If I Had Bad Parents, Will I Be a Bad Parent...
If you weren’t parented well, that doesn’t mean you can’t be a good parent.
Ken Duckworth, M.D.
Ken Duckworth, M.D. serves as the medical director for NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness. He is triple board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Adult, Child and Adolescent, and Forensic Psychiatry and has extensive experience in the public health arena. Dr. Duckworth is currently an Assistant Professor at Harvard University Medical School, and serves as a board member of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists. Dr. Duckworth has served as a school consultant for a decade and, in...
Attachment Q&A with Dr. Jessica Zucker
Research shows that it's the quality of our interactions with our kids that makes the biggest impact.
Attachment, Parenting and Childhood Mental Illnesses
Mother’s Day celebrations bring to mind the centrality of attachment as an important topic for anyone studying human emotion.
Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D
Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist at Pediatric and Adolescent Psychology Associates in Arcadia, California, where she sees children and adolescents, as well as provides parenting consultations. In addition to writing and lecturing to parents, educators, and professionals, she serves as the Director of Parenting Education and Development for the Mindsight Institute, focusing on how to understand relationships in the context of the changing brain. Dr. Bryson earned her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, where her research explored attachment science, childrearing theory,...
Lysa Parker, MS, CFLE, CEIM
Lysa is a cofounder of Attachment Parenting International and a co-author of Attached at the Heart: Eight Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children (iUniverse, 2009). Lysa Parker has committed her life to working with parent-child relationship issues and is a leading authority on attachment parenting. She has been featured in national and regional publications including, Newsday, Child Magazine, Mothering Magazine, Natural Life Magazine, Washington Post, Seattle’s Child, Today’s Parents, Westchester Parent, and Charlotte Parent, as well as many international publications. Lysa...
Jessica Zucker, Ph.D.
Dr. Jessica Zucker is a clinical psychologist and writer practicing in Los Angeles. She has been deeply impacted by her worldwide travels and extensive education revolving around women’s health and development. Earning a master’s degree at New York University in public health with a focus on international reproductive issues led to her working for the Harvard School of Public Health. After years of international public health work, Dr. Zucker pursued a master’s degree in psychology and human development at Harvard University with the aim...
Catherine Birndorf M.D.
Catherine Birndorf, M.D. is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics/Gynecology and founding director of the Payne Whitney Women's Program at The New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. Her area of psychiatric expertise is in reproductive mental health, helping women with emotional distress during times of hormonal change, from menses to menopause. She specializes in treating women before, during and after pregnancy, as well as at other times of transition in their lives. A Smith College graduate, Dr. Birndorf...
Take Five
Transition to parenthood is hard; most couples experience a drop in marital satisfaction after the birth of their baby.
Lane Strathearn, MBBS, FRACP
Dr. Strathearn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and a Developmental Pediatrician for the Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital. His research and clinical work focus on the neurobiology of mother-infant attachment and neurodevelopmental disabilities such as autism. This includes a longitudinal study of women and their infants, examining maternal brain and hormone responses to infant facial expressions using functional MRI.
Dr. Strathearn's work explores the development of attachment behavior and how drug abuse...