Dr. Stuart Badner joined the faculty of PCOM in March 2001, and has 30 years of clinical experience working with diverse client populations within a variety of community mental health outpatient, inpatient, home-based, non-public, and public school settings.  Dr. Badner earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Miami, and his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Spalding University, where he received the Sister Agnes Raley Distinguished Graduate Award.

Dr. Badner has administratively and clinically supervised professional staff at bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels, and has been involved in several start-up and restructuring operations in helping promote organizational change.  Dr. Badner is also a member of the Red Cross' National Disaster Mental Health Response Team, and on September 11th responded to the Flight 93 plane crash in Western Pennsylvania where he provided a variety of mental health support services for the rescue workers and victim's families.

Dr. Badner is currently working as a licensed psychologist and certified school psychologist for Colonial Intermediate Unit 20.  Besides providing consultation, education, and evaluation services for students in both pre-school and school age settings, as the Program Coordinator of Transition Services, he was involved in the organization and development of Transition Services for special needs students, ages 14 and older, who presented with a wide range of disabilities.

Before joining the IU, Dr. Badner served as the Director of Children's Services for Northwestern Human Services, where he helped develop and coordinate an integrated system of care in the delivery of all children's clinical and professional services in Montgomery and Bucks Counties, including Residential, Therapeutic Foster Care, Community and Home-Based, Student Assistance, and Outpatient programs.  Dr. Badner also served as Northwestern Human Services' Regional Director for Community and Home-Based Services where he helped facilitate program development and the monitoring of all contracted obligations with federal, state, local, and other funding organizations across the Suburban Region.

Prior to joining Northwestern Human Services, Dr. Badner served as the Director of Clinical Services for Wordsworth at Shawnee, a residential treatment program for very difficult to treat and educate children and adolescents, where he helped develop and implement a full continuum of treatment and education services and authored a manual for the management of difficult behaviors.  While at Wordsworth, Dr. Badner co-chaired a conference with MCP Hahnemann University titled, "Best Practices and Clinical Approaches: Children and Adolescents with Serious Mental Illness."

Dr. Badner has given workshops and presentations on Multi-dimensional vs. Categorical Approaches to Treatment, Developing Program Specific Outcomes Measures, Seamless Models of Care in the Delivery of Children's Services, Prosocial Skills Development and Management of Difficult Behaviors in the Classroom, Diversity Education, Transition Services, and Disaster Response in School Settings; and co-authored a book chapter on Working with Family Systems from a Cognitive Behavioral Perspective in Educational Settings. 

Dr. Badner's clinical/research interests include working with difficult and hard to treat clients, behavior management systems for children and adolescents, clinical outcomes, families and organizational systems, program development and design, staff training and development, and critical incident stress management and debriefing.