Close Observation of Mother-Infant Interactive Process in the Wake of Traumatic Loss: The September 11, 2001 Primary Prevention Project

Beatrice Beebe, PhD, is Clinical Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry), College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute. Her research investigates mother-infant face-to-face communication and infant social development: the dyadic mechanisms organizing mother-infant communication, the role of maternal and infant distress, the effects of early mother-infant communication patterns on emerging infant attachment patterns, and the long-term continuity of communication patterns from infancy to adulthood. Video and audio microanalysis, together with multi-level time-series modeling, identify different patterns of contingent relating, with direct implications for early intervention. Her most recent book is: The mother-infant interaction picture book: Origins of attachment (Beebe, Cohen & Lachman, Norton, 2016). She has a half-hour internet talk (http://www.aei.org/events/decoding-the-nonverbal-language-of-babies/). She is currently Multi-PI, with Julie Herbstman, R01ES027424-01A1, of Prenatal endocrine-disrupting chemicals and social/cognitive risk in mothers and infants: Potential biologic pathways.Address correspondence to Beatrice Beebe, PhD, New York State Psychiatric Institute #108, 1051 Riverside Drive, NY 10032. E-mail: