2026 Longfellow Lecture: Arietta Slade, '73

In-Person Event - This event will take place on Sarah Lawrence College's Bronxville Campus.

Join the Child Development Institute for the annual Longfellow Lecture on March 25th, 2026! This year's guest lecturer is Sarah Lawrence College alum Arietta Slade, Ph.D.

Arietta Slade, ’73, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and internationally recognized theoretician, clinician, researcher, and teacher.  She is currently Professor Adjunct of Child Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center, Professor Emerita in the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at the City College of New York, and Co-Founder of Minding the Baby, an interdisciplinary reflective home visiting program for high-risk mothers, infants, and their families at the Yale Child Study Center and School of Nursing.  She has published widely on attachment, mentalization, and the parent-child relationship.  Her most recent book is Enhancing Attachment and Reflective Parenting in Clinical Practice: A Minding the Baby Approach (Guilford, 2023).  Arietta became interested in the impact of early relationships on the child’s development while an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence.  Since then, she has dedicated much of her career to helping caregivers develop the capacity to see and hear their children, to imagine what moves them and makes them tick.  These reflective capacities – which depend upon safety, regulation, and trust - are powerfully affected by stress and relational trauma.  Arietta’s lecture will center on how to help parents, caregivers, clinicians, and teachers “hold the child in mind”, thus inspiring the joy and connection that come from understanding and knowing each other.  

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