Oral history interview with Bea Levison [electronic resource], 1990

Biographical Note

Psychologist.

Scope and Contents

Family and educational background; association with Northside Center for Child Development [Northside]; importance of education for psychological development, apporaches to schizophrenia, design of special education programs; family services for Northside clients, parental involvement; changes in Northside staff, orientation and finances during 1960s and 1970s; unionization of staff, 1971.

Subjects

• Child development--Education--Reading therapy.
• Civil rights--United States.
• Clark, Kenneth.
• Clark, Mamie.
• Education--Parent participation.
• HARYOU (Organization)
• Interviews.
• Lee, Jonathan, interviewer.
• Levison, Bea--Interviews.
• Mental health personnel.
• Northside Center for Child Development.
• Oral histories.
• Psychiatric clinics--New York (State)--Harlem (New York)
• Psychologists--Interviews.
• Psychotherapy patients--Characteristics.
• Psychotherapy patients--Family relationships.
• Schizophrenia in children.
• Special education.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Northside Center for Child Development, Inc., 1991.