Duane Schultz (1934–2023).
This article memorializes Duane Schultz (1934–2023). A prolific military historian, Duane was trained as a psychologist. His widely used textbooks, including one on the history of psychology, made his name familiar to many in the field. Two of his textbooks, A History of Modern Psychology (1969) and Psychology and Work Today (1970), were very successful. Both have been translated into nearly a dozen languages, and currently are in their 11th editions. His best professional moments came from his hundreds of interviews with former military, especially those who were POWs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights ...
Source: American Psychologist - July 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Peter M. Lewinsohn (1930–2022).
This article memorializes Peter M. Lewinsohn (1930–2022). Pete pioneered the development of a cognitive behavioral treatment of depressed individuals and research on its efficacy. With his graduate students, he created the Coping With Depression Course, which has been translated into many languages, adapted for older adults and adolescents, and used around the world. This approach is embodied in behavioral activation, a widely used, highly effective treatment of depression. He was a pioneer in translating cognitive behavioral mechanisms into bibliotherapy, including Control Your Depression, a self-help book still in prin...
Source: American Psychologist - July 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Edison J. Trickett (1941–2022).
This article memorializes Edison J. Trickett (1941-2022), a leading theorist in community psychology. After joining the psychology faculty at Yale (1969–1977) and the Yale Psychoeducational Clinic, Ed became a faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught until 2000 and directed doctoral training in clinical/community psychology (1980–1985). He next went to the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2000–2015). Never one to fully retire, he continued teaching at the University of Miami (2015–2019). Ed devoted his career to the appreciation and understanding ...
Source: American Psychologist - July 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Gisela Labouvie-Vief (1945–2022).
This article memorializes Gisela Labouvie-Vief (1945–2022). The deceased was a distinguished lifespan developmental psychologist and internationally renowned scholar in psychological aging research. In several highly noted theoretical articles she developed a theory of adult intellectual development that was neo-Piagetian in nature. This theory influenced her later work on postoperational and dialectical thinking and foreshadowed the work on wisdom done by other groups of researchers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: American Psychologist)
Source: American Psychologist - July 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
David Glenwick (1949–2021).
This article memorializes David Glenwick (1949–2021). His work helps stimulate the further maturation of community-oriented research by utilizing a wide array of contemporary qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches that are theoretically sound, empirically valid, and creative, thereby addressing in a fresh and innovative manner questions of import for the communities in which they work. Throughout his career, he helped community researchers learn about relevant cutting-edge methodologies and illustrated their applicability to helping solve specific social problems and projects. (PsycInfo Database Record (...
Source: American Psychologist - July 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A. Rodney Nurse (1928–2022).
This article memorializes A. Rodney Nurse (1928–2022). Rod was an innovator in the fields of clinical, counseling, assessment, family, and community psychology. Rod was a life fellow of the APA divisions of Family Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Trauma Psychology and a member of the divisions of Independent Practice, Psychotherapy, and the Society for the Study of Men and Masculinity. He was a life fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment. Rod authored hundreds of articles, chapters, and papers, many with collaborators, including his wife, family psychologist Peggy Thompson. One of his most impactful achieve...
Source: American Psychologist - July 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Beeman Phillips (1927–2023).
This article memorializes Beeman Phillips (1927-2023). In 1956, Phillips accepted a position in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and developed its school psychology program, which he directed from 1965 to 1992. In 1971, the program became the first APA-accredited school psychology program in the country. He was an assistant professor (1956–1961), associate professor (1961–1968), full professor (1968–1998), and an emeritus professor in retirement. Beeman was among the early school psychologists from varied backgrounds who developed training programs and shaped the field’s...
Source: American Psychologist - June 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Michael Matthew Wertheimer (1927–2022).
This article memorializes Michael Matthew Wertheimer (1927–2022). Michael held a faculty position at Wesleyan University from 1952 to 1955 but then moved to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he worked from 1955 until his official retirement in 1993. Overall, Mike’s name is associated as author, coauthor, or chapter author of 57 books, over 250 journal articles or notes, and over 100 articles read at scientific and professional organizations. The prodigious output focused on empirical studies in sensation and perception and the history of psychology. Mike’s brief history book went through six editions, but ...
Source: American Psychologist - June 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Amplifying Black excellence in industrial–organizational psychology.
This article highlights the work of Black organizational psychologists and their considerable and ongoing contributions to industrial–organizational (I–O) psychology through scholarship, practice, and service. We focus our review on the influence of five Black scholar–practitioners who have earned the distinction of fellow in the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. We discuss how their work has enhanced our understanding of the integral role of diversity and inclusion across the employment cycle. We also highlight their contributions to service, mentorship, and the field more broadly to provide a ho...
Source: American Psychologist - June 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Righting the historical record: Highlighting the significant contributions of Black psychologists in American schools.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(4), May-Jun 2023, 601-612; doi:10.1037/amp0001114The field of educational psychology, while closely aligned with several adjacent branches of psychology, focuses on teaching and learning processes in support of the development of students within K-16 environments and beyond. Similar to other fields, educational psychology has been historically dominated by theories and empirical studies developed and carried out by White scholars who presented racially and culturally biased ideologies that lacked Black perspectives. Couched within an Afrocentric and Critical Race Theory framework, the present ...
Source: American Psychologist - June 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Black sexual and gender diverse scholars' contributions to psychology.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(4), May-Jun 2023, 589-600; doi:10.1037/amp0001149Psychology has a long history of perpetuating scientific racism and pathologizing gender and sexually diverse individuals. The field has been criticized for the reproduction of racism, sexism, cissexism, and other social inequities. This intersectional epistemological exclusion has led to a lack of appreciation for the work of Black sexual and gender diverse (SGD) scholars within the field of psychology. To highlight and center the contributions of Black SGD scholars in the field, we conducted an in-depth literature search of the work of 62 Blac...
Source: American Psychologist - June 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Contributions of Black psychology scholars to models of racism and health: Applying intersectionality to center Black women.
This article ends with recommendations for future research, clinical practice, and social justice advocacy centered on Black women’s health. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: American Psychologist)
Source: American Psychologist - June 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Novel methodologies using history to document the effects of African American sexual trauma: Perspectives of Gail E. Wyatt, PhD.
This article describes the nearly half a century career of Dr. Gail E. Wyatt, PhD, and her development of novel methodologies and measures of sexual trauma, specifically the Wyatt Sex History Questionnaire and the University of California, Los Angeles, Life Adversities Screener. These approaches broke the silence around experiences of sexual violence, particularly among African Americans, identifying their effects on sexual functioning and mental health. These novel methods are designed without assuming sexual literacy of respondents, knowledge of anatomy, or that discussing sex is easy or common; they include topics that ...
Source: American Psychologist - June 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
From chat rooms to classrooms and TikToks too: Dr. Brendesha Tynes' contributions to the study of race and development in digital contexts.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(4), May-Jun 2023, 551-562; doi:10.1037/amp0001124For more than a decade, Dr. Brendesha Tynes has been at the forefront of empirical research examining the role of race in youth experiences with technology. Tynes’ expansive corpus of research highlights the psychological, academic, and socioemotional implications and impact of online racial discrimination on child and adolescent development, with a particular focus on Black youth. Using explicitly strengths-based frameworks in both her research and mentoring, Tynes’ contributions to the fields of psychology and education are vast. Given the...
Source: American Psychologist - June 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Honoring foundational Black psychologists' contributions to research on Black fathers.
American Psychologist, Vol 78(4), May-Jun 2023, 535-550; doi:10.1037/amp0001120Much of the early psychological research on Black fathers and families employed a deficit lens, pathologizing Black fathers as absent and uninvolved contributors to their children’s development. As a response, several Black psychologists articulated the need to move away from deficit-based approaches and employ strengths-based and adaptive frameworks to examine the social experiences of Black fathers and their contributions to child development. This transformative work was not only central to advancing research on Black fathers but also a cor...
Source: American Psychologist - June 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
