Barbara Snell Dohrenwend
Barbara Snell Dohrenwend (March 26, 1927 – June 28, 1982) was an American
Dohrenwend continued her work as a researcher with positions at the
Dohrenwend is credited as one of the major women who contributed to the emergence of community psychology and was the first woman to be elected president of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Division of Community Psychology, Division 27. In 1981, she and her husband received the Rema Lapouse Award for Distinguished Contribution to Community Psychology and Community Health from the APA.
Dohrenwend's major work focused on stressors in life and their influence on the development and emergence of psychiatric illness. She and her husband,
Dohrenwend's personal philosophy was that research should be conducted with the intention of reducing psychological suffering.[3] Her research practice was praised for its rigor and sophistication in methodology.
Her final work before her death was concerned with schizophrenia and major depressive disorder.[4] The work was ultimately published in the American Journal of Community Psychology in 1987 by her collaborators in New York City and Israel titled "Life Stress and Pathology: Progress on Research Begun with Barbara Snell Dohrenwend".[5]
Dohrenwend's other notable publications include; "Symptoms, Hassles, Social Supports, and Life Events: Problem of Confounded Measures", published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology (1984);[6] "Social Status and Stressful Life Events", in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1973);[7] "Social and Cultural Influences on Psychopathology", in the Annual Review of Psychology (1974).[8] She published numerous articles in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, American Journal of Community Psychology, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior as well.
References
- ^ a b "Barbara Snell Dohrenwend Papers" (PDF). Library-artchives.cumc.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
- ^ "Barbara Dohrenwend, Epidemiologist, Is Dead". The New York Times. 2 July 1982.
- ^ "Eminent Women in Psychology". All-about-psychology.com. 2017-01-02. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
- ^ "Department of Sociomedical Sciences Honors the Legacy of Dr. Barbara Dohrenwend" (PDF). Mailmanschool.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-01-31. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
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- PMID 6725756.
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