Douglas Arthur Quirk

Douglas Arthur Quirk, M.A., C. Psych. (1931-1997)

Douglas A. Quirk was born in India is the son of missionary parents and spent some time in boarding schools in England.  He was educated in the classics, as well as in the classical English music hall ballads.

He received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Toronto, and completed all of the requirements for his Ph.D. except for his dissertation – and he subsequently taught Psychology for Psychiatrists and Nurses in the U. of T. Department of Psychiatry for many years. He was a Clinical Fellow of the Ontario Society for Clinical Hypnosis, the Behavior Therapy and Research Society, and the American and Ontario Associations of Marriage and Family Counsellors, and he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Health.

At various times during his career, he served as consultant to the World Health Organization, (S.E. Asia Region), the Scarboro Foreign Missions Society (Toronto), the Canadian Institute of Stress (Toronto), Toronto Catholic Children’s Aid Society, York-Lea Mental Health Project (Toronto), the American Society for Humanistic Education, the Institute for Applied Psychology, Humanitas Systems (New York), Biomedical Engineering Associates (Toronto), North York General Hospital (Toronto), and Green Valley School & Hospital (Florida).

Doug was a prolific writer. His many publications included:

(1966) The Application of Learning Theories to Psychotherapy: Component Therapies and the Psychoses. Paper read at the Canadian Psychological Association Annual Convention

(1968) Former Alcoholics and Social Drinking: An Additional Observation. The Canadian Psychologist, 9, 498-499

(1976) O.P.A.’s Brief to the Royal Commission on Violence in the Communications Industry. The Ontario Psychologist, 8, Supplement

(1980) Nutrition and Crime: a review. Report Prepared for The Solicitor General of Canada

(1982) Biofeedback in Dangerous Offenders: Learning Normal Functioning of the Nervous System. Poster Session Paper, Ontario Psychological Association, Annual Convention

(1986) Nutrition and Violence. Invited Address, John Howard Society of Canada Conference

(1991) A Practical Measure of Offence Seriousness: Sentence Severity. Ontario Correctional Institute Research Report (RR91-1)

(1994) The nature and modification of criminality, Paper presented (with Reg Reynolds) at the Annual Convention of the Ontario Psychological Association.

From 1959 to 1967, he was Senior Psychologist at the Ontario Hospital, Toronto and, from 1961 to 1967, Director of the Behaviour Therapy Unit there.  From 1967 to 1971, he was Director of Clinical and Research Labs at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry.  Briefly, he was in full-time private practice; and then from 1975 to 1995, he was Senior Psychologist at the Ontario Correctional Institute.

Reg M. Reynolds

Reg M. Reynolds, Ph.D., C. Psych. (Retired)

Reg Reynolds was born in Grande Prairie, Alberta. He attended London Normal School (for teacher training) before becoming interested in psychology and special education. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Western Ontario, and his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo.

He was a psychologist for almost sixty years.  At various times during his career, he functioned as a counsellor and psychotherapist for individuals, couples, and groups; as Director of Vocational and Recreational Services at Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital; as Chief Psychologist at the Vanier Centre for Women, the Oakville Reception and Assessment Centre (for juveniles admitted to training school), and the Ontario Correctional Institute; as a consultant regarding the assessment and treatment of sex offenders; as a consultant regarding ethical issues; as Coordinating Psychologist for the Central Region of the Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General and Correctional Services; as a researcher; as a college lecturer; as an intern in, clinical member of, and board member of the Halton Centre for Childhood Sexual Abuse; as an intern, co-therapist and therapist in the treatment of spousal abuse; as a member of the Council of the College of Psychologists of Ontario; as a developer of biofeedback equipment and as a provider of biofeedback; as a student of education and special education; as a student of Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) and its application in the treatment of children with autism; as psychologist and Supervising Clinician in the Ontario Government’s Intensive Behavioural Intervention program for children with autism; as an educator of parents of children with autism; and, more recently, as clinical supervisor of ABA-based programs for children with autism.

He is the author and publisher of Teaching Children with Autism: An ABA Primer, and has several other books in press.