Marsha Kline Pruett PhD, MSL, ABPP

Service

Higher Education

After teaching primarily psychology predoctoral interns at Yale University, Dr. Pruett taught across postdoctoral, predoctoral, doctoral and masters programs in psychiatry and social work as well as in undergraduate psychology seminars at the College.

Her teaching connects developmental science, family systems, policy, and clinical practice, with particular attention to separating and divorcing families, coparenting, and applied research training.

Courses taught

  • Training
  • Working in Communities
  • Working with Separating and Divorcing Families: Co-parenting Contexts and Interventions (MSW)
  • Separation, Divorce, and Co-parenting: Implications for Practice (MSW)
  • Family Policy (MSW and PhD)
  • Grant Writing (PhD)
  • Research Intensive (PhD)
  • Research on Clinical Social Work Practice (PhD)
  • Child Trafficking in the U.S. (undergraduate)
  • Practicum Seminar in Clinical Psychology (undergraduate)
  • Community Psychology (undergraduate)

Academic leadership

  • Director of Child and Adolescent Programs (Yale)
  • Clinical Research Institute (CRI), Director
  • Chair: Human Behavior in the Social Environment Sequence
  • Chair: Research Sequence
  • Chair: Human Subjects Committee
  • Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

Administrative roles

  • Yale University — Director, Child and Adolescent Programs
  • Smith College — Chair: Human Behavior in the Social Environment Sequence
  • Smith College — Chair: Research Sequence
  • Smith College — Chair: Human Subjects Committee
  • Smith College School for Social Work — Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

Institutional service

  • Curriculum
  • Doctoral Reorganization
  • Faculty Search
  • Provost Search
  • Admissions
  • Personnel Practices (Chair)
  • Center for Community Collaboration Advisory Committee
  • Community Engagement and Social Change Concentration Advisory Committee
  • Five College Public Policy and Social Innovation Steering Committee
  • Sponsored Research Committee
  • Working Group on Holistic Assessment of Teaching
  • JED working group on student well-being

Visiting appointments

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Psychology, and Advisory Board, Center for Research on the Family (2007–2010)
  • University of Calgary School of Medicine, Alberta, Canada