Dr. Robin H. Gurwitch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. She is the Director of Early Childhood Intervention Services at the Child Study Center. Dr. Gurwitch earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is licensed as a psychologist and a marriage and family therapist. At the time of the bombing in Oklahoma City, Dr. Gurwitch was providing services to young children with behavioral and developmental difficulties. Because of her work, she was asked and then provided services to children impacted by the bombing. Dr. Gurwitch received grant funding to provide assessment and intervention services to children in the Oklahoma City Public School System, children from the YMCA damaged in the bombing, and to any other children and families seeking intervention services as a result of this trauma. She has co-authored several articles related to the trauma in Oklahoma City and made presentations on the local and national levels.
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