astronomy

Stephen P. Hinshaw

Stephen P. Hinshaw is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Stephen P. Hinshaw rather than just read about it. In short: Stephen P. Hinshaw (born December 1, 1952) is an American Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley—where he was Department Chair from 2004-2011—and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at UC San Francisco.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Stephen P. Hinshaw (born December 1, 1952) is an American Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley—where he was Department Chair from 2004-2011—and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at UC San Francisco. He focuses on neurodevelopment (especially ADHD) through longitudinal studies, clinical trials, and female presentations, as well as stigma reduction. He has authored over 420 articles/chapters (h-index of 134) plus 11 books. His memoir, Another Kind of Madness, was awarded Best Book in Memoir/Autobiography from the American BookFest in 2018, detailing the serious, stigmatized mental illness in his father and professionally enforced family silence.

Biography Hinshaw was born on December 1, 1952, in Columbus, Ohio. He was the oldest child in the family; his sister, Sally P. Hinshaw, is 15 months younger. It wasn't until he was 18 that Hinshaw's father, the eminent philosopher Virgil Hinshaw Jr., let him in on a family secret, which had been explicitly forbidden from discussion by Virgil's doctors. Once his father's 'madness' — a lifelong, cyclic psychotic illness misdiagnosed as schizophrenia, which Hinshaw subsequently corrected as bipolar disorder — was out in the open, Hinshaw's career trajectory moved toward clinical psychology. Subsequent discussions revealed a history of involuntary hospitalizations and other brutal treatments, fueling Hinshaw's lifelong passion for understanding vulnerable children and eradicating mental illness stigma. He received his A.B. from Harvard (summa cum laude) and his Ph.D. from UCLA.

Academic career After graduating, he directed a residential summer camp for children with serious disabilities (Camp Freedom) and a day school program operating out of Massachusetts Mental Health Center (Therapeutic Center) for children who had been excluded from public school settings. He went on to earn his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at UCLA, before serving as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. He was a visiting lecturer at UC Berkeley, an assistant professor at UCLA and an assistant, associate, and currently professor at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. He has served as Principal Investigator for the Berkeley site in the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (MTA Study) and founded the Berkeley Girls with ADHD Longitudinal Study (BGALS), the largest study of girls with this condition in existence. Contributions from the latter investigation include delineating the serious risk for self-harm (suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-injury) in girls with ADHD as they mature into late adolescence and early adulthood. Among other consultantships and affiliations, he serves on the scientific board of Glenn Close's mental health nonprofit Bring Change to Mind (BC2M), as an advisor and storyteller for the play The Manic Monologues and as co-director of the UCSF-UC Berkeley Schwab Dyslexia and Cognitive Diversity Center. He is also former co-chair of the Scientific Research Council of the Child Mind Institute.

Awards He has received international awards in the seven areas of child development (Distinguished Scientific Contributions, Society for Research in Child Development), applied psychology (James Cattell Award, Association for Psychological Science), basic research in psychology (Distinguished Scientific Contributions, American Psychological Association), child and adolescent psychiatry (Ruane Prize, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation), international mental health (Sarnat Prize, National Academy of Medicine), international research on ADHD (Eunethydis), and outstanding career teaching/mentoring (Mentor Award, Association for Psychological Science, 2023). He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Stephen P. Hinshaw

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Stephen P. Hinshaw claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Stephen P. Hinshaw before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Stephen P. Hinshaw ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Stephen P. Hinshaw

In research: Stephen P. Hinshaw appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Stephen P. Hinshaw in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Stephen P. Hinshaw is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1952 births, 20th-century American psychologists, 21st-century American psychologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Stephen P. Hinshaw outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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