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Maida Herman Solomon
Maida Herman, from a 1915 newspaper; a young white woman
Maida Herman, from a 1915 newspaper
BornMarch 9, 1891
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJanuary 25, 1988 (age 96)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation(s)Psychiatric social worker, researcher, writer, activist
SpouseHarry C. Solomon
RelativesLina Frank Hecht (great-aunt)
Barbara Miller Solomon (daughter-in-law)

Maida Herman Solomon (March 9, 1891 – January 25, 1988) was an American psychiatric social worker, college professor, writer, researcher, and advocate for sex education and community mental health services. She was a founder and first president of the American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers.

Early life and education

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Herman was born in Boston, the daughter of Joseph Herman and Hannah Adler Herman. Her father was a shoe manufacturer.[1] Her family was Jewish; her great-aunt was philanthropist Lina Frank Hecht. She attended Boston Girls' Latin School and graduated from Smith College in 1912. She completed a secretarial course at Simmons College in 1914.[2][1]

Career

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In 1915, Solomon was secretary of Boston's Union Park Forum, and marched in a parade for women's suffrage.[3][4] She was a psychiatric social worker at Boston Psychopathic Hospital beginning in 1916. She served on the board of Hecht House, a Jewish settlement house.[1] In 1926 she was a founder and first president of the American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers.[5]

From 1934 to 1957, Solomon was a professor of social economy at Simmons College.[6] After she retired from Simmons, she became a consultant in Boston, and head of a research team in psychiatric social work. She was awarded the Smith College Medal in 1979.[7]

Solomon was active in the Boston Community Fund, the American Red Cross, Beth Israel Hospital, the Massachusetts Conference of Social Workers, and many other organizations in Boston.[4]

Publications

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Solomon co-wrote several books; her articles appeared in scholarly journals including The American Journal of Psychiatry[8][9][10] and The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology.[5]

  • The Field of Social Service (1915, co-editor)
  • "The Family of the Neurosyphilitic" (1918, with Harry C. Solomon)[11]
  • Syphilis of the Innocent (1922, with Harry C. Solomon)[12]
  • "The Problem of the Supply of Psychiatric Social Workers for State Hospitals" (1928, with June F. Lyday)[8]
  • "Extramural Psychiatry and Affiliated Services" (1944, with George S. Stevenson, Mary E. Corcoran, and Beatrice D. Wade)[9]
  • "The Family as a Potential Resource for the Rehabilitation of the Chronic Schizophrenic Patient: A Study of 60 Patients and their Families" (1961, with Anne S. Evans and Dexter M. Bullard Jr.)[13]
  • The Prevention of Hospitalization: Treatment Without Admission for Psychiatric Patients (1963, with Milton Greenblatt, Robert F. Moore, and Robert S. Albert)[14]
  • Drug and social therapy in chronic schizophrenia (1965, with Milton Greenblatt, Betty Ann Glasser, Anne S. Evans, and G. W. Brooks)
  • Adolescents in a Mental Hospital (1968, with Ernest Hartmann, Milton Greenblatt, and Daniel Levinson)[15]
  • "A 10-Year Follow-Up of 55 Hospitalized Adolescents" (1974, with Elizabeth G. Herrera, Betty Glasser Lifson, and Ernest Hartmann)[10]

Personal life

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Maida Herman married psychiatrist Harry C. Solomon in 1916. They had four children, Peter, Joseph, Babette,[16] and Eric. Her husband died in 1982, and she died in 1988, at the age of 96.[4] Her papers are in the Schlesinger Library and the Simmons College Archives. In 2004, a collection of essays and documents, and her memoir, were published as Carrying a Banner for Psychiatric Social Work: Essays, Perspectives, and Maida Herman Solomon's Oral Memoir.[17] Historian Barbara Miller Solomon was her daughter-in-law.[18]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Maida Herman Solomon '14 Faculty, Social Work". Suffrage at Simmons. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  2. ^ Evans, Anne S. "Maida Herman Solomon". Jewish Women's Archive. Archived from the original on 2015-09-18. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  3. ^ "Union Park Forum Opens Nov 2". The Boston Globe. 1915-10-28. p. 2. Retrieved 2025-05-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b c Driscoll, Edgar J. Jr. (1988-01-27). "Maida H. Solomon, a pioneer in psychiatric social work; at 96". The Boston Globe. p. 59. Retrieved 2025-05-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b Solomon, Maida H. (January 1927). "Annual address". The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. 21 (4): 422–433. doi:10.1037/h0068131. ISSN 0096-851X.
  6. ^ Williams, Kristin S. (2024-09-26). "Maida Herman Solomon (1891–1988): an invisible forerunner in the field of clinical social work". Journal of Management History. doi:10.1108/JMH-06-2024-0083. ISSN 1751-1348. Archived from the original on 2025-04-29. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  7. ^ "Smith to honor four women". Daily Hampshire Gazette. 1979-02-16. p. 7. Archived from the original on 2025-05-05. Retrieved 2025-05-05 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ a b Lyday, June F.; Solomon, Maida H. (January 1928). "The Problem of the Supply of Psychiatric Social Workers for State Hospitals". American Journal of Psychiatry. 84 (4): 629–638. doi:10.1176/ajp.84.4.629. ISSN 0002-953X.
  9. ^ a b Stevenson, George S.; Corcoran, Mary E.; Wade, Beatrice D.; Solomon, Maida H. (January 1944). "Extramural psychiatry and the affiliated services". American Journal of Psychiatry. 100 (4): 553–557. doi:10.1176/ajp.100.4.553. ISSN 0002-953X. Archived from the original on 2024-10-05. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  10. ^ a b Herrera, Elizabeth G.; Lifson, Betty Glasser; Hartmann, Ernest; Solomon, Maida H. (July 1974). "A 10-Year Follow-Up of 55 Hospitalized Adolescents". American Journal of Psychiatry. 131 (7): 769–774. doi:10.1176/ajp.131.7.769. ISSN 0002-953X. Archived from the original on 2024-11-22. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  11. ^ Solomon, Harry C.; Solomon, Maida H. (1918). "The Family of the Neurosyphilitic". Bulletin of the Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases. 2 (1): 30–39.
  12. ^ Solomon, Harry Caesar; Solomon, Maida Herman (1922). Syphilis of the Innocent: A Study of the Social Effects of Syphilis on the Family and the Community. United States Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board.
  13. ^ Evans, Anne S.; Bullard, Dexter M. Jr.; Solomon, Maida H. (June 1961). "The family as a potential resource in the rehabilitation of the chronic schizophrenic patient : a study of 60 patients and their families". American Journal of Psychiatry. 117 (12): 1075–1083. doi:10.1176/ajp.117.12.1075. ISSN 0002-953X. Archived from the original on 2025-02-24. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  14. ^ Kraft, Alan M. (June 1964). "The Prevention of Hospitalization (review)". Psychiatric Services. 15 (6): 346–b. doi:10.1176/ps.15.6.346-b. ISSN 1075-2730.
  15. ^ Carson, Doyle I. (January 1970). "Adolescents in a Mental Hospital (review)". Psychiatric Services. 21 (1): 34–34. doi:10.1176/ps.21.1.34. ISSN 1075-2730.
  16. ^ Scheible, Sue (2013-09-03). "A Good Age: Sailing out of summer with an 88-year-old cyclist". The Patriot Ledger. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  17. ^ Gussman, John B., ed. (2004). Carrying a Banner for Psychiatric Social Work: Essays, Perspectives, and Maida Herman Solomon's Oral Memoir. Old Heidelberg Press. ISBN 978-1-58790-065-5.
  18. ^ "Barbara Miller Solomon". Jewish Women's Archive. Archived from the original on 2023-03-30. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
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