Michael B. Hager, PhD

Michael B. Hager, PhD is the Postdoctoral Early Childhood Psychology Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center, where he specializes in the assessment and treatment of children ages birth-5. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology and master's in general psychology at the New School for Social Research, and he received a bachelor's degree in liberal arts at the New School for Public Engagement. During his graduate training, he completed a predoctoral internship in clinical psychology at the Yale Child Study Center as well as clinical externships at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (School-Based Therapy Program), The New School Student Health Services (Counseling Center), Montefiore Medical Center (Group Attachment-Based Intervention), and Lenox Hill Hospital (Center for Attention and Learning). His doctoral research work focused on the development and psychometric testing of a novel observational measure of parental reflective functioning and sensitivity, titled the Parent Rearing Coding System (PRCS). He has also held positions as a senior research assistant at the Center for Attachment Research and a research consultant at Nurse-Family Partnership/Child First's Center for Prevention and Early Trauma Treatment.