Jayne Singer
Clinical Psychologist, Division of Developmental Medicine @Boston Children's Hospital
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WORK HISTORY
Clinical Psychologist, Division of Developmental Medicine @Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, MA, US
Direct service provider of comprehensive neurodevelopmental and family functioning evaluations, and intensive child and adult individual and family therapy for population of children referred prenatally through age 4 for initial evaluation related to medical, developmental, behavioral, and familial challenges and diagnoses, with special expertise in early detection of autism spectrum disorders. Provide related treatment for families, with a focus on preventive mental health services for the child and parent. Conduct evaluation and consultation services in the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program for children with congenital heart disease.
EDUCATION
Purchase College, SUNY
Bachelor's degree, Psychology and Visual Arts
St. John's University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Clinical Psychology
Harvard Medical School
Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowships, Clinical and Pediatric Psychology
ABOUT JAYNE SINGER
Dr. Singer is a clinical psychologist with extensive experience working with a diverse array of children and families in hospital, school, and community-based settings. She has been with the Boston Children’s Hospital since 1988 and currently, she is the Clinical Director of the Child and Parent Program in the Developmental Medicine Center, where she works with families of children aged birth through early childhood with a wide variety of medical, developmental, emotional, behavioral, and familial challenges; providing evaluation, intervention, and preventive consultation services within an overall model of infant-family mental health. At the BCH, Dr. Singer teaches and mentors multi-disciplinary professionals. She is Past President of the Massachusetts Association for Infant Mental Health: Birth to Six. Within her clinic setting, she has been key to launching such divergent services as an early detection of Autism program, as well as the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program. Dr. Singer is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is engaged in continuous national and international lecturing and intensive mentoring as an International Trainer of the Brazelton Touchpoints Approach to development and parent-provider partnerships, and the Newborn Behavioral Observations system; representing the Brazelton Touchpoints Center and the Brazelton Institute. At BTC, she spearheaded the Early Care and Education Initiative as an adaptation of the Touchpoints Approach for specific application for use by early childhood educators, which has developed into BTC’s Tribal Touchpoints Initiative as well as the Federal Office of Head Start National Center of Parent, Family, and Community Engagement. She has also developed adaptations of the Touchpoints Approach for families living with children with Special Needs.
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