Richard Abidin

Richard R. Abidin, EdD is a noted psychologist who has devoted much of his career to studying the relationships between parents and children. He served as founder and director of School/Clinical Child Psychology Ph.D. Program from 1967 to 1979, served as director of the Institute of Clinical Psychology between 1979-1988 (professor of education and psychology APA) and served as director of the Curry Programs in Clinical and School Psychology between the years 1988-1995 at the University of Virginia.[1][2] Abidin retired in 2003; he is now emeritus professor, lecturer and consultant to Curry Programs in Clinical and School Psychology at the same university.[3]

He is a fellow of the American Board of Professional Psychology, the American Psychological Association,[4] the American Association for Applied and Preventive Psychology, and the Academy of Clinical Psychology.

Dr. Abidin has created several assessment measures that aid clinicians in determining the functionality of a parent-child relationship.[5][6]

He is the author of the Index of Teaching Stress (ITS),[7] the Early Childhood Parenting Skills Program,[8] a measure which assesses the level of teacher stress, the Parenting Stress Index, 3rd Edition (PSI), which identifies parent-child problem areas[9] in parents of children ages 1 month to 12 years in order to identify dysfunction relationships,[5] and coauthor of the Parenting Alliance Measure (PAM), and the Stress Index for Parents of Adolescents (SIPA), which respectively assess the degree of cooperation between parents[10] and the level of stress between parents and their adolescent.

Dr. Abidin helped organize in 1967, served on the Board of Directors and was consultant to Oakland School, Keswick, VA.[11]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Abidin Director of Several Departments at University of Virginia". University of Virginia. Retrieved November 2, 2010.
  2. ↑ Wilson, E. V. (2006). Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. VA: University of Virginia Press. p. 106. ISBN 0-306-44452-6.
  3. ↑ "Abidin at University of Virginia". University of Virginia. Retrieved November 2, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Fellowship of The American Psychological Association". Indiana University. Retrieved November 2, 2010.
  5. 1 2 Abidin, Richard (1992). "The Determinants of Parenting Behavior". Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 21 (4): 407. doi:10.1207/s15374424jccp2104_12.
  6. ↑ Validity Research on the PSI http://people.virginia.edu/~rra/validity.html
  7. ↑ "Index of Teaching Stress". mhs.com. Retrieved November 2, 2010.
  8. ↑ "Early Childhood Parenting Skills Program". University of Virginia. Retrieved November 2, 2010.
  9. ↑ Reitman D, Currier RO, Stickle TR (September 2002). "A critical evaluation of the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form (PSI-SF) in a head start population". Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 31 (3): 384–92. doi:10.1207/S15374424JCCP3103_10. PMID 12149976.
  10. ↑ Abidin, Richard; Brunner, Jack (1995). "Development of a parenting alliance inventory". Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 24: 31. doi:10.1207/s15374424jccp2401_4.
  11. ↑ Routh, D (1994). Clinical Psychology Since 1917. NY: Plenum Press. p. 47. ISBN 0-306-44452-6.

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