Joan Kaufman (psychologist)

Joan Robin Kaufman is an American child psychologist who researches child abuse and neglect. She is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is the director of research at the center for child and family traumatic stress at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Kaufman worked at the Yale School of Medicine from 1998 to 2015.

Joan Kaufman
Born
Joan Robin Kaufman
Alma materTufts University
Yale University
Scientific career
FieldsChild abuse and neglect
InstitutionsYale School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Kennedy Krieger Institute
ThesisDepressive disorders in maltreated children (1990)
Doctoral advisorAlbert J. Solnit

Life

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Kaufman completed a B.A. from Tufts University in 1981.[1] She earned a Ph.D. at Yale University in 1990.[1] Her dissertation was titled, Depressive disorders in maltreated children.[2] Albert J. Solnit was her doctoral advisor. Kaufman worked at the Yale School of Medicine in the department of psychiatry from 1998 to 2015.[3]

In 2015, she joined the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.[1][3] She is director of research at the center for child and family traumatic stress at Kennedy Krieger Institute.[3] She researches different areas of child abuse and neglect including its neurobiology and social policies.[3]

Selected works

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  • Kaufman, Joan (2016). Broken Three Times: A Story of Child Abuse in America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-939915-4.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Joan Kaufman, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences". Johns Hopkins Medicine. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
  2. ^ Kaufman, Joan Robin (1990). Depressive disorders in maltreated children (Ph.D. thesis). Yale University. ProQuest 303842824.
  3. ^ a b c d "Joan Kaufman". medicine.yale.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-08.