Dr. Whittaker’s research and teaching interests encompass the integration of evidence-based practices into contemporary child & family services including residential treatment, therapeutic foster care and intensive community and family-centered treatment alternatives, child welfare history and cross-national comparisons of child and family policy and services. He holds an AB from Boston College and an MSW from the University of Michigan. A frequent contributor to the professional literature, Dr. Whittaker is author, co-author and editor of eight books and nearly 100 peer review papers and book chapters. In all, his works have been translated into Dutch, Danish, German, French, Italian, Japanese and Korean. He presently serves on the editorial review boards of a number of social service journals including: Social Service Review (U.S.); Journal of Public Child Welfare (U.S.); The British Journal of Social Work (U.K.); Child & Family Social Work (U.K.) ; International Journal of Child & Family Welfare (Belgium) and Child & Youth Services (U.S.). He is a founding member of IAOBER, The International Association for Outcome-Based Evaluation and Research on Family & Children’s Services (Padova, Italy) and an Associated Board member of EUSARF, the European Scientific Association for Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents (Groningen, The Netherlands).