Education

Teaching

• Advanced Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
• PhD dissertation advisement
• DNP scholarly project advisement
• Doctor of Nursing Practice scholarly project advisement

Teaching

Programs

Programs

• Nursing BS
• Nursing PhD
• Doctor of Nursing Practice: Nurse Practitioner Online DNP

Teaching

Courses

Research

Research activities

• Ma, T., Posmontier, B. Horowitz, J.A., Geller, P. A. Change, K. (2022-2023). MommaConnect: A Mobile Platform to Augment Clinical Treatment Among AA/B Mothers with PPD and Their Infants. R43MD018236-01, SBIR Phase I, National Institutes of Health. Multiple Principal Investigator, $398,457
• Posmontier, B. (PI), Horowitz, J.A., Geller, P., Elgohail, M., Ma, T. (2021-2022). Thomas Jefferson College of Nursing Stratton Foundation Pilot Grant for Health Services. Mother-Baby Interaction/Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Mobile Health Technology.
• Developing and testing a mHealth app for women with PPD and their infants

Research

Research awards

• $ 16,250 awarded by Massachusetts Technology Corporation for Momma Connect MHealth application for Women with Postpartum Depression and their Infants

Research

Research interests

• Family mental health
• Perinatal mental health
• Mother-infant interaction
• Intervention delivery via mHealth
• Mental health across vulnerable populations

Select publications

See curriculum vitae for more publications

• Posmontier, B., Geller, P., Horowitz, J., Elgohail, M., Chiarello, L. (2022).
  Intensive perinatal mental health programs in the United States: A call to action
  Psychiatric Services, TBA
  
• DiSanza, C.B., Geller, P.A., Bonacquisti, A., Posmontier, B., Horowitz, J.A., Chiarello, L.A. (2020).
  A stepped care model of patient navigation to enhance engagement with perinatal mental health care
  Health Equity, 4, 484-488.
  
• Horowitz, J.A., & Posmontier (2020).
  A call to action: Reclaiming our PMH APN heritage
  Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 34, 351-354.
  
• Horowitz, J. A. Posmontier, B., Chiarello, L. A., & Geller, P. A (2019).
  Introducing mother-baby interaction therapy for mothers with postpartum depression and their infants.
  Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 33, 225-231.
  
• Geller, P., Posmontier, B., Horowitz, J. Bonacquisti, A., Chiarello, L. (2018).
  Introducing mother baby connections: A model of intensive perinatal mental health outpatient programming.
  Journal of Behavioral Medicine,, 41, 600-613.
  

Dr. June Andrews Horowitz joined UMass Dartmouth in 2016 as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, and Professor at the College of Nursing. She is also Professor Emerita at Boston College, where she served on the faculty of the William F. Connell School of Nursing for most of her career. Immediately prior to joining UMass Dartmouth, she served as Associate Dean for Research at the College of Nursing, Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.  Dr. Horowitz received her BS in nursing from Boston College, her MS in psychiatric-mental health nursing from Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey, and her PhD in nursing research and theory development from New York University. In her scholarship, she has made significant scientific contributions regarding family mental health, most notably from investigations concerning postpartum depression (PPD) and maternal-infant interaction quality. Additionally, she has conducted school-based research, and has expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods. She has published and presented extensively. Dr. Horowitz is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a board certified Clinical Specialist in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing. She is an Executive Board member for Mother-Baby Connections, an intensive out-patient program in Philadelphia for women who experience perinatal mental health disorders and their infants. In addition, Dr. Horowitz is President-elect, a member of the Board of Directors, and current co-chair of the Conference Planning Committee for the International Family Nursing Association.

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