Publications
Equine-assisted psychotherapy: a mental health promotion/intervention modality for children who have experienced intra-family violence." Health Soc Care Community. 15.3 (2007): 265-71.
"Evaluation of an early childhood parenting programme in rural Bangladesh." J Health Popul Nutr. 25.1 (2007): 3-13.
"Evaluation Report of the Better Parenting Project: National multisectoral collaboration on behalf of young children. New York, NY: UNICEF, 2007.
Evidence for a neuroendocrinological foundation of human affiliation: plasma oxytocin levels across pregnancy and the postpartum period predict mother-infant bonding." Psychol Sci. 18.11 (2007): 965-70.
"Exposure to war crimes and implications for peace building in northern Uganda." JAMA. 298 (2007): 543-54.
"Family, Self, and Human Development Across Cultures: Theory and Applications. L. Erlbaum Associates, 2007.
For better and for worse: Differential susceptibility to environmental influences." Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 16 (2007): 300-304.
"From conflict to peace building: The power of early childhood initiatives: Lessons from around the world. World Forum Foundation, 2007.
Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Fully Revised Third Edition. UNICEF, 2007.
Improving young children's social and emotional competence: a randomized trial of the preschool "PATHS" curriculum." J Prim Prev. 28.2 (2007): 67-91.
"Maternal stress during pregnancy predicts cognitive ability and fearfulness in infancy." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 46.11 (2007): 1454-63.
"Methodologies to Evaluate Early Childhood Development Programs. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2007.
Monitoring Child Well-being: A South African Rights-based Approach. HSRC Publishers, 2007.
More than Manners: Conflict Resolution in Primary Level Classrooms." Early Childhood Education Journal. 35.2 (2007): 119-126.
"Mothers speaking: A study on the experience of mothers with mother-child education program (MOCEP)." European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. 12.1 (2007).
"The neurobiology of stress and development." Annu Rev Psychol. 58 (2007): 145-173.
"Nurturing resilient children." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 48 (2007): 221-3.
"Nurturing resilient children." Rev Bras Psiquiatr. 29 (2007): 5-6.
"Oxytocin during pregnancy and early postpartum: individual patterns and maternal-fetal attachment." Peptides. 28.6 (2007): 1162-9.
"Oxytocin improves "mind-reading" in humans." Biol. Psychiatry. 61.6 (2007): 731-3.
"Parental representations and subclinical changes in postpartum mood." J Infant Ment Health . 28 (2007): 281-295.
"The PEACE Pack: an evaluation of interventions to reduce bullying in four Australian primary schools." Educational Research. 49.2 (2007): 103-114.
"Peer Mediation: Citizenship And Social Inclusion Revisited: Citizenship and Social Inclusion in Action. McGraw-Hill Education, 2007.
Programs for parents of infants and toddlers: recent evidence from randomized trials." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 48.3-4 (2007): 355-91.
"Prosocial Development." Handbook of Child Psychology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.
Research Review: genetic vulnerability or differential susceptibility in child development: the case of attachment." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 48.12 (2007): 1160-73.
"Resilience in developing systems: progress and promise as the fourth wave rises." Dev. Psychopathol.. 19.3 (2007): 921-30.
"Sex differences in oxytocin and vasopressin: implications for autism spectrum disorders?" Behav. Brain Res.. 176.1 (2007): 170-86.
"Sociopsychological Foundations of Intractable Conflicts." American Behavioral Scientist. 50.11 (2007): 1430-1453.
"Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world." The Lancet. 369.9557 (2007): 229-242.
"Strong foundations: Early childhood care and education.. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Paper for the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2007., 2007.
Tomorrow's players under occupation: an analysis of the association of political violent with psychological functioning and domestic violence, among Palestinian youth." Am J Orthopsychiatry. 77.3 (2007): 427-33.
"Truth commissions and intergroup forgiveness: The case of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission." Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. 13 (2007): 51-69.
" "Access to institutional resources as a measure of social exclusion: relations with family process and cognitive development in the context of immigration." New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2008 (2008): 63-86.
"Aggression in young children with concurrent callous-unemotional traits: can the neurosciences inform progress and innovation in treatment approaches?" Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci.. 363.1503 (2008): 2567-76.
"Appetitive motivation predicts the neural response to facial signals of aggression." J. Neurosci.. 28.11 (2008): 2719-25.
"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.
"Building an evidence base on mental health interventions for children affected by armed conflict." Intervention (Amstelveen). 6 (2008): 39-56.
"Building resiliency in families with young children exposed to violence: The safe start initiative pilot study." Best Practice in Mental Health. 8.1 (2008).
"The case for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in humans." Mamm. Genome. 19.6 (2008): 394-7.
"Child soldiers: reintegration, pathways to recovery, and reflections from the field." J Dev Behav Pediatr. 29 (2008): 138-41.
"Comprehensive longitudinal studies of child health, development and behaviour in Jamaica: findings and policy impact." The West Indian medical journal. 57 (2008): 639-44.
"Connectedness in the lives of children and adolescents: a call for greater conceptual clarity." J Adolesc Health. 43.3 (2008): 209-16.
"The early care and education teaching workforce at the fulcrum: An agenda for reform. New York, NY: Teacher's College Press, 2008.
Editorial: a global perspective on child and adolescent mental health." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 49 (2008): 221-5.
"Effect of a nutrition intervention during early childhood on economic productivity in Guatemalan adults." Lancet (London, England). 371 (2008): 411-6.
"Effects of an attachment-based intervention on daily cortisol moderated by dopamine receptor D4: a randomized control trial on 1- to 3-year-olds screened for externalizing behavior." Dev. Psychopathol.. 20.3 (2008): 805-20.
"Egalitarianism in young children." Nature. 454 (2008): 1079-83.
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