Women Leaders in School Psychology

Carol S. Lidz, Psy.D., is retired after a 40-year career in a wide variety of school psychology positions. She began her career as a frontline school psychologist in New Jersey, followed by several years in Montgomery County Pennsylvania. She then worked briefly as a pediatric psychologist in a rehabilitation hospital and, then, for many years as creator and chief psychologist for a multidisciplinary team that provided services to children enrolled in Head Start programs throughout the Philadelphia area. Her academic career began at Temple University, where she trained graduate students for services to young children. She then created a new School Psychology Program for Touro College in New York City. Her educational background includes a B.A. in psychology from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in School Psychology from the University of Tennessee, and a Psy.D. in School Psychology from the Graduate School of Applied Professional Psychology of Rutgers University. Her researchprimarily concerns parent-child interaction and dynamic assessment. She has published extensively on topics of preschool assessment in general and dynamic assessment, specifically. She has designed a dynamic assessment procedure for preschool children (Application of Cognitive Functions Scale) and a rating scale for observation of adults with young children (Mediated Learning Experience Rating Scale and its variations). She and her husband, a retired architect, reside in Philadelphia PA.