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Joanna Hawthorne
Joanna Hawthorne is a research psychologist (Ph.D. 1982) and an Associate Member of the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge. She is also the Coordinator of the Brazelton Centre in Great Britain. She has worked in the area of early parent-infant relationships for many years. Her first research study in 1975 was an intervention study with premature babies in the neonatal unit in Cambridge, increasing contact between parents and babies, and providing additional support for parents. She then spent 14 years in Chicago working with newborns and parents and carrying out developmental assessments in Zero to Three intervention programmes and in the maternity wards. She was trained in 1976 and formally certified in the Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS) in Boston in 1981, and as an NBAS trainer in 1995. She received a diploma as an Infant Specialist at the Erikson Institute, Chicago in 1994, and took the Touchpoints and CLNBAS (now NBO) training in Boston.
In 1997, the Brazelton Centre in Great Britain opened in Cambridge with the support of Johnson and Johnson UK, and she works with five co-founders. The Centre’s aim is to promote positive healthy-parent infant relationships through understanding baby behaviour. She and colleagues train health professionals in the NBAS, and give workshops in Great Britain and Europe. They hosted two conferences with Dr. Brazelton and Dr. Kevin Nugent in England in 1997 and 2004. The 2004 conference was generously funded by the Johnson and Johnson Pediatric Institute. A recent conference held in Cambridge in 2006 with Dr. Kevin Nugent attracted almost 200 delegates from several countries.
She works with parents in the neonatal unit at the Rosie Hospital, Addenbrookes NHS Trust, Cambridge providing a supportive intervention using the NBAS. Her publications include: “Psychological Aspects of Neonatal Care” in Roberton’s Textbook of Neonatology, 4th edition, “Understanding the Language of Babies” in Parent-Infant Psychodynamics, edited by Joan Raphael-Leff, and she is a co-author of a recent study: “Foretelling Futures: Dilemmas in Neonatal Neurology” about information sharing in neonatal units. Papers from this study as a co-author include “The participation rights of Premature Babies”, “Parents experiences’ of sharing neonatal information and decisions: Consent, cost and risk”, “Transferring babies between units: Issues for parents” and she is the author of “Using the NBAS to support parent-infant relationships in a neonatal unit”.
Contact details:
Centre for Family Research
Free School Lane,
Cambridge CB2 3RF
jth20@cam.ac.uk
01223-334510
Brazelton Centre in Great Britain
www.brazelton.co.uk
info@brazelton.co.uk
01223-245791
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