Colleen O. Dillon
Associate Teaching Professor
Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing
Profile
Colleen O. Dillon is a licensed psychologist with expertise in infant and early childhood mental health. As an Associate Teaching Professor and Faculty Lead on IECMH Training in the UW School of Nursing, Child, Family and Population Health Nursing, she teaches both graduate and undergraduate IECMH courses. Dr. Dillon's graduate degrees are in clinical psychology (child/adolescent focus) from the University of Massachusetts, Boston; her APA residency year completed in the child/community track in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the UW School of Medicine. Dr. Dillon has served as a research fellow and associate member of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Network on the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood, a clinical postdoctoral fellow at the UW Barnard Center for Infant Mental Health and Development, a graduate of the UW Infant Mental Health Certificate Program, and a UW Maternal and Child Health Leadership, Education and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) trainee. Her clinical and research focus over the past 20 years has been on supporting families through vulnerable lifespan transitions.
Classes
- IECMH 432: Introductions in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
- IECMH 433: Trauma in Early Childhood: Resilience in Relationship
- IECMH 537: Development and Psychopathology: Parents and Infants
- IECMH 548: Frameworks in Infant an Early Childhood Mental Health
- IECMH 555: Relationship Based Mental Health Assessment of Young Children
- NSG 432: Infants and Children: Risk and Resilience
- NURS 610: Teaching Practicum