Psychology
Department

Laraine Masters Glidden

Distinguished Professor Emerita of Psychology - at SMCM since 1976

Departments: Psychology
Office: Goodpaster Hall, Room 024 (102 in FA12)
Email: lmglidden@smcm.edu
Phone: 240-895-3094

Education:

Mount Holyoke College (1964); M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois (1969, 1970).

Courses Taught:

• Lifespan Development
• First-Year Seminar: Ability and Disability
• Exceptionality
• Mental Retardation-Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
• St. Mary's Projects

Professional Positions

• Past-President, Division 33, American Psychological Association
• Past-President, Professional Liaison,  Academy on Mental Retardation
• Editor, International Review of Research in Mental Retardation, 1997-2009

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Research Interests

Developmental Psychology: Children with disabilities. Family adjustment to childrearing. Parental personality and religious beliefs and behavior. Adoptive families.

• Project Parenting
• Recent Publications
• Recent Presentations

About Resilience: Three Lessons Learned from Families

Interesting Links

• American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
• American Psychological Society
• Society for Research in Child Development
• National Down Syndrome Society
• Phi Beta Kappa Society
• Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs