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Success
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"I am grateful to Baybridge Clubhouse for supporting my
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Executive
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Clinical Leadership
Walter P. Christian, Ph.D., ABPP, ABBP
President and Chief Executive Officer
Walter P. Christian, Ph.D., ABPP, ABBP, is President and Chief Executive
Officer of May Institute. Since he began his leadership of the
May Institute in 1978, the Institute has grown from one school for
autistic children to a comprehensive network of over 200 service locations
in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and on the West Coast. During that time, the Institute has earned an international
reputation for providing outstanding educational, rehabilitative, and behavioral healthcare services to more than 25,000 individuals and their families every year.
In 2008, Dr. Christian was honored with the Boston Business Journal’s “Champions in Health Care” Lifetime Achievement Award for providing the vision and leadership that have guided the Institute’s growth and success for 30 years.
Dr. Christian is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA) International,
the Association of Mental Health Administrators, and the American
Academy of Behavior Psychology. He holds faculty appointments at
Boston University School of Medicine, the University of Kansas,
and Northeastern University. He has also held appointments
at Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, and at the Developmental Evaluation Center at
Children's Hospital in Boston. He has served as an expert consultant
to the Special Litigation Section, Civil Rights Division of the
U.S. Department of Justice.
Dr. Christian earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Auburn
University and was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral
Fellow at the National Asthma Center in Denver, Colorado. He is
a licensed psychologist (Massachusetts, Georgia, and Florida) and
is board certified in behavior therapy (ABBP) and behavioral psychology
(ABPP).
The author of nine books and over 60 articles and chapters on human service management, organizational development, client rights and service programming, Dr. Christian has made a lasting contribution to the field. His books include: Preservation of Client Rights (1981), Effective Management in Human Services (1983), Programming Effective Human Services (1984), and Behavior Analysis and Therapy in Residential Programs (1986).
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