Michael B. Hager
About
Titles
Postgraduate Associate in the Child Study Center
Biography
Michael B. Hager is the Predoctoral Early Childhood Psychology Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center. He received his master's in general psychology at the New School for Social Research and a bachelor's degree in liberal arts at the New School for Public Engagement. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate in the Clinical Psychology program at the New School for Social Research. During his graduate training, he completed 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 master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation work has focused on the development of a novel observational measure of parental reflective functioning and sensitivity within parent-child free play settings, titled the Parent Rearing Coding System (PRCS). He currently works 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.
Appointments
Child Study Center
Postgraduate AssociatePrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
Education & Training
- MA
- The New School for Social Research , General Psychology (2020)
- BA
- The New School for Public Engagement , Liberal Arts (2017)
Academic Achievements & Community Involvement
activity Examining Convergence Between Reflective Functioning on the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) and Spontaneous Parental Reflective Functioning During Free-Play Parent-Child Interactions.
Oral Presentation2024 International Attachment ConferenceDetails07/16/2024 - PresentRouen, Normandy, FranceCollaboratorsactivity The Continuing Clinical Value of Models of the Mind: Developmental, Relational and Psychodynamic Perspectives on Infancy and Toddlerhood
LectureAmerican Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)Details10/27/2023 - PresentNew York, NY, United Statesactivity A Novel Observational Measure of Parental Reflective Functioning and Sensitivity: Validity and Initial Findings
Poster PresentationWorld Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH)Details07/17/2023 - PresentDublin, D, IrelandCollaboratorsactivity Parent Rearing Coding System (PRCS): A Novel Observational Measure of Parental Sensitivity and Reflective Functioning
Oral PresentationSociety for Emotion and Attachment Studies (SEAS)Details12/01/2021 - PresentZoom PlatformCollaborators