Tom Dishion

Tom Dishion is Director of the Child and Family Center and Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. Previously a Research Scientists at the Oregon Social Learning Center, Dishion is responsible for ground breaking research on the way adolescent peer groups escalate substance use, delinquency, and violence. His program design and clinical work focus on family-centered interventions. He was the 2007 Bennett Lecturer in Prevention Science at Penn State University.