Dr. Audrey-Ann Deneault is an Assistant Professor in the Département de psychologie at the Université de Montréal. Her research examines how familial and environmental factors influence child and youth mental health. She is particularly interested in the role of fathering in shaping mental health. She leads the Special Interest Research Group on Father-Child Attachment and

Professor at the University of San Sebastián, Chile. Director of the Doctorate in Psychology and Mental Health. Principal investigator in several projects on attachment, parenting, and alternative care in childhood. President of the Ibero-American Attachment Network. He completed his doctoral studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands, winning the award for best doctoral thesis for the

Lilian Ayiro is a lecturer at Moi University in Kenya, where she teaches and supervises graduate students. Her research focuses on parenting, attachment, disability and child development. Her interest lies not only in studying how caregiving shape child outcomes, but also in identifying intervention programs that can promote positive parenting behaviour and secure attachment among

Brian Allen, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist, Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry in the Penn State College of Medicine, and core faculty in the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network at Penn State University. He was the founding and long-time director of the Stine Foundation Transforming the Lives of Children (TLC) Research and Treatment Center at the

Catherine Mbagaya is a researcher in Maseno University, Kenya where she also teaches and mentors postgraduate in the Department of Psychology. Her research focus is in parenting, early childhood development and education. She is involved in attachment-based parenting interventions for parents living in resource limited settings in Kenya. In addition, Catherine is working on validation

David Oppenheim, Ph.D. is Professor and former Chair in the Department of Psychology and a member of the Center for the Study of Child Development at the University of Haifa, Israel. Dr. Oppenheim’s research focuses on the central importance of attachment relationships for children’s social and emotional development. In particular, his research has examined the

Professor Pasco Fearon is Director of the Centre for Family Research. He is a developmental and clinical psychologist doing world-leading research on child development and children’s mental health. Pasco’s research focuses on the caregiving factors involved in children’s psychological, emotional, cognitive and psychobiological development. Pasco is the Director of the Children of the 2020s Study,

Dr Pascal Vrticka is an Associate Professor at the University of Essex and Principal Investigator of the Social Neuroscience of Human Attachment (SoNeAt) Lab. He serves as Coordinating Board President of the SIRG “Social Neuroscience of Human Attachment” within SEAS, where he is also Secretary and Executive Board Member, and has been an Associate Trustee

Dr. Nicola Carone, Associate Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. His research focuses on the psychodynamics of family bonds across different family forms (including LGBTQ+ families, single-parent families, and families formed through assisted reproduction), the intergenerational transmission of attachment, parenting in high-risk contexts, the assessment of dyadic and

Dr. Marlene M. Moretti, Ph.D., R. Psych., is the Canada Research Chair in Youth Clinical Psychological Science and a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Simon Fraser University, and a Registered Clinical Psychologist. Her work bridges research, practice and policy by translating attachment theory into culturally responsive, empirically supported interventions that promote the well-being of youth