George Holden (professor)
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George Walker Holden | |
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| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Occupations | Professor emeritus and Developmental Psychologist |
George Walker Holden is professor emeritus and a developmental psychologist who worked at the Southern Methodist University,[1] where he was the former Chair of the Psychology Department. Prior to that he was professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Holden is the co-founder of the U.S. Alliance to End the Hitting of Children and the author of several books on the subject of child development. He is the father of three children and grandfather of five.
George Holden's father was Reuben A. Holden, who was an administrator at Yale University and later become President of Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.[2] He received his BA from Yale University and his MA and PhD in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[3][4]
Positions
After graduate school, in 1984 George Holden went to the University of Texas at Austin.[4] Among other roles, he served as Associate Chair in the Department of Psychology. In 2008 he moved to Southern Methodist University where he was Professor of Psychology. From 2015 to 2020 he chaired the Department of Psychology.[5][6] Holden co-founded the U.S. Alliance to End the Hitting of Children in 2011, and serves as the organization's President.[7] From 2011 to 2020 he served on the board of Family Compass, a Dallas child abuse prevention non-profit, where he was board president from 2016 to 2017. He currently is on the board of the National Initiative to End Corporal Punishment (beginning in 2016) and joined the board of Nurturings (formerly Attachment Parenting International) in 2021. He was previously the President of the Society for Research in Human Development.[8]