Principal Investigator
Mary Dozier is Amy E. du Pont Chair of Child Development and Professor of Psychology. She is the Principal Investigator of the Infant Caregiver Project. She has been studying the adjustment of young children in foster care since coming to the University of Delaware ten years ago. During this time, along with graduate students and staff, she has identified three key needs for infants that are placed into foster care. These three needs are targeted in an intervention that has been developed in the lab, the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up Intervention.
Mary’s interests are in understanding connections between experience, brain development, behavior, and preventive interventions. A longitudinal study has recently been launched that will study such connections among infants and toddlers in foster care. This randomized clinical trials study is funded by NIMH for a period of five years.
Mary lives close to campus and is the mother of two boys, Ben, age 14, and Zachary, age 12.
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