Publications
School, family, and community partnerships: Preparing educators and improving schools. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2018.
"Maternal immune activation: Implications for neuropsychiatric disorders." Science (New York, N.Y.). 353 (2016): 772-7.
European Care Strategy. Eurochild position. Eurochild, 2022.
Child immigration detention in the EU. Children In Migration, 2019.
Commission proposes action to uphold child rights and support children in need. European Union, 2021.
The European Union’s Plan for Children’s Rights. European Union, 2021.
COVID-19 and Child Protection. Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children (EVAC) and the Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN) , 2020.
"The rituals, fears and phobias of young children: insights from development, psychopathology and neurobiology." Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 29 (1999): 261-76.
"Childhood Poverty, Chronic Stress, Self-Regulation, and Coping." Child Development Perspectives. 7 (2013): 43-48.
Dads Matter Performance Measures: Preliminary results for confidence and knowledge. Germantown: National Fatherhood Iniative, 2010.
"Child maltreatment, youth violence, and intimate partner violence: developmental relationships." American journal of preventive medicine. 33 (2007): 281-90.
"Structural violence and clinical medicine." PLoS Med.. 3.10 (2006): e449.
Key results from the first forty years of the Cambridge Study in delinquent development." Taking stock of delinquency: An overview of findings from contemporary longitudinal studies. Eds. T. P. Thornberry, and M. Krohn. New York, NY: Kluwer, 2003. 137-184.
"Influence of psychosocial risk factors on the trajectory of mental health problems from childhood to adolescence: a longitudinal study." BMC psychiatry. 13 (2013): 31.
"Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder among Haitian immigrant students: implications for access to mental health services and educational programming." BMC Public Health. 9 (2009): 482.
"Mental health of displaced and refugee children resettled in high-income countries: risk and protective factors." Lancet. 379.9812 (2012): 266-82.
"The significance of insecure attachment and disorganization in the development of children's externalizing behavior: a meta-analytic study." Child Dev. 81 (2010): 435-56.
"Direct and extended friendship effects on minority and majority children's interethnic attitudes: a longitudinal study." Child Dev. 80 (2009): 377-90.
"Egalitarianism in young children." Nature. 454 (2008): 1079-83.
"Effects of family foundations on parents and children: 3.5 years after baseline." Journal of Family Psychology. 24.5 (2010): 532-542.
"Enhancing coparenting, parenting, and child self-regulation: effects of family foundations 1 year after birth." Prev Sci. 10.3 (2009): 276-85.
"Establishing Family Foundations: Intervention Effects on Coparenting, Parent/Infant Well-Being, and Parent–Child Relations." Journal of Family Psychology. 22 (2008).
"Long-term follow-up of a randomized trial of family foundations: effects on children's emotional, behavioral, and school adjustment." J Fam Psychol. 28.6 (2014): 821-31.
"Effects of family foundations on parents and children: 3.5 years after baseline." J Fam Psychol. 24.5 (2010): 532-42.
"Stochastic epigenetic variation as a driving force of development, evolutionary adaptation, and disease." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (2010): 1757-1764.
"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.
"Parental oxytocin and early caregiving jointly shape children's oxytocin response and social reciprocity." Neuropsychopharmacology. 38.7 (2013): 1154-62.
"The nature of the mother's tie to her infant: maternal bonding under conditions of proximity, separation, and potential loss." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 40 (1999): 929-39.
"The cross-generation transmission of oxytocin in humans." Horm Behav. 58.4 (2010): 669-76.
"Conflict resolution in the parent-child, marital, and peer contexts and children's aggression in the peer group: a process-oriented cultural perspective." Dev Psychol. 46.2 (2010): 310-25.
"Direct and indirect effects of breast milk on the neurobehavioral and cognitive development of premature infants." Dev Psychobiol. 43.2 (2003): 109-19.
"Affiliation buffers stress: cumulative genetic risk in oxytocin-vasopressin genes combines with early caregiving to predict PTSD in war-exposed young children." Transl Psychiatry. 4 (2014): e370.
"Parent-child and triadic antecedents of children's social competence: cultural specificity, shared process." Dev Psychol. 46.2 (2010): 455-67.
"Oxytocin and social affiliation in humans." Horm Behav. 61 (2012): 380-91.
"Natural variations in maternal and paternal care are associated with systematic changes in oxytocin following parent-infant contact." Psychoneuroendocrinology. 35.8 (2010): 1133-41.
"Sensitive parenting is associated with plasma oxytocin and polymorphisms in the OXTR and CD38 genes." Biol. Psychiatry. 72.3 (2012): 175-81.
"Maternal and paternal plasma, salivary, and urinary oxytocin and parent-infant synchrony: considering stress and affiliation components of human bonding." Dev Sci. 14.4 (2011): 752-61.
"Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study." Am J Prev Med. 14 (1998): 245-58.
"Comparing the reliability and predictive power of child, teacher, and guardian reports of noncognitive skills." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119.6 (2022).
"Randomized trial of the Early Start program of home visitation: parent and family outcomes." Pediatrics. 117.3 (2006): 781-6.
"Functional magnetic resonance imaging and the neurobiology of vasopressin and oxytocin." Prog Brain ResUnderstanding Emotions. 170 (2008): 305-20.
"A Theory of Social Comparison Processes." Human Relations. 7 (1954): 117-140.
"Violence, crime, and abuse exposure in a national sample of children and youth: an update." JAMA Pediatr. 167.7 (2013): 614-21.
"Violence, abuse, and crime exposure in a national sample of children and youth." Pediatrics. 124.5 (2009): 1411-23.
Nine country profiles highlight the need for greater attention to early childhood development across Europe. First Years First Priority, 2021.
G Is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street. Taylor & Francis, 2014.
Paving the Way: Contributions of Interactive Conflict Resolution to Peacemaking. Lexington Books, 2005.
Interactive Conflict Resolution. Syracuse University Press, 1997.
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