Department of Applied Psychology

Mary Brabeck

Dean

Mary Brabeck

Phone: 212-998-5000
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Mary M. Brabeck, Ph.D., has served as dean of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development since 2003. A leader in the field of applied psychology with outstanding credentials in research and scholarship, Dean Brabeck serves in significant posts in professional organizations that include the National Society for the Study of Education and the American Psychological Association (APA). She currently chairs the APA’s Board of Education Affairs Task Force on Applications of Psychological Science to Teaching and Learning. She was previously a professor of counseling and developmental psychology at Boston College and served as dean of the College’s Lynch School of Education from 1996-2003.

Dean Brabeck has served on boards and councils for organizations that include the Holmes Partnership, Carnegie Corporation’s Teachers for a New Era, and the National Church Leadership Roundtable. From 2004-2005, she was chair of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. Most recently, Dean Brabeck was named an inaugural fellow of the American Educational Research Association in honor of her sustained contributions to research in education. She is also a fellow of APA, Divisions 7, 35, and 52.

Dean Brabeck’s research interests include intellectual and ethical development, gender and culture, values and conceptions of the moral self, human rights education, professional and feminist ethics, and interprofessional collaboration through schools. She has published more than 90 journal articles and book chapters, and her most recent edited works are Practicing Feminist Ethics in Psychology and Meeting at the Hyphen: Schools-Universities-Professions in Collaboration for Student Achievement and Well Being, 102nd Yearbooks of the National Society for Study in Education, Part II.

Dean Brabeck’s numerous awards include the Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Minnesota, a Doctor of Humane Letters from St. Joseph’s University, an APA Presidential Citation, a Service Award from the Boston Higher Education Partnership, and the Kuhmerker Award from the Association for Moral Education. In 2008, she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from St. Cloud University from which she received a master’s degree in English education and urban education. She received her Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota.


Research Interests

  • values and conceptions of the moral self
  • professional and feminist ethics
  • intellectual and ethical development
  • gender and culture
  • interprofessional collaboration

Editorial Boards

  • Journal of School Choice, Editorial Board Member
  • New Ideas in Psychology, Editorial Board Member
  • Society of Psychology of Women Book Series, Editorial Board Member (Editor, 2002-2005)

Courses

  • undergraduate and graduate moral development
  • undergraduate and graduate personality theories
  • graduate psychology of women
  • undergraduate and graduate gender roles
  • undergraduate and graduate educational psychology
  • undergraduate and graduate psychology of learning
  • undergraduate child development
  • undergraduate counseling psychology
  • graduate behavioral counseling

Degrees Held

  • M.A. Saint Cloud State University
  • B.A. University of Minnesota
  • Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Awards

  • 2007 : Doctor of Humane Letters, (Hon.Causus), St. Joseph's University
  • 2007 : The Holmes Partnership Board of Directors Service Award, 2007.
  • Distinguished Alumna, University of Minnesota, College of Education and Human Development.
  • Outstanding Achievement Award, University of Minnesota.
  • American Psychological Association Fellow Division 7, (Developmental Psychology), Division 17 (Counseling Psychology), Division 35 ( Psychology of Women), Division 52 (International Psychology).
  • APA Committee on Women in Psychology Leadership Award.
  • APA Presidential Citation for "promoting the applications of psychological science to teaching and learning."
  • Who's Who in America.
  • Service Award (Boston Higher Education Partnership)
  • Kuhmerker Award (Association for Moral Education)
  • Honorary Member (Golden Key Honor Society)
  • Honorary Member (Alpha Sigma Nu-Jesuit Honor Society)
  • Boston College Teaching Excellence (Lynch School)

Publications

  • Curriculum Vitae (view)
  • Brabeck, M. M. (2006). Transformative Hope. In K. M. Thies and J. F. Travers (Eds.). the Handbook of Human Development for Health Care Professionals. Thorofare, NJ: SLACK Inc., pp. 477-485
  • Brabeck, M. M. and Brabeck, K. M. (2006). Women and Relationships. In J. Worrell & C.D. Goodhart (Eds.) Handbook of Girls and Women’s Psychology Health: Gender and Well-bing Across the Life Span. Oxford University Press, pp. 208-217.
  • Brabeck, M. & Latta, R. (2006). A feminist perspective on ethics in human ecology. In J. R. Miller, R. M. Lerner, L. B. Schiamberg, & P. M. Anderson (Eds.), Human Ecology: An Encyclopedia of Children, Families, Communities, and Environments. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.
  • Johnson, C. E., Stewart, A. L., Brabeck, M. M., Huber, V. S., & Rubin, H. (2005). Interprofessional Collaboration: Implications for combined-integrated (C-I) doctoral training in professional psychology. Journal of Clinical Psychology.
  • Brabeck, M. (2005) Innovate or Perish: New Approaches Urban Education (and why they are needed). FADICA
  • Shartrand, A. & Brabeck, M. M. (2004). An examination of collaborative research in light of the APA Code of Ethics and feminist ethics. In M. Brydon-Miller, P. Maguire and A. McIntyre (eds.). Traveling Companions. Westport, CT: Praeger, pp. 137-156
  • Sirin, S., Brabeck, M. M., Sirin-Roges & Satiani, A. (2003). Validation of a measure of ethical sensitivity and examination of the effects of previous multicultural and ethics courses on ethical sensitivity. Ethics & Behavior.
  • Brabeck, Mary M.; Walsh, Mary E.; and Latta, Rachel E. (2003) Meeting at the Hyphen: Schools-Universities-Communities-Professions in Collaboration for Student Achievement and Well Being (National Society for the Study of Education Yearbooks). The National Society For The Study Of Ed. (link)
  • Brabeck, M. M. & Shirley, S. (2003, January). Excellence in education schools: An oxymoron? Phi Delta Kappan, 368-372. (link)
  • Brabeck, M. M. and Rogers, L. (2002). Human rights as a moral issue: Lessons for moral educators from human rights work. Journal of Moral Education, pp. 167-182.
  • Brabeck, M. M., Rogers, L. A., Sirin, S., Henderson, J., Bevenuto, M., Ting, K., & Weaver, M. (2000). A measure to assess ethical sensitivity to instances of racial and gender intolerance in schools: The Racial Ethical Sensitivity Test (REST). Ethics & Behavior, 119-137.
  • Walsh, M. E., Brabeck, M. M., Howard, K. A., Sherman, F., Montes, C. & Garvin, T. (2000). The Boston College-Allston/Brighton Partnership: Description & Challenges. Peabody Journal of Education. 75, (3), 6-32.
  • Brabeck, Mary M. (2000) Practicing Feminist Ethics in Psychology. American Psychological Association (link)
  • Walsh, M. E., Brabeck, M. M. & Howard, K. A. (1999). Interprofessional collaboration in children's services: Toward a theoretical perspective. Children's Services: Social Policy, Research and Practice, 2, (4), pp. 183-208.
  • Brabeck, M. (1999). Between Scylla and Charybdis: Teacher Education's Odyssey. Journal of Teacher Education, 50, (5), pp. 346-351. (link)
  • Kenny, M. E., Lomax, R., Brabeck, M. & Fife. (1998). Contributions of maternal and paternal attachments to continuity and change in psychological well-being in middle adolescence, Journal of Early Adolescence, pp. 221-243.
  • Hurd, T., & Brabeck, M. (1997). The ethic of care as revealed in college texts, 1970-1990: An empirical examination of alpha and beta bias. Teaching of Psychology, pp. 159-167.
  • Brabeck, M., Walsh, M., Kenny, M. & Comilang, K. (1997). Interprofessional collaboration for children and families: Opportunities for counseling psychology in the 21st century, The Counseling Psychologist, 25, 615-636.
  • Brabeck, M. & Ting, K. (1997). Context, Politics and Moral Education: Comments on the Misgeld/Magendzo Conversation about Human Rights Education. Journal of Moral Education, 26, (2), 147-149.
  • Brabeck, Mary M. (1989) Who Cares?: Theory, Research, and Educational Implications of the Ethic of Care. Praeger Publishers (link)