Michael B. Hager

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 Safran Center for Psychological Services, 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.