Myrna B. Shure Developmental Psychologist "My mission is to help children as early as preschool age to learn the skills to think for themselves, and make good decisions for problems important to them. Children who can think through and solve problems important to them when they are little will be able to think through and solve problems important to them when they're big." Photo: Myrna.

Myrna B. Shure, a developmental psychologist, received her Ph.D from Cornell University in 1966 and is a professor in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at MCP Hahnemann University in Philadelphia.

Her Interpersonal Cognitive Problem Solving Programs, ICPS, now called I Can Problem Solve, and her work with George Spivack have won four national awards.

Shure is also the co-author of five books. The first one, Raising a Thinking Child, teaches young children how to resolve everyday conflicts and get along with others, and the workbook that accompanies the book was recognized in 1996 as a model program by the Strengthening America's Families Project.

This work, combined with her multi-part radio series in Philadelphia, helped Shure receive the 1999 Psychology in the Media Award presented by Pennsylvania Psychological Association.

Shure is currently creating one-minute parenting tips for a Philadelphia radio station, appears in a weekly column called "Your Thinking Child" and speaks across the county on issues relating to our nation's youth.