A/Prof Brigid Jordan
A/Prof Brigid Jordan
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Role
Team Leader / Honorary Fellow Manager
Research area
Clinical Sciences
Group
Brain and Mind
Associate Professor Brigid Jordan AM is a social worker and infant mental health specialist who worked at the Royal Children’s Hospital for 35 years, most recently as the Associate Professor of Social Work. She is an Honorary Principal Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics, at The University of Melbourne. In 2021 Brigid founded the Parkville Institute with Dr Anne Kennedy. Parkville Institute is an innovative research and practice institute whose purpose is to improve the life trajectories of very young children living with significant social disadvantage and family stress using a cohort focused intensive high-quality education and care model.
Brigid’s research has a strong focus on clinical and translational outcomes and developing novel clinical approaches in infant mental health that are based on the latest evidence about infant memory, emotional development and behavioural responses to stress and traumatic experiences.
Brigid has extensive experience extending infant mental health knowledge and skills into the fields of child welfare, paediatric health care and early years education and care.
She is one of the Chief Investigators in the multi-disciplinary University of Melbourne team that evaluated the outcomes of an intensive early childhood education and care program for children living with significant family stress and social disadvantage. The program was evaluated using a randomised controlled trial methodology with experienced evaluation experts drawn from The University of Melbourne’s Departments of Economics, Paediatrics and Education and the Melbourne Institute. Brigid is a co-author of the evaluation reports and the description of the model of intervention.
Brigid has had a key role in the development of the field of infant mental health in Australia. Together with colleagues she established post-graduate Infant Mental Health courses in Victoria. She is a past President of the Australian Association for Infant Mental Health and was a Board Director on the Board of the World Association for Infant Mental Health from 2000-2006.
In 2008 she received the WAIMH in recognition of her significant contributions to the World Association for Infant Mental Health.
In 2019 Brigid was appointed a Member of the Order of the Australia in recognition of significant service to medicine in the field of paediatrics and infant mental health.
Brigid’s research has a strong focus on clinical and translational outcomes and developing novel clinical approaches in infant mental health that are based on the latest evidence about infant memory, emotional development and behavioural responses to stress and traumatic experiences.
Brigid has extensive experience extending infant mental health knowledge and skills into the fields of child welfare, paediatric health care and early years education and care.
She is one of the Chief Investigators in the multi-disciplinary University of Melbourne team that evaluated the outcomes of an intensive early childhood education and care program for children living with significant family stress and social disadvantage. The program was evaluated using a randomised controlled trial methodology with experienced evaluation experts drawn from The University of Melbourne’s Departments of Economics, Paediatrics and Education and the Melbourne Institute. Brigid is a co-author of the evaluation reports and the description of the model of intervention.
Brigid has had a key role in the development of the field of infant mental health in Australia. Together with colleagues she established post-graduate Infant Mental Health courses in Victoria. She is a past President of the Australian Association for Infant Mental Health and was a Board Director on the Board of the World Association for Infant Mental Health from 2000-2006.
In 2008 she received the WAIMH in recognition of her significant contributions to the World Association for Infant Mental Health.
In 2019 Brigid was appointed a Member of the Order of the Australia in recognition of significant service to medicine in the field of paediatrics and infant mental health.
Associate Professor Brigid Jordan AM is a social worker and infant mental health specialist who worked at the Royal Children’s Hospital for 35 years, most recently as the Associate Professor of Social Work. She is an Honorary Principal Fellow in the...
Associate Professor Brigid Jordan AM is a social worker and infant mental health specialist who worked at the Royal Children’s Hospital for 35 years, most recently as the Associate Professor of Social Work. She is an Honorary Principal Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics, at The University of Melbourne. In 2021 Brigid founded the Parkville Institute with Dr Anne Kennedy. Parkville Institute is an innovative research and practice institute whose purpose is to improve the life trajectories of very young children living with significant social disadvantage and family stress using a cohort focused intensive high-quality education and care model.
Brigid’s research has a strong focus on clinical and translational outcomes and developing novel clinical approaches in infant mental health that are based on the latest evidence about infant memory, emotional development and behavioural responses to stress and traumatic experiences.
Brigid has extensive experience extending infant mental health knowledge and skills into the fields of child welfare, paediatric health care and early years education and care.
She is one of the Chief Investigators in the multi-disciplinary University of Melbourne team that evaluated the outcomes of an intensive early childhood education and care program for children living with significant family stress and social disadvantage. The program was evaluated using a randomised controlled trial methodology with experienced evaluation experts drawn from The University of Melbourne’s Departments of Economics, Paediatrics and Education and the Melbourne Institute. Brigid is a co-author of the evaluation reports and the description of the model of intervention.
Brigid has had a key role in the development of the field of infant mental health in Australia. Together with colleagues she established post-graduate Infant Mental Health courses in Victoria. She is a past President of the Australian Association for Infant Mental Health and was a Board Director on the Board of the World Association for Infant Mental Health from 2000-2006.
In 2008 she received the WAIMH in recognition of her significant contributions to the World Association for Infant Mental Health.
In 2019 Brigid was appointed a Member of the Order of the Australia in recognition of significant service to medicine in the field of paediatrics and infant mental health.
Brigid’s research has a strong focus on clinical and translational outcomes and developing novel clinical approaches in infant mental health that are based on the latest evidence about infant memory, emotional development and behavioural responses to stress and traumatic experiences.
Brigid has extensive experience extending infant mental health knowledge and skills into the fields of child welfare, paediatric health care and early years education and care.
She is one of the Chief Investigators in the multi-disciplinary University of Melbourne team that evaluated the outcomes of an intensive early childhood education and care program for children living with significant family stress and social disadvantage. The program was evaluated using a randomised controlled trial methodology with experienced evaluation experts drawn from The University of Melbourne’s Departments of Economics, Paediatrics and Education and the Melbourne Institute. Brigid is a co-author of the evaluation reports and the description of the model of intervention.
Brigid has had a key role in the development of the field of infant mental health in Australia. Together with colleagues she established post-graduate Infant Mental Health courses in Victoria. She is a past President of the Australian Association for Infant Mental Health and was a Board Director on the Board of the World Association for Infant Mental Health from 2000-2006.
In 2008 she received the WAIMH in recognition of her significant contributions to the World Association for Infant Mental Health.
In 2019 Brigid was appointed a Member of the Order of the Australia in recognition of significant service to medicine in the field of paediatrics and infant mental health.
Top Publications
- Pham, H, Vandeleur, M, Mainzer, R, Jordan, B, Clark, N, Du Berry, C, Schultz, A, Ramsay, K, Pettigrew, G, Harper, A, et al. P045 Association between childhood cystic fibrosis lung disease and adolescent sleep and mental health. SLEEP Advances 5(Supplement_1) : a44 -a45 2024 view publication
- Hickey, L, Anderson, V, Jordan, B. Australian parent and sibling perspectives on the impact of paediatric acquired brain injury on family relationships during the first 6 weeks at home.. Health Soc Care Community 30(6) : e5204 -e5212 2022 view publication
- Tseng, YP, Jordan, B, Borland, J, Clark, M, Coombs, N, Cotter, K, Guillo, M, Hill, A, Kennedy, A, Sheehan, J. Changing the Life Trajectories of Australia’s Most Vulnerable Children - Report No. 5: 36 months in the Early Years Education Program: Assessment of the impact on children and their primary caregivers .. 2022 view publication
- Moore, D, Jordan, B, White, A, Uahwatanasakul, W. What do children think about doctors' communication at the Teddy Bear Hospital?. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 58(2) : 243 -247 2021 view publication
- Clancy, T, Jordan, B, de Weerth, C, Muscara, F. Early Emotional, Behavioural and Social Development of Infants and Young Children with Congenital Heart Disease: A Systematic Review.. J Clin Psychol Med Settings 27(4) : 686 -703 2020 view publication
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