Lois Winslow Sisson Ames

Background

Ames, Lois Winslow Sisson was born on January 21, 1931 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Winslow Chase and Lois (Barton) Sisson.

Education

AB, Smith College, 1952. Master of Arts in Psychiatric Social Work, University Chicago, 1958.

Career

Caseworker children's division City of Chicago Public Welfare Department, 1953—1956. Intern Family Service Salvation Army, 1956—1957, Illinois Neuropsychiat. Institute, Chicago, 1957—1958.

Child care worker Institute for Juvenile Research, William Healy Residential Treatment Center, 1957. Psychiatric social worker Lake County Mental Health Clinic, Gary, Indiana, 1958—1959. Private clinical practice, since 1958.

Counselor Hyde Park Unitarian Cooperative Nursery School, Chicago, 1964—1968. Lower and middle school counselor University Chicago Laboratory Schools, 1966—1969. Lecturer Northeastern University, Boston, 1969—1977, assistant professor College Criminal Justice, 1970—1977, coordinator social welfare and social work practice curriculum, 1970—1977, assistant director The Weekend College, 1969—1970, director The Weekend College, 1970—1972.

Lecturer psychiatry department psychiatry Harvard Medical School, Cambridge (Massachusetts) Hospital, 1982—2007. Assistant editor Women's Page Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen, 1952—1953. Director The Community Service Practicum, Boston, 1972—1977.

Visiting lecturer School Social Work Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1975. Member advisory committee career education Lincoln Sudbury (Massachusetts) Regional High School, Sudbury, Massachusetts, 1975—1977. Member advisory board Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Concord, Massachusetts, 1977—1982.

Private psychotherapy consultant, Cambridge and Sudbury, Massachusetts. Lecturer psychiatry Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Hospital, Massachusetts, 1982—2009.

Achievements

• Lois Winslow Sisson Ames has been listed as a notable social worker, educator, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board member advisory board Franklin Pierce College, New Hampshire, 1982—1985. Member of National Association of Social Workers (registered social worker, diplomate in clinical social work), New England Poetry Club (board member 1987-1992).

Connections

Married Robert Webb Ames, December 15, 1956 (divorced August 1969). Children: Elisabeth Harriett Winslow, Adam Barton.

Father:

Winslow Chase Sisson

Mother:

Lois (Barton) Sisson

Spouse:

Robert Webb Ames

child:

Adam Barton Ames

child:

Elisabeth Harriett Winslow Ames