Psychotherapy with Infants and Young Children: Repairing the Effects of Stress and Trauma on Early Attachment

About the Author(s)

Alicia F. Lieberman, PhD, is Irving B. Harris Endowed Chair in Infant Mental Health and Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is Director of the UCSF Child Trauma Research Program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFGH) and Director of the Early Trauma Treatment Network. Dr. Lieberman is the senior developer of Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). She is the author of The Emotional Life of the Toddler, for general readers, as well as professional books, articles, and chapters on childhood exposure to violence, mental health in infancy and early childhood, child-parent attachment, and cultural competence in intervention. Dr. Lieberman has received awards including, most recently, the Rene Spitz Award from the World Association for Infant Mental Health, the Hero Award from the San Francisco Department of Public Health, the Whole Child Award from the Simms/Mann Institute, the Blanche Ittleson Award from the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice, and the Paulina Kernberg Award from Weill Cornell Medicine.

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