Gilbert M. Foley, Ed.D., IMH-E serves as Consulting Clinical Psychologist at the New York Center for Child Development (NYCCD) in New York City and Clinical Co- Director of the New York City Early Childhood Mental Health Training and Technical Assistance Center. He is Endorsed as an Infant Mental Health/ Clinical Mentor, Level IV and is a founding board member of the New York and Pennsylvania State Associations of Infant Mental Health. He a senior faculty member of the DIR Profectum Academy and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. Dr Foley is a retired tenured faculty member of the program in School-Clinical Child Psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and Director Emeritus of the Graduate Program in Infant Mental Health and Developmental Practice at Adelphi University. He served as Visiting Fellow at the Yale Child Study Center and was Director of Psychology in the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. An innovator in reflective supervision, Dr Foley served as Senior Clinical Supervisor at NYU/ Bellevue Hospital Center, Department of Pediatrics and when Principal Investigator of the Federally Funded Family Centered Resource Project, he trained early childhood professionals across the US. Dr. Foley is the co-author of three books and has written over 48 scholarly articles and chapters. Linking Sensory Integration and Mental Health: Nurturing Self-Regulation in Infants and Young Children has just been released by National Zero to Three. Dr. Foley lectures widely nationally and internationally. His contributions to the field have been acknowledged by a Certificate of Recognition from the Connecticut Birth to Six Planning Committee, a Letter of Recognition from Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens, A Certificate of Commendation from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, a Certificate of Recognition from National Zero to Three and Honorary Citizenship of Springfield Missouri for contributions to young children with disabilities and their families. He served on the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Child Development Committee, the Governor’s Task Force on the Family and has been included in Who’s Who in the East and Who’s Who Worldwide.

EMAIL: gfoley@icsw.edu