Office: Room # 280 Chrysler Hall South
Phone: (519) 253-3000 ext. 2249
Email: clangton@uwindsor.ca
Dr. Langton is a faculty member in the Child Clinical track.
He completed Ph.D. degrees in Medical Science at the University of Toronto (2003) and in Clinical Child Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (2010). In between doctorates, he was a Research Associate at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, and a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Dr. Langton is also an associate graduate faculty member at the University of Toronto and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Mental Health, Nottinghamshire Health Care Trust and University of Nottingham, UK. Before joining the University of Windsor, he was on faculty at Ryerson University, Toronto.
Dr. Langton is registered as a clinical and forensic psychologist in Ontario and is also a Chartered Psychologist in the UK. He works with children, adolescents, and adults.
Dr. Langton’s research is on applied and theoretical issues relevant to clinical work with clients across the lifespan in the areas of interpersonal aggression, crime, and recidivism. Topics include causes and correlates of sexually exploitative and assaultive behaviours, risk and protective factors for types of interpersonal aggression, and various assessment and treatment issues with adolescents involved in the youth justice and children’s mental health systems as well as adults in the correctional and mental health systems. Recent projects within Dr. Langton’s research lab have included investigations of child maltreatment, attachment styles over time, and callous and unemotional traits as well as other aspects of psychopathy in both community and adjudicated samples.
Dr. Langton is currently co-editing a book for Wiley on desistance from crime and types of violent behaviour. He serves on the editorial boards of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment and Criminal Justice and Behavior.
Dr. Langton will be taking on new graduate students in the 2017-18 academic year.