Interests

As of 1 July 2008 I am retired from my faculty position but continue to be active in research, advocacy, and clinical practice related to pain in childhood.

I am a clinical psychologist working in the areas of pain, pediatric psychology, and clinical health psychology. My research and clinical interests are mainly in the assessment and treatment of recurrent pain in children (e.g., stomach aches, headaches), and in measurement of pain in children.

See my list of publications and theses supervised to find out about my recent projects and collaborators.  With colleagues and students I formed a Research Group on Pain in Childhood at the University of Saskatchewan.

I am one of seven co-leaders of Pain in Child Health, a cross-Canada strategic research training program sponsored by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research with the goal of developing a community of researchers in pediatric pain.

I edit Pediatric Pain Letter which is published by the Special Interest Group on Pain in Childhood, International Association for the Study of Pain

In 1996-97 and again in 2000-01 and in 2004, I was on sabbatical in the Pain Research Unit at Sydney Children's Hospital in Australia; much of my research has been in collaboration with that group. 

One of my PhD students, Carrie Hicks, carried out an award-winning randomized study of internet-based psychological treatment for headaches and stomach aches in children and adolescents. The treatment manual is based on one written by Patrick McGrath for his Family Help program at Dalhousie University. More information about this study and about the treatment manual is available at www.usask.ca/childpain/research/hicks/ . Her study was published in Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 2006, 31(7), 721-734. Here is the abstract.

Clinical psychology training

Another area of interest is in the organization and accreditation of clinical psychology training programs. From 1994-98 I was a member of the Accreditation Panel of the Canadian Psychological Association. I have been associated with CPA- and/or APA-accredited clinical psychology doctoral and internship programs as a graduate student (1971-78), intern (1974-75), internship director (1982-89), faculty member (1978-present), and director of clinical psychology training (1997-2004). The Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan which I directed 1997-2004  is accredited by both the Canadian Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association to 2011.

Organizations to which I belong at present:

• International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) (member)
• IASP Special Interest Group on Pain in Childhood   (former Treasurer; current web site editor)
• Canadian Pain Society (member - former web site editor)
• American Pain Society (member)
• Society of Pediatric Psychology (member)
• Canadian Psychological Association (member, Health, Clinical, Developmental sections)
• College of Psychologists of Saskatchewan (Registered Doctoral Psychologist, #153)
• Psychological Society of Saskatchewan (member)
• Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology (listee #1845 - to end of 2009)
• Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards - Certificate of Professional Qualification in Psychology (#2553 - to end of 2008)

A few links of personal interest

• I like to play ukuleles and bake sourdough bread.
• I'm a member of the Unitarian Congregation of Saskatoon which is an affiliate of the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Canadian Unitarian Council.
• Here is some information about other past and present members of the von Baeyer family on the Web (on my brother's web site).
• I've been married since 1974 to another psychologist and we have two grownup children.