Arietta Slade

Arietta Slade, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center. She is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Minding the Baby™ (MTB), an evidence-based, interdisciplinary, reflective home visiting program for high-risk mothers, infants, and their families at the Yale Child Study Center and Yale School of Nursing. She came to MTB, where she oversaw model development, training, and consultation, with a background as a theoretician, clinician, teacher, and researcher. Dr. Slade has written widely on reflective parenting, relationship-based infant mental health practice, and the implications of attachment and mentalization theory for child and parent psychotherapy. She is coauthor of Attachment in Therapeutic Practice and coeditor of the six-volume set Attachment Theory (both with Jeremy Holmes). Dr. Slade is a recipient of the Bowlby–Ainsworth Award from the New York Attachment Consortium.