Selected Professional Presentations

  • Abrams, K.Y. (2017).  Life from a Toddler's Point of View. Parents Place, San Mateo, CA
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2017).  Healthy Brain Development.  Parents Place, San Mateo, CA
  • Abrams, K.Y. (2017)  Identifying  Red Flags in Development.  Training for staff at OFJCC Preschool on behalf of Parents Place on the Penninsula.
  • Abrams, K.Y. (2017)   Raising Emotionally Healthy Children.  Workshop for Pinterest, San Francisco, CA on behalf of Start with Lucy
  • Abrams, K.Y. (2017).  Appropriate Developmental Practice.  Training for summer camp counselors for City of Pleasanton’s Alviso Adobe Community Park.
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2017) School Readiness.  Our Family Coalition, San Francisco, CA
  • Abrams, K.Y. (2016). Raising Resilient Babies.  DayOne Baby, Palo Alto, CA
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2016).  Positive Discipline. Addepar. Mountain View, CA
  • Abrams, K.Y. (2015).  Toilet Teaching from Wet to Dry.  DayOne Baby, Palo Alto, CA.
  • Abrams, K.Y. (2015). Preparing your Toddler for a Sibling.  DayOne Baby, Palo Alto, CA.
  • Abrams, K.Y. (2015).  Healthy Relationships for Teens.  Workshop for National Charity League of Los Altos, CA.
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2014) Understanding Our Children: Temperament, Gender, Birth Order, and Attachment.  Parent Workshop for Children’s Center Preschool, Los Altos, CA
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2014) Connection and Relationships. With Maria Porch, LCSW, Los Altos United Methodist Church Mums Group.
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2014) The Benefits of Taking Risks: How the Reggio Program at Ventana School Supports Child Development.  Parent Workshop for Ventana School, Los Altos, CA
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2014) Separation Worries When Starting Preschool. Parent Workshop for Children's House, Los Altos, CA
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2014). Promoting Self-Esteem in Children.  Divergent Learners Group, Bullis Charter School, Los Altos, CA
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2014).  It's All About Relationships.  Parent Education Coffee Talk for Children's Center, Los Altos, CA
  • Abrams, K.Y. (2014).  Relationships and School Readiness.  Parent Education Lecture for Children's House, Los Altos, CA
  • Abrams, K.Y. (2013). Peer Relationships and Social Development.  Parent Education Lecture for Twinkle Twinkle Preschool, Los Altos, CA
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2013). Limit Setting and Discipline for Young Children. Parent Education Lecture for Twinkle Twinkle Preschool, Los Altos, CA
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2013). Challenging Behaviors in 3-5 year olds.  Teacher Training for Children's House Preschool, Los Altos, CA
  • Abrams, K.Y. (2013). Separation Anxiety and Starting Preschool.  Parent Education Lecture for Children's House Preschool, Los Altos, CA
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2005). Disorganized Infant Attachment Relationships.  Invited presentation to Public Health Nurses, Oakland CA,
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2004). A Tale of Two Projects.  Poster presented at Zero to Three National Training Institute in Sacramento, CA,
  • Abrams, K.Y., & Rifkin, A. (2003).  Dissociative Parental Behavior Observed in a Laboratory Play Session Predicts Infant Disorganization.  Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meetings in Tampa, FL.
  • Abrams, K. Y., & Olkin, R. (2003).  Perceptions of Eleven-to-Seventeen-Year-Olds with a Disabled Parent.  Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meetings in Tampa, FL.
  •  Abrams, K. Y. (2002).  Disability Accessible Research: An Example of a National Survey of Parents With Disabilities and Their Teens.  Symposium at the Society for Disability Studies Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2002).  Preliminary Findings from a National Survey of Parents with Disabilities and Their Teens.  Through the Looking Glass’ Second International Conference on Parents with Disabilities, Oakland, CA.
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2002).  Implications of Postpartum Depression for the Infant-Mother Attachment Relationship and Infant Development.  Through the Looking Glass’ Second International Conference on Parents with Disabilities, Oakland, CA.
  • Abrams, K. Y., Jans, L., & Kirshbaum, M. (2002).  Division of Family Labor and Maternal Disability.  Through the Looking Glass’ Second International Conference on Parents with Disabilities, Oakland, CA.
  • Abrams, K. Y., & Olkin, R. (2002).  Family Responsibilities of Adolescents with a Disabled Parent.  Poster Presented by Kelley Abrams at the Society for Research on Adolescence, New Orleans.
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2002).  Attachment Theory and the Disorganized Infant Attachment Category.  In-service presentation to City of Berkeley Public Health Nurses, Health & Human Services Department, Berkeley, CA.
  • Abrams, K. Y. (2001).  Attachment Theory, Disorganized Infant Attachment, and Parental Frightened, Frightening, and Dissociate Behavior.  Invited lecture at California School of Professional Psychology/ Alliant University, Alameda, CA.