Sigrid Peterson papers, 1970-1988

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Peterson, Sigrid, 1940-
Title
Sigrid Peterson papers
Dates
1970-1988 (inclusive)
Quantity
11.5 linear feet, (20 boxes)
Collection Number
ACCN 1314
Summary
The Sigrid Peterson papers (1970-1988) contain articles, handouts, pamphlets, church materials, programs, data, research materials, curriculum vitae, day planners, sheet music, and news clippings. The majority of the collection deals with research on auto-immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), as well as community reaction to it. This is mainly focused on the Jewish community. Also included is research on morality and suicide rates in Utah. Peterson is a psychologist and author who founded Bridges Interfaith Center for Counseling and Psychological Services in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Peterson (b.1940) earned her MA and Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1981 in counseling/clinical psychology, and is a licensed psychologist. In 1981 she founded Bridges Interfaith Center for Counseling and Psychological Services, and was the director for five years. From 1995 to 1996, she studied in Israel on a Interuniversity Fellowship in Jewish Studies. Then in 1997, Peterson won the Schaff Memorial Prize, an award given to the best graduate student essay demonstrating creative thinking on a subject related to Judaic Religious Thought. Peterson has also written founding grants for the Utah AIDS Foundation and the People With AIDS Coalition. She has also served the State of Utah as a statistician-policy analyst.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Sigrid Peterson papers (1970-1988) contain articles, handouts, pamphlets, church materials, programs, data, research materials, curriculum vitae, day planners, sheet music, and news clippings. The majority of the collection deals with research on auto-immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), as well as community reaction to it. This is mainly focused on the Jewish community. Also included is research on morality and suicide rates in Utah.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

Gift of Sigrid Peterson in 1992.

Processing Note

Processed by Kate Kimball in 2002.

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Separated Materials

Audiovisual materials were transferred to the Mulimedia Division of Special Collections (A0731).

Related Materials

Forms part of the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archives.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Research PrintoutsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
1 1
Congenital Anomalies
1 2
Attaining Health Goals
1 3
Births in Utah
1 4
VEBR Volumes

Research MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
2 1
"A Statement of Health Policy"
2 2
Calls for papers
2 3
Drafts
This folder includes Basic Tables Supplement, Miscellaneous Task Forces, Land Areaeyll and Wyll, and SAS-PC Output.
2 4
Medical Records
2 5
Department of Health and Human Services, Survey
 1980
2 6
Iowa Grinnell
2 7
Divorce papers and Statements
3 1
Attaining Health Goals, Early Drafts and Research
3 2
Age Research
3 3
Grants and Committees
3 4
GWB Scale
3 5
Publication, MS Preparation, Death and Injury in the Workforce
3 6
PADS
3 7
A Statement of Health Policy
3 8
Paramedic Studies
4 1
Emergency Survey, Correspondence and Rough Drafts
 1972
4 2
Literature and Responses
4 3
Teen Suicide Models
4 4
Urban Violence, Statistics
4 5
Miscellaneous
4 6
Utah Survey
4 7
Accident Statistics
4 8
Teen Suicide Notes and Analysis
4 9
Low-Cost Mortality Rates
4 10
AIDS Epidemic
4 11
Manpower File

Religion, Research MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
5 1
Reconstructionalist
5 2
Reconstructionalist, Hebrew Language, Peace City Hiroshima Shabbat
5 3
Advertisements
5 4
Emotion and Religion, Personality Disorders, Program Sheet and Notebook
6 1
Jews and Modern Life
6 2
Adolescents and Alcohol
6 3
Mormonism and Judaism
6 4
"A Topsy Turvy World"
6 5
Lyrics in Hebrew and English to Jewish Hymns
6 6
Festival of Lights

Research MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
7 1
Infant Mortality Rates
7 2
Causes of Death, Statistics
7 3
Hyperkinesis, Statistics
7 4
AIDS
7 5
Teenage Suicide
This folder includes Suicide and Age articles; USA, Comparative Suicide Rates; Suicide Tables, Utah; Task Assignment; US Census, States Summary (1970); Suicide Tables; Sigrid Peterson, "Recurring Injuries at Work: Profiles by Occupation and Hazard, Using First Report of Injury (Worker's Compensation) Data."
1970
7 6
"Care, Sensitivity, and Power"
7 7
Families in Focus, Job Applications
7 8
Miscellaneous
8 1
Years of Life Lost (YLL) and Working Years of Life Lost (WYLL)
8 2
Methods
8 3
UEBR Volumes
8 4
Infant Deaths, Utah
8 5
Tables, Miscellaneous
8 6
Column Ideas

AIDS, Research MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
9 1
AIDS Epidemic in Utah
9 2
Health Programs
This folder includes information on the following organizatons: Utah AIDS Alliance, American Red Cross, AIDS Correspondence, Utah AIDS Project, Planned Parenthood, Odyssey House, and Familias Hispanas Contra el SIDA (Hispanic Families Against AIDS).
9 3
AIDS Information
9 4
Research Materials, Funding, and Proposals
9 5
Articles
9 6
Fliers, Rulings, and Resumes

Judaism, General MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
10 1
March
 1988
10 2
Services, Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah
10 3
Peterson, Red Rock Shadow
This folder includes "AIDS and Ethics: Jewish Perspectives," "Jewish Perspectives on Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion of Affected Fetuses, Including Some Comparisons with Prevailing Catholic Beliefs," Celebrations, and Post Document in Judaic and New Eastern Studies.
10 4
Services, Prayers, and Songs
10 5
Newsletters, Articles
This folder includes United Jewish Council Outreach, "In the Wilderness" and "The Last Four Plagues," "The Spark," Seder of the Children of Abraham, and The Havurah Movement.

Research MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box
11
AIDS Research Materials
This box contains articles, data, handouts, pamphlets, and other related materials.

Professional MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
12 1
Ethics, APGA
12 2
Psychotherapy
12 3
Case Notes
12 4
Class Notes
12 5
Handouts
12 6
Professional
12 7
Community
12 8
Assessment
12 9
MMPI
12 10
Objective Testing
12 11
CPI
12 12
Rorschach
12 13
Rotter Inc., Sentences
12 14
TAT
12 15
WISC and WISC-R
12 16
Individual Tests of Intelligence
12 17
Strat Assessment
12 18
Testing Practicum
12 19
Interviewing
12 20
Sample Evaluations
12 21
Advance Education
12 22-23
Alcoholism
12 24
Applied Family Processes
12 25
Client Evaluation and Assessment
12 26
Existentialism

Professional Materials, 1987Return to Top

Container(s): Box 13

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
13 1
Experimental
13 2
Hypnosis
13 3
621 Introduction to Counseling
13 4
Neuro Psychology
13 5
Beier, Play RX and Communicative Analysis
13 6
Addie's Seminar
13 7
Strat Intervention
13 8
Sem Anxiety
13 9
Theories of Group Counseling
13 10
Theories of Learning
13 11
Theories of Personality
13 12
Total Sample Matrix
13 13
WAIS Materials and Manual
13 14
Resumes
13 15
Job Search
13 16
Utah Department of Health
This folder includes Shalom Apartments information; GRE General Materials, Test #6; and Taxes.
1987

Research MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 14

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
14 1
EMEDCO, Mailing List
14 2
Proposal to the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation
14 3
"Local AIDS Policies"
14 4
Measures
14 5
AIDS, Neurology
14 6
AIDS, Literature Searches
14 7
AIDS, Education and Prevention
14 8
AIDS, Psychology
14 9
AIDS, HIV Virus
14 10
Grant Proposals
14 11
Medicaid
14 12
Correspondence
14 13
Population
14 14
STD Data
14 15
AIDS Pamphlets
14 16
Jewish Task Force
14 17
Interfaith Task Force
14 18
AIDS Consortium
14 19
UDOH--AIDS Control

Research MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 15

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
15 1
Shalom Apartments, Revised Work Plan
15 2
Advanced Data, Monthly Vital Statistics Report
15 3
AIDS, Advanced Data
15 4
Acquired Imuno Deficiency Syndrome, General
15 5
AIDS BBS Information

Research Materials, 1985Return to Top

Container(s): Box 16

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
16 1
"Yes, I Can," Catholic Community Services
16 2
Death Rates and Causes
16 3
University of Utah Survey, Research Paper
16 4
Abstracts
16 5
Memo's
16 6
Salt Lake AIDS Foundation Proposal, Birthday Banner
16 7
Request for Proposal, Spring Franklin Day Planner Catalogue
16 8
Telephone Hotline
16 9
Catholic Counseling Services, Expenditures, DOH
16 10
On Overview of Utah's Vital Statistics for 1985, Biography of Dr. Peterson
 1985
16 11
Correspondence
16 12
AIDS, Utah Population
16 13
Medical and Psychology, Financial, The Giraffe Project
16 14
News Clippings, Suicide
16 15
Social Services
16 16
Bridges, Receipts
Volume
16 1
"Standards for Educational and Psychological Tests"
16 2
Genie Livewire
16 3
Windows Booksellers

Miscellaneous MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s): Box 17

Professional Materials, 1985-1992Return to Top

Container(s): Box 18

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
18 1
Correspondence
 1985-1991
18 2
Sigrid Peterson, Curriculum Vitae
 1983-1984
18 3
AIDS, Articles and Conference Materials
 1985-1987
18 4
American Psychological Association (APA), Specialty Guidelines for the Delivery of Services
1981
18 5
Catholic Community Services of Utah, Agenda
 1988
18 6
Communicable Disease Newsletter
1987
18 7
Congregation Kol Ami, Church Service Materials
This folder contains service programs, synagogue materials, handouts, and other thoughts.
1985-1991
18 8
Day Planners
 1987
18 9
Financial and Legal Materials
This folder contains a court date and receipts.
1987
18 10
Friendship Manor, Newsletter and Phone List
 1992
18 11
Notebooks
18 12
Notes

Professional Materials, 1972-1991Return to Top

Container(s): Box 19

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
19 1
Pamphlets, Programs, and Handouts
 1985-1991
19 2
Psychology, Factor Analysis, Class Materials
This folder contains handouts, mathematical formulas, worksheets, outlines, assignments, and other class materials.
19 3
Psychology Class Materials
This folder contains handouts, outlines, assignments, tests, and other class materials.
1972-1976
19 4
News Clippings
 1986-1987
19 5
Miscellaneous

Joel Nauman, Sheet Music, 1967Return to Top

Container(s): Box 20

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
20 1
"Chamber Mass"
20 2
Summer Day Suite
1967

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • AIDS (Disease) in children--Utah
  • AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Utah
  • AIDS (Disease)--Prevention
  • AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Utah
  • AIDS (Disease)--Utah
  • AIDS (Disease)--Utah--Religious aspects--Judaism
  • AIDS phobia--Utah
  • Jewish women physicians--Archives
  • Suicide--Utah
  • Teenagers--Suicidal behavior--Utah

Personal Names

  • Peterson, Sigrid, 1940---Archives

Geographical Names

  • Utah--20th century--Statistics, Medical
  • Utah--20th century--Statistics, Vital

Form or Genre Terms

  • Case studies
  • Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
  • Demographic surveys
  • Health surveys
  • Instructional and educational works
  • Medical statistics
  • Research (Documents)

Finding aid created by Kate Kimball.
2002 (last modified: 2019)

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