Mildred Clare Scoville

Mildred Clare Scoville (1892–1969) was a psychiatric social worker who won a Lasker Award in 1949. She is known for her work on mental hygiene.

Mildred Clare Scoville
Alma mater	University of Nebraska

Early life

She was born in 1892^[1] in Hartington, Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska.^[2]

Career

Scoville joined the Commonwealth Fund of America in 1923 and later retired as executive associate director in 1954.^[3] In 1927, she moved to England because the Commonwealth Fund of America requested her to do an experiment to work on clinics for children.^[4][5] She later led leading positions in developing mental health services back in the United States.^[6] In 1931, she wrote “An Inquiry into the Status of Psychiatric Social Work”.^[7]

In 1950, she was named to the National Advisory Mental Health Council, thereby becoming the first person to serve on the council.^[8]

Scoville died in 1969.^[3]

Selected publications

• Scoville, Mildred C. (1931). "An inquiry into the status of psychiatric social work". American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 1 (2): 145–151. doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1931.tb04808.x. ISSN 1939-0025.
• SCOVILLE, MILDRED C. (1942). "Wartime tasks of psychiatric social workers in Great Britain". American Journal of Psychiatry. 99 (3): 358–363. doi:10.1176/ajp.99.3.358. ISSN 0002-953X.

Awards and honors

Scoville was one of two recipients of the 1949 Lasker Award.^[2][9] She received the Lasker Award for “recognition of her outstanding contribution to the integration of mental health concepts in medical education and practice”.^[10]