Amy Wolfson is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross, where she has taught since the fall of 1992. She grew up in Connecticut and earned her bachelor's degree at Harvard and Radcliffe in 1982. Dr. Wolfson completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Washington University (St. Louis) in 1987, and then spent two years at Stanford University doing post-doctoral work on women and depression.
Her past research looked at infant sleep and parent stress levels, children's coping strategies, women's sleep, and the sleep/wake patterns of young children. Since 1994, she has devoted her research and consulting to adolescents' (middle and high school age) sleep and daytime functioning, such as academic performance.
Some of her recent work has focused on women's sleep during pregnancy and the postpartum months. Over the last two years, Dr. Wolfson has worked on developing and evaluating a sleep hygiene program for middle school-age adolescents, the Sleep-Smart Pacesetter Program. In addition, her first book was published in 2001, The Woman's Book of Sleep: A Complete Resource Guide.