Spring 2008
Office Hours: Monday, 10-11 a.m. & by appointment
304 Haviland Hall
(510) 642-2424
Email: bivins1@mindspring.com

Barbara Ivins came to work with infants and young children by a rather circuitous route. Her graduate training was broadly in biological psychology, but particularly in animal behavior and naturalistic field work. Through ethology, she came to study attachment theory and infancy. When she later retrained in clinical psychology, she chose to spend three years with the Infant-Parent Program in San Francisco doing clinical work with infants, toddlers and their parents. Her passion for that work has continued, and she remains committed to the infant mental health field. She is currently the clinical director of the Early Childhood Mental Health and Parent-Infant Program at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, where she has worked for the past 20 years providing direct service, supervision to a multi-disciplinary staff, training, and consultation in the community.