Martha L. Deed
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CURRICULUM VITAE

Retired from the practice of Psychology

This page covers years through 2003
Publication credits through 2003 listed
Work history as a Psychologist not listed


Martha L. Deed, Ph.D.
1037 Sweeney Street
North Tonawanda, New York 14120
Telephone/Messages: (716) 695-3042


Grants
Community Activities
Publications and Presentations


Licensed Psychologist, New York State, 1971
Ph.D. Boston University, 1969
B.A. New School for Social Research, New York, New York 1964
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1959-1962

Certificat de Langue Francaise, Degre Moyen, Sorbonne, Paris, 1975

New York State Department of Health

1996 - Present Member, Medical Records Access Review Committee
1992 - 1996 Alternate, Medical Records Access Review Committee

American Psychological Association (Retired from membership, 2002)

1994 - 1995 Member, Advisory Board, Presidential Task Force on Family Violence
1990 - 1992 Member, Task Force on Child Custody (Division 35 Women)

Grants

1997 US Department Justice Community Oriented Police Services (COPS) grant for program
evaluation of a community domestic violence intervention project in Niagara County (NY)
administered by Niagara County Sheriff's Department. I did program evaluation projects.
1996 National Institutes of Justice grant for victim impact study of New York State's Family
Protection and Domestic Violence Intervention Act. I assisted in research design for
successful grant proposal, but did not participate in implementation of the grant.
1996 - 1997 Catholic Charities, Buffalo, NY Declined. Teaching grant. I had left the university.
1994 - 1995
1995 - 1996
Catholic Charities, Buffalo, NY. For curriculum development of batterers intervention program
internships for law students and teaching the curriculum
1995 - 1996
Summer 1996
Baldy Center, University at Buffalo. Research grants
1995 and 1996 New York State Bar Foundation grants for research on law school's impact on law students'
attitudes toward family violence and report and recommendations for continuing legal
education on family violence
1994 Multidisciplinary Pilot Program Grant, University at Buffalo, shared with other faculty to
develop family violence research program at the Law School
1993 - 1994 New York State Psychological Association, Clinical Division grant to study impact of
managed care on NYS psychologists private practice in Upstate and Western NY
1993 - 1994 Canadian-American Legal Studies grant from Canadian Consulate shared with other faculty
members to plan international conference of law students
1964 - 1969 As a graduate student: Fellowships from Boston University Graduate School, American
Friends Service Committee, Friends World Committee for Consultation

Community Activities

2001 - 2006 Member, Family Violence Intervention Project Advisory Board, Member of Education
Subcommittee, and Speaker, Niagara County (NY)
1998 - 2004 Mentor, Career Exploration Internship Program, Williamsville Central Schools
1994 - 2001 Member, Niagara County Domestic Violence Task Forces: Lockport, Niagara Falls (NY)
1999 - 2002 Red Cross Disaster Services Mental Health Volunteer, Buffalo, NY
1996 - 2000 Member, Health Subcommittee, Erie County Commission on the Status of Women. Helped
plan hearings, spoke at hearing on mental health needs of women and children
1994 Member, Long-Range Planning Study of Family Violence Needs in Erie County (NY) and
served on the Statistics Subcommittee. Conducted by Erie County Coalition Against Family
Violence


Publications and Presentations

Editorial

1989 - 2000 Contributing editor, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Anonymous peer review submissions
1994 - 1995 Reviewed drafts and rewrote protions of Violence Against the Family: Report of the
American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Violence and the
Family
(APA, 1996).
1994 Do I Really Want Managed Care? . Brochure written and designed by Deed for professional interdiciplinary publication by Psychological Association of Western New York (PAWNY), National Association of Social Workers, Society for Clinical Social Work, and Western New York Psychiatric Society.
1994 Referral Service: Comprehensive, Statewide, Psychological Services. Brochure concept and text. New York State Psychological Association.
1965 -1966 Edited Fritz Kunkel, M.D. The Psychology of Personal Crisis (Inward Light, 1966).
1956 - 1959 Editor-in-chief, reporter, page editor of high school newspaper: writing, editing, columnist,
page layouts, proofreading; Rockland County Journal News, proofreader as summer job.

Professional

Practice Alerts. 2002. NYSPA Notebook. (New York State Psychological Association). March/April 2002. Pp. 16, 21.

Book Review: Richard Davis: Facts and Fallacies. Readings: A Journal of Commentary and Book Reviews. 1999. 14(2): 25.

A Matter of Responsibility. 1998. Readings: A Journal of Commentary and Book Reviews. 13(4): 10-15.

Risk Management Practice Tips. NYSPA Notebook. 1998. 10(5): 12, 26.
Reports to the Niagara Falls Domestic Violence Intervention Program Task Force and to the COPS Grant Monitor:
Final Report: Niagara County Domestic Violence Intervention Task Force Meetings: January-December, 1997, December 1997.
Niagara Falls Domestic Violence Program in the News, December 1997.
Victim Impact Study: Preliminary Findings, February 1998.

Addressing Issues of Legal Practice Related to Family Violence Through Continuing Legal Education with Law Student Survey Results. A Report to the New York State Bar Association. Funded by the New York State Bar Foundation. 1997.

Custody Fights: A Triptych. 1996. Circles: The Buffalo Women's Journal of Law and and Social Policy, 6: 27-34 (with Millie Niss).

Solo Practitioners, Part I. 1994. NYSPA Notebook. November 6(7): 9, 27.
Solo Practitioners, Part II. 1995. NYS Psychologist January 7(1): 21,32.

Five Articles, other topics, NYSPA Notebook, 1995.

Mandated Reporting Revisited: Roe v. Superior Court. 1993. Law and Policy. 14: 219-239.

Court-Ordered Custody Evaluations: Helping or Victimizing Vulnerable Families. 1991. Psychotherapy 28:76-84. Digested in Clinical Research Digest 9 (July 1991): 2

Domestic Violence: Health Care Reform must provide for appropriate, comprehensive and compassionate treatment for the victims of domestic violence. Erie County Commission. 1994. Report of the Status of Women's Health in Erie County.July. Pp. 25-26.

Book Review: Oremland, Jerome. Interpretation and Interaction: Psychoanalysis or Psychotherapy? 1992. Readings. September.

Clinical Conflicts in the Child Sexual Abuse Arena .1988. Readings. December. Pp. 11-15.

At the Barricades: Maternity Re-examined. 1976. Journal of Pastoral Psychology. Fall-Winter. Pp. 55-60.

Major Patterns of Religious Commitment Among Members of the Religious Society of Friends. 1969. Boston University Doctoral Dissertation.

Attitudes of Four Religiously-oriented Psychotherapists. 1969. Pastoral Psychology. April. Pp. 39-44.

Itto-En: "Compound of One Light." 1967. The Journal of Religious Thought. 23: 61-73.

Attitudes of Four Religiously-oriented Psychotherapists. 1969. Pastoral Psychology. April. Pp. 39-44.

Zen: Direct Pointing at the Soul of Man. 1965. The Aryan Path. (India). October, November, December.

Steps Toward a Quaker Testimony on Racial Equality. 1965. Interracial News Service. 36.

Fifteen Years After. 1964. Fifteen year follow-up study of Displaced Persons resettled in the United States. Designed and conducted by me. Report co-authored with Truman Stehr. United Church Reports, United Church of Christ.

Refereed conference presentations

Building Program Evaluation and Domestic Violence Intervention Strategies from the Ground up by Utilizing Existing Community Resources. 1998. Paper presented at Program Evaluation and Family Violence Research: An International Conference, Durham, NH, (July 26-29). Co-authors: Mark A.Violante and Julie Vogt.

Images of Mothers and Daughters in Court-Ordered Custody Evaluations. 1996. Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland. July.

The Domestic Violence Intervention Project in Lockport, New York: First Year Observations. 1996. Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland. July.

Mandated Child Abuse Reporting, Confidentiality and Informed Consent: Ethical Implications. 1993. American Psychological Association, Toronto.

Organizing to Combat Unfair Insurance Practicies by Third-Party Payors. 1992. New York State Psychological Association Annual Meeting.

Perils of Psychotherapy with Custodially-Challenged Mothers. 1991. American Psychological Association, San Francisco. Reported in Behavior Today 22 (October 28, 1991): 1-3 and Psychotherapy Today 2 (November 1991): 3-5.

Educated American Women Abroad. 1975. American Psychological Association, Chicago (with Alexandra Kaplan).

Guest Lectures and Workshops

University at Buffalo School Psychology Department, School of Social Work, Law School; Buffalo State, Niagara University guest lectures on Mandated Abuse Reporting, Children and Divorce: Current Research, Domestic Violence (1992-1999).

Courtwatching in Amherst: Considerations and Guidelines, Amherst Domestic Violence Task Force (January 1995).

What Judges Can Do to Stop the Violence, Niagara County Coalition Against Domestic Violence (October 1994).

Presenter, Parent Education and Custody Effectiveness (PEACE) Program Pilot Project. 1993. Eighth Judicial District, Western New York.

Campus Sexual Harassment: From the Inside Out (public lecture) and
Childhood Abuse: Implications for Working with College Students, a workshop for deans and counselors. 1993. Two-day consultation at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.

Children of Violence 1992. Half-day workshop for teachers, West Seneca Public Schools.

Domestic Violence: Old Problems in New Guises. 1992. College Club. May.

Current Issues in Child Custody. 1991. (Faculty with Lenore Walker). All day Pre- convention seminar. American Psychological Association, San Francisco.

Working with Child and Adult Victims of Childhood Abuse. One - Three hour seminars for mental health professionals: Erie County Mental Health Services, Trocaire Conference on Child Care, Niagara County Child and Family Services, Hamburg, Counseling Center and Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital, Hamilton Ontario (1982-1985).


Freelance

Exhibits

Aftershocks: Impact of a Family Murder Four Years Later, Photographs and Text by Martha L. Deed. 2002. Safe Homes Conference, Niagara Falls, NY. May 2-3.

Fiction

Discovering Quakers I: "Au revoir, Paris!" 1976. Quaker Life. December. P. 38
Discovering Quakers II: First Meetings. 1977. Quaker Life. January. P. 38.
Discovering Quakers III: Among Friends in England. 1977. Quaker Life. February. P. 38

Non-Fiction

Art from Life. 2003. www.somedancersandmusicians.com

Annual Battle with Lawn brings untold Enjoyment. 2002. Op-ed for The Buffalo News. June 26. B8

A Community Walks Together: Michael Northrup's Acquittal Challenges Trinity Greece. 2002. Living Water. January. Pp. A,C.

Northrup Mistrial Satisfies No One. 2001. Opinion. Niagara Gazette. April 10. 9-A.

Those who are truly apologetic don't attempt to escape the consequences of their actions. 1998. Op-ed for The Buffalo News.
October 7. B-2

Violence Against Women, Abuse. 1998. Article for The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Boston , MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Losing Custody: A Commentary. 1994. Woman to Woman. Spring. P.3.

Behind Closed Doors: Escaping violence is not easy. Especially when it lives in your home. 1991. Buffalo Magazine (Buffalo News). November 3. Pp. 6-7, 9-13.

One Mother's Plea to her runaway Daughter. 1989. The Buffalo News. May 14. E1

Caught in the Custody Crunch.1989. The Buffalo News. August 25. Pp. C6, C7.

Runaway Justice 1988. Friendly Woman. 4(2): 6-7.

Building a Backyard Resort.1987. Homestyles. May/June 1987. Pp. 18-21.

Women Have Babies. 1979. Friendly Woman. 4(2): 6-7.

DaughterMotherDaughter. 1977 Friendly Woman. 2 Summer. Pp. 4-5.

Queries on Family Life. 1973. Friends General Conference Quarterly. Summer. P 7.

A Study of Quakers. 1970. Friends Journal and pamphlet. Popularization of my doctoral dissertation.

Steering Slowly Toward Regions of Light. 1966. Friends Journal. April 15. P. 201.

Photo Credits (In addition to web photo credits)

Living Water. 2002. Portrait.
New York Bar Foundation. 1997. Cover photograph for Report.
Homestyles. 1987. Two photographs.
Quaker Life. 1977. Portrait.

Poetry

Frigid. 2003. Stirring. September.
Research and Dire Predictions. 2003. Magazine Sudden (Canada).
Muse Interruptus, Helen's Pinks. 2003. Margaret's Garden (www.landofbrokenpromises.co.uk) Includes photographs.
Southern Fly Pie. 2003. Artvoice. April 23. P. 24.
Kayaking on the Erie Canal. 2003. Shampoo. February.
In a Kayak, Sibling Rivalry, Sixty. 2003. Miller's Pond Online. Spring.
Untitled, Poetry Shards, Blessing for a New Year (Poetry). 2001. The Awakenings Review. Vol. 1, Number 2: 89-90.
Touch-Points. 1968. Friends Journal. May 15., P. 240.
Children of Rufus. 1967. Quaker Life. June. P. 186.
Retreat. 1967. Friends Journal. January 1. P. 6.
Idolatry. 1967. Inward Light. Fall. P. 29.
Urbanization: A Fragment (1966). FLUX (Boston University School of Theology Newsletter), March 15. P. 4
For Jim Reeb (1965). Inward Light. Fall. P. 50.
Zen (1965). The Aryan Path, October. P. 2.

Web Art

Toilet. 2003. Collaboration with Millie Niss. Museum of the Essential and Beyond (www.arteonline.arq.br/museu). (Brazil). Lyrics and vocal by Deed.

The Vic-20, Resurrected by my Mother. 2002. Text by Millie Niss. Photographs by Deed. Museum of the Essential and Beyond/Attic (www.arteonline.arq.br/museu/attic). (Brazil).

Deedsquare (forthcoming) in "Sitting" a collaborative web art installation involving artists from the United States and United Kingdom. Forthcoming in Beehive.

Birth of a Fawn. 2003. Martha's Garden in Margaret's Garden (www.landofbrokenpromises.co.uk). Includes photographs.

Statement. 2003. www.erasures.net. Three pieces including photographs, graphics, texts.

Readings

Garage Sale read by invitation. 2003. Ecumenical Service for Domestic Violence victims and service providers, Youngstown
(NY) October 2, and at "The Bridge Walk" Ft. Erie (Ontario) October 22.

Featured Reader with other members of WRITE. 2003. Just Buffalo Literary Center Writers Group Series at Hibiscus Room, Buffalo.

Featured Reader with Mary O'Herron. 2003. Just Buffalo Literary Center Reading Series at Rust Belt Books, Buffalo. September 21.

Featured Reader with Millie Niss. 2003. The Screening Room, Amherst. August 31.

Featured Reader with Millie Niss. 2003. "Truckstop Intellectuals" (cable tv). July 11, 14 (repeat)

Talks

Jury System, People v. Montstream. 2001, 2002, 2003. Two days each year Holy Angels Academy students taking High School Law course.

Construction of a Crime: Church Members' Response to Family Violence. 2003. Women's group of Baptist Church in Newfane (May) and Lockport Clergy Association (September).

Writing Seminars and Instruction

Workshop with WRITE. 2003. Hope House, Buffalo, Poetry-to-Go
Personal Experience Writing. 1999. Writer's Conference, WNY Writing Project, Canisius College
Assist students at University at Buffalo Law School to write on law and mental health topics. 1994 - 1997
Publishing student writing, workshop. 1993. Carleton College