Education
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Cincinnati
About Robert
Robert is Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of New Haven. He currently holds a position as Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine.
After completing doctoral training in clinical psychology at the University of Cincinnati in 1967, Hoffnung joined the U of C graduate faculty and taught for two years. In 1969 he came to New Haven to teach at Yale University, where he helped develop the West Haven division of the Hill-West Haven Community Mental Health Center. His work included evaluation of existing mental health programs, interdisciplinary training of professionals and paraprofessionals, development of community daycare and alternative school programs and consultation with community groups.
Dr. Hoffnung joined the University of New Haven faculty in 1974 and served as M.A. Community Psychology Program Coordinator from 1976 to 2004. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and practicing psychotherapist with a special interest in the problems of couples, children and families.
His research and writing focused on our country's health and mental health care crisis. Robert is particularly interested in the appropriate role of science and professional judgment in achieving a morally acceptable standard of health and mental health care for all that is both efficient and financially accessible, and in the role of propaganda in preventing the reasoned social policy debate that is required to achieve such reforms.