Dr. Rebecca Silver

Biography

Dr. Silver’s professional interests focus on providing intervention, consultation, and professional development services to young children and caregivers. She supervises early childhood-serving professionals and collaborates with state agencies to develop early childhood systems of care. Involved in evaluating the effectiveness of services and systems, she leads local program evaluation efforts and seeks federal research funding. As the Director of SUCCESS, Rhode Island’s Infant Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation program, she works within early care education settings. Dr. Silver is a clinical psychologist at the Early Childhood Collaborative at E.P. Bradley Hospital and holds the position of Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Pediatrics at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon and completed her clinical internship in child clinical psychology at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. Dr. Silver also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in early childhood mental health at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her research interests encompass infant and early childhood mental health, mental health consultation, reflective practice supervision, and community-based program evaluation focusing on the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices.

Research Interests