Cynthia Frosch, Ph.D., IMH-E® profile and information

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Cynthia A. Frosch, PhD, IMH-E® is an Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science at Auburn University and an Endorsed Infant Mental Health Mentor (Research/Faculty). She earned her doctoral degree in Developmental Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Developmental Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Frosch’s research focuses on early relational health, parent-child interaction from birth to 5, and early childhood workforce development, including the provision of reflective supervision for infant and early childhood professionals. Along with The EARLY Lab team at Auburn University, Dr. Frosch explores early parent-infant relationship quality and partners with pediatricians to explore families’ experiences with books and their babies. Dr. Frosch reviews for multiple child and family-focused journals and has served on the Editorial Board for Infancy. She is a member of the World Association for Infant Mental Health and ZERO TO THREE. Dr. Frosch has more than two decades of experience translating research findings into meaningful and actionable steps with families and practitioners and has extensive experience training researchers in the observation and rating of parent-child interaction.