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Mildred Clare Scoville
Alma materUniversity of Nebraska

Mildred Clare Scoville (1892-1969) was a psychiatric social worker who won a Lasker Award in 1949. She is known for her work on mental hygiene.

Early life

She was born in 1892 in Hartington, Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska.

Career

Scoville joined the Commonwealth Fund of America in 1923 and would retire as executive associate director in 1954. In 1927 she moved to England due the Commonwealth Fund of America requesting her for an experiment to work on clinies for children. She later led leading positions in developing mental health services back in the United States. In 1931, she wrote “An Inquiry into the Status of Psychiatric Social Work”.

In 1950 she was named to the National Advisory Mental Health Council, thereby becoming the first person to serve on the council.

Scoville died in 1969.

Selected publications

Awards and honors

Scoville was one of two recipients of the 1949 Lasker Award. She received the Lasker Award for “recognition of her outstanding contribution to the integration of mental health concepts in medical education and practice”.

References

  1. "Mildred Clare Scoville (1892?-1969)". Smithsonian Institution Archives. 2012-02-15. Retrieved 2024-12-06.
  2. ^ "Former Hartington Woman Honored for Mental Health Work". Cedar County News; Hartington, Nebraska. 1950-04-06. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
  3. ^ "Mildred C. Scoville Dies at 76; Administrator in Mental Health". The New York Times. April 27, 1969. p. 93.
  4. Brown, S. Clement (1969). "Mildred Scoville of the Commonwealth Fund". British Journal of Psychiatric Social Work. 10 (2): 59–60. ISSN 2055-7191.
  5. "The long battle for child guidance clinics". The Guardian Journal. 1965-05-03. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-12-06.
  6. "Worker in child welfare is here". The Oregon Daily Journal; Portland, Oregon. 1923-04-22. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
  7. Scoville, Mildred C. (1931). "An inquiry into the status of psychiatric social work". American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 1 (2): 145–151. doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1931.tb04808.x. ISSN 1939-0025.
  8. "First woman named to mental health unit". Omaha World-Herald; Omaha, Nebraska. 1950-07-27. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
  9. "TWO HERE RECEIVE '49 LASKER AWARDS; Mental Hygiene Honors Given to Miss Mildred Scoville and Albert Deutsch". New York Times. November 18, 1949.
  10. "Historical Archive: Awards No Longer Given by the Foundation". Lasker Foundation. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
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