VictoriaB. Damiani, Ed.D., NCSP is a professor of educational and school psychology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and director of the IUP Center for Gifted Education.  She is past president of the Association of School Psychologists of PA and author of Crisis Prevention and Intervention: What Teachers Should Know, published in 2006 by Rowman and Littlefield. Her professional interests include gifted education, school crisis intervention, and families of exceptional children.  Before joining the faculty at IUP, Dr. Damiani was coordinator of psychological and outreach services at the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary.