Cynthia Frosch, PhD, IMH-E®

affiliations

biography

Cynthia A. Frosch, PhD, IMH-E® is an Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science at Auburn University and an Endorsed Infant Mental Health Mentor (Research/Faculty). She earned her doctoral degree in Developmental Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Developmental Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Frosch’s research focuses on early relational health, parent-child interaction from birth to 5, and early childhood workforce development, including reflective supervision. Dr. Frosch serves on the Editorial Board for Infancy and is a member of the International Congress on Infant Studies and the World Association for Infant Mental Health. Her involvement with Nurture Connection and Reach Out and Read continues to strengthen her commitment to supporting early relational health. Dr. Frosch has more than two decades of experience translating research findings into meaningful and actionable steps with families and practitioners and has extensive experience training researchers in the observation and rating of parent-child interaction.

Research Interests

• Reach out and Read (ROR)
• ROR in early infancy
• Early Relational Health
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Shared Reading
• Home visitation

Ongoing Research

Expanded multi-site collaboration within Alabama to explore families’ experiences with books and their babies in the context of pediatric primary care