Steve Hinshaw, PhD

Professor Stephen Hinshaw is Professor and Chair of the Psychology at UC Berkeley. His main interests lie in the fields of clinical child and adolescent psychology and developmental psychopathology. Major themes diagnostic validity, family and peer relationships, subcategories of externalizing behavior, early prediction of behavioral and learning disorders, neuropsychology and neurobiology, expressions of psychopathology in female samples, and multimodal treatment strategies.

Increasingly, his research interests are focusing on adolescent and young adult outcomes, as the children in his continue to participate in prospective, longitudinal studies. In addition, he is increasingly interested in stigmatization of mental illness.

He has received numerous research grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and is Past President of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychology and the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the editor of Psychological Bulletin, the most cited journal in the field of psychology.

Dr. Hinshaw has authored over 200 articles and chapters in the field plus seven books, including “The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change,” “Breaking the Silence: Mental Health Professionals Disclose their Personal and Family Accounts of Mental Illness,” and “The Triple Bind: Saving Teenage Girls from Today’s Pressures.”

Contact

Steve Hinshaw
Department of Psychology
Tolman Hall #1650
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1650

Tel: 510-643-8586
Email: hinshaw@berkeley.edu