Ames, Louise Bates.

Variant names
Dates:
Birth 1908-10-29
Death 1996-10-31
Americans,
English,

Biographical notes:

Child psychologist and educator. Born 1908; died 1996.

From the description of Louise Bates Ames papers, 1915-1996 (bulk 1950-1975). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981093

Biographical Note

1908, Oct. 29 Born, Portland, Maine 1930 Married Smith Whittier Ames (divorced 1937) B.A., University of Maine, Orono, Maine 1933 M.A., University of Maine, Orono, Maine 1933 1936 Research secretary and personal assistant to Arnold Gesell, Clinic of Child Development, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1936 Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1938 Produced first film, "How Behavior Grows: The Sequential Patterning of Prone Progression" 1940 1944 Instructor, Clinic of Child Development, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1943 Published with Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg, and Janet Learned Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (New York: Harper & Brothers. 405 pp.) 1944 1950 Assistant Professor and curator of the Yale Films of Child Development, Clinic of Child Development, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1946 Published with Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg, and Glenna E. Bullis Child from Five to Ten (New York: Harper & Brothers. 458 pp.) 1950 Founded with Frances Lillian Ilg the Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven, Conn. 1950 1968 Director of research and secretary-treasurer, Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven, Conn. 1951 1973 Coauthor of syndicated newspaper column Child Behavior (after 1962 called Parents Ask) 1952 1955 Weekly television series, Child Behavior 1960 1961 Weekly television series, The Gesell Institute Reports: Your Child and You 1965 Published with Frances Lillian Ilg School Readiness: Behavior Tests Used at the Gesell Institute (New York: Harper & Row. 396 pp.) 1968 Associate director and chief psychologist, Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven, Conn. 1970 Published Child Care and Development (Philadelphia: Lippincott Co. 426 pp.) 1971 1977 Codirector, Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven, Conn. 1973 Published Rorschach Responses in Old Age (New York: Brunner/Mazel. 219 pp.) 1974 Published with Joan Ames Chase Don't Push Your Pre-schooler (New York: Harper & Row. 212 pp.) 1976 Published series on child development with Frances Lillian Ilg, beginning with Your Two-Year-Old: Terrible or Tender (New York: Delacorte Press. 149 pp.) 1978 Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven, Conn., renamed Gesell Institute of Human Development, New Haven, Conn. 1989 Published Arnold Gesell: Themes of His Work (New York: Human Sciences Press. 334 pp.) 1990 Reaffiliation of the Gesell Institute of Human Development with Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1991 Lecturer, Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1996, Oct. 31 Died, Cincinnati, Ohio

From the guide to the Louise Bates Ames Papers, 1915-1989, (bulk 1950-1975), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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Subjects:

  • Advice columns
  • Child development
  • Child psychology
  • Mental health facilities
  • Mental health facilities

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  • Child psychologists
  • Educators

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  • Connecticut--New Haven (as recorded)

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