Mary Dozier

Mary Dozier, PhD, is Unidel Amy E. du Pont Endowed Chair and Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. She studies the development of young children in foster care and young children living with neglectful birth parents, examining challenges in attachment and regulatory capabilities. Along with her graduate students and research team, she developed the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) parenting program for parents of vulnerable infants. Through randomized clinical trials, ABC has been demonstrated to be effective in enhancing parental sensitivity and children’s behavioral and biological functioning. At the University of Delaware, Dr. Dozier has been named the Francis Alison Professor, the university's highest faculty honor. She has also received the Translational Research Award from the International Congress on Infant Studies and the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution in Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from the American Psychological Association.