WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Cultural Context, Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment, Volume Two

About

Joy D. Osofsky Ph.D. is a clinical and developmental psychologist Ramsay  Chair of Psychiatry and Barbara Lemann Professor of Child Welfare at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. She has published widely authoring or editing  seven books on trauma in the lives of children. Dr. Osofsky is past president of ZERO to THREE and World Association for Infant Mental Health.  She serves as Clinical Consultant on the Leadership team for Zero to Three Infant Toddler Court Program and Co-Principal Investigator for NCTSN Center Terrorism and Disaster Coalition for Child and Family Resilience. In 2021 she was honored with the ZERO to THREE Lifetime Achievement Award.  Hiram E Fitzgerald PhD IMH-E® IV is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. His major areas of research include the study of infant and family development risk resilient and adverse childhood experiences the impact of fathers on early child development and the etiology of alcohol use disorders. He is past executive director of WAIMH and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association of Psychological Science. He is a recipient of the designation Honorary President of the World Association of Infant Mental Health and   the ZERO to THREE Dolley Madison Lifetime Achievement Award. Miri Keren MD. is Assistant Clinical Professor Emeritus at the Tel Aviv University Sackler Medical School.  Her main research interests are about infant psychopathology and diagnoses eating disorders  in infancy parental psychopathology and parenting parent-Infant relationships disorders and PTSD of infancy. As President of the World Association of Infant Mental Health in the years 2012-2016 she has been very invested in the implementation of a declaration of Infants Rights. In 2000 she founded the Israeli WAIMH Affiliate and is currently its Honorary President and she is Chairperson of the World Psychiatric Association Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Section. She  received the  WAIMH Lebovici Award in June 2021. Kaija Pura MD PhD. is Professor of Child Psychiatry in Tampere University Finland and Chief Physician in the Department of Child Psychiatry in Tampere University Hospital. She has authored or co-authored over 90 peer reviewed articles chapters and books on assessment and treatment of young children. She is a child mental health expert and advisor for the national childrens TV-program Jyrkin ja Neposen kommervenkkejä. She is currently an Associate Editor of the Infant Mental Health Journal  Executive Director of the World Association for Infant Mental Health  Vice President of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions and President of the Finnish Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.