Rate My Professor Jennifer Ablow

Ablow's research program emphasizes the impacts of prenatal mental health, stress, early adversity, and nutrition on fetal development, infant emotional regulation, and neurodevelopment, with a focus on low socioeconomic status populations, such as infants of caregivers with depression or poor nutrition. Her clinical efforts include developing and facilitating prenatal groups for pregnant individuals at risk for depression, mindfulness-based parenting programs in the early postnatal period, and video feedback dyadic parenting interventions to promote attachment and emotional regulation. As a licensed psychologist and certified Child Parent Psychotherapy clinician on the international roster, she advances parent-infant prevention and intervention. Selected publications include Wood, E.K., et al. (2025). Higher prenatal dietary glycemic index in the third trimester of pregnancy is associated with infant negative affect at 6 months. Scientific Reports; Werchan, D., et al. (2022). Behavioral coping phenotypes and psychosocial outcomes in a national U.S. sample of pregnant and postpartum women during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports; Sun, X., Measelle, J.R., & Ablow, J.C. (2021). Predicting child effortful control: An integrative analysis of child, physiological, familial, and community factors. Developmental Psychobiology; Measelle, J.R. & Ablow, J.C. (2018). Contributions of early adversity to pro-inflammatory phenotype in infancy: The buffer provided by attachment security. Attachment and Human Development; and Conradt, E., Measelle, J.R. & Ablow, J.C. (2013). Poverty, problem behavior and promise: Differential susceptibility among infants reared in poverty. Psychological Science.