Doris Luverne Berryman (June 23, 1926 – November 3, 2000) was an American college professor and specialist in therapeutic recreation. She taught courses in leisure and recreation at

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from 1973 to 1997.

Early life and education

Berryman was born in

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, the daughter of Edward Hussen Berryman and Mabel Luverne Wilcox Berryman. Both of her parents were also born in Colorado. She graduated from the

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, earned a master's degree at

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, and completed doctoral studies at

in 1970, with a dissertation titled "A Method of Evaluating Recreation Services for Disabled Children and Youth in Institutional Treatment Settings, Based on the Establishment of Standards and Evaluative Criteria."

Career

Berryman was a therapeutic recreation specialist. She was recreation at

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in the 1950s, and worked for Comeback, Inc., a program of the National Recreation Association. In 1963 she taught an extension course on recreation in

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. She was a professor at New York University from 1973 until 1997, when she retired as a professor emerita. She spoke at conferences and other colleges about her work, and consulted with city parks programs. She is credited with "the first major effort to develop therapeutic recreation standards", which "served as a major reference in the development of standards through the 1970s." Berryman was a member of the Academy of Leisure Sciences, the World Leisure & Recreation Association, the National Therapeutic Recreation Society, the Society of Park and Recreation Educators, the

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, and many other organizations in her field.

Publications

Berryman's research was published in academic journals including ; ''International Journal of Rehabilitation Research,'' ''Journal of Rehabilitation,''Berryman, Doris L. "Unemployed young adults: a manpower resource for therapeutic recreation." ''Journal of Rehabilitation'' 34, no. 2 (1968): 11.Arje, Frances, and Doris L. Berryman. "Educational Rhythmics Proving its Worth." ''Journal of Rehabilitation'' (1966). ''Society & Leisure,'' ''World Leisure & Recreation'', and ''Journal of Leisure Research''. * "Educational Rhythmics Proving its Worth" (1966, with Frances Arje) * "Unemployed Young Adults: a Manpower Resource for Therapeutic Recreation" (1968) * ''Enhancement of recreation service to disabled children'' (1971) * ''Serving Disabled Children: Guidelines for Recreational Agencies'' (1971, with Annette Logan and Bernard Braginsky) * ''Recommended standards with evaluative criteria for recreation services in residential institutions'' (1971) * ''Development of Educational Programs for New Careers in Recreation Services for the Disabled'' (1971) * "A computer based system for comprehensive activity analysis and prescriptive recreation programming for disabled children and youth" (1975, with Claudette B. Lefebvre) * ''A Recreation/education Program for Disabled Children: Part 1'' (1975, with Claudette B. Lefebvre and Jesse A. Mann) * "Developmental approaches to therapeutic recreation programming: A new research focus" (1980, with Walter B. Kinney) * "Evaluating Professional Personnel" (1980) * "Leisure Counseling: Dimensions and Outlook" (1984, with Pierre Ouellette) * "

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(PBL) as an Innovative Approach to Professional Preparation and Leadership Development in Recreation and Leisure Services" (1988, with Patricia I. Hogan) * "The Relationship Among Self-esteem, Acculturation, and Recreation Participation of Recently Arrived Chinese Immigrant Adolescents" (1996, with Ping Yu) * "Riding the Winds of Change" (2000)Berryman, Doris L
"Riding the Winds of Change"
''Journal of Leisure Research'' 32(1)(2000): 7-11.

Personal life

Berryman's partner was fellow recreation professional Claudette B. Lefebvre. Berryman died from

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in 2000, at the age of 74, at her home in New York City. There is a box of her papers in the New York University Archives Biographical Files. The Metropolitan New York Recreation & Park Society gives an annual Doris Berryman Lifetime Achivement Award, named in her memory.

References

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