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Dr. Solomon Cytrynbaum
Associate Director for Education, The Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, Psychology Graduate Program Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Professor, Education, Undergraduate, SESP Annenberg Hall Room 341 2120 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-0001 Phone: (847) 491-5754 |
Biography
Solomon Cytrynbaum joined the Northwestern faculty in 1977 after serving on the faculty of the departments of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University from 1969-1977. He was acting dean of the School of Education and Social Policy in 1993 and from August 1995 to August 1997. His current primary research interest is the evaluation of school reform efforts. He was co-primary investigator (with Alfred Hess, Jr.) of a research program entitled "Monitoring the Implementation of the CPS Design for High Schools," located in the Center for Urban School Policy, School of Education and Social Policy. This research program supported by the Chicago Public Schools involved an in-depth study of over 60 high schools as part of a larger evaluation of the Chicago High School reform effort. Professor Cytrynbaum's other research interests focus on gender and authority in group and organizational life and consultation to urban and suburban schools. Professor Cytrynbaum is on the boards of the Chicago Center for the Study of Groups and Organizations, the A.K. Rice Institute and the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. He is also a fellow of the A.K. Rice Institute.Curriculum Vitae
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Research/Scholarship
Education
Dissertation
Year Degree Institution 1971 PhD, Psychology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1962 MA, Child Development and Family Relations Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 1959 BA, Arts and Sciences McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Selected Publications
Year Title 2005 Dissertation Committee Member
Cytrynbaum,Solomon & Noumair, Debra (2004). Group Dynamics, Organizational Irrationality,and Social Complexity:Group Relations Reader 3. A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems.Selected Presentations
Cytrynbaum, S. (2000). Mann's member-leader scoring system in Beck, A., et. al., (Eds.), Process in Therapeutic Groups: A Handbook of Systems Analysis.
Hess, G. Alfred Jr,. & Cytrynbaum, S. (1999). Monitoring the implementation of the CPS design for high school: The second year, 1998-99. Center for Urban School Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Cytrynbaum, S. (1995). Group relations research progress report: Contextual and methodological issues in the study of gender and authority in Group Relations Conferences or "It Depends." in West, K., Hayden, C., & Sharrin, R. (Eds.), Chaos and Community.
Cytrynbaum, S (1994). Gender and authority in Tavistock group relations conferences: Research findings and organizational implications in Allcorn, S. (Ed.), Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Organizational Cultures.
Cytrynbaum, S. (December, 2008). The large group experience: Participation and Practice. Presented to Argosy Universiy and the Chicago Center for the Study of Groups and Organizations. Chicago, IL.Projects
Scott, K., Cytrynbaum, S. and Berger, G. (December, 2008). New Trier Presentation Study. Presented to the Board of Education, New Trier District #203. Winnetka, IL.
Cytrynbaum, S. (November, 2008). Small group consulting and the Tavistock model. Presented to the Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies and the Chicago Center for the Study of Groups and Organizations, The Family Institute. Evanston, IL.
Cytrynbaum, S. (December, 2005). Theory and practice of small group consulting. Evanston.
Cytrynbaum, S. (December, 2005). Family business succession consultation. Evanston.
Cytrynbaum, S. (June, 2005). Midlife development and depression in older adults. Evanston.
Cytrynbaum, S. (March, 2005). Discussant: When the client is the organization: Using the unconscious at work. Chicago.
Cytrynbaum, S. (January, 2005). Overview of the principles and practice of group relations and small group. Chicago.
Monitoring the CPS High School Restructuring InitiativeResearch Interests
Evaluation of school reform; gender and authority in groups and organizations; organizational consultation; application of group and systems theory and research to school change.
Group dynamics, organizational assessment and change, family systems, gender and authority in group and organizational life, organizational consultation to schools, evaluation of school reform and school academic/technology systems, research methods, family business succession consultation
Teaching/Advising
Courses
Committees (PhD)
HDPS 351 Psychodynamic Viewpoints SESP 391 Advanced Research Methods
This course is designed to introduce potential honors students to the central issues in social science methods as they relate to independent research. The goal is to have students understand how to link the questions they want to answer to techniques for answering those questions well. Particular attention will be paid to how broad design issues connect to the practical problems of getting the work done. It is expected that each student will learn how to formulate criteria for evaluating social science methods so he/she can do research. It is also expected that students will learn how to design and complete a research project.HDPS 311 Group Dynamics Theory and research in the social psychology of groups and social systems. Small-and large-group dynamics; intergroup relations. Participation in a weekend group relations conference. LRN_SCI 451 Topics in Learning Sciences Current research topics in the learning sciences. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit with change in topic. Soc Pol 351 Health Policy This course will introduce the student to the health care delivery system in the United States through a review of US health policy issues. A construct for review of major health policy issues will be introduced and current health policy issues will be examined through this lens. Special attention will be paid to health disparities for low-income and minority populations; and how policy decisions exacerbate or relieve these disparities. Interactive lecture, focused discussions and student exploration and presentation will be the format for the course.
Start End Name Position Description 2005 CPSY doctoral student Member I served as a member of a dissertation committee for the last remaining CPSY doctoral student. 2005 Doctoral Qualifying Exam Committees, Member I was a member of the Doctoral Qualifying Exam Committees for two Garrett Seminary Graduate students and one Psychology Masters student and I am a member of one Garrett student’s Dissertation Committee. I was the first or second reader on eight CPSY Master’s student comprehensive exams
Service/Recognition
Professional Organizations
Professional Service
2008 - Present American Educational Research Association
Editorial Boards
Year Organization Position Description 2008 International Journal of Group Psychotherapy Reviewer 2008 American Psychological Association Member 2008 A.K. Rice Institute Member Jupiter, Florida 2008 A.K. Rice Institute Fellow A.K. Rice Institute, Jupiter, Florida
Community Service
Year Journal Name Position 2005 International Journal of Group Psychotherapy Reviewer
New Trier High School: As part of a major effort to improve prevention services targeted at student social and emotional development and to improve the school’s climate I continued to work with administrators, faculty, parents and students as part of a Bullying and Harassment Committee at New Trier. In addition, I continued to meet regularly with a group of about 30 staff and administrators who attended Tavistock Group Relations conferences at Northwestern examining New Trier as a social system.