Publications
The chemistry of child neglect: do oxytocin and vasopressin mediate the effects of early experience?" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.. 102.51 (2005): 18247-8.
"Characteristics of Protracted, Intractable Conflict: Toward the Development of a Metaframework-I." Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. 9 (2003): 1-37.
"Changing children's intergroup attitudes toward refugees: testing different models of extended contact." Child Dev. 77.5 (2006): 1208-19.
"Changing antisocial behavior patterns in young boys: A structured cooperative learning approach." Education and Treatment of Children. 25.4 (2002): 380-395.
"Challenges to the rapid identification of children who have been trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation." Child Abuse Negl. 52 (2016): 158-68.
"Center-Based Early Head Start and Children Exposed to Family Conflict." Early Education & Development. 20.6 (2009): 942-957.
"Caseworker-recipient interaction: welfare office differences, economic trajectories, and child outcomes." Child Dev. 83 (2012): 382-98.
"The case for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in humans." Mamm. Genome. 19.6 (2008): 394-7.
"Caring for children around the world: A view from HOME." International Journal of Behavioral Development. 29 (2005): 468-478.
"Caregiving Strategies for Reducing Aggression and Violence in At-risk Mothers and their Babies." Child and Youth Care Forum. 35.5-6 (2006): 411-426.
"Caregiver-child mental health: a prospective study in conflict and refugee settings." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 55.4 (2014): 313-27.
"Can Psychosocial Intervention Improve Peer and Sibling Relations Among War-affected Children? Impact and Mediating Analyses in a Randomized Controlled Trial." Social Development. 23 (2014): 215-231.
"A Call to Strengthen Mental Health Supports for Refugee Children and Youth." NAM Perspectives. 8.8 (2018).
"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 an evidence base on mental health interventions for children affected by armed conflict." Intervention (Amstelveen). 6 (2008): 39-56.
"Building a new biodevelopmental framework to guide the future of early childhood policy." Child Dev. 81.1 (2010): 357-67.
"Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory." Simple Psychology (2020).
"Brief psychoeducational parenting program: an evaluation and 1-year follow-up." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 42.10 (2003): 1171-8.
"A brief primary care intervention helps parents develop plans to discipline." Pediatrics. 125.2 (2010): e242-9.
"Breastfeeding, brain activation to own infant cry, and maternal sensitivity." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 52.8 (2011): 907-15.
"Brain oxytocin correlates with maternal aggression: link to anxiety." J. Neurosci.. 25.29 (2005): 6807-15.
"Brain on stress: how the social environment gets under the skin." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.. 109 Suppl 2 (2012): 17180-5.
"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.
"Biological sensitivity to context: I. An evolutionary-developmental theory of the origins and functions of stress reactivity." Dev. Psychopathol.. 17.2 (2005): 271-301.
"Biologic findings of post-traumatic stress disorder and child maltreatment." Curr Psychiatry Rep. 5 (2003): 108-17.
"A bioecocultural approach to supporting adolescent mothers and their young children in conflict-affected contexts." Development and Psychopathology (2021): 1-13.
"The biochemistry of love: an oxytocin hypothesis." EMBO Rep.. 14.1 (2013): 12-6.
"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.
"Beyond risk, resilience, and dysregulation: phenotypic plasticity and human development." Dev. Psychopathol.. 25.4 Pt 2 (2013): 1243-61.
"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.
"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.
"Beyond individual war trauma: domestic violence against children in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka." J Marital Fam Ther. 34.2 (2008): 165-76.
"Beyond allostatic load: rethinking the role of stress in regulating human development." Dev Psychopathol. 26 (2014): 1-20.
"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.
"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.
"Autonomous and dependent–The dichotomy of birth: A feminist analysis of birth plans in Sweden." Midwifery. 68 (2019): 56-64.
"Autonomic substrates of the response to pups in male prairie voles." PLoS ONE. 8.8 (2013): e69965.
"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.
"Attachment for infants in foster care: the role of caregiver state of mind." Child Dev. 72 (2001): 1467-77.
"Attachment and loss: retrospect and prospect." Am J Orthopsychiatry. 52.4 (1982): 664-78.
"Association of Perinatal Risk Factors With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Population-Based Birth Cohort, Sibling Control Study." JAMA psychiatry. 73 (2016): 1135-1144.
"Association of exposure to violence and potential traumatic events with self-reported physical and mental health status in the Central African Republic." JAMA. 304 (2010): 544-52.
"Association of exposure to intimate-partner physical violence and potentially traumatic war-related events with mental health in Liberia." Soc Sci Med. 77 (2013): 41-9.
"Association Between Screen Time and Children’s Performance on a Developmental Screening Test." JAMA Pediatrics. 173.3 (2019): 244.
"Association between economic growth and early childhood undernutrition: evidence from 121 Demographic and Health Surveys from 36 low-income and middle-income countries." Lancet Glob Health. 2 (2014): e225-34.
"Association between economic growth and early childhood nutrition." Lancet Glob Health. 2 (2014): e500.
"Association between economic growth and early childhood nutrition--Authors' reply." Lancet Glob Health. 2 (2014): e501-e502.
"Association between economic growth and early childhood nutrition." Lancet Glob Health. 3 (2015): e79-80.
"Association between economic growth and early childhood nutrition--authors' reply." Lancet Glob Health. 3 (2015): e81.
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