Publications
Risk and protective factors for suicidal ideation and behaviour in Rwandan children." Br J Psychiatry. 207 (2015): 262-8.
"I am a child! Four steps for protecting children’s rights in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and in the Global Compact on Refugees. NGO Committee on Migration, 2018.
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.
"One Family at a Time: A Prevention Program for At-Risk Parents." Journal of Counseling & Development. 80.3 (2002): 362-371.
"Risk of childhood psychiatric disorders in children of refugee parents with post-traumatic stress disorder: a nationwide, register-based, cohort study." The Lancet Public Health. 4.7 (2019): e353-e359.
"The long-term health consequences of child physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect: a systematic review and meta-analysis." PLoS medicine. 9 (2012): e1001349.
"The 4Rs Framework: Analyzing education’s contributions to sustainable peacebuilding with social justice in conflict-affected contexts." J Educ Emergencies. 3 (2016): 14-43.
"The United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty. New York City: United Nations, 2019.
Nurturing care for children living in humanitarian settings. Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development, 2020.
The power of media in peacebuilding." Pathways to peace: The transformative power of children and families. Eds. James F. Leckman, Catherine Panter-Brick, and Rima Salah. Vol. 15. The MIT Press, 2014. 339-360.
Early-Life Adversity and Physical and Emotional Health Across the Lifespan: A Neuroimmune Network Hypothesis." Biological psychiatry. 80 (2016): 23-32.
"A pilot study of a family focused, psychosocial intervention with war-exposed youth at risk of attack and abduction in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo." Child Abuse Negl. 38 (2014): 1197-207.
"The effects of global severe privation on cognitive competence: extension and longitudinal follow-up. English and Romanian Adoptees Study Team." Child Dev. 71.2 (2000): 376-90.
"DNA methylome variation in a perinatal nurse-visitation program that reduces child maltreatment: a 27-year follow-up." Translational psychiatry. 8 (2018): 15.
"Prenatal exposure to maternal depression, neonatal methylation of human glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) and infant cortisol stress responses." Epigenetics. 3.2 (2008): 97-106.
"Impact of childhood abuse on suicide-related behavior: Analysis using marginal structural models." Journal of affective disorders. 234 (2018): 224-230.
"Programs for parents of infants and toddlers: recent evidence from randomized trials." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 48.3-4 (2007): 355-91.
"Long-term effects of nurse home visitation on children's criminal and antisocial behavior: 15-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial." Jama. 280 (1998): 1238-44.
"Prenatal and infancy home visitation by nurses: recent findings." Future Child. 9.1 (1999): 44-65, 190-1.
"Evidentiary foundations of nurse-family partnership,. Nurse-Family Partnership., 2011.
Effects of home visits by paraprofessionals and by nurses: age 4 follow-up results of a randomized trial." Pediatrics. 114.6 (2004): 1560-8.
"Home visiting by paraprofessionals and by nurses: a randomized, controlled trial." Pediatrics. 110.3 (2002): 486-96.
"Timely sensory stimulation and early childhood development." Lancet. 390 (2017): 2626.
" Dignity under extreme duress: The moral and emotional landscape of local humanitarian workers in the Afghan-Pakistan border areas." Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice. Eds. S. Abramowitz, and C. Panter-Brick. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
The Effects of Armed Conflict on Educational Attainment and Inequality. Washington, DC: Education Policy and Data Center, FHI 360, 2016.
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.
"School Bullying: Changing the Problem by Changing the School." School Psychology Review. 32.3 (2003).
"Building resiliency in families with young children exposed to violence: The safe start initiative pilot study." Best Practice in Mental Health. 8.1 (2008).
"Child Poverty and inequality: New Perspectives. New York, NY: UNICEF, 2012.
Child Povery and Inequality: new Perspectives. Eds. M. Daniels, and S. Engilbertsdóttir. New York, 2012.
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.
"An intervention for relational and physical aggression in early childhood: A preliminary study." Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 24.1 (2009): 15-28.
"Primary prevention of parent-child conflict and abuse in Iranian mothers: a randomized-controlled trial." Child Abuse Negl. 34.3 (2010): 206-13.
"Reframing the Early Childhood Curriculum: Educational Imperatives for the Future. Taylor & Francis, 2002.
Overview and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child." Lancet. 367 (2006): 689-90.
"Mental health and childhood adversities: a longitudinal study in Kabul, Afghanistan." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 50.4 (2011): 349-63.
"Violence, suffering, and mental health in Afghanistan: a school-based survey." Lancet. 374.9692 (2009): 807-16.
"Health, Risk, and Resilience: Interdisciplinary Concepts and Applications." Annu Rev Anthropol. 43 (2014): 431-448.
"Editorial Commentary: Resilience in child development--interconnected pathways to wellbeing." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 54.4 (2013): 333-6.
" Resilience humanitarianism and peacebuilding." Multisystemic resilience: Adaptation and transformation in contexts of change. Oxford University Press, 2021. 361-74.
Conflict, violence, and health: setting a new interdisciplinary agenda." Soc Sci Med. 70 (2010): 1-6.
"Trauma memories, mental health, and resilience: a prospective study of Afghan youth." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 56.7 (2015): 814-25.
"Editorial Commentary: Resilience in child development--interconnected pathways to wellbeing." Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines. 54 (2013): 333-6.
"How might global health master deadly sins and strive for greater virtues?" Glob Health Action. 7 (2014): 23411.
"The field of medical anthropology in Social Science & Medicine." Soc Sci Med. 196 (2018): 233-239.
"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.
"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.
"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.
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