Richard Niolon, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. After teaching part-time for four years, and twice being awarded the Adjunct Faculty Member of the Year award, he began work as a full-time faculty member in August, 2003. He continues to teach assessment coursework and chair dissertations, as well as oversee the development of the Systems Therapy, Family Therapy, and Couples Therapy intervention courses. He also chairs the School's Technology and Teaching Innovation Committee.

Professional interests include effective couples therapy, especially with adults who have already been divorced. He is also interested in Parental Capacity Assessments, an empirically-based evaluation of parenting ability developed by Dr. Niolon entailing observation of parent-child interactions to determine parenting style, the strength and quality of the parent-child bond, and the developmental needs of the family.

Dr. Niolon has ben in private practice for 10 years, and still maintains a private practice office where he specializes in couples therapy based on both traditional models such as Bowenian therapy, as well as modern and research based models such as the Sound Marital House by John and Julie Gottman. He focuses on communication and general relationship problems with straight and gay couples, as well as on second-marriages and step-family formation. Dr. Niolon is also a reviewer for PsycCritiques, and reviews scholarly publications for the American Psychological Association.

Of course, as you gathered from reading here, Dr. Niolon is also the webmaster for Psychpage.Com, a webpage primarily designed to make scientifically based psychological information available to the general public in plain English, as well as to make technology available to education through programs like Prof Aide.