Ronald F. Levant
Ronald F. Levant is a psychologist, a professor, and a former president of the American Psychological Association (APA). After earning an undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, Levant completed a Doctor of Education (EdD) at Harvard University. He also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Boston University.[1]
Much of Levant's work has focused on men and fatherhood. At Boston University in the 1980s, Levant taught eight-week parenting courses for fathers.[2] He co-authored the parenting guide Between Father and Child in the 1980s.[3] From 2007 to 2015, he served as the editor of the journal Psychology of Men and Masculinity.[4] He is widely considered one of the key people responsible for creating the new field of the psychology of men and masculinities. He was included in the Elsevier-Stanford University data base listing the top 2% of scientists in the world. His subfields are listed as social psychology (rank # 577) and clinical psychology (rank # 626).[5]
Levant is a psychology professor emeritus at the University of Akron.[1] He has also held faculty appointments at Boston University, Harvard Medical School, Rutgers University and Nova Southeastern University.[4][6] He was the APA president in 2005.[4] He is also a former president of the Massachusetts Psychological Association,[3] and of two Divisions of APA: 43 (Family Psychology) and 51 (Psychology of Men and Masculinities). He was awarded the APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research in 2011.[7] His coauthored book, The Tough Standard: The Hard Truths About Masculinity and Violence (2020, Oxford University Press, with Shana Pryor) won the William James Book Award from Division 1 (General Psychology) of APA in 2021.[8]
Selected publications
- Between Father and Child: How To Become the Kind of Father You Want To Be, Penguin Books, 1991 (with John Kelly). ISBN 978-0-14-015261-6.
- Family Therapy: A Comprehensive Overview, Prentice-Hall, 1987. ISBN 978-0-13-302885-0
- Masculinity Reconstructed. Dutton, 1995. (With Gini Kopecky). ISBN 0-525-93846-X
- Men and Sex: New Psychological Perspectives, J. Wiley, 1997 (editor, with Gary R. Brooks). ISBN 978-0-47-116903-1.
- The Psychology of Men and Masculinities, American Psychological Association, 2017 (with Y. Joel Wong). ISBN 978-1-43-382690-0.
- The Tough Standard: The Hard Truths About Masculinity and Violence, Oxford University Press, 2020 (with Shana Pryor). ISBN 9780190075873.[9]
References
- ^ a b "Ronald F. Levant, Ed.D." University of Akron. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
- ^ Mitgang, Lee (June 18, 1983). "Men study to be better dads". The Dispatch (Lexington). Retrieved November 1, 2014.
- ^ a b Vogt, Jenny (June 18, 1989). "Fathers Over 50 Club informs those who waited to start families". Ocala Star-Banner. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
- ^ a b c "Ronald Levant: 2005 APA President". American Psychological Association. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
- ^ Baas, J. (October 19, 2021). "August 2021 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators." Version 3". PLOS Biology. 18 (10): e3000918. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw. PMC 7567353. PMID 33064726.
- ^ Greene, Robin (June 18, 1990). "Dads face role shift as nation tips its hat". The Daily Gazette. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
- ^ "Ronald F. Levant: Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research". American Psychologist. 66 (8): 763–765. 2011. doi:10.1037/a0024624. PMID 22082408.
- ^ "William James Book Award". www.apadivisions.org. Retrieved 2022-11-26.
- ^ https://thetoughstandard.com/
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