NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Developmental Science and the Carolina Consortium on Human Development, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1979-1999)
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Developmental Psychology (1997)
M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Developmental Psychology (1994)
B.A. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Interdisciplinary Studies (1992)

•Social and emotional development in early childhood
•Early childhood mental health
•Parenting and attachment
•Reflective supervision/consultation in early childhood
•Relational health

HDFS 3110 Infant and Toddler Development
HDFS 4950 Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
HDFS 5400/6400 Program Design for Communities, Schools, and Families

Adler-Baeder, F., McGill, J., Frosch, C. A., Wei, M., & Coskun, M. (2025). The impact of Couple Relationship Education (CRE) on parents of young children’s couple functioning, family harmony, parenting and their children’s aggressive behaviour. Early Child Development and Care, 195(1–2), 48–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2025.2452578

Dede Yildirim, E., Frosch, C. A., Santos, A. J., Veríssimo, M., Bub, K., & Vaughn, B. E. (2024). Antecedents to and outcomes associated with teacher–child relationship perceptions in early childhood: Further evidence for child-driven effects. Child Development, 95, 679–698. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14033

Rogers, K. M., Frosch, C. A., Vilches, S. L., & Sjolseth, S. R. (2024). Partnering with Reach Out and Read to understand families' experiences with books and their babies. Family Relations, 73(5), 3378–3397. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.13071

Sjolseth, S. R., Frosch, C. A., Owen, M. T., & Redig, S. L. (2024). Do toys get in the way? The duration of shared emotional experiences is longer when mothers engage their infants without toys. Infant Mental Health Journal, 45, 3–10. https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.22092

Frosch, C. A., Fagan, M. A., Middlemiss, W., Kim, J. G., & Sjolseth, S. R. (2023) Parental personality, mental health, and fear of happiness as predictors of perceived coparenting relationship quality among mothers and fathers of preschoolers. Australian Journal of Psychology, 75. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049530.2023.2205537

Brophy-Herb, H. E., Stacks, A. M., Frosch, C. A., Brincks, A. M., Cook, J. L., Vallotton, C. D., Perkins, H. A., Kim, L. E., Carson, R., Muzik, M., Rosenblum, K., & Jennings, P. A. (2022). The effects of a relationship-focused professional development intervention on infant and toddler teachers’ mindfulness-based strategies for coping. Early Childhood Education Journal, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-022-01416-0

Frosch, C. A., Schoppe-Sullivan, S. C., & O’Banion, D. D. (2021). Parenting and child development: A relational health perspective. Invited Analytic Review, American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 15, 45-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/1559827619849028