Noted psychologist dies

Press, 30 August 1977, Page 30

Noted psychologist dies

One of New Zealand’s) foremost educational psychologists, Mr Q. H. Brew, died in Auckland recently. He was aged 57. Quentin Heath Brew was one of the first two students to be trained in educational psychology at Canterbury University. After graduating, he was: appointed as the Department of Education’s district' psychologist at Wellington—l being responsible for most l of central New Zealand. With his first wife. Helen, Mr Brew was a moving force behind setting up the Parent Centre movement in New Zealand.

>1 From the 1950 s on he ■; worked as a lecturer, writer, broadcaster, and columnist to foster recognition of the value of ante-natal and early : childhood parent education. He was a pioneer in stressing the importance of the father’s role. In 1967 he worked among ; black children in Baltimore, : U.S.A., returning to become J student counsellor at the ■I University of Auckland. In 1975 he became senior psychologist at the Depart - . ment of Education’s ) Pakuranga office, where he t was joined by Margit, his ' second wife, whom he had married in 1969.