About

Michelle Albright, Ph.D. has been developing, implementing, and evaluating programs to enhance cognitive, physical, social, and educational development in schools and communities across the country for the past 25 years.

Her areas of interest and expertise include social-emotional learning/emotional intelligence, school readiness, adolescent development, family involvement and school-family partnerships. Personally and professionally she strives to educate children and adults in the broadest sense of the word (and world), and help them develop the competence and confidence to achieve success in their education, relationships, and occupations. And she recognizes the importance of helping families and educators manage their own stress and sanity while trying to nurture those happy and healthy children!

Michelle received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, completed an APA approved internship at University of Maryland, and was a National Institute of Mental Health post-doctoral fellow in Quantitative Training in Mental Health Research at New York University. She has consulted for Harvard Family Research Project, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy, and the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.

Michelle has taught at the college and graduate level, and frequently presents workshops for children, families, and educators. She is also an experienced clinician, and conducts individual, couples, and family therapy, as well as parenting groups. In addition to authoring numerous academic publications and curricula, Michelle often blogs on parenting, education, and child development and has appeared on a variety of programs including Education Notebook (Connecticut News Channel 12), Better Connecticut, Fox Connecticut Morning News, and The 10! Show (NBC Philadelphia).

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