Stress

Elizabeth Nelson is the Director of Research for the Center on Infant Mental Health and Development at the University of Washington.  She earned her doctorate in Developmental Psychology from Harvard University.  Dr. Nelson completed a research fellowship at Children’s Hospital in Boston, in partnership with the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Head Start, which focused on helping parents of young children overcome barriers to accessing mental health services.  She has worked as a Child & Family Therapist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and at the Child Development Clinic in Holyoke, MA  Her research interests are physiological & behavioral outcomes of attachment disruption, and programs that support parent-child attachment.