CatherineCookAyoub

Summary

• Catherine Ayoub, Ed.D., Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, is a psychologist and nurse practitioner with more than 40 years of experience as a practitioner and researcher. She is Director of Research and Evaluation, and a founder of the Family Connections Mental Health Consultation Project at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, Boston Children’s Hospital. Her past work includes serving as co-Principal Investigator for the OHS/OCC National Center on Parent, Family, Community Engagement and as co-founder and director of the Prevention Science masters program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
  Her practice and research interests focus on consequences of early trauma and resilience on child and adult development, and on design, implementation, and evaluation of prevention/intervention systems to reduce risk and promote resilience. She has championed community participatory research approaches that help bring to scale innovative prevention and intervention systems for young children and their families.
  Dr. Ayoub has served as as a mental health consultant to early care, hospitals and health care, child protection, juvenile courts, and domestic violence programs. In her clinical practice she serves as a senior forensic psychologist at the Law and Psychiatry Service at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has worked in juvenile, family, and criminal courts across the country. She has specific expertise in child maltreatment including physical and sexual abuse, as well as Munchausen by Proxy. She has evaluated adults in Federal courts for aid to sentencing and served as a expert on innocence cases.
  Dr. Ayoub has written over 170 peer reviewed articles, book chapters, and practice papers. She is honored to work with over 40 Native American communities. Following a childhood spent in Mexico, Dr. Ayoub shares a multi-cultural experience with Latinx families. Her practice has included projects from Mexico and Latin America.