Alumni Reunion Bios - Dept Kent - Kent State University

Ph.D. Alumni
Paula Hartman-Stein
Dr. Paula Hartman-Stein is founder of the Center for Healthy
Aging, a behavioral healthcare private practice in Kent Ohio,
specializing in the care of older adults and their family members.
She is also the Director of Geriatric Psychology and coordinator
of the geropsychology post-doctoral fellowship at Summa Health
System and a consultant to Coleman Professional Services, a
mental health center. She has published on topics such as the use
of caregiver report in diagnosing dementia, medical decisionmaking
capacity, and behavioral determinants of healthy aging.
She and her former mentor, Dr. Jeanette Reuter, have developed
the Behavioral Competence Inventory©, a measure of functional
ability in older adults. Her current research interest is developing
cognitive fitness programs. For the past 7 years Dr. Hartman-
Stein has written regularly for the newspaper, The National Psychologist, on issues regarding
Medicare compliance and geropsychology practice. She has an edited book, Innovative
Behavioral Healthcare for Older Adults: A Guidebook for Changing Times (1998).
In 2001 Dr. Hartman-Stein was elected Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academy of
Practice In Psychology. She is a Fellow in APA’s Division 12, Clinical Psychology.
Following receipt of her master’s degree from West Virginia University and doctorate in clinical
psychology from Kent State University in 1982, Dr. Hartman-Stein earned the Interdisciplinary
Geriatric Clinician Development Award through the Western Reserve Geriatric Education
Center, Case Western Reserve University.
Her current academic affiliations include: Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology at the
Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Senior Fellow at the University of Akron
Institute for Life Span Development and Gerontology, and adjunct instructor at Kent State
University’s College of Nursing.
Active in political advocacy, Dr. Hartman-Stein is immediate past President of the Division of
Clinical Geropsychology of the American Psychological Association. Paula is married to Rob
Stein and has a 16 year old son, Eric.
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