Paula D. Zeanah, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Education & Affiliations
Biography
Dr. Zeanah has worked with children and their families with significant medical and psychiatric issues, as well as healthy children and families, throughout her career as a pediatric nurse and clinical child psychologist. She provides direct services, clinical supervision, and training for the pediatric-psychiatry consultation-liaison program, a required component of the child psychiatry training and a core rotation for the child psychology internship program. In her work with the LA Office of Public Health, she is involved in program development and professional training for the statewide home visiting program, and provides oversight of Infant Mental Health Consultation for the Nurse Family Partnership. The main focus is on mental health issues related to pregnancy, infancy, and early childhood, including perinatal depression, perinatal loss, mental health screening and consultation, and parent-infant assessment. Dr. Zeanah's research interests include mental health issues in non-mental health settings, implementation issues in nurse home visiting, chronic illness in childhood, professional development, and sexual self-esteem.
Contributions
Moran, T.E., Larrieu, J.A., Zeanah, P.D., Evenson, A., & Valliere, J. (2013). “Depressia” in post-Katrina New Orleans: Cultural and contextual adaptations to group interpersonal therapy. Zero to Three, 33, 23-30.
Hogan, A.E., Dillon, C.O., Fernandes, S., Spieker, S., & Zeanah, P.D. (2012). Creating and sustaining an interdisciplinary infant-early childhood mental health workforce. Zero to Three, 33, 35-42.
Hurst, J., Zeanah, P., Lewis, L, & Mills, K. (2012). Examining the association between nutrition and psychosocial factors in first-time pregnant women: A cross-sectional pilot study, International Journal of Disability and Human Development, 11.
Swenson, R. R., Houck, C. D., Barker, D., Zeanah, P. D., & Brown, L. K. (2012). Prospective analysis of the transition to sexual experience and changes in sexual self-esteem among adolescents attending therapeutic schools. Journal of Adolescence, 35, 77-85.
Zeanah, C.H. & Zeanah, P. D. (2010). Infant mental health. In B. Lester & J. Sparrow (Eds).Nurturing Children and Families: Building on the Legacy of T. Berry Brazelton, Wiley-Blackwell, United Kingdom.
Zeanah, P. D. & Gleason, M. M. (2009). Infant mental health in pediatric primary care settings. In C.H. Zeanah (Ed.), Handbook of Infant Mental Health, 3rd Ed., New York:Guilford Press.
Hinshaw-Fuselier, S., Larrieu, J., & Zeanah, P. D. (2009). Training in infant mental health. In C.H. Zeanah (Ed). Handbook of Infant Mental Health, 3rd Ed., New York:Guilford Press.
Zeanah, P.D., Bailey, L.O., & Berry, S. (2009). Infant mental health and the "real world": Opportunities for interface and impact. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 18, 773-787.
View more of Dr. Paula Zeanah's publications on PubMed
