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About Zeynep Biringen, Ph.D.
Zeynep Biringen, Ph.D., is the foremost researcher on emotional availability in parent-child relationships.  An associate professor at Colorado State University and a licensed child psychologist, she also maintains a private practice and consults for the courts and mental health professionals.  She has conducted research on emotional availability and security in parent-child attachments for the last sixteen years, spearheaded the understanding of emotional availability as a rigorous scientific assessment of parent-child relationships, and has observed thousands of hours of child-parent interactions in a wide variety of cultures.

She lectures and conducts one or two national and/or international workshops to researchers and mental-health professionals each year and now makes the needs of children (from the baby years to adolescence) available to parents, child-care professionals, and child educators.
This Berkeley-educated, award-winning (see curriculum vitae below) child psychologist created the Emotional Availability Scales, the system for scientifically understanding parent-child connections, which is used worldwide in research studies in clinical work with parents and children, and in child custody evaluations.



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Curriculum Vitae (April, 2008)
Zeynep Biringen, Ph.D.
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zbiringen@yahoo.com
EDUCATION
1995 Ph.D. respecialization in Child Clinical Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder. APA-accredited internship at Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New York.
   
1987-1991 MacArthur Postdoctoral Fellow, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Network on Early Childhood Transitions, University of Colorado Medical School, Dept. of Psychiatry, Denver, CO. (Robert Emde, M.D., Joe Campos, Ph.D., & Inge Bretherton, Ph.D.)
   
1987 Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA. (with John Watson, Ph.D. Mary Main, Ph.D.) M.A. in Early Childhood Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
   
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2007 Professor, and Director of the Family and Developmental Studies (FDS) Program, Department of Human Development & Family Studies and Professor of Psychology (Affiliate), Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado; and Clinical Faculty, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Medical School, Denver, Colorado.
   
2002-pres. Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Human Development & Family Studies and Associate Professor of Psychology (Affiliate), Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado and Clinical Faculty (affiliate), Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Medical School, Denver, Colorado.
   
1996-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Colorado State University.
   
1995-1996 School therapist, Boulder Valley School District, Boulder, Colorado (half-time, at Columbine Elementary School, North Boulder).
   
1991-1995 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado at Boulder, Dept of Clinical Psychology, and the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
   
1987-1991 MacArthur Postdoctoral Fellow and Clinical Instructor, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Medical School, Denver, Colorado.
   
HONORS, AWARDS, AND LICENSES
2007 Best book of the year in Italy, Barone, L. & Biringen, Z. (2007). Le scale per la valutazione della disponibilità emozionale (Emotional Availability Scales- EAS). In L. Barone, Emozioni e sviluppo. Percorsi tipici e atipici. Rome: Carocci.
   
2002 Scholarly Excellence Award for Tenure-Track Faculty, College of Applied Human Sciences, Colorado State University.
   
2002 Colorado State University International Programs Recognition, for international collaborations.
   
2000 Faculty Scholar Award, Service Learning Program, Colorado State University: One of 6 fellows chosen to integrate service learning into teaching.
   
1999-2000 Undergraduate Faculty/Student Award, 6th Annual Symposium on Research & Creativity, Colorado State University, undergraduate student received the highest distinction for research. Faculty teaching/mentoring award.
   
1996 Licensed as a clinical psychologist in Colorado: License # 2101; license active.
   
1988-90 Fellow, Zero to Three, Washington DC.
   
1990-pres. Graduate Fellow, Zero to Three.
   
1986-87 NIMH Predoctoral Traineeship in Developmental Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.
   
OTHER POSITIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2007-pres. Advisory Board, Zero to Three Policy Network.
   
1998-pres. Private consulting firm, Child Development Clinic, and website emotionalavailability.com. National and international consultant, work with European, Asian, and Australian countries. Emotional Availability (EA) Scales and EA Intervention trainings for parents and for professionals (“leaders who work with children” in communities, researchers, attorneys, child care professionals, pediatricians, psychiatrists, etc.) conducted for 20 countries. Supervise the consulting work of others for this system.
   
1996-pres. Private Practice as a clinician.
   
2005-2007 Leadership Faculty, Leadership Development Initiative (LDI), Zero to Three.
   
2006-pres. Training & Research Program Director for Cooperative Extension, Raising a Secure Child Program, Colorado State University.
   
2006 Dissertation Committee (invited international external reviewer), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
   
2006 Dissertation Committee (invited international external reviewer), Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.
   
2005-pres Editorial Board, Journal of Early Childhood and Infant Psychology.
   
2005 Guest Editor, Infant Mental Health Journal.
   
2004-2005 Interim Department Head, Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Colorado State University (contracted for 1 year).
   
2002-2004 Acting Department Head, at discrete time points when the dept head was out of town, Colorado State University.
   
2002 Dissertation Committee, School of Professional Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO.
   
2001 Dissertation Committee Member, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.
   
2000 Guest editor, Attachment and Human Development.
   
1998 Clinical supervisor for child play therapy, Marriage & Family Therapy Program, Colorado State University.
   
1996-pres. Psychological Assessment, Child & Family Assessment Unit, Colorado State University. Train the graduate students in assessment.
   
1995-1996 School Therapist, Family Resource Schools Team, Boulder Mental Health Center, Boulder, CO, Columbine Elementary School, Boulder, CO/Boulder Valley School District.
   
1994-1995 Child Psychology Intern, Child/Adolescent Clinic; Family Therapy Program; Adult Anxiety/Depression Clinic at Montefiore Hospital, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
   
1994-1995 Psychological Assessment, Testing Center, Montefiore Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine,Bronx, New York.
   
1993 Psychological Assessment, Testing Center, Boulder Mental Health Center, Boulder, CO. Cognitive and personality assessment of school-age children.
   
1992 Infant Specialist (parent-infant therapy), Community Infant Project, Boulder Mental Health Center, Boulder, CO.
   
1991-1993 Therapist, Raimey Clinic, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Psychotherapy with children, adolescents, parents, and college students. Family therapy with children and their mothers.
   
1987-1991 Director of Research: Toddler Emotions Study (MacArthur Collaborative Study of the Colorado Node), University of Colorado Medical School Center, Denver, CO.
   
1987-1991 Director of Research: NIMH Developmental Transitions Study, University of Colorado Medical School, Denver, CO.
   
1988-pres. Member, Zero to Three.
   
1987-pres. Member, American Psychological Association.
   
1987-pres. Member, Society for Research in Child Development.
   
1987-pres. Regular grant reviewer, Israeli Foundation.
   
1987-pres. Program review panel member for SRCD, ZTT National Training Institute, International Conference on Infant Studies.
   
1987-pres. Ad-hoc manuscript reviewer for Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Infant Mental Health Journal, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, Family Relations, Attachment Disorganization, Attachment and Human Development.
   
1987 Research assistant/trainee, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
   
1975-1978 Field Coordinator, Value of Children project, Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey. Funded by the World Health Organization (WHO). I was based in Istanbul, Turkey, serving as an interviewer and coordinator of field work related to the social psychological understanding of the value of children in developing countries, including Turkey, Phillipines, and Indonesia.
   

 

NATIONAL TRAININGS ON EMOTIONAL

AVAILABILITY SCALES (the assessment; examples)
2000-present National Institutes of Health, NICHD
Cornell Medical Center.
Columbia University, New York Psychiatric
University of Georgia.
University of Pittsburgh
Child Study Center, Yale University
Tufts University
Bradley Research Center, Brown University
University of Georgia
Yale Child Study Center
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Delaware
Penn State University, several labs including HDFS & Nutrition
University of Connecticut Medical Center
University of Colorado Medical School
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of California, Davis
University of Chicago
Erikson Institute, Chicago
University of Minnesota, Institute of Child Development
Early Head Start: Multi-site federally funded project, all funded sites across the US
RTI, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
   

 

INTERNATIONAL TRAININGS ON THE EMOTIONAL

AVAILABILITY SCALES (the assessment; examples)
2000-present Germany: Charite Campus, Berlin.
Germany: University of Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg,
Eastern Australia: Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, numerous other hospitals
Western Australia, numerous hospitals.
Israel: Haifa University and Jerusalem University.
Turkey: Hacettepe University, Ankara.
Belgium: University of Leuven, Leuven.
Canada: Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
University of Western Ontario, Ontario.
Sweden: Linkopeng University.
Netherlands: Several universities
Portugal
Japan: universities in Tokyo as well as other cities
Latvia
Korea
China
Finland, Helsinki University Central Hospital
United Kingdom, University of Plymouth, Anna Freud Centra
   
 
   

E-book
Biringen, Z., Seng, S., & Altenhoften, S. (2005). Infants, toddlers, and the challenges of military deployments. Military Families Research Institute, Purdue University, E-book on invited by Dr. Shelley MacDermid, on militaryhomefront.com.

Manual
Biringen, Z. with the collaboration of Robinson, & Emde (1998). The Emotional Availability Scales (English).

PUBLICATIONS
Salo, S., Politi, J., Biringen, Z., Kalland, M., Munck, P. Halmesmaki, E., Tupola, S., & Kvitie-Kallio, S.. (under review). Mother-child interaction, cognitive development, and social status of infants prenatally exposed to maternal drug abuse during the first year of life. (Helsinki sample).

Mone, J. & Biringen, Z. (under review). Perceived parental alienation: Reliability and validity of a new instrument.

Vliegen, N., Bijttebier, P., Luyten, P., Cluckers, G., & Biringen, Z.(under review). EA Self-Report: Initial validity information.

Vliegen, N., Bijttebier, P., Boulpaep, N., Luyten, P.M., Cluckers, G. & Biringen, Z. (under review). Emotional Availability: A review of the US and the international literature.

Biringen, Z., Skillern, S., Mone, J., Fugler, E. (under review). Child emotional unavailability: Links to narrative representations and to kindergarten aggressive encounters.

Biringen, Z., Emde, R.N., Campos, J.J. & Appelbaum, M. (Jan. 2007, accepted, with minor revisions). The development of autonomy: Effect of the timing of walking onset and infant temperament, Perceptual and Motor Skills.

Möhler, E., Biringen, Z., Parzer, P., Brunner, R., Kaufmann, C., Resch, F. (in press).

Emotional availability in a sample of mothers with a history of abuse, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry: Interdisciplinary perspectives on mental health and social justice. (Heidelberg/Mannheim samples).

Altenhofen, S., Biringen, Z. (in press). Significant family dynamics related to post-divorce adjustment in parents and children. Divorce & Remarriage.

Biringen, Z. & Easterbrooks, A.N. (invited, December 2007). Child care and relationships. In Biringen, Z. & Easterbrooks, A.N. et al. (Eds., invited special mini-series on child care, December 2007). Journal of Early Childhood and Infant Psychology.

Biringen, Z. Emotional availability (EA) coaching for child care professionals in normative centers and in a residential treatment facility for substance-abusing mothers (2007). In Biringen, Z. & Easterbrooks, A.N. et al. (Eds., invited special mini-series on child care, December 2007). Journal of Early Childhood and Infant Psychology.

Aberle, J. Biringen, Z. et al., (2007). The use of the Emotional Availability (EA) Scales and the Attachment Q-Set in normative child care and in child care at a residential treatment facility for substance-abusing mothers. In Biringen, Z. & Easterbrooks, A.N. et al. (Eds., invited special mini-series on child care, December 2007). Journal of Early Childhood and Infant Psychology.

Biringen et al. (2007). Emotional Availability. In F. Rubinson, A. Yasik, & B. Mowder (Eds.), Section IV. Early childhood and infant psychology.
Altenhoften, S. & Biringen, Z. (in press). Divorce. Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology.

Biringen, Z., Grant, T., & Hill, D.(in press). Attachment disorder. Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology.

Altenhofen, S., Davy, B., & Biringen, Z., (in press). Early Care and Education. Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology.

Barone, L. & Biringen, Z. (2007). Le scale per la valutazione della disponibilità emozionale (Emotional Availability Scales-EAS). In L. Barone, Emozioni e sviluppo. Percorsi tipici e atipici. Rome: Carocci. Discussion of Italian work.

Mone, J. & Biringen, Z. (2006). Perceived parent-child alienation: An empirical investigation with college students. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage.

Vliegen, N., Bijttebier, P., Boulpaep, N., Luyten, P.M., Cluckers, G. & Biringen, Z. (2005). De EA-DSR Een zelfrapporteringsschaal voor het meten van emotionele beschikbaarheid bij ouders van jonge kinderen (0-1 jaar). [The EA-DSR, a parental self report scale measuring emotional availability in interaction with infants (0-1 year). Diagnostiekwijzer. [peer-reviewed Dutch journal], Jaargang, 8, 137-147. Dutch sample.

Biringen, Z., Skillern, S. Mone, J., & Pianta, R. (2005). Emotional availability is predictive of the emotional aspects of children’s “school readiness”. Journal of Early Childhood and Infant Psychology.

Biringen, Z., Greve, J., Howard, W., Leith, D., Moore, S., Sakoguchi, S., Tanner, L., & Williams, L. (2005). Response to Warshak, Essays from the Family Courts Review: Overnights and Young Children (Guest editor: Marsha Kline Pruett). (Also published in Family Courts Review, 30, 355-364.)

Solomon, J. & Biringen, Z. (2005). Another look at the developmental research. Essays from the Family Courts Review: Overnights and Young children (Guest editor: Marsha Kline Pruett). (Also published in Family Courts Review, 30, 355-364.)

Easterbrooks, M.A. & Biringen, Z. (Eds.of special volume, 2005). The Emotional Availability Scales. Infant Mental Health Journal.

Easterbrooks, A.E. & Biringen, Z. (2005). The Emotional Availability Scales: Methodological refinements of the construct and clinical implications related to gender and at-risk interactions. Infant Mental Health Journal, 291-294.

Biringen, Z. (2005). Training and reliability issues with the Emotional Availability Scales. Infant Mental Health Journal, 404-405.

Biringen, Z., Penkhus, J., Pipp-Siegel, S., Grigg, W., & Stratton, J. (2005) et al. Emotional availability: Differential predictions to infant attachment based on observation time and context. Infant Mental Health Journal, 295-308.

Biringen, Z*., Fidler, D.* Barrett, K. & Kubicek, L. (2005). Applying the Emotional Availability Scales to children with disabilities. Infant Mental Health Journal, 369-391, invited special issue.* first authorship shared*

Weifel, A., Oepen, G. Biringen, Z. (2005). Emotional availability in infant psychiatry. Infant Mental Health Journal, 392-403.

Biringen, Z. (2004). Raising a secure child: Creating emotional availability between you and your child, Perigee/Penguin Group.

Krafchick, J. & Biringen, Z. (2003).  Parents as sexuality educators:  The role of family therapists in coaching parents.  In T.S. Zimmerman (Ed.). Integrating gender and culture in parenting (pp. 57-72). New York:  Hayworth. [also published as Krafchick, J. & Biringen, Z. (2002). Parents as sexuality educators. Journal of Feminist Family therapy, 14, 57-72.]

Biringen, Z. & Howard, W. (2002). Adult attachment and couple psychotherapy: The ‘Secure Base’ in Practice and Research, Edited by C. Clulow, Couple & Relationship Therapy, 1, 96-99.

Pipp-Siegel, S. & Biringen, Z. (2000). Emotional availability in an applied setting. Volta Review, 100, 237-250.

Easterbrooks, A. & Biringen, Z. (Ed. of special issue, 2000). Emotional availability. Attachment and Human Development.

Easterbrooks, A. & Biringen, Z. (2000). Mapping the terrain of emotional availability and attachment, Attachment and Human Development, 2, 129-135.

Biringen, Z., Brown, D., Donaldson, L., Krcmarik, S., & Lovas, G. (2000). Adult attachment interview: Linkages with dimensions of emotional availability for mothers and their prekindergarteners, Attachment and Human Development, 2, 188-202.

Biringen, Z., Matheny, A., Bretherton, I., Renouf, A., Sherman, M. (2000). Maternal representation of the self as parent, Attachment and Human Development, 2, 218-232.

Biringen, Z., et al., (2000) The Emotional Availability Scales, 3rd edition, Attachment and Human Development,2, 256-270.

Biringen, Z., Robinson, J., & Emde, R.N. (2000) The Emotional Availability Scales, 2nd edition, Attachment and Human Development, 2, 251-255.

Biringen, Z. & Easterbrooks, A. (2000). Response to Bretherton and Emde, Attachment and Human Development, 2, 249-250.

Biringen, Z. (2000). Emotional availability: Conceptualization and research findings, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 70, 104-114.

Biringen, Z., Emde, R.N., Brown, D., Lowe, L., Myers, S., & Nelson, D. (1999). Emotional availability and emotion communication in naturalistic mother-infant interaction: Evidence for gender differentiation, Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 14, 463-478.

Biringen, Z. (1999). Families Making Sense of Death, by Janice Winchester Nadeau, Journal of Marriage and the Family, 549-550.

Biringen, Z., Emde, R. N., & Pipp-Siegel, S. (1997). Dyssynchrony, conflict, and resolution: Positive contributions to infant development, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 67, 4-19.

Biringen, Z., Emde, R.N., Campos, J.J., & Appelbaum, M. (1995). Affective reorganization in the infant, the mother, and the dyad: The role of upright locomotion and its timing, Child Development, 66, 499-514.

Robinson, J. & Biringen, Z. (1995). Gender and emerging autonomy in development, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 15, 60-74.

Biringen, Z., Robinson, J. L., & Emde, R. N. (1994). Maternal sensitivity in the second year: Gender-based relations in the dyadic balance of control, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 64, 78-90.

Biringen, Z. (1994). Attachment theory and research: Application to clinical practice, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 64, 404-420

Robinson, J., Little, C., & Biringen, Z. (1993). Emotional communication in mother-toddler relationships: Evidence for early gender differentiation, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 39, 496-517.

Morgan, G.A, Biringen, Z., Maslin-Cole, C., & Harmon, R.J. (1991). Play assessment of mastery motivation in infants and young children. In C. E. Schaefer & A. Sandgrund (Ed.), Play Diagnosis and Treatment, pp. 65-86, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Biringen, Z. & Robinson, J. (1991). Emotional availability: A reconceptualization for research, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 61, 258-271
Emde, R. N., Biringen, Z., Clyman, R., & Oppenheim, D. (1991). The moral self of infancy: Affective core and procedural knowledge, Developmental Review, 11, 251-270.

Biringen, Z. (1990). Direct observation of maternal sensitivity and dyadic interactions in the home: Relations to maternal thinking, Developmental Psychology, 26, 278-284.

Bretherton, I., Biringen, Z., Ridgeway, D., Maslin, C., & Sherman, M. (1989). Attachment: The parental perspective, Infant Mental Health Journal, 10, 203-221. [also published in K. Pillemer & K. McCartney (Eds.) Parent-child relations across the life span.]

Biringen, Z. C. (1987). Infant attention to facial expression and facial motion. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 148, 127-133.

Feldman, S.S., Biringen, Z. C., & Nash, S. (1981). Fluctuations in sex-related self-attributions as a function of stage of family life cycle, Developmental Psychology, 19, 24-35.


CONTRACTS & GRANTS

2007-2008 PI: Emotional Availability (EA) Community Intervention: for measurement and intervention for mothers, professionals, and the children at a residential treatment center for substance-abusing women. Private funding through Methodist Family Health/University of Arkansas Medical Center.

2004-2008: PI: Project Secure Child in Child Care: Bohemian Foundation/Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation.

2004-2005: PI on subcontract: Military Families with Babies: United States Department of Defense, through Military Families Research Institute, Purdue University.

2005-2006: Co-PI : Online HDFS Degree/Head Start Training Grant: Department of Health and Human Services/Administration for Children and Families.

2005-2007: Co-I: Drug abusing mothers (of infants) and their residential treatment. Collaborative work with Helsinki University Central Hospital for Children and Youth, Department of Social Pediatrics, Helsinki University Central Hospital.

2005-2007: Co-I: Maternal history of abuse, German Research Foundation, University of Heidelberg, Medical School.

2000-2003: PI: The Transition to Elementary School: An attachment perspective: National Science Foundation grant.

2000: PI: Service learning innovations in instructional teaching: Colorado State University’s Service Learning Project.

1996-1997: PI: Maternal representations of attachment: Colorado State University's AHS Mini-Grant Program.

1996-1997, 1997-1998: PI: Maternal representations of attachment: Colorado State University's Career Enhancement Award.

1997-1998: PI: The transition to elementary school: An attachment perspective: Colorado State University's AHS Mini-Grant Program.

1997-1998: PI: The transition to elementary school: An attachment perspective: Colorado State University's Faculty Research Grants.

1998: PI: Gender infusion into undergraduate education teaching innovation: Colorado State University's Women's Studies Program Gender Infusion Teaching Project.

1987-1990: PI: Maternal representations of attachment: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Dissertation Grant.

1986-1987: PI: Maternal representations of attachment: Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Dissertation Grant.

1987-1989: PI on subcontract/Project Director: Toddler Emotions Study, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant to the Colorado Node.

1987-1991: Project Director: Developmental Transitions Study, NIMH-funded project on the importance of transitions such as walking and language for reorganizations in the family system.

 

INVITED LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

Biringen, Z. (June, 2008). Lectures on emotional availability. Milano, Italy.

Biringen, Z. (June, 2008). Emotional Availability (EA) Training Institute. Chieti University, Chieti, Italy.

Biringen, Z. (June 26-29, 2007). Emotional Availability (EA) Training Institute. Zutphen, Netherlands. Sponsored by Riagg Ijsselland, Deventer, Netherlands.

Biringen, Z. (June, 2007). Emotional availability (EA) measurement. The Anna Freud Centre, London, England.

Biringen, Z. (May, 2007). Emotional Availability Interventions for child care provIders and for parents for substance-abusing mothers. Methodist Family Health, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Biringen, Z. (April, 2007). The Emotional Availability Intervention for child care providers of infants and toddlers, The Developmental Psychobiology Research Group (DPRG), University of Colorado Medical School, Dept of Psychiatry, Denver, CO.

Biringen, Z. (April 5 and April 12, 2006). Emotional availability for special populations and Project SECURE. The Erikson Institute, University of Chicago.

Biringen, Z. (Aug., 2006). SECURE for parents. Keynote address. The Communities Collaborative Conference, White Earth Child Care Program, Working together for every child, the 6th Annual Brain Development Conference, Mahnomen, Minnesota.

Biringen, Z. (Oct., 2005). The Emotional Availability Scales, the Emotional Availability Checklist, and the Emotional Availability Intervention: Findings from Project SECURE, Colorado Infant Mental Health Association (COAIMH).

Biringen, Z. (Sept., 2005). An educational intervention for child care providers for infants and toddlers: Project SECURE. Grantmakers for Children, Youth, and Families (GCYF), Panel on the emotional and mental health of young children and policies our country should have in place (with Jane Knitzer, National Center for Children and Poverty, Columbia University and Joanna Lauen, Irving B. Harris Foundation, Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, CO.

Biringen, Z. (Sept., 2005). Emotional availability and attachment for foster children, CASA, Ft. Collins, CO.

Biringen, Z. & Weifel, A., (June, 2005). Emotional availability training workshop, 4-day workshop, Charite Campus, Berlin, Germany.

Biringen, Z. (Nov. 16, 2004). Attachment for educators. Early Years Conference, Boise, Idaho.

Biringen, Z. (Oct. 17, 2004). Secure child, break out session with parents and childcare providers, Kids First Conference, Sponsored by the United Way of Weld County.

Biringen, Z. (March, 2004), Emotional availability training workshop, 4 days, University of Heidelberg Medical School. (attendees from Portugal, Croatia, Switzerland, Germany, Austria)

Biringen, Z. (Sept., 2003). Overnight visitations for infants and toddlers, Interdisciplinary Committee on Child Custody, keynote speaker, Boulder, CO.

Biringen, Z., & Weifel, A. (June, 2003). Emotional availability training workshop, 4 days, Charite Campus, Berlin, Germany. (attendees mainly from Germany)

Biringen, Z. (March, 2003). Emotional availability and clinical practice, Clinical Psychology Program, Pace University.

Biringen, Z. (May, 2003). Attachment and brain development. Kids Brain Conference, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO.

Biringen, Z. (Sept, 2002). Emotional Availability. German-Speaking Association for Infant Mental Health (GAIMH) International Congress, main speaker

Biringen, Z. (Sept., 2002). Emotional Availability Training Workshop, Charite Campus, Berlin, Germany. (attendees from German-speaking countries).

Biringen, Z. (June, 2001). World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH, Australian Chapter), 5 days of lectures and Emotional Availability Training Workshops. (attendees from Eastern Australia), Sydney, Australia.

Biringen, Z. (June, 2001). Emotional availability and biological underpinnings. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dept of Child Psychiatry, New York, New York.

Biringen, Z. & M. Lamb (April, 2000).Parental responsibilities: Does gender make a difference? Mothering vs. Fathering. All-day workshop sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Committee on Child Custody (IDC), to be held at the University of Denver, Denver, CO.

Biringen, Z. (February, 1999). Emotional availability and attachment: Measurement and predictive capabilities. Cooperative Extension, Colorado State University.

Biringen, Z. (April, 1999). Emotional availability in normal mothers in interaction with their deaf or hard-of-hearing infants. Preconference, Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Mexico.

Biringen, Z. (June, 1999). Is Emotional Availability a promising instrument for understanding interactions between mothers and their children? A look at hearing mothers with their deaf or hard-of-hearing infants and children, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Malloy-Gonzalez, S. & Biringen, Z. (1998, November). The Eighth Mary Scott Lectures. Teaching & Learning. Inclusiveness: The child with different needs. Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO.

Biringen, Z. (1998, October). Attachment, attachment disorders, and emotional availability, Larimer County Mental Health, Ft. Collins, CO.

Biringen, Z. (1998, June). Emotional Availability Training Workshop (2 1/2 days), Boulder, CO.

Biringen, Z. (1997, June). Emotional Availability Training Workshop (2 days), Boulder, CO.

Biringen, Z. (1996, February). Emotional availability scales: Application to therapeutic practice, Second Annual Colorado Association for Play Therapy, Arvada, CO.

Biringen, Z. (1996, October). Emotional availability scales, Family and Preschool Services, Boulder Mental Health Center, Boulder.

Biringen, Z. (1995, February). Maternal sensitivity: Components and correlates, New School for Social Research, Clinical Psychology Dept., New York, New York.

Biringen, Z. (1995, December). Maternal sensitivity: Components and correlates, University of Massachusetts at Boston Clinical Psychology Dept., Boston, Massachusetts.

Biringen, Z. (1992, October). Emotional availability in the mother-child relationship, University of Denver, Psychology Dept., Denver, Colorado.

Biringen, Z. (1992, November). The development of infant autonomy: The role of upright locomotion and its timing, University of Colorado, Psychology Dept., Boulder, Colorado.

Biringen, Z. (1992, March). Affective reorganizations in the mother-infant dyadic relationship, Hunter College, Biopsychology Program, New York, New York.

 

SYMPOSIA/PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

Teti, D. & Biringen, Z. (March, 2007). Roundtable on emotional availability, Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA. Other panelists: Ann Easterbrooks, David Oppenheim, Lorraine Kubicek, Yair Ziv.

Biringen, Z. et al. (March, 2007) Symposia on Child Care and Relationships, Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA. Other presenters: Ann Easterbrooks (Tufts U.), Eva Shivers (U. Pittsburgh), Judy Ungerer (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia).
Lee, E., Sheek, K., Sutherland, K. & Biringen, Z. (April, 2007). Child care professional development program. Colorado State University Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creativity, Fort Collins, CO.

Biringen, Z., Aberle, J., Altenhofen, S., Bennet, S., Meyer, B., Moorlag, A., et al.(July, 2006). The Emotional Availability Intervention for child care providers of infants. Symposium (Co-chaired with M. Ann Easterbrooks), entitled “Emotional availability: Cultural and community contexts” at the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH). Other presenters: Marc Bornstein (NICHD), Eva Moehler (Heidelberg, Germany), Ora Aviezer (Israel), held in Paris, France.

Moehler, E. & Biringen, Z. (July, 2006). Emotional availability in a sample of mothers with a history of abuse: Influence of childhood physical sexual abuse on emotional availability. Symposium (Co-chaired with M. Ann Easterbrooks), entitled “Emotional availability; Cultural and community contexts” at the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH). Other presenters: Marc Bornstein (NICHD), Eva Moehler (Heidelberg, Germany), Ora Aviezer (Israel), held in Paris, France.

Salo, S., Politi, J., Kalland, M., Munck, P. Halmesmaki, E., Tupola, S., Kvitie-Kallio, S. & Biringen, S. Differences in early infant-caregiver emotional availability and infant development between random normative clinical drug-abusing and nondrug-abusing sample of 5 to 12 month old Finnish infants. Presentation at the World Association of Infant Mental Health (WAIMH). Paris, France.

Biringen, Z. (July 2006). The 4th Edition of the EAS, Poster presented at the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH). Paris, France.

Biringen, Z.( Sept., 2005). An educational intervention for child care providers of infants and toddlers. Colorado Child Care Training Conference, Make a difference for a child, Make a difference for the world. Denver, CO.

Biringen, Z.( Sept 2005). Extension Forum, RAISING A SECURE CHILD, Fort Collins, CO.

Biringen, Z. & Black, K. (April 2, 2005). Parenting Day, featuring their two books, RAISING A SECURE CHILD and MOTHERING WITHOUT A MAP, 9:00-12:00 morning workshop to begin the fee-for-service programs of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University.

Georgelas, K, Fugler, E., & Biringen, Z. (April, 2003). Children's Representations: Links With Emotional Availability and Kindergarten Peer Relationships, Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.

Biringen, Z. (2001, November). Teaching children (of all ages) about sexuality, Families at Five, Dept. of Human Development & Family Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.

Biringen, Z. & Easterbrooks, A.E. (2001, April). Co-Chair of Symposium, New Directions in Emotional Availability Research: Diverse populations, longitudinal predictions, and methodological inquiry, Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Biringen, Z. (2001, April). Emotional availability in infants: Differential predictions based on observation time, In Biringen, Z. & Easterbrooks, A.E. (Co-Chairs), New Directions in Emotional Availability Research: Diverse populations, longitudinal predictions, and methodological inquiry, Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Other presenters: Gretchen Lovas (UC-Davis), Alice Carter & Christina Little (Yale U), Bob Emde (UCHSC).

Biringen, Z. & Krchmarik, S. (1998, April). Attachment patterns: Training session on attachment issues for child care providers. Colorado Association for the Education of Young Children (CAEYC), Denver, Colorado.
Biringen, Z. (1998, April). Co-Chair of Symposium, Emotional availability, attachment, and risk, International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta, Georgia.

Biringen, Z. (1998, April). Apparent sensitivity: A methodological note. In Z. Biringen (Chair), Symposium on Emotional availability, attachment, and risk, International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta, Georgia.

Biringen, Z., Matheny, A. & Bretherton, I. (1998, April). Maternal social cognition and object relations: Connection with perceptions of self and relationships with one's child and family, Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Atlanta, Georgia.
Biringen, Z., Renouf, A., & Sherman, M. (1997, April). What predicts sensitive mothering? Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D.C.

Reyes, G., Silvern, L., Kaersvang, L., Williams, W. M., Stolbach, B.C., & Biringen, Z. (1995, April).Maltreated children's involvement with their mothers is associated with their functioning among peers, Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Kaplan, M., Biringen, Z., & Asnis, G. (1995, August). Suicide, abuse, and dissociation in psychiatric outpatients, Poster presented at the American Psychological Association, New York, New York.

Biringen, Z. (1992, May). "Testing of wills" and affectivity as related to the timing of upright locomotion, In J. Campos (Chair) Developmental Transitions of Infancy, Symposium conducted at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Miami, Florida.

Biringen, Z. (1991, April). Infant walking onset: Home observations of affectivity and autonomy. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, Washington.

Biringen, Z. Emde, R. N., Campos, J.J. & Appelbaum, M. (1991, May). Infant walking and the development of autonomy, Developmental Psychobiology Research Group, University of Colorado Medical School, Denver, Colorado.

Biringen, Z. (1990, April). Maternal representational sensitivity as related to observed sensitivity, Psychiatry Grand Rounds, University of Colorado Medical School, Denver, Colorado.

Biringen, Z. (1990, April). Changes in emotional availability as related to the onset of infant walking, In J. Osofsky (Chair), Emotional availability: Strength and vulnerabilities in development. Symposium conducted at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Montreal, Canada.

Biringen, Z. (1990, April). Emotional availability in the mother-infant relationship and peer interactions, Paper presented at the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs Fellows Week, Hosted by the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

Biringen, Z., Emde, R.N., & McNulty, D.M. (1989, April). Correlates of maternal sensitivity: Relations to infant development. Poster presented at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City, Missouri.

Bretherton, I., Biringen, Z., & Ridgeway, D. (1989, April). Attachment: The parental perspective. Paper presented at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research in Child development, Kansas City, Missouri.

Biringen, Z., Emde, R.N., McNulty, D., Trierweiler, G., & Lewis, M. (1989, August). The effect of infant walking onset on the quality of the mother-infant relationship. Poster presented at the World Association for Infant Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines (WAIPAD), Lugano, Switzerland.

Biringen, Z. (1989, June). The affective tone of the mother-infant relationship and the timing of walking onset, Fellows Week of the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs, Hosted by the Parent-Infant Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

Biringen, Z. & Rossow, A. (1987, August). Maternal perception of attachment history as related to mother-infant interactions. Poster presented at the 95th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.

Biringen, Z. (1988, April). Associations among internal working models of parental relationships, sense of self, and internal working models of the child. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Washington, D.C.

 

OTHER ASSESSMENTS AND/OR PROFESSIONAL VIDEOS

Biringen, Z. SECURE intervention video for Colorado State University Cooperative Extension.

Biringen, Z. EA assessment video training course (18-hour videotaped distance-training course; set of 9 videotapes, including lectures, case discussions, and criterion/reliability cases). Produced by Zeynep Biringen.

Bretherton, I., Ridgeway, D. & Biringen, Z. The Parent Attachment Interview.

Biringen, Z. & Bretherton, I. (1987) Maternal sensitivity/insight scale for scoring the Parent Attachment Interview (Bretherton, Ridgeway, & Biringen, 1987). Training conducted on an individual basis.
   
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2007 Family and Developmental Studies Program Director
2007 Representative, College Curriculum Committee
2007 Chair, Search Committee (Appointed)
2007 Interim Head, Undergraduate Program (Appointed)
2004-2005 Interim Dept. Head (Elected).
2002-2004 Acting Department Head (Appointed by Dept Head, when needed).
2002-2003 Chair, Executive Committee (Elected)
2004-present Leadership Committee, Online HDFS degree (Appointed)
2002-present Member, Tenure & Promotion Committee
2001-present Member, Executive Committee
2003-2004, 2005-2006 Member, College Scholarly Awards Committee
2005 Member, College Commencement Committee
1996-1997 Member, Undergraduate Program Committee
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Magazines:

Translational work featured in:

  • Child Magazine, twice.
  • Working Mother,
  • Step Carefully,
  • Prevention
  • "klein&groß". It is a German magazine especially for pedagogics and childcare workers in Germany. Issue on "Emotional Intelligence".

TV Appearances:

  • Court TV (NYC studios, requested by them to be a regular participant)
  • Denver Fox,
  • Denver Channel 7.

Radio:

  • Blue Suit Mom