Brigid Jordan

Professor
Clinical Sciences
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia

Professor Clinical Sciences
Biography

Associate Professor Brigid Jordan (BSW 1983, PhD 2002) is a paediatric social worker and infant mental health clinician. She worked for more than two decades as a clinical social worker in the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry program and Social Work Department at the Royal Children's Hospital before being appointed in 2007 to the newly created position of Associate Professor of Paediatric Social Work in the Social Work Department at the Royal Children's Hospital. This was the first academic social work position in a hospital in Australia. Associate Professor Jordan has had a key role in developing the clinical field of infant mental health in Australia. Together with colleagues, she established the Infant Stream of the Masters of Mental Health Science offered through The University of Melbourne. She is a Past President of the National Australian Association for Infant Mental Health and has served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the World Association for Infant Mental Health.

Research Intrest

Infant Mental Health and Cardiac Surgery

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