ABOUT US

REACH Board of Directors (Board Vice-Chair)

Stephen P. Hinshaw, PhD; Professor and Chair

Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley

Stephen Hinshaw is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.   After receiving his A.B. from Harvard in 1974, summa cum laude, he directed day school and residential programs for children with developmental disabilities for three years.  He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA in 1983; while a graduate student, he received the campus-wide Distinguished Scholar Award.  He was a clinical psychology intern at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute from 1981-2 and a post-doctoral fellow at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute of the University of California, San Francisco, from 1983-5 (where he received the R. Harris Award).  He taught in the Psychology Department at UCLA from 1986-1990 and joined the Berkeley faculty in 1990. 

Dr. Hinshaw’s work focuses on developmental psychopathology, with particular emphasis on (a) peer and family relationships in children with externalizing disorders, (b) neuropsychological risk factors for and correlates of psychopathology, (c) comparisons and combinations of pharmacologic and psychological interventions for children with ADHD, (d) assessment and evaluation, (e) conceptual and definitional issues in the field, and (f) stigma and mental disorder.  He has directed summer research camps and conducted longitudinal studies for boys (and, recently, for girls) with ADHD and associated disorders for 20 years.  Hinshaw has authored over 150 articles, chapters, and reviews on child psychopathology. His book, “Attention Deficits and Hyperactivity in Children,” was published by Sage Publications in 1994; another book, “The Years of Silence are Past: My Father’s Life with Bipolar Disorder,” was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002.  “The Mark of Shame: Stigma and Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change” is in press at Oxford University Press. 

Dr. Hinshaw has received numerous research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).  He is Associate Editor of the journal Development and Psychopathology and serves on the editorial boards of seven other journals.  He is past president of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology and Division 53 of the American Psychological Association (Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology).  He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association.  Hinshaw received the Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Letters and Sciences, University of California, Berkeley (2001).