Publications
"Quality of infant child care and early infant development in Portuguese childcare centers." Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 48 (2019): 246-255.
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Penguin Publishing Group, 2003.
World Report on Violence against Children. New York: United Nations, 2006.
"Socio-emotional Programme Promotes Positive Behaviour in Preschoolers." Child Care in Practice. 15.4 (2009): 261-278.
From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development. National Academies Press, 2000.
"Strategic Documentation of Violence against Healthcare: Towards a Methodology for Accountability." World Health Popul. 16 (2016): 31-7.
"Technology, conflict early warning systems, public health, and human rights." Health Hum Rights. 14 (2012): 106-17.
Indicators framework for peacebuilding, education and social cohesion. Boston, MA: Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and UNICEF, 2017.
"Sense of coherence and its association with exposure to traumatic events, posttraumatic stress disorder, and depression in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo." J Trauma Stress. 23 (2010): 313-21.
"Human rights, transitional justice, public health and social reconstruction." Soc Sci Med. 70 (2010): 98-105.
Does intergroup contact reduce prejudice? Recent meta-analytic findings." Reducing prejudice and discrimination. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000. 93-114.
"Increased methylation of glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) in adults with a history of childhood maltreatment: a link with the severity and type of trauma." Transl Psychiatry. 1 (2011): e59.
COVID-19, Violence & The Need To Act with Urgency. Benjamin Perks Blogsite, 2020.
The costs and economic impact of violence against children. London: Child Fund Alliance, Overseas Development Institute, 2014.
"The role of nutrition in integrated early child development in the 21st century: contribution from the Maternal and Child Nutrition journal." Matern Child Nutr. 13 (2017): 3-6.
"Genomics. ENCODE project writes eulogy for junk DNA." Science. 337.6099 (2012): 1159, 1161.
"Effectiveness of community dissemination of parent–child interaction therapy." Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. 4.2 (2012): 204-213.
The advisory group of experts report on the 2015 review of the United Nations. Peacebuilding Architecture, 2015.
"Correlates of Suicidal Ideation and Self-harm in Early Childhood in a Cohort at Risk for Child Abuse and Neglect." Archives of Suicide Research. 23.1 (2019): 134-150.
"Promoting child and adolescent mental health in low and middle income countries." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 49.3 (2008): 313-34.
"Transitioning mental health & psychosocial support: from short-term emergency to sustainable post-disaster development. Humanitarian Action Summit 2011." Prehosp Disaster Med. 26 (2011): 470-81.
"A Parental Bonding Instrument." British Journal of Medical Psychology. 52 (1979): 1-10.
COVID-19: 24/7 Parenting. Parenting for Lifelong Health, 2020.
"Practitioner Review: Engaging fathers – recommendations for a game change in parenting interventions based on a systematic review of the global evidence." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 55.11 (2014): 1187-1212.
"Trauma memories, mental health, and resilience: a prospective study of Afghan youth." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 56.7 (2015): 814-25.
"Conflict, violence, and health: setting a new interdisciplinary agenda." Soc Sci Med. 70 (2010): 1-6.
"How might global health master deadly sins and strive for greater virtues?" Glob Health Action. 7 (2014): 23411.
"Health, Risk, and Resilience: Interdisciplinary Concepts and Applications." Annu Rev Anthropol. 43 (2014): 431-448.
"Practitioner review: Engaging fathers--recommendations for a game change in parenting interventions based on a systematic review of the global evidence." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 55.11 (2014): 1187-212.
"Editorial Commentary: Resilience in child development--interconnected pathways to wellbeing." Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines. 54 (2013): 333-6.
"Caregiver-child mental health: a prospective study in conflict and refugee settings." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 55.4 (2014): 313-27.
"Social stressors, mental health, and physiological stress in an urban elite of young Afghans in Kabul." Am. J. Hum. Biol.. 20.6 (2008): 627-41.
"The field of medical anthropology in Social Science & Medicine." Soc Sci Med. 196 (2018): 233-239.
"Mental health and childhood adversities: a longitudinal study in Kabul, Afghanistan." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 50.4 (2011): 349-63.
Resilience humanitarianism and peacebuilding." Multisystemic resilience: Adaptation and transformation in contexts of change. Oxford University Press, 2021. 361-74.
"Practitioner review: Engaging fathers--recommendations for a game change in parenting interventions based on a systematic review of the global evidence." Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines. 55 (2014): 1187-212.
"Violence, suffering, and mental health in Afghanistan: a school-based survey." Lancet. 374.9692 (2009): 807-16.
"Insecurity, distress and mental health: experimental and randomized controlled trials of a psychosocial intervention for youth affected by the Syrian crisis." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 59 (2018): 523-541.
"Editorial Commentary: Resilience in child development--interconnected pathways to wellbeing." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 54.4 (2013): 333-6.
"Overview and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child." Lancet. 367 (2006): 689-90.
Reframing the Early Childhood Curriculum: Educational Imperatives for the Future. Taylor & Francis, 2002.
"Primary prevention of parent-child conflict and abuse in Iranian mothers: a randomized-controlled trial." Child Abuse Negl. 34.3 (2010): 206-13.
"An intervention for relational and physical aggression in early childhood: A preliminary study." Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 24.1 (2009): 15-28.
"The development and evaluation of the intervention model for the Florida Infant Mental Health Pilot Program." Infant Mental Health Journal. 28.3 (2007): 259-280.
Child Povery and Inequality: new Perspectives. Eds. M. Daniels, and S. Engilbertsdóttir. New York, 2012.
Child Poverty and inequality: New Perspectives. New York, NY: UNICEF, 2012.
"Building resiliency in families with young children exposed to violence: The safe start initiative pilot study." Best Practice in Mental Health. 8.1 (2008).
"School Bullying: Changing the Problem by Changing the School." School Psychology Review. 32.3 (2003).
"Experiences of Fathers of Babies Admitted into a Neonatal Unit in a Tertiary Hospital in Port Harcourt, Nigeria." Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research (2019): 1-10.
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