The Supporting Child Caregivers Podcast

Dr. Jooyoung Lee will talks about fatherhood in Korea-- his experience growing up in Korea with his father and his experience bringing up his two young boys in the U.S.

Adrienne Burgess, the Joint CEO and Head of Research of the Fatherhood Institute talks and trains fathers throughout the world. She tells us what we know about contemporary fathers in the UK and what do we need to know.

Dr. Kyle Pruett, an international expert on the subject of fathers and their importance in child development discusses the history of his study of fathers, his research, and a powerful intervention using fathers to strengthen families. Supporting Father Involvement

Claudia Gold, author of the “Hello It’s Me” project,  talks about using the NBO in her work with families in rural America and tells wonderful stories about her experiences. References for the NBO Series: Nugent TJ, Bartlett J, Vonende A, Valim C (2017). The effects of the Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) system on sensitivity in mother-infant interactions, Infants & Young Children, 30(4)...

Dr. Campbell Paul, a real NBO expert, from Melbourne, also current President of the World Association of Infant Mental Health, talks to us about using the NBO with vulnerable infants and their families and tell us some of their stories.

Dr. Susan Nicolson talks to us about her experiences using the NBO with babies and their families in Melbourne. She also talks about her research demonstrating the effectiveness of the NBO in supporting the infant-parent relationship.

Dr. Jayne Singer is a neurodevelopment specialist and Director of Developmental and Relational Health as well as Clinical Training at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center. She is a practitioner and mentor of the Brazelton Touchpoints Approach, and of the Newborn Behavioral Observations. She shares some of her insights about using the NBO to support families—including families of vulnerable infants—and...

Nicki Dawson, a psychologist with a specialty in infant parent psychotherapy talks about her work with the NBO in South Africa and how it can offer caregivers a special opportunity to see their baby as a unique little person with special strengths, This can be especially important in high-risk families when caregivers are haunted by “ghosts in the nursery” (Selma Fraiberg). 

Anulika Ifezue, a specialist health visitor and lead for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health in Health Visiting Manchester Foundation Trust, speaks with sensitivity, warmth, and clarity about what using the NBO in her practice, including in families from other cultures.

Alexandra Harrison responds to parents’ questions about their children’s out-of-control and defiant behavior and how to get children out of their rooms. 

Dr. Lise Johnson, Director of Brazelton Institute at Boston Children’s Hospital, will talk to us about her history with the NBO and the meaning the NBO has for her. Inspired by Dr. Brazelton, Lise changed the focus of her career from general pediatrician to specialist in newborns and now to leading the Brazelton Institute, the home of the NBO.

In the third episode of our series on the NBO, Trish Hurley, the Infant Mental Health and Wellbeing Coordinator of Let’s Grow Together in Cork Ireland, talks about her experience with the NBO and how it allows her to enter families at a transformational moment to share their joy as well as their concerns.

Perspectives on the NBO from a Master Trainer and a Physical Therapist: Yvette Blanchard shares her experiences— as a co-author of the NBO, using the NBO in Early Intervention as a physical therapist, and as a professor and expert NBO and NBAS trainer. She brings it all to life with some stories about her work.

Alexandra Harrison responds to questions about how parents can spend time with their children when they have to work two jobs, and the problem of being seen as the “bad guy” parent, and what it really means to be a “strength-based” method. Finally, does one ever get rid of one’s ghosts?

A Strength-Based Method for Supporting Your Relationship with Your Child from Newborn to Adolescence Dr. Kevin Nugent begins a new series on the NBO, which teaches the clinician, the parent, and all caregivers to read the language of the child’s behavior in order to recognize the child as a unique person-- their strengths and, without judgment, their vulnerabilities. 

Alexandra Harrison responds to questions about helping children who do not comply with parents’ requests and who can lose control.

Silvia Juarez Marazzo, a licensed clinical social worker and Adlerian psychoanalyst has authored internationally recognized  picture books for immigrant children. Originally from Buenos Aires, she fell in love with young children and their inner worlds when working in the slums and peasant communities in Argentina. Her own childhood was enriched by her family’s tradition of reading and her grandfa...

Anne Berenberg talks to us about the insights her experiences evaluating and treating children with learning differences and how reading books to children can scaffold their psychological as well as cognitive growth.   

In the 3rd in our series, "Kids and Books," Kathryn Lasky Knight, the celebrated author of children’s books—and now an adult novel—talks about her experience reading and writing children’s books and how she began to write.

In our second installment of our Kids and Books series, Dr. Patty Potter talks about books that help teenagers find themselves in a world of adults that do not seem to understand them.

Dr. Jane Hanenberg begins our series on Kids and Books. We are a little behind on publishing her topic of Summer Reading, but Jane talks more generally about children’s literature and its place in their lives, and summer reading is also fall and winter reading after all.

Alexandra Harrison responds to questions from parents of infants that also bring up important general questions about child care. For example, when and what should you begin to teach children, and what can teeth brushing tell you about setting good limits for your child?

Kate McAlister, an early childhood educator and advocate, committed to fostering respectful and nurturing relationships, discusses the lessons she learned cultivating learning communities for children, parents, and teachers in Hong Kong—lessons that we can all relate to and grow from.

Professor Henrik Zachrisson talks to us about his important research studying the outcome of children who spend long days in daycare.  References: Dearing E & Zachrisson H (2017). Concerns over internal, external, and incidence validity i studies of child-care quantity and externalizing behavior problems, Child Developmental Perspectives, 11(2):133-138. Dearing E, Zachrisson H et al (2018). Es...

Part 5 of our Children and Daycare series: Alayne Stieglitz, an infant and early childhood specialist, and the co-founder of SCC, will talk about some of her many experiences as an early childhood educator, including one of my favorite stories about a little boy named “Thomas”.