Karen Freiberg, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor and Lecturer

Degree: Ph.D. Developmental Psychology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 1974

Area: Developmental Psychology

Office: MP 333 x (410) 455-2309
Fax: (410) 455-2309

E-mail: freiberg@umbc.edu

Website: not provided by instructor

Academic Interests: Dr. Freiberg teaches undergraduate courses for the Department of Psychology. When not teaching, she spends much of her time writing. She has written a textbook: Lifespan Human Development, which has gone through 4 editions and won best book of the year award from the American Nurses Association for three of the four editions. Additionally she writes annual editions of whats happening in psychology for McGraw-Hill and creates PowerWeb books as well as test banks. Dr. Freiberg's background is in nursing and science and her areas of interest are health psychology and physiological psychology.

Selected Publications

Freiberg, Karen. Educating Exceptional Children (01/02). Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing Group/McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Freiberg, Karen. Human Development (02/03). Guilford, CT. Dushkin Publishing Group/McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Freiberg, Karen. Adolescent Psychology (02/03). Guilford, CT. Dushkin Publishing Group/McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Freiberg, Karen. Adult Psychology (02/03). Guilford, CT. Dushkin Publishing Group/McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Graduate Mentees

not applicable

Teaching

Introduction to Psychology (Psyc 100)
Developmental Psychology (Psyc 200)
Before We Were Born (Psyc 205)
Abnormal Psychology (Psyc 285)
Adolescent Psychology (Psyc 304)
The Exceptional Child (Psyc 305)
Lifespan Development (Psyc 306)
Psychology of Aging (Psyc 307)