Mary Clare Lennon
Affiliations
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
- Member, Working Paper Editorial Board
Research
Mary Clare Lennon is Associate Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences in Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and Director of Social Science Research at the National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology and a postdoctoral M.S. degree in biostatistics from Columbia University. Most of her research examines the relation of gender to physical and mental health problems and their treatment, with a focus on the roles of family and the workplace. In recent years, her research interests have focused on the well-being of low-income women and children. One current project examines how family socioeconomic circumstances-including wealth, income trajectories, and employment experiences-affect the psychological well-being of parents and children. Another recent research project examines mental health problems (especially depression) in low-income women. She explores the relation of depression to employment and welfare receipt, and focuses on treatment availability and utilization. An additional research area concerns the determinants of public attitudes toward welfare, poverty, and the working poor.
Selected Work
- Policy Into Action: Implementation and Welfare Reform Lennon, M.C. and Corbett, T. (editors). Urban Institute Press, forthcoming
- "Depression Among Women on Welfare: A Review of the Literature" Lennon, M.C., Blome, J., and English, K. 2002. Journal of the American Medical Women's Association, 57(1): 27-31
- Women & Health: Work, Welfare and Well-Being Lennon, M.C. (editor). Binghamton: The Haworth Press, Inc, 2001. [Also published as Special Issues of Women & Health. 2001, 32(1-3).]
- Depression and Low-Income Women: Challenges for TANF and Welfare-to-Work Policies and Programs Lennon, M.C., Blome, J. and English K. 2001. New York: National Center for Children in Poverty
- "Labeling effects of a controversial psychiatric diagnosis: A vignette experiment of Late Luteal Phase Dysphoric Disorder" Schwartz, S, Weiss, L. and Lennon, M.C. 2000. Women & Health, 30(3):63-75
- "Work and unemployment as stressors" Lennon, M. C. 1999. pp. 284-294 in A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health (A. V. Horwitz and T.L. Scheid, eds.), New York: Cambridge University Press
See Also
- Research grant: Temporal Dynamics, Intervention Analysis and Policymaking: Latent Trajectory Group Analyses of Service Interventions for Homeless Mentally Ill
- Seed grant: Parental Wealth and Transition to Adulthood
- Working papers by Mary Clare Lennon
