Publications
Attachment and loss: retrospect and prospect." Am J Orthopsychiatry. 52.4 (1982): 664-78.
"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.
"Child development in developing countries: introduction and methods." Child Dev. 83.1 (2012): 16-31.
"Cognitive and socioemotional caregiving in developing countries." Child Dev. 83.1 (2012): 46-61.
"Efforts to Promote Reintegration and Rehabilitation of Traumatized Former Child Soldiers: Reintegration of Former Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone: The Role of Caregivers and Their Awareness of the Violence Adolescents Experienced During the War." J Aggress Maltreat Trauma. 22 (2013): 803-828.
"A world ready to learn: Prioritizing quality early childhood education. Global report. New York City: UNICEF, 2019.
The effects of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program on preschool children with co-occurring disruptive behavior and attentional/hyperactive difficulties." J Abnorm Child Psychol. 30.6 (2002): 571-87.
"Mozambique child soldier life outcome study: lessons learned in rehabilitation and reintegration efforts." Glob Public Health. 1.1 (2006): 87-107.
"Mental health in postwar afghanistan." JAMA. 292 (2004): 626-8.
"On Dialogue. Routledge, 2004.
Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior. Harvard University Press, 2009.
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame. Basic Books, 2012.
Socioeconomic disparities in adverse birth outcomes: a systematic review." Am J Prev Med. 39.3 (2010): 263-72.
"Conditions and Consequences of Unequal Educational Opportunities in the Life Course: Results from the Cross-National Comparative eduLIFE Project." KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. 71.S1 (2019): 399-428.
"Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2005.
The relevance of delivery mode and other programme characteristics for the effectiveness of early childhood intervention." Int J Behav Dev. 29 (2005): 35-47.
"Individual development and evolution: experiential canalization of self-regulation." Dev Psychol. 48.3 (2012): 647-57.
"Child development in the context of adversity: experiential canalization of brain and behavior." Am Psychol. 67.4 (2012): 309-18.
"Cumulative effects of early poverty on cortisol in young children: moderation by autonomic nervous system activity." Psychoneuroendocrinology. 38.11 (2013): 2666-75.
"All children surviving and thriving: re-envisioning UNICEF's conceptual framework of malnutrition." The Lancet Global Health. 8.6 (2020): e766-e767.
"Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course." Lancet. 389 (2017): 77-90.
"Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course." The Lancet. 389.10064 (2017): 90.
"Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course." Lancet (London, England). 389 (2017): 77-90.
"Investment in early childhood development." Lancet. 384 (2014): 1244-5.
"The critical role of nurturing environments for promoting human well-being." Am Psychol. 67.4 (2012): 257-71.
"Childhood adversity and DNA methylation of genes involved in the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and immune system: whole-genome and candidate-gene associations." Dev. Psychopathol.. 24.4 (2012): 1417-25.
"Mothers' and Children's Concentrations of Oxytocin Following Close, Physical Interactions with Biological and Non-biological Children." Dev Psychobiol. 52.1 (2010): 100-107.
"Synthesis Report: Language Education and Social Cohesion (LESC) Initiative in Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand. UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office 2016, 2016.
Mothers explanatory models of infant stress & adversity in rural Haryana, India: qualitative findings from the Early Life Stress sub-study of the SPRING cluster-randomised controlled trial (SPRING-ELS)." Wellcome Open Research. 3 (2018): 153.
"Regional Capacity Building Workshop on Men,Caring and Fatherhood.. Kathmandu: Save the Children Sweden, 2005.
The oxytocin paradox." Front Behav Neurosci. 8 (2014): 48.
"Methods to Assess Adverse Childhood Experiences of Children and Families: Toward Approaches to Promote Child Well-being in Policy and Practice." Academic pediatrics. 17 (2017): S51-s69.
"Psychosocial adjustment and mental health in former child soldiers--systematic review of the literature and recommendations for future research." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 54 (2013): 17-36.
"Attending to the mental health of war-affected children: the need for longitudinal and developmental research perspectives." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 50 (2011): 323-5.
"Optimizing an Era of Global Mental Health Implementation Science." JAMA Psychiatry. 73 (2016): 99-100.
"Identifying Priorities for Mental Health Interventions in War-Affected Youth: A Longitudinal Study." Pediatrics. 136 (2015): e344-50.
"The mental health of children affected by armed conflict: protective processes and pathways to resilience." Int Rev Psychiatry. 20 (2008): 317-28.
"Interventions for children affected by war: an ecological perspective on psychosocial support and mental health care." Harv Rev Psychiatry. 21.2 (2013): 70-91.
"We left one war and came to another: resource loss, acculturative stress, and caregiver-child relationships in Somali refugee families." Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 21 (2015): 114-25.
"The intergenerational impact of war: longitudinal relationships between caregiver and child mental health in postconflict Sierra Leone." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 56 (2015): 1101-7.
"Context matters: community characteristics and mental health among war-affected youth in Sierra Leone." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 55 (2014): 217-26.
"Comparing Trauma Exposure, Mental Health Needs, and Service Utilization Across Clinical Samples of Refugee, Immigrant, and U.S.-Origin Children." J Trauma Stress. 30 (2017): 209-218.
"Using Mixed-Methods Research to Adapt and Evaluate a Family Strengthening Intervention in Rwanda." Afr J Trauma Stress. 2 (2011): 32-45.
"Ethics in Community-Based Research with Vulnerable Children: Perspectives from Rwanda." PLoS One. 11 (2016): e0157042.
"High Hopes, Grim Reality: Reintegration and the Education of Former Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone." Comp Educ Rev. 52 (2008): 565-587.
"Trajectories of internalizing problems in war-affected Sierra Leonean youth: examining conflict and postconflict factors." Child Dev. 84.2 (2013): 455-70.
"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.
"Commentary: Advancing an implementation science agenda on mental health and psychosocial responses in war-affected settings: comment on trials of a psychosocial intervention for youth affected by the Syrian crisis - by Panter-Brick et al. (2018)." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 59 (2018): 542-544.
"Sierra Leone's former child soldiers: a longitudinal study of risk, protective factors, and mental health." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 49 (2010): 606-15.
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