Publications
A bioecocultural approach to supporting adolescent mothers and their young children in conflict-affected contexts." Development and Psychopathology (2021): 1-13.
"Best practices and specific measures to ensure access to birth registration, particularly for those children most at risk*. United States, 2018.
Building better brains: New frontiers in Early Childhood Development. New York City: UNICEF, 2014.
Best of UNICEF research 2017. Miscellanea UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, Florence. Florence, Italy: UNICEF, 2017.
Beyond borders: How to make the global compacts on migration and refugees work for uprooted children. New York, NY: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 2017.
Birth preparedness and place of birth in Tandahimba district, Tanzania: what women prepare for birth, where they go to deliver, and why." BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 16 (2016): 165.
"Building a new biodevelopmental framework to guide the future of early childhood policy." Child Dev. 81.1 (2010): 357-67.
"Best Practices for Parent Education: Programs Seeking to Prevent Child Abuse. Raleigh, North Caroline: North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension Service, 2003.
A brief primary care intervention helps parents develop plans to discipline." Pediatrics. 125.2 (2010): e242-9.
"Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Violence: The Promise of Psychosocial Interventions to Address Children’s Exposure to Violence. Promundo, 2020.
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Penguin Publishing Group, 2003.
Building resiliency in families with young children exposed to violence: The safe start initiative pilot study." Best Practice in Mental Health. 8.1 (2008).
"Building a generation of reconciliation: The role of early childhood development in peace building. Istanbul, Turkey, 2009.
Brain on stress: how the social environment gets under the skin." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.. 109 Suppl 2 (2012): 17180-5.
"Blackwell Handbook of Early Childhood Development. Wiley, 2006.
Breastfeeding, brain activation to own infant cry, and maternal sensitivity." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 52.8 (2011): 907-15.
"Business and family-friendly policies. An evidence brief. New York, NY: UNICEF, 2019.
The Brain Architects Podcast: COVID-19 Special Edition: A Different World. Boston: Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2020.
Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory." Simple Psychology (2020).
"Breastfeeding and family-friendly policies. An evidence brief. New York, NY: UNICEF, 2019.
Breaking the silence on early child care and education costs. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 2019.
Brain Matters. A ground-breaking documentary on the critical nature of the early years of life. Genesis Foundation, 2019.
Bullying and your child. What every parent needs to know and do. European Network Against Bullying in Learning and Leisure Environments (ENABLE), 2017.
Beyond allostatic load: rethinking the role of stress in regulating human development." Dev Psychopathol. 26 (2014): 1-20.
"Beyond mental health: an evolutionary analysis of development under risky and supportive environmental conditions: an introduction to the special section." Dev Psychol. 48 (2012): 591-7.
"Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War. Henry Holt and Company, 1998.
Biologic findings of post-traumatic stress disorder and child maltreatment." Curr Psychiatry Rep. 5 (2003): 108-17.
"Begin with the children: What research on Sesame Street's international coproductions reveals about using media to promote a new more peaceful world." International Journal of Behavioral Development. 32 (2008): 359-365.
"Beyond individual war trauma: domestic violence against children in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka." J Marital Fam Ther. 34.2 (2008): 165-76.
"The biochemistry of love: an oxytocin hypothesis." EMBO Rep.. 14.1 (2013): 12-6.
"The Bioecological Model of Human Development (6th edition)." Handbook of Child Psychology, Theoretical Models of Human Development. Eds. W. Damon, and R.M. Lerner. Vol. 1. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2006. 793-828.
Beyond shared book reading: dimensions of home literacy and low-income African American preschoolers' skills." New Dir Child Adolesc Dev (2001): 73-89; discussion 91-8.
"Beyond shared book reading: dimensions of home literacy and low-income African American preschoolers' skills." New Dir Child Adolesc Dev.92 (2001): 73-89; discussion 91-8.
"Brief psychoeducational parenting program: an evaluation and 1-year follow-up." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 42.10 (2003): 1171-8.
"Biological sensitivity to context: I. An evolutionary-developmental theory of the origins and functions of stress reactivity." Dev. Psychopathol.. 17.2 (2005): 271-301.
"Beyond invisibility. Welcoming children and families with migrant and refugee background in ECEC settings." European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. 28.1 (2020): 1-9.
"Brain oxytocin correlates with maternal aggression: link to anxiety." J. Neurosci.. 25.29 (2005): 6807-15.
"Building an evidence base on mental health interventions for children affected by armed conflict." Intervention (Amstelveen). 6 (2008): 39-56.
"A behavioral intervention for war-affected youth in Sierra Leone: a randomized controlled trial." J Am Acad Child Adolesc PsychiatryJ Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 53 (2014): 1288-97.
"Beyond risk, resilience, and dysregulation: phenotypic plasticity and human development." Dev. Psychopathol.. 25.4 Pt 2 (2013): 1243-61.
"Building, Imagining, and Experiencing Europe: Institutions and Identities in the European Union." An Anthropology of the European Union. Eds. I. Bellier, and T. Wilson. Oxford: Berg, 2000. 1-27.
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