Brazelton’s Newborn Assessment

And its grandchildren

This webinar was presented live on September 4th, 2020 at 4PM Eastern Time. If you missed the live event, you can watch the recording here.

Webinar Presented by Professor Edward Tronick

Ed Tronick, Ph.D. is a developmental neuroscientist and clinical psychologist. He is internationally recognized for his research on infant neurobehavior and infant face-to-face infant interactions. With T. B. Brazelton, he worked on the development of the original Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) and later with B. Lester he developed the NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale (NNNS).

Tronick formulated that Still-Face paradigm, and the Mutual Regulation Model with its reparation-mismatch theory of interactions and therapy. Recently he proposed the Buffer-Transducer model emphasizing the parents’ buffering or transducing the effects of resource enhancing or depleting factors on their child’s well-being. 

His current research focuses on infant memory for stress and epigenetic processes affecting infants’ and parents’ behavior. He has developed the Caretaker Acute Stress Paradigm (CARP) to experimentally study the effects of an acute stress on mothers’ interactions with infants and its effects on mutual interactive regulation.