[2] Brehm spent 15 years at the University of Kansas, where she taught psychology and directed the honors program.
[2] During her term, the organization created the Presidential Task Force on Integrative Healthcare for an Aging Population, APA-SRCD Task Force on Math and Science Education (with the Society for Research in Child Development) and the Presidential Task Force on Institutional Review Boards and Psychological Science.
Though they divorced several years later, they continued to work together and even co-authored a book.
[6] Jack Brehm constructed the theory of reactance and Sharon adapted it to the clinical psychology setting.
[7] In a 2013 interview, Brehm discussed her Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, the early symptoms of which had appeared in 2010.