Penny Tryphonopoulos
Assistant Professor
Basic nursing science
Brandon University
Canada
Biography
He is currently co-leading a VID-KIDS (Video-feedback Interaction Guidance for Improving Interactions Between Depressed Mothers and their Infants) a CIHR-funded intervention promoting depressed mothers’ sensitivity and responsiveness to their infants. Parenting training to promote sensitive and responsive maternal-infant interactions may be helpful in promoting healthy development in children of mothers with PPD.
Research Interest
His research program is guided by three principal questions: 1) What are the characteristics of an optimal caregiving environment? 2) How can parents be supported to build on their strengths as caregivers? 3) What can be done to influence positively the mental and physical health of the next generation? I am interested in examining i) parent-child relationships, ii) parent mental health, and iii) child health outcomes (e.g. cognitive and socio-emotional development) and how they are affected by “toxic stressors” such as perinatal mood disorders.
