Publications
Risk and resilience: early manipulation of macaque social experience and persistent behavioral and neurophysiological outcomes." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 48 (2009): 114-27.
"Saving lives, preserving livelihoods: understanding risk, decision-making and child health in a food crisis." Soc Sci Med. 68.4 (2009): 758-65.
"Sex, attachment, and the development of reproductive strategies." Behav Brain Sci. 32 (2009): 1-21; discussion 21-67.
"The social brain: neural basis of social knowledge." Annu Rev Psychol. 60 (2009): 693-716.
"The social context of childcare practices and child malnutrition in Niger's recent food crisis." Disasters. 33 (2009): 132-51.
"The social context of childcare practices and child malnutrition in Niger's recent food crisis." Disasters. 33.1 (2009): 132-51.
"Socio-emotional Programme Promotes Positive Behaviour in Preschoolers." Child Care in Practice. 15.4 (2009): 261-278.
"A Study of a Violence Prevention Program in Prekindergarten Classrooms." Children & Schools. 31.3 (2009): 177-187.
"To share or not to share: When do toddlers respond to another’s needs?" Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesInfancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies. 14 (2009): 117-130.
"Understanding human aggression: New insights from neuroscience." Int J Law Psychiatry. 32.4 (2009): 209-15.
"Violence, abuse, and crime exposure in a national sample of children and youth." Pediatrics. 124.5 (2009): 1411-23.
"Violence, suffering, and mental health in Afghanistan: a school-based survey." Lancet. 374.9692 (2009): 807-16.
"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.
"Establishing Family Foundations: Intervention Effects on Coparenting, Parent/Infant Well-Being, and Parent–Child Relations." Journal of Family Psychology. 22 (2008).
"Evaluation of a Wraparound Process for Children Exposed to Family Violence." Best Practice in Mental Health. 4.4 (2008).
"The family check-up with high-risk indigent families: preventing problem behavior by increasing parents' positive behavior support in early childhood." Child Dev. 79 (2008): 1395-414.
"Functional magnetic resonance imaging and the neurobiology of vasopressin and oxytocin." Prog Brain ResUnderstanding Emotions. 170 (2008): 305-20.
"Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy for depressed youth in IDP camps in Northern Uganda: adaptation and training." Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 17 (2008): 605-24, ix.
"Healthy Families New York (HFNY) randomized trial: effects on early child abuse and neglect." Child Abuse Negl. 32.3 (2008): 295-315.
"High Hopes, Grim Reality: Reintegration and the Education of Former Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone." Comp Educ Rev. 52 (2008): 565-587.
"Homeless street children in Nepal: use of allostatic load to assess the burden of childhood adversity." Dev Psychopathol. 20 (2008): 233-55.
"Increasing Fathers’ Involvement in Child Care With a Couple-Focused Intervention During the Transition to Parenthood." Family Relations. 57.1 (2008): 49-59.
"Levels, Trends, and Determinants of Child Maltreatment in the Western Cape Province." The State of the Population in the Western Cape Province. Eds. R. Marindo, and S.K. Gaisie. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2008. 97-125.
Long-term economic effect of early childhood nutrition." Lancet. 371 (2008): 365-6.
"Maternal brain response to own baby-cry is affected by cesarean section delivery." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 49 (2008): 1042-52.
"The mental health of children affected by armed conflict: protective processes and pathways to resilience." Int Rev Psychiatry. 20 (2008): 317-28.
"A meta-analytic review of components associated with parent training program effectiveness." J Abnorm Child Psychol. 36.4 (2008): 567-89.
"Oxytocin and cortisol in romantically unattached young adults: associations with bonding and psychological distress." Psychophysiology. 45.3 (2008): 349-52.
"Oxytocin receptor (OXTR) and serotonin transporter (5-HTT) genes associated with observed parenting." Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 3.2 (2008): 128-34.
"Oxytocin shapes the neural circuitry of trust and trust adaptation in humans." Neuron. 58.4 (2008): 639-50.
"Peace psychology for a peaceful world." Am Psychol. 63.6 (2008): 540-52.
"Prenatal exposure to maternal depression, neonatal methylation of human glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) and infant cortisol stress responses." Epigenetics. 3.2 (2008): 97-106.
"Preventing conduct problems and improving school readiness: evaluation of the Incredible Years Teacher and Child Training Programs in high-risk schools." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 49.5 (2008): 471-88.
"Promoting child and adolescent mental health in low and middle income countries." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 49.3 (2008): 313-34.
"Putting the altruism back into altruism: the evolution of empathy." Annual review of psychology. 59 (2008): 279-300.
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