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Dolores Subia BigFoot, PhD, is an enrolled member of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Department of Pediatrics, OUHSC. Dr. BigFoot is the Director of Project Making Medicine, a national training program for mental health providers in the treatment of child physical and sexual abuse and the newly funded Indian Country Child Trauma Center that is part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Dr. BigFoot is a doctoral-level counseling psychologist and provides consultation, training, and technical assistance to tribal, state, and federal agencies; mental health and family service agencies; and Indian Head Start programs in 22 states. Dr. BigFoot is recognized for her efforts to bring traditional Indian practices and beliefs into the formal teaching and instruction of Indian people and professionals working with Indian populations. Dr. BigFoot developed an American Indian parent training program which builds on the strengths of Indian parents, families, and communities to parent children. She co-authored, “Helping Indian Parents Discipline their Children,” a brochure distributed by the Prevent Child Abuse American that is being used by a number of tribes in their child abuse prevention and treatment programs. She has recently completed the IHS/BIA Handbook on Child Protection that will be distributed as a CD-ROM and web-based. In addition to those publications, she developed the cross cultural training manual, “Upon the Back of a Turtle” and the OVC Monograph Series for Indian Country consisting of 15 publications directed at criminal justice personnel. Dr. BigFoot provides clinical services in treatment of adolescent sex offenders and Parent Child Interaction Therapy. |
