Audrey Ricker, PhD, is a practicing psychologist, the author of Backtalk for Grandparents and Their Grandchildren, and the coauthor of Backtalk: 4 Steps to Ending Rude Behavior in Your Kids and Bad Attitude: Reverse Your Child's Rudeness in 1 Week -- with Food. She works as a therapist at the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault in Tucson, where she has treated hundreds of survivors of incest, sexual abuse, and rape. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.