Karen Freiberg, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor and Lecturer

Karen Freiberg received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Syracuse University in New York in 1974

Dr. Freiberg teaches undergraduate courses for the Department of Psychology. When not teaching, she spends much of her time writing. She has written a textbook: Lifespan Human Development, which has gone through 4 editions and won best book of the year award from the American Nurses Association for three of the four editions. Additionally she writes annual editions of What’s Happening in Psychology for McGraw-Hill and creates PowerWeb books as well as test banks. Dr. Freiberg's background is in nursing and science and her areas of interest are health psychology and physiological psychology.