Shawn Anderson, Ph.D. is the Director of Psychology and Psychology Training at Center for Behavioral Medicine and is an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She received her doctorate degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and is a graduate of the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr Anderson conducted research on competency restoration with individuals with developmental disabilities, the results of which were presented in 1998 at a Missouri Department of Mental Health forensic conference and published in the June 2002 issue of Law and Human Behavior.