Douglas Davies

Dear Professor Davies, This is Ming-I from Taiwan. I just want to let you know that since three years ago, I have been helping the Taiwanese government to develop the first infant mental health services under the child protective services. I organized the training materials with the help of Kadija Johnston. This year, we are aiming to build the reflective supervision system for social workers. As I was preparing the training material, I came across what you shared about reflective...

Doug will live on in his work. It is still greatly valued by professors, students and clinical practitioners. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Doug with his books. He was a sensitive, knowledgeable, and talented writer!

I want to offer my sincere condolences to Doug's family for your loss. I know he will be greatly missed. I had the good fortune to know Doug while he was teaching reflective practices supervision with our team here in Alaska, and I always looked forward to those sessions because of his good-natured sense of humor. Those meetings frequently involved cases of young children in the most tragic circumstances imaginable. He had a way of illuminating a hopeful course through these dark paths of the...

The Peace Corps Iran Association is saddened to hear of Doug's death. A notice of his passing will be included in the next issue of our newsletter KhabarNameh which reaches out to volunteers and staff who served with the Peace Corps in Iran from 1962 to 1976. On behalf of the Peace Corps Iran community, PCIA extends its deepest sympathies to Doug's family and friends. On a personal note, I worked with Doug and Emily in the orphanage they started in Shiraz, Iran in the mid-sixties. My time...

Doug was my favorite professor at U of M SSW. His wisdom, enthusiasm, sweetness and sense of humor were a lasting model of what it is to be an authentic, deeply relational and skilled clinician. I loved hearing his clinical examples as well and how he lovingly talked about his grandchildren, Hannah and Hayden, when they were young. I now teach my own class on working with children at a school of social work and I consult Doug's insightful book frequently. His work has left a lasting legacy....

On behalf of the Alaska Association for Infant and Early Mental Health (AK-AIMH)our deepest condolences to Doug's family. Doug was a true friend to our Association, supporting us every step of the way. He was such a gentle, caring person and provided much guidance to many of us in Alaska. I will always love and remember the stories of his grandchildren and how he beamed when he showed their pictures. He will always be remembered and he will be greatly missed.

It was with such great sadness that I read that the world has lost such a talented and warm person. So glad we got to know him for awhile. To Tobi and family I can not imagine the pain you feel. I am glad that Marianne and Chelsea did manage to come and offer their personal support and friendship. Wish I could have been there but it wasn't possible. Do take care of yourselves as he would have wanted you to do. You are in my thoughts and prayers.

I had the pleasure of working with Doug over about 15 years in connection with his wonderful books for Guilford Press. I was the Series Editor, but Doug's writing was so exceptional it really needed no editing! I was very proud to have Doug's work in the Series and I know from the responses of countless students over the years that they all learned much about young children and how best to help them. I met Doug only once in person when he and Tobi visited me in my Vermont residence. I was...

As an undergraduate studying early childhood development, I read Doug's book and it inspired me greatly. From then on I thought of him as a literary mentor of sorts, and many years later, when admitted to the U of M school of social work, I strongly considered attending with the hope that I may have the privilege of learning directly from Doug. Though I ended choosing to complete my MSW elsewhere, I later had the surprise pleasure of collaborating directly with Doug, as he came to consult...