About Dr. Sanders
Dr. Tiffany Sanders is a graduate of the School Psychology Program at the University of Florida in the Department of Educational Psychology. She was conferred her Ph.D. in May of 2008 after successfully completing all graduate school requirements. Dr. Sanders also received her Master’s Degree in Education at the University of Florida and she obtained a Bachelor of Arts with honors in psychology and a minor in family and child studies from Northern Illinois University.
Dr. Sanders' specialization areas are diversity and multiculturalism and promoting parent involvement in education with minority and at-risk families. Dr. Sanders has finished her dissertation examining school level characteristics that impact African American parent involvement in education. She has conducted extensive research examining parenting styles and parenting practices that affect academic achievement and delinquency, parent perceptions of high stakes testing, and parent involvement in education. Dr. Sanders has presented at several national associations including the National Association of School Psychologists, Association of Multicultural Counseling and Development, and Nation Black Child Development Institute.
For three years as a graduate student at UF, Dr. Sanders taught Teaching Diverse Populations, an undergraduate course on diversity and multiculturalism which focused on encouraging inclusive educational opportunities for all students. For summer 2006, she was selected as a Multicultural Teaching Scholar for the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri -- Columbia. There she constructed and taught an undergraduate course on the Psychology of Race and Racism.
In the summer of 2007, Dr. Sanders was a member of a three-week clinical outreach team that conducted and participated in trainings with counselors and paraprofessionals working with survivors of domestic violence, HIV/AIDS patients and orphaned children in Botswana and South Africa.
Presently, Dr. Sanders has a clinical psychology internship with The Menta Group located in suburban Chicago. There she works as a clinician with youth who are at-risk for academic failure and behavioral problems. Dr. Sanders' responsibilities include designing clinical interventions to build the skills and competencies to promote academic and behavioral success necessary to excel in public schools and to function as an adult. She also provides crisis intervention, individual, group, and family therapy and consults with teachers and parents to best meet the academic and behavioral needs of students.
Dr. Sanders is currently writing a book to inform parents of tips to navigate their child's school which will be published in 2008. She also plans to release a children's picture book series in 2008.