Faculty Profile: Linda Riebel

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Ph.D., Psychology, 1981, Saybrook University

           (then called the Humanistic Psychology Institute).

M.A., Psychology, 1977. Goddard College.

M.A., History, 1969. University of Colorado.

B.A., History, 1967. Wellesley College.
 

Currently, I'm working with Social Transformation to create the new specialization in Transformative Social Change. My environmental work includes serving on the boards of Sustainable Lafayette (sustainablelafayette.org) and SaveNature.Org, volunteering at Lindsay Wildlife Hospital, and participating in campaigns to transform our economy and lifestyles to sustainable ones. I am a graduate of Wellesley College, Goddard College, and Saybrook.

2012. Endangered Species: Saving Them and Ourselves. White paper commissioned by the Animals and Society Institute.

2011. The Green Foodprint: Food Choices for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet.  Lafayette, CA: Print and Pixel Books.

2010. Friedman, H., Krippner, S., Riebel, L., Johnson, C. Models of Spiritual
Development. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 29(1), 53-70.

2007. Hiatt, K., Riebel, L., & Friedman, H. (2007). The Gap between What We Know and What We Do about Childhood Obesity: A Multi-Factor Model for Assessment, Intervention, and Prevention. Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, 1 (1), 1-44.

2012. Endangered Species: Saving Them and Ourselves. White paper commissioned by the Animals and Society Institute.

2011. The Green Foodprint: Food Choices for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet.  Lafayette, CA: Print and Pixel Books.

2010. Friedman, H., Krippner, S., Riebel, L., Johnson, C. Models of Spiritual
Development. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 29(1), 53-70.

2007. Hiatt, K., Riebel, L., & Friedman, H. (2007). The Gap between What We Know and What We Do about Childhood Obesity: A Multi-Factor Model for Assessment, Intervention, and Prevention. Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, 1 (1), 1-44.

Ecopsychology as Social Transformation. American Psychological Association National Convention, August, 2005.

How Creativity Can Help Heal the Earth. American Psychological Association National Convention, August, 2001.

The Caring Paradigm and How to Get There – International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Bellingham, WA, June, 2000 (co-author)

Eating Disorders as Environmental Hazard – American Psychological Association National convention, August, 1999

How Psychologists’ Expertise Can Contribute to Environmental Healing -- American Psychological Association National convention, August, 1998.

Among many topics, I have published on eating disorders, delayed emancipation (adults who remain dependent), the self-sealing doctrine (a form of intellectual defensiveness), recovered memory, and professional practice issues.

Currently, I publish and blog about food and the environment. I'm also interested in animal-human relationships.

As a clinician (retired from practice), writer, and teacher of critical thinking, I have general rather than specific knowledge about research methodology. I am good at helping students create defensible arguments from evidence and have basic understanding of a few of the most commonly used methods.

I’ve written an informal, friendly "survival guide" for Saybrook students in order to transmit practical lore about the processes of learning and navigating the procedures of our graduate distance education. This guide is available on request. In addition to clinical courses, sustainability, and ecological psychology, I teach the writing course and critical thinking, and enjoy helping students become effective advocates for their interests.

Research Expertise Rating Guide:

1. studied in a class or have read intensively on my own
2. special training in the form of a workshop or equivalent
3. taught a class in, or supervised research using this method (research practicum, on a dissertation or master's committee
4. used in research myself
5. published or presented at conferences my research using this method

Methods Traditionally Considered As Quantitative (But Need Not Be)

Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods

Methods Primarily Associated With Qualitative Research (But May Also Use Quantitative)

Types of Analysis