Nicholas Hobbs was an American psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association.
13 Facts About Nicholas Hobbs
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Nicholas Hobbs then moved to Ohio State University where he studied under Carl Rogers and Sidney Pressey.
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Nicholas Hobbs received his master's in educational psychology in 1938.
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Nicholas Hobbs served as the director of the clinical psychology program at Teachers College, Columbia University, from 1946 to 1950.
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Nicholas Hobbs became chair of the psychology department at Louisiana State University from 1950 to 1951, then moved to chair the Division of Human Development at George Peabody College for Teachers where he served until 1965.
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Nicholas Hobbs resigned from this post in order to take on the role of director of the John F Kennedy Center for Research on Education and Human Development, now known as the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, which he and Susan Gray established.
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Nicholas Hobbs served as provost of Vanderbilt University from 1967 to 1975, after which he helped to found the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, establishing and serving as the first director of that Institute's Center for the Study of Families and Children until retiring in 1980.
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Nicholas Hobbs chaired the APA committee that created the organization's first code of ethics, introduced in 1953.
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Also in 1961 Nicholas Hobbs initiated an 8-year pilot project to address the need for effective and affordable mental health programs for children.
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Nicholas Hobbs would become the vice president of the Joint Commission on Mental Health of Children that same year.
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The results of this task force were presented in two publications: Issues in the Classification of Children, a two-volume collection of papers by members of the task force which Nicholas Hobbs edited, and The Futures of Children authored by Nicholas Hobbs.
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Nicholas Hobbs served on the National Advisory Mental Health Council, a policy board that advises the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the director of the National Institutes of Health, and the director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Nicholas Hobbs received the two APA Awards in 1980; one for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice, another for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Psychology in Public Interest.