Michelle DeKlyen

E-Mail: mdeklyen@oprmail.princeton.edu

Research Staff. Ph.D., Child Clinical Psychology, University of Washington, 1992. Interests: child development, early child behavior disorders, child learning disabilities.

Recent Activities

Michelle DeKlyen continued work on a project
designed to analyze and disseminate Newark data from
the Fragile Families Study, in order to inform policy and
support service initiatives. A co-authored chapter
evaluating an Early Head Start intervention was
published, and a second paper on attachment disorder
is in press in the Cambridge Handbook of Effective
Treatments in Psychiatry. As a visiting faculty member,
she also advised senior theses in the Princeton psychology
department. Her collaboration with the Institute for
Training in Infant and Preschool Mental Health established
a data base for research and evaluation of the Institutes
clinical and training activities, and she presented several
lectures in the Institutes training program for predoctoral
and postdoctoral professionals. She also continued
consulting with a University of Colorado project assessing
infant and mother attachment and wellbeing in a
Native American community. The New Jersey chapter
of the World Association for Infant Mental Health
named Dr. DeKlyen to its board, and she also served on
the Editorial Board of the Journal of Abnormal Child
Psychology, frequently reviewing articles for that and
other journals.

Recent Publications

CRCW 05-02 Michelle DeKlyen, Sara McLanahan,
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Jean Knab
The Mental Health of Parents with
Infants: Do Marriage, Cohabitation and
Romantic Status Matter?

DeKlyen, M. Attachment Theory and Research: What Can it
Tell Us about Protecting the Child in Child Protective
Services? Presented at the APSAC-NJ Conference.
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ. 2005.

DeKlyen, M., Brooks-Gunn, J., McLanahan, S.S., and Knab,
J.T. The Mental Health of Parents with Infants: Do
Marriage, Cohabitation and Romantic Status Matter?
American Journal of Public Health, 96(5). 2006.

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