In this podcast episode, Dorian is about to drop some knowledge. Before talking with her, I hadn’t even heard the term “infant mental health”.

When she started talking about what it is, why it is important and how we can foster it in our babies, it all made perfect sense. Armed with knowledge, we can all do better.

This episode will give you concrete information about how to improve your kids’ mental health. But, you’ll also meet an accomplished and intelligent working mom who is funny and real. Check out her bio below. (Impressive, right?)

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I do!

DORIAN TRAUBE is an associate professor in the Suzanne Dworak Peck School of Social Work.  She developed Parents as Teachers @ USC Telehealth, the first partnership of its kind between a national home visitation model and a university based telehealth clinic. She established the first virtual home visitation program, offering an entire home visitation model with fidelity via video conferencing technology. This program was chosen as a Named Commitment by the Clinton Global Initiative and was selected as the winner of the Gary Community Investment/OpenIDEO Early Childhood Innovations Prize. In three years the program offered over 2000 home visits and trained 25 home visitors in virtual service delivery strategies. Her research agenda focuses on the utilization of technological solutions to provide early childhood health, education, and parent support services.  She has expertise in children’s mental health, child maltreatment prevention, family support interventions, and youth substance abuse prevention and intervention.  Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Parsons Foundation, and the Overdeck Foundation.  Dr. Traube sits on the board of directors of Child 360 and the California Emerging Technology Fund.   

Dr. Traube received her doctorate and master’s degree in social work from Columbia University, and is a licensed clinical social worker in California and New York.

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