Samantha L Wilson, PhD

• Center for Child Development-Children's Wisconsin
  1250 N. 113th St., Ste 200
  Wauwatosa, WI 53226

Services

• Child development

I am the staff psychologist within the International Adoption Clinic at Children’s Wisconsin. In this role, I provide support to families at all stages of their adoption journeys, including pre-adoption education, initial consultation following a child’s immigration, developmental and psychosocial assessment, and child/family therapy. I have authored/co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in the areas of early child development and/or adoption and am a contributing author to two books on the post-adoption development of children adopted internationally. I serve as adjunct staff for the Wisconsin-based TIES Adoptive Family Travel program, a heritage travel experience for children and families. Though my clinical specialty pertains to psychosocial development of children adopted internationally, I also has clinical expertise in the mental health needs within domestic adoption and foster care. I am credentialed within Wisconsin as an Infant Mental Health Mentor (Level IV – Clinical), documenting my expertise attending to the social-emotional development of infants/toddlers. Along with direct service to children and families, I provide reflective supervision to Early Head Start home visitors within Waukesha and West Bend, WI.

Areas of Interest

• Child development
• Dyadic therapy
• International adoption

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Education

• 2006, St Louis University (MO), PhD

Fellowships

• 2008, Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center - Post Doctoral Internship in Early Childhood

Awards

Research

• Social-emotional and relationship development
• Trainee experiences during Global Health Medical Electives
• Adoption-Specific curriculum for medical trainees
• Heritage travel and Adoptee well-being

Publications