Edward Tronick

Edward Tronick
Occupation	Developmental psychologist

Edward Tronick is an American developmental psychologist best known for his studies of infants,^[1] carried out in 1970s, showing that when the connection between an infant and caregiver is broken, the infant tries to engage the caregiver, and then, if there is no response, the infant pulls back – first physically and then emotionally.^[2] He is a Director of Child Development Unit and Distinguished Professor at University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is a research associate in Newborn Medicine, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, an associate professor at both the Graduate School of Education and the School of Public Health at Harvard. He is a member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, a past member of the Boston 'Process of Change' Group and a Founder and faculty member of the Touchpoints program. His research is funded by NICHD and NSF.

Research

Examining newborns and infants up to two months old, together with T. Berry Brazelton, when the latter was working on his Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS), Tronick made several experiments, the most notable among which was "The Still Face Experiment".^[3] Recent studies have found that four-month-old infants, when re-exposed to the Still Face two weeks after the first time, show rapid physiological changes that were not present when they were exposed to it the first time.^[1]

In media

He has appeared on national radio and television programs.

Selected publications

He has published more than 200 scientific articles and 4 books.

2007 'The Neurobehavioral and Social-emotional Development of Infants and Children', W. W. Norton & Company, 571 pp, ISBN 9780393705171^[4]

References

1 2 Effects of child abuse can last a lifetime: Watch the ‘still face’ experiment to see why, Washington Post, September 16, 2013
↑ Trusting Relationships Are Central to Children's Learning – Lessons From Edward Tronick, Huffington Post, January 31, 2011
↑ http://davidpuder.com/the-video-that-changed-my-life-the-still-face-experiment/
↑ The Neurobehavioral and Social-Emotional Development of Infants and Children by Ed Tronick, a book review, J Can Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. Aug 2009

External links

Official homepage, University of Massachusetts

Parenting

Types	Adoptive Alloparenting Complex family Coparenting Foster care Kommune 1 LGBT Matrifocal family Noncustodial Nuclear family Orphaned Shared Single parent Blended family Surrogacy In loco parentis

Theories · Areas	Attachment theory Applied behavior analysis Behaviorism Child development Cognitive development Developmental psychology Human development Love Maternal bond Nature versus nurture Parental investment Paternal bond Pediatrics Social psychology

Styles	Attachment parenting Concerted cultivation Gatekeeper parent Helicopter parent Nurturant parenting Slow parenting Soccer mom Strict father model Taking Children Seriously Work at home parent

Techniques	After-school activity Allowance Bedtime Child care Co-sleeping Homeschooling Latchkey kid Parent Management Training Play (date) Role model Spoiled child Television Toy (educational)

Discipline	Blanket training Corporal punishment in the home Curfew Grounding Tactical ignoring Time-out

Abuse	Child abandonment Child abuse Child labour Child neglect Cinderella effect Incest Narcissistic parent Parental abuse by children Parental alienation

Legal and social aspects	Child support Cost of raising a child Marriage Parental responsibility Deadbeat parent Paternity Disownment

Experts	T. Berry Brazelton Tanya Byron Rudolf Dreikurs David Elkind Jo Frost Haim Ginott Thomas Gordon Alan E. Kazdin Truby King Annette Lareau Penelope Leach Madeline Levine William Sears B. F. Skinner Benjamin Spock Baby and Child Care

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