Joint Editor

Professor Charles H. Zeanah is Sellars-Polchow Professor in Psychiatry and Professor in Clinical Pediatrics, and Vice-Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Tulane University, USA. He is also a member of the board of directors for Zero to Three.
Dr. Zeanah is widely recognized for his leadership in the field of infant mental health. He has had a focus on early childhood psychopathology and the factors important in helping children recover from serious adversity. He has advocated for a more developmentally informed approach to foster care for young children, asserting that foster care in early childhood should be considered a different intervention than foster care for older children and adolescents.
Links on ACAMH website
JCPP Editorial: Volume 61, Issue 11, November 2020
“For crying out loud: Infant signaling and parental responsiveness” by Charles H. Zeanah
JCPP Editorial: Volume 60, Issue 11, November 2019
“Navigating the science‐practice gap in child maltreatment” by Charles H. Zeanah
JCPP Editorial: Volume 59, Issue 11, November 2018
“Autistic social behaviors and the half‐empty, half‐full cup” by Charles H. Zeanah
JCPP Editorial: Volume 58, Issue 11, November 2017
“Minding the gap – research on sexual minority and gender nonconforming children and adolescents” by Charles H. Zeanah & Myo Thwin Myint
JCPP Editorial: Volume 57, Issue 10, October 2016
“The effects of early trauma and deprivation on human development – from measuring cumulative risk to characterizing specific mechanisms” by Charles H. Zeanah, Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke