Assistant Professor
          Psychiatry
      
            
      
            +1 415 476-7014
      Jennifer Felder, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist dedicated to promoting mental health during pregnancy and early parenting. In her research, Dr. Felder evaluates treatments to improve sleep and prevent depression. She is committed to increasing access to evidence-based interventions, particularly among populations disproportionately affected by poor health outcomes. To this end, she investigates innovative formats for disseminating interventions, such as digital, co-located, and integrated services. In her clinical work, Dr. Felder provides cognitive behavior therapy for insomnia for adults with chronic insomnia.
Publications
Transforming Health and Reducing Perinatal Anxiety Through Virtual Engagement: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
JMIR research protocols
      
            
      
      Effects of Recruitment Messaging on Ethnic/Racial Minority Screening in a RCT for Prenatal Insomnia: An Experimental Approach.
Behavioral sleep medicine
      
            
      
      Economic Insecurities and Mental Health Among Low-Income Pregnant People in the Central Valley Region of California.
Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
      
            
      
      Feasibility and Acceptability of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction and Prenatal Sleep Classes for Poor Prenatal Sleep Quality: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
Behavioral sleep medicine
      
            
      
      A randomized comparative-effectiveness study of two enhanced prenatal care models for low-income pregnant people: Engaging Mothers & Babies; Reimagining Antenatal Care for Everyone (EMBRACE).
Contemporary clinical trials
      
            
      
      Viewpoint: Challenges and strategies for engaging participants in videoconferencing appointments.
Contemporary clinical trials
      
            
      
      Preventing Depression Relapse: A Qualitative Study on the Need for Additional Structured Support Following Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.
Global advances in integrative medicine and health
      
            
      
      Letter to the Editor on racial disparities in engagement with digital CBT-I among pregnant women.
Sleep health
      
            
      
      Preventing Depression Relapse: A Qualitative Study on the Need for Additional Structured Support Following Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.
Global advances in integrative medicine and health
      
            
      
      Endorsement of a single-item measure of sleep disturbance during pregnancy and risk for postpartum depression: a retrospective cohort study.
Archives of women's mental health
      
            
      
      Pregnancy-related COVID worry, depressive symptom severity, and mediation through sleep disturbance in a low-income, primarily Latinx population in California's Central valley.
Journal of psychiatric research
      
            
      
      Adverse infant outcomes among women with sleep apnea or insomnia during pregnancy: A retrospective cohort study.
Sleep health
      
            
      
      Uptake of USPSTF recommendation to refer pregnant individuals for therapy or counseling to prevent perinatal depression.
Archives of women's mental health
      
            
      
      Trajectories of depressive symptoms among mothers of preterm and full-term infants in a national sample.
Archives of women's mental health
      
            
      
      Lessons Learned Recruiting and Retaining Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals in Digital Trials: Viewpoint.
JMIR pediatrics and parenting
      
            
      
      Examining Experiences of Poor Sleep During Pregnancy: A Qualitative Study to Inform the Development of a Prenatal Sleep Intervention.
Global advances in health and medicine
      
            
      
      The association of COVID-19 infection in pregnancy with preterm birth: A retrospective cohort study in California.
Lancet Regional Health. Americas
      
            
      
      Cannabis-related diagnosis in pregnancy and adverse maternal and infant outcomes.
Drug and alcohol dependence
      
            
      
      Outcomes of Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Patients With Residual Depressive Symptoms: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA psychiatry
      
            
      
      Prenatal Maternal Objective and Subjective Stress Exposures and Rapid Infant Weight Gain.
The Journal of pediatrics
      
            
      
      Efficacy of Digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the Treatment of Insomnia Symptoms Among Pregnant Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA psychiatry
      
            
      
      855: Risk of adverse birth outcome among Black women with post-traumatic stress disorder.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology
      
            
      
      Pregnant Patient Perceptions of Provider Detection and Treatment of Insomnia.
Behavioral sleep medicine
      
            
      
      Associations between unstable housing, obstetric outcomes, and perinatal health care utilization.
American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM
      
            
      
      Implementing the USPSTF Recommendations on Prevention of Perinatal Depression-Opportunities and Challenges.
JAMA internal medicine
      
            
      
      Association of Early Introduction of Solids With Infant Sleep.
JAMA pediatrics
      
            
      
      Effect of prenatal mindfulness training on depressive symptom severity through 18-months postpartum: A latent profile analysis.
Journal of clinical psychology
      
            
      
      Maternal depressive symptoms and infant healthcare utilization: The moderating role of prenatal mindfulness.
General hospital psychiatry
      
            
      
      Sleep Disorder Diagnosis During Pregnancy and Risk of Preterm Birth.
Obstetrics and gynecology
      
            
      
      Public Attitudes and Feelings of Warmth Toward Women and Men Experiencing Depression During the Perinatal Period.
Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
      
            
      
      Effects of daily maladaptive coping on nightly sleep in mothers.
Psychology & health
      
            
      
      Depressive symptoms and gestational length among pregnant adolescents: Cluster randomized control trial of CenteringPregnancy® plus group prenatal care.
Journal of consulting and clinical psychology
      
            
      
      Poor Sleep Quality, Psychological Distress, and the Buffering Effect of Mindfulness Training During Pregnancy.
Behavioral sleep medicine
      
            
      
      Considering Meta-Analysis, Meaning, and Metaphor: A Systematic Review and Critical Examination of "Third Wave" Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies.
Behavior therapy
      
            
      
      Role of self-compassion in psychological well-being among perinatal women.
Archives of women's mental health
      
            
      
      An Open Trial of Web-Based Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Perinatal Women at Risk for Depressive Relapse
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
      
            
      
      Staying well during pregnancy and the postpartum: A pilot randomized trial of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for the prevention of depressive relapse/recurrence.
Journal of consulting and clinical psychology
      
            
      
      An open trial of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for the prevention of perinatal depressive relapse/recurrence.
Archives of women's mental health
      
            
      
      Web-based Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for reducing residual depressive symptoms: An open trial and quasi-experimental comparison to propensity score matched controls.
Behaviour research and therapy
      
            
      
      Mindful mood balance: a case report of Web-based treatment of residual depressive symptoms.
The Permanente journal
      
            
      
      Web-based intervention in mindfulness meditation for reducing residual depressive symptoms and relapse prophylaxis: a qualitative study.
Journal of medical Internet research
      
            
      
      Mindfulness Meditation and Relapse Prophylaxis in Unipolar Mood Disorder.
The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness
      
            
      
      Neural mechanisms of subclinical depressive symptoms in women: a pilot functional brain imaging study.
BMC psychiatry
      
            
      
      Collaboration in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.
Journal of clinical psychology
      
            
      
      Reward circuitry function in autism spectrum disorders.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
      
            
      
      The effects of Brief Behavioral Activation Therapy for Depression on cognitive control in affective contexts: An fMRI investigation.
Journal of affective disorders
      
            
      
      The effects of psychotherapy on neural responses to rewards in major depression.
Biological psychiatry
      
            
      
      Autism is characterized by dorsal anterior cingulate hyperactivation during social target detection.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
      
            
      
      The effects of repeated opioid administration on locomotor activity: I. Opposing actions of mu and kappa receptors.
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics
      
            
      
      The effects of repeated opioid administration on locomotor activity: II. Unidirectional cross-sensitization to cocaine.
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics
      
            
      
      fMRI of alterations in reward selection, anticipation, and feedback in major depressive disorder.
Journal of affective disorders
      
            
      
      Mapping social target detection with functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
      
            
      
      Affective context interferes with cognitive control in unipolar depression: an fMRI investigation.
Journal of affective disorders