Department of Psychology

Michael M. Steele is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Auburn University. He earned both a Master of Arts degree and a Ph.D. in Clinical Child Psychology from the University of Kansas. More recently, he completed a predoctoral internship in pediatric and clinical child psychology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center. Dr. Steele has been trained in general clinical child and adolescent psychology, as well as pediatric psychology with a subspecialty in child obesity treatment. Research interests include the development and validation of health outcome measures for pediatric populations, adherence assessment in the context of pediatric obesity intervention, and program evaluation.

Dr. Steele also supervises the clinical work of doctoral students from the clinical psychology doctoral program who are working with children and adolescents in the Auburn University Psychological Service Clinic.

• 2000, B.S. in Psychology, Utah State University
• 2004, M.A. in Clinical Child Psychology, The University of Kansas
• 2007, Ph.D. in Clinical Child Psychology, The University of Kansas

• Steele, M. M., Steele, R. G., & Varni, J. W. (in press). The reliability and validity of the Oral Health Scale of the PedsQL™: Measuring the relationship between child oral health and health related quality of life. Children's Health Care.
• Steele, M. M., Steele, R. G., & Hunter, H. (2009). Family adherence as a predictor of child outcome in pediatric obesity intervention: Different outcomes for self-report and objective measures. Children's Health Care, 38, 64-75.
• Hunter, H. L., Steele, R. G., & Steele, M. M. (2008). Family based treatment for pediatric overweight: Parental weight loss as a predictor of children's treatment success. Children's Health Care, 37, 112 - 126.
• Steele, M. M., Mitchell, M. C., Roberts, M. C., & Steele, R. G. (2007). Examining the influence of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology: An empirical approach. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 32, 150 - 153.
• Lassen, S. R., Steele, M. M., & Sailor, W. (2006). Implementing school-wide positive behavior support in an urban middle school. School Psychology Review, 43, 701 - 712
• Steele, M. M., Hunter, H., & Steele, R. (2006). Body mass index. In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of human development (vol. 3 pp. 964 - 966). Thousand Oaks, AC: Sage Publications.

• PSYC8910, Clinical Practicum