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Current Positions:
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics (since 1998) Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (since 1998) Director of Jefferson Parish Human Services Authority Infant Team Consultant in Child Psychiatry: DePaul-Tulane Behavioral Health Center, New Orleans Adolescent Hospital, Children's Bureau of Greater New Orleans |
Education and Training:
Tulane University 1973 B.A.
Tulane University School of Medicine 1977 M.D.
University of Virginia School of Medicine 1978 Internship in
Pediatrics
Duke University Medical Center 1980 Residency in General Psychiatry
Stanford University School of Medicine 1982 Residency in Child
Psychiatry
Stanford University School of Medicine 1984 Research Fellow
in Child Psychiatry
Interests:
My major academic interest has been in the area of infant
mental health, especially in understanding infants' development
in the context of the infant-parent relationships in high and
low-risk families. This has included a major interest in infant-parent
attachment and in internal representations of attachment in
infants and parents. More recently, I have become interested
in psychopathology in infancy, and in particular in the effects
of violence on infant adaptation. This includes research on
disturbances and disorders of attachment, posttraumatic symptomatology
in young children, and the effects of family violence on infant
development. Questions include: what is similar and different
about psychopathology in the early years, what are the salient
risk and protective factors for high-risk infant development,
and what are the neurobiological correlates of behavioral disturbances
in young children?
Publications/Presentations:
Zeanah, C.H., Danis, B., Hirshbert, L., Benoit, D., Miller,
D. and Heller, S.S. (1999). Disorganized attachment associated
with partner violence: A research note. Infant Mental Health
Journal, 20, 77-86.
Zeanah, C.H. (2000). Disturbances of attachment in young children adopted from institutions. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.
Zeanah, C.H. (Ed.)(2000). Handbook of infant mental health (2nd Edition). New York, Guilford Publications.
Phone: (504) 588-5402
Fax: (504) 587-4264
E-mail: czeanah@tulane.edu