Dr. Ruth Newton, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist specialized in the use of attachment and affect regulation theories in interventions from birth through adulthood.
Dr. Newton has been a member of Allan Schore's Los Angeles Study Group for Affective Neurobiology since 2004 and trains and supervises master’s and doctoral level interns in attachment and affect regulation theories and interventions at St. Vincent de Paul Village. She has been a consultant to SAY San Diego's Extended Day Childcare programs for the past 20 years and teaches Theories and Approaches to Emotional Regulation in Childcare Settings in the new certificated program for childcare staff through Child & Family Development at San Diego State University. Dr. Newton is the author of The Attachment Connection designed to help parents raise secure, emotionally regulated children and the founder and director of the Newton Center for Affect Regulation. Dr. Newton is the originator and developer of Regulation Therapy, the topic of her new book to be published in 2012.
Dr. Newton is endorsed as an Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist and a Reflective Practice Facilitator III/Mentor by the California Center for Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health meeting competencies described by the California Training Guidelines and Personnel Competencies for Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health 2009.