Associate Professor
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Dr. Maureen Zalewski is the Director of Clinical Training and an associate professor at the University of Oregon. She also serves as the Director of Child Behavioral Health Training at the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health. She is a licensed psychologist (OR) and is Linehan Board Certified in conducting Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She is currently the board secretary for the International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Her program of research is on child development in the context of parental mental health disorders, with expertise in maternal borderline personality disorder, parenting, and the development of children’s emotion regulation. With a sample of preschoolers who have mothers with borderline personality disorder, she has leveraged DBT Skills to improve maternal emotion regulation in order to test the extent this promotes growth in preschool emotion regulation trajectories. She is engaged in treatment development work on integrating parent training and DBT and more recently started a study on self-injurious thoughts and behaviors during the perinatal transition. Her lab, the Parent Mental Health Research Clinic, is funded by the NIMH, NIDA, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Saturday, November 18, 2023
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM PST
