Jeanne Joseph Chadwick, PhD
Jeanne Joseph Chadwick is an Affiliate Researcher and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Health/HIV Intervention and Prevention at the University of Connecticut. She received her Masters degree in Educational Psychology from New York University, her Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Connecticut. In addition, she completed certification for the empirically-based clinical interventions MBSR (Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction) from the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare, and Society, University of Massachusetts Medical School and more recently clinical training in MBCT (Mindfulness-based Cognitive Behavior Therapy) for the prevention of recurrent depressive episodes from Z. Segal, J. Teasdale, and M. Williams.
Her early research experience ranged from anxiety/phobias, depression and adolescent suicide at Psychiatric Institute in New York City; and her more recent studies analyze older children’s perceptions of parents and stepparents and how these relationships are mediated by stressful events. She is currently conducting a demonstration parenting project based upon her dissertation research at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York City. This project aims to empower teenaged and young adult parents who have HIV/AIDS. Her research focuses on the theoretical foundations of effective parenting from both a western and eastern perspective. She incorporates Buddhist philosophy, social (self) psychology and cultural diversity. Her work is applicable to varied cultures, classes, ages, genders, orientations and abilities while also acknowledging the challenges of those differences. She has also spent the past seven years teaching courses in psychology, parenting, human development and cultural diversity. She has presented at the University of Connecticut, several local colleges and at Columbia University Teacher’s College in New York City on these topics as they apply to the practice of healthy behavior through self-awareness and contemplative education.
