Anne Murphy, PhD
Psychology
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Anne Murphy, PhD, is Clinical Director of Trauma Services and Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI) at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein and Professor, Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Services at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Murphy’s area of expertise includes the impact of trauma on relationships, primarily in the early years of life. Her work focuses on parent, child and relationship trauma throughout the lifespan. She is the model developer of GABI, which works with parents and their birth through three-year-old children. The GABI model was expanded to 6 additional sites across all five boroughs with funding from NYC Administration for Children’s Services, Division of Prevention Services. The GABI program was added to the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare as a program with promising research in 2024.
Dr. Murphy earned her Doctor of Philosophy at Fordham University in 2004. She completed the Story Stem Assessment Profile Training at the Anna Freud Center in London, England, in 2007 and completed a one-year fellowship at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education at the New York University School of Medicine in 2012.
Dr. Murphy’s research focuses on the impact of GABI in improving child social-emotional development, reducing parental depression and social isolation and increasing attachment security in the parent-child attachment relationship. She has been principal investigator and co-investigator on many funded research projects, and she has given numerous invited presentations, both nationally and internationally. Dr. Murphy’s work has been published in many peer-reviewed journals, books, chapters and review articles, and she has shared her work through abstracts and poster presentations.
Dr. Murphy is a member of the International Society to Prevent Child Abuse & Neglect, the American Psychological Association and Zero to Three. In 2024, she received the Excellence in Health Care Award for Quality Improvement Champions from the United Hospital Fund.
Dr. Murphy earned her Doctor of Philosophy at Fordham University in 2004. She completed the Story Stem Assessment Profile Training at the Anna Freud Center in London, England, in 2007 and completed a one-year fellowship at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education at the New York University School of Medicine in 2012.
Dr. Murphy’s research focuses on the impact of GABI in improving child social-emotional development, reducing parental depression and social isolation and increasing attachment security in the parent-child attachment relationship. She has been principal investigator and co-investigator on many funded research projects, and she has given numerous invited presentations, both nationally and internationally. Dr. Murphy’s work has been published in many peer-reviewed journals, books, chapters and review articles, and she has shared her work through abstracts and poster presentations.
Dr. Murphy is a member of the International Society to Prevent Child Abuse & Neglect, the American Psychological Association and Zero to Three. In 2024, she received the Excellence in Health Care Award for Quality Improvement Champions from the United Hospital Fund.
Gender: Female
Credentials
Education and Training
- Fellowship New York University School of Medicine
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CERC/Rose F. Kennedy Center
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Research
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Assessing therapist and clinician competency in parent-infant psychotherapy: The REARING coding system (RCS) for the group attachment based intervention (GABI)Kelsey Armusewicz; Anne MurphyJan 2022Kelsey Armusewicz; Miriam Steele; Howard Steele; Anne Murphy
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Bringing Reflective Functioning to the Community: Aspects of psychotherapy process in the Group Attachment Based InterventionA. MurphyJan 2022M. Steele; H. Steele; A. Murphy
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Exploring maternal reflective functioning as a predictor of mother-child dyadic behaviour over time in a clinical contextAnne MurphyJan 2022Lindsey Myers; Howard Steele; Miriam Steele; Anne Murphy
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Randomized control trial report on the effectiveness of Group Attachment-Based Intervention (GABI©): Improvements in the parent–child relationship not seen in the control groupAnne Murphy; Karen Bonuck; Paul MeissnerFeb 2019Howard Steele; Anne Murphy; Karen Bonuck; Paul Meissner; Miriam Steele
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Treating disorganized attachment in the Group Attachment-Based Intervention (GABI©): A case studyAnne MurphyAug 2018Hannah Knafo; Anne Murphy; Howard Steele; Miriam Steele
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