SUNY Poly Professor of Psychology Dr. Kazuko Behrens will be traveling to the University of Cambridge in England this summer and next as a visiting research fellow to be affiliated with the Department of Public Health and Primary Care. She will be involved in a number of research projects, and she will also teach a hybrid two-week intensive training workshop on psychological assessment.

More specifically, she will be training the utilization of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) for assessment of psychological states of mind. She is one of around a dozen psychologists licensed to teach this instrument around the world, which was developed by her mentor at UC Berkeley, the late Dr. Mary Main.

By interviewing adults, AAIs allow trained, reliable psychologists to predict what kind of attachment quality their kids will have. According to Behrens, AAIs have been approx. 70 percent accurate in its prediction, statistically.

Behrens has also begun her role as a Guest Editor of the Special Issue for the high impact journal, Attachment and Human Development. She will also be a contributing author in another special issue of the journal, which honors Dr. Main.

Behrens will also be traveling to France and the Czech Republic to present her research at upcoming conferences.