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About Ed Tronick PhD
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Ed Tronick, PhD is a developmental and clinical psychologist and is recognized internationally as a researcher on infants, children and parenting. He developed the Face-to-face Still-face paradigm and video-taped micro-analytic studies of infant en face interactions, pioneered studies of the effects of maternal depression on infants, and carried out numerous cross-cultural studies of infant and child development. His Mutual Regulation Model and Dyadic Expansion of Consciousness hypothesis are widely accepted accounts of social interactions and therapeutic processes. Dr. Tronick is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and is the Chief of the Child Development Unit at Children's Hospital and a Lecturer in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School. He is a faculty member at the Fielding Graduate Institute and a member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. With Dr. Kristie Brandt, he is co-director of the Napa Parent-Infant Mental Health Fellowship Program. Dr. Tronick was a co-founder of the Touchpoints program with TB Brazelton. He has published more than 200 scientific articles on topics including the effects of cocaine exposure on infant neurobehavioral development, cultural studies of parenting and child development, parental depression and its effects on infants and children, co-created the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Examination with Barry Lester, and published three books, the most recent in 2007 titled, The Neurobehavioral and Social Emotional Development of the Infant. His research has been funded by NIDA, NICHD, NIMH, NSF and the McArthur Foundation. He has also served as permanent member of an NIMH review panel, and reviews for the National Science Foundations of Canada, the US and Switzerland. To visit Ed's website, click here.
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