Speaker
Katherine Guyon-Harris
Assistant professor and licensed psychologist, University of Pittsburgh
Biography
Katherine Guyon-Harris is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh and a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and relationship-based parenting interventions. Her mission is to promote the psychosocial health and wellbeing of current and future generations through supporting families in fostering healthy parent–child relationships beginning in pregnancy. She is particularly interested in developing more accessible and acceptable parenting supports, beginning in pregnancy, for caregivers coping with mental health challenges and other adversities, particularly substance use and trauma. Her work explores the origins of parent-child attachment and parenting behavior, and the impacts of perinatal mental health and substance use on these processes.