Jayne Singer
Infant Mental Health Mentor-Clinical
Clinical Psychologist
Director, Developmental and Relational Health
Director, Clinical Training
Brazelton Touchpoints Center
International Trainer: Brazelton Touchpoints Approach; Newborn Behavioral Observations
Founding faculty, Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program
Division of Developmental Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital
Asst. Professor Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Past President, Massachusetts Association of Infant Mental Health: Birth to Six, Inc.
Chair; Massachusetts Infant Mental Health Professional Competency Guidelines Task Force
Commissioner, MA State Commission on Post-Partum Depression
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Dr. Singer is a clinical psychologist with more than 40 years of experience working with a diverse array of children and families in hospital, school, and community-based settings. She has been with Boston Children’s Hospital since 1988 working clinically with families of children aged birth throughout childhood with a wide variety of medical, developmental, emotional, behavioral, and familial challenges including trauma; providing evaluation, intervention, and preventive consultation within an overall model of child-family mental health and emotional well-being. She is Past President of the Massachusetts Association for Infant Mental Health. At BCH, she has been key to launching such important services as an early detection of Autism program, as well as the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program.
Dr. Singer is an Assistant Professor of Paediatrics and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is engaged in continuous national and international teaching and intensive mentoring as an International Trainer of the Brazelton Touchpoints Approach to development and parent-provider partnerships, and the Newborn Behavioural Observations system.
She serves as the Director of Developmental and Relational Health and Director of Clinical Training at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center; having started working with Dr. T. B. Brazelton in 1989. At BTC, she spearheaded the Early Care and Education Initiative as an adaptation of the Touchpoints Approach, as a method of infusing preventive social-emotional health services into school settings. This developed into BTC’s Tribal Touchpoints Initiative as well as the Federal Office of Head Start National Center of Parent, Family, and Community Engagement. She has also developed adaptations of the Touchpoints Approach for families living with children with Special Needs, as well as for mental health practitioners. She is the primary author of the Touchpoints in Early Care and Education Reference Guide and the Touchpoints in Reflective Practice guides for practitioners and mentors.
Most recently, Dr. Singer was awarded by the international Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health with the William M. Schafer, PhD Award to Honor Excellence in Reflective Supervision Leadership and Inspiration.