Dr. Bernard was a pioneering social psychiatrist who found ways to help adopted and foster children feel at home in their new surroundings. She graduated from New York University in 1933 and earned her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1936. Dr. Bernard trained in psychiatry and neurology at Jersey City Medical Center, Grasslands Hospital in Valhalla, N.Y., and the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital.
She founded Columbia University's Division of Community and Social Psychiatry and directed the division from 1956 to 1969. She later established what is now the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Bernard was Vice President of the Association from 1971–1972, and she won international recognition for her work in community and social psychiatry, child psychiatry, and adoption.
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