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Jean Twomey holds an MSW from the University of Michigan (1983) and a PhD in clinical social work from Smith College (1998). Her roles at the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk include heading the social work component of the NIH longitudinal Maternal Lifestyle Study of prenatal cocaine/opiate exposure and child outcome. Her research includes developmental outcomes of substance exposed infants with Child Protective Service involvement, maternal risk factors and child developmental outcomes, and the trajectories of graduates from the RI Family Treatment Drug Court. She has worked as a child and family therapist for many years and continues to provide clinical services at the Infant Behavior, Cry and Sleep Clinic and Behavior and Development Clinic. Her clinical interests include disorders of infancy and early childhood, colic, parent-infant relationships, fathers, and perinatal substance users and their partners.

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