Catherine Overson
Catherine Overson is a non-traditional student in many ways. She earned a nursing diploma while living in England with her parents, met and married her husband there and brought him back to NH where they raised a family while she worked as a nurse. She took her first American college class at UNH-Manchester in January of 1999 “to see if I could do it.” She decided to major in psychology to augment her hospital work. At Elliot Hospital she had already founded the perinatal loss program, where she was joined by a “dedicated team of nurses” who helped develop the program. This spring she will take time from her fulltime nursing work to graduate with a B.A. in Psychology. Her interests, however, are wide and “never-ending.” She has already presented at two undergraduate research conferences; at the first she won first prize for her work on Plato and Freud. This April she will make two presentations at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research in Ashville, North Carolina: one on her research in perinatal loss and the other on possible relationships in the theories of Plato and Freud. Cathy plans to go on to graduate school for a career in teaching and research.
Gary Goldstein
Gary Goldstein has been at UNH-Manchester for nineteen years, where he is Associate Professor of Psychology and the Chair of the Division of Social Sciences. He teaches courses in clinical and personal psychology and does research in educational psychology. During his years at UNHM he has mentored many students. Of this experience, he says, “I was especially impressed by Cathy’s work in perinatal loss in terms of the incredible effort she made in getting the program off the ground and the inspiring work she does with individuals who have suffered these tremendous losses.”
Read Catherine Overson’s research article, Perinatal Loss: Its Challenges to Nurses and Educators >>
