the board of directors of the national nonprofit Camelot Community Care,
Dr. McGinnis served as the inaugural chairman of the board of directors of
the regional nonprofit Children’s Network of Southwest Florida, the Lead
Agency for Florida DCF’s District 8, helping children throughout Lee,
Charlotte, Collier, Hendry, and Glades counties suffering from abuse,
neglect, and abandonment. He has worked with both the Infants and Toddlers
Early Intervention Program as well as with the institutionalized adult
mentally handicapped population in previous years. He currently is a member
of the Society for
Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics,
Association for Behavior
Analysis International,
Association of Professional
Behavior Analysts,
Florida Association for
Behavior Analysis,
National Association of School Psychologists,
Maryland Psychological Association, and the
Lee Physician
Hospital Organization.
His
education took him from Delaware to Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, and
finally Florida. He began college at the University of Delaware, earned his
B.A. degree in Psychology from Salisbury University in Maryland, and
received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in School Psychology from The University
of Southern Mississippi. He spent his internship year in Nebraska at Father
Flanagan’s Boys’ Home, perhaps better known as Boys Town, a training
rotation within the Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional
Psychology. His psychological residency was with the Family Psychology
Clinic in Fort Myers. Upon his move to Florida, he worked for two years as a
school psychologist for the School District of Lee County before earning his
licensure. He opened the McGinnis Psychology Group in January of 2004 after
five years at the Family Psychology Clinic.
Dr.
McGinnis’ primary professional interests include solving common problem
behaviors in childhood, the effective education of children with special
needs, radical acceptance approaches to the treatment of anxiety and
depresson, and the study of moral philosophy and its application in everyday
life.
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