Debra Bendell Estroff, PhD is a clinical psychologist with a background in neonatal and high risk follow-up populations. She is coordinator of the Parent-Infant Mental Health concentration at Fielding Graduate University. In addition to teaching and research, she is a clinical professor in pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Regina M. Yando, PhD has served as consultant to the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice on the research and treatment of Developmental Disabilities. She is Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and former Chief of Psychology, Judge Baker Children's Center/Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Yando's area of specialization is Developmental Psychopathology.

Tiffany Field, PhD has over 400 publications on high-risk infants, depressed mothers, and interaction coaching and alterna-tive therapies to reduce these parent-infant problems. She has summarized this research and the research of other colleagues in over 30 volumes including High-Risk Infants, Stress and Coping, Touch, Touch Therapy, Infancy, and The Amazing Infant. Dr. Field teaches at Fielding Graduate University.

Stephen Ruffins, PhD, a core faculty member in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at Fielding Graduate University, is a clinical and developmental psychologist who has a long career in developing programs for families and young children. He served as director of the New York City Family Day Care Program serving 7,200 infants and after-school children in 2,100 family daycare homes throughout the city. He has provided consultation to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Bank Street College. Over the last decade, Dr. Ruffins focused on studying the culture in the phenomenological experience of individuals within early parent-infant interaction and therapeutic dyads and within organizations responsible for families and children. Along with a Fielding doctoral student, he is working to understand how antecedent maternal factors, stress, and depression impact birth outcome in Bermuda. Trained at the University of Michigan and the Austen Riggs Center, Dr. Ruffins has published in the area of the assessment of object relations.