Rhoda Olkin, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University
- Position:
- Con to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“In a society in which people with disabilities are one of the most disadvantaged minority groups, we do not have the luxury of thinking of PAS as a final act of self-determination. We are a vulnerable population, subject to forced sterilization, ostracization, stigma, and discrimination. It is not paternalistic to think that people with disabilities will be coerced into PAS (or killed without their permission); to argue that people with disabilities have as much free will as the nondisabled is to ignore the oppression of people with disabilities. I do not want to talk about how to die until we have addressed the oppression affecting how I live.”
“Why I Changed My Mind About Physician-Assisted Suicide: How Stanford University Made a Radical Out of Me,” Journal of Disability Policy Studies, Summer 2005
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Professor, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University
- Staff Member, Through the Looking Glass
- Member, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Task Force on Disability & Substance Abuse, 2002-Present
- Editorial Board, Rehabilitation Psychology, 2002-Present
- Member, American Psychological Association’s Committee on Disability Issues in Psychology; Member, 2002-2003; Chair, 2004
- Book Review Board, The Family Psychologist, 1990-present
- Alliant International University President’s Award for Faculty Excellence, June 2003
- American Psychological Association Division 43 (Family Psychology) Carolyn Attneave award, Aug. 2001
- American Psychological Association Division 22 (Rehabilitation Psychology) award, Aug. 2001
- Guest Editor, The Family Psychologist, Special Issue on Disability, 1994
- Member, American and California Associations for Marital and Family Therapy
- Member, American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers
- Member, American Association of University Professors
- Member, American Counseling Association
- Member, American Family Therapy Academy
- Education:
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- PhD, Counseling Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1981
- MA, Counseling Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1977
- BA, Psychology, Stanford University, 1975
- Other:
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- None found