Professor Julie Poehlmann-Tynan

Overview

Julie is a child clinical psychologist who studies child and family health disparities and well-being from an interdisciplinary perspective. The purpose of her work is to facilitate social justice for young children and their families and to understand and promote resilience processes while decreasing risk and trauma exposure. To do this, Julie studies the health and social, emotional, and cognitive development of high-risk infants and young children and their families, including children with incarcerated parents, children raised by their grandparents, and children born preterm, including examining the intergenerational transmission of risk, trauma, resilience, and healing. Julie uses both quantitative and qualitative methods in her work, especially observational methods that focus on young children and families in their natural contexts as well as physiological measures. She also designs and evaluates interventions for children and their parents, including interdisciplinary multimodal interventions that can be used in the criminal justice system and contemplative practices aimed at decreasing stress and increasing well-being in children and families.

Links to published work: 

1. https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdep.12392
2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=poehlmann-tynan
3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=poehlmann+j+

 Link to Julie's blog:

http://www.kidswithincarceratedparents.com 

A link to a special issue of the Zero To Three journal focusing on parental incarceration:

https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/3253-march-journal-effects-and-experiences-of-parental-incarceration 

 

Courses this tutor is involved in

• Early Years Conference: The many faces of parenting infants