Karen Skerrett, PhD, RN
Associate Professor
Email: kskerrett@ameritech.net

Dr. Karen Skerrett is Associate Professor in the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Sciences. She received her BSN from DePauw University, and MSN in Psychiatric Nursing from St. Xavier University. She received an MA and PhD. in Human Development and Psychology form the University of Chicago. Dr. Skerrett holds licenses in both Nursing and Clinical Psychology.

She has formerly taught at the University of Illinois College of Nursing, the Family Institute at Northwestern University and has maintained a private practice of marital and family therapy for the past 28 years. She is a consulting faculty at the Chicago Center for Family Health at the University of Chicago where she teaches in the areas of couple and family resilience, life cycle transitions and in the advanced practicum program in Families, Systems and Health.

At the SON, Dr. Skerrett teaches both in the MEPN and CNS programs. Her research interests include strategies of relationship enhancement, cultivation of resilience in families and organizations, the impact of chronic illness and disability on couples and families and the development of meaning systems in individuals and couples as an aspect of positive health maintenance. Dr. Skerrett conducts "Resilient Partners" groups for couples affected by chronic illness.