Maryland Child & Family Development Lab

Professor, Department of Psychology

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742-4411

(301) 405-4973

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4961-1892

Jude Cassidy, Ph.D. is a professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she has been awarded designation as a University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. Dr. Cassidy is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association. Dr. Cassidy serves as co-Editor of the journal Attachment and Human Development, and is the co-Editor, along with Phillip Shaver, of the Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications (Guilford Press, 2016). Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the Krieger Fund.

Dr. Cassidy studies promotive and protective components of early supportive relationships as contributors to child well-being, often in the context of threat/risk and in under-resourced communities. Her research interests include:

Socio-emotional development from infancy through adolescence, with an emphasis on attachment and family relationships
Social, cognitive, and regulatory mechanisms through which children's early family experiences come to influence later well-being and relationships
The protective effects of confidence in access to a secure base
Early intervention designed to reduce the risk of insecure attachment and mental disorders and to support children's regulatory capacities and positive relationships with peers