Publications
Measuring the cost of investing in early childhood interventions and applications of a standardized costing tool." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1419.1 (2018): 74-89.
"A multi-site evaluation of Parents Raising Safe Kids Violence Prevention Program." Children and Youth Services Review. 33.10 (2011): 1960-1967.
"Mental health and psychosocial support for children in humanitarian settings: An updated review of evidence and practice (November 2020). New York City: UNICEF, 2021.
Mapping the global goals for sustainable development and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. New York, NY: UNICEF, 2016.
Missing from the story: The urgent need for better data to protect children on the move. IDAC Data InSIGHT # 1. UNICEF, 2021.
Missing out: Refugee education in crisis. UNHCR, 2016.
Mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings: linking practice and research." Lancet. 378 (2011): 1581-91.
" "Maternal brain response to own baby-cry is affected by cesarean section delivery." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 49 (2008): 1042-52.
"The Mothers and Toddlers Program, an attachment-based parenting intervention for substance using women: post-treatment results from a randomized clinical pilot." Attach Hum Dev. 12.5 (2010): 483-504.
"Minding the baby a reflective parenting program." Psychoanal Study Child. 60 (2005): 74-100.
"Mediation as a method of parent intervention in children's disputes." J Fam Psychol. 18.1 (2004): 147-59.
"Maximizing the potential of early childhood education to prevent externalizing behavior problems: A meta-analysis." J Sch Psychol. 53 (2015): 243-63.
"The mass media and the prevention of child behavior problems: the evaluation of a television series to promote positive outcomes for parents and their children." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 41.7 (2000): 939-48.
"Minding the Baby: Enhancing Reflectiveness to Improve Early Health and Relationship Outcomes in an Interdisciplinary Home-Visiting Program." Infant Mental Health Journal. 34.5 (2013): 391-405.
"Masculinities and COVID-19: Making the Connections. Promundo, 2020.
Media and technology use predicts ill-being among children, preteens and teenagers independent of the negative health impacts of exercise and eating habits." Computers in Human Behavior. 35 (2014): 364-375.
"Mental health of displaced and refugee children resettled in low-income and middle-income countries: risk and protective factors." Lancet. 379.9812 (2012): 250-65.
"Mental health services as a vital component of psychosocial recovery for victims of child trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation." Am J Orthopsychiatry. 88 (2018): 249-260.
"Maternal depression and parental distress among families in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project: Risk factors within the family setting." Infant Ment Health J. 31 (2010): 543-569.
"Mental health and development among children living in violent conditions: Underlying processes for promoting peace." 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. 213-232.
Me, Myself and I: How Children Build Their Sense of Self : 18 to 36 Months. Goddard Press, 1999.
Mental health and childhood adversities: a longitudinal study in Kabul, Afghanistan." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 50.4 (2011): 349-63.
"Moving from Evidence to Implementation of Early Childhood Programs: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally, 2016.
Men and maternal health: The dilemma of short-lived male involvement strategies in Uganda." Health Care for Women International (2018): 1-13.
"Maternal care as a model for experience-dependent chromatin plasticity?" Trends Neurosci.. 28.9 (2005): 456-63.
"Mediation in the schools: Self-regulation, self-esteem, and self-discipline." Mediation Quarterly. 7 (1989): 149-155.
"Measuring the quality of early childhood education: Associations with children’s development from a national study with the IMCEIC tool in Colombia." Child Development. 93.1 (2022): 254-268.
"Multi-Year Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Resilience-Based Prevention Program for Young Children." The Journal of Primary Prevention. 24.3 (2003): 335-353.
"On the mechanics of economic development." Journal of Monetary Economics. 22.1 (1988): 3-42.
"Maternal behavior and developmental psychopathology." Biol. Psychiatry. 51.1 (2002): 27-43.
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Mothers speaking: A study on the experience of mothers with mother-child education program (MOCEP)." European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. 12.1 (2007).
"A meta-analytic review of components associated with parent training program effectiveness." J Abnorm Child Psychol. 36.4 (2008): 567-89.
"Mental health research in the Syrian humanitarian crisis." Front Public Health. 2 (2014): 44.
"Mediating effects of parental psychological distress and individual-level social capital on the association between child poverty and maltreatment in Japan." Child abuse & neglect. 83 (2018): 142-150.
"Missing from the story: The urgent need for better data to protect children on the move. International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC), 2021.
My Hero is You, Storybook for Children on COVID-19 (available in 24 languages). Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 2020.
More than Manners: Conflict Resolution in Primary Level Classrooms." Early Childhood Education Journal. 35.2 (2007): 119-126.
"Maternal depression and mental health in early childhood: an examination of underlying mechanisms in low-income and middle-income countries." Lancet Psychiatry. 3 (2016): 983-992.
"Maternal perceptions of father involvement among refugee and disadvantaged families in Beirut, Lebanon." PLOS ONE. 15.3 (2020): e0229670.
"Maternal Inflammation and Neurodevelopmental Programming: A Review of Preclinical Outcomes and Implications for Translational Psychiatry." Biological psychiatry. 85 (2019): 107-121.
"Men’s roles in care seeking for maternal and newborn health: a qualitative study applying the three delays model to male involvement in Morogoro Region, Tanzania." BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 19.1 (2019).
"Medical humanitarianism: Research insights in a changing field of practice Introduction." Soc Sci Med. 120 (2014): 311-316.
" "Maternal Interpersonal Trauma and Child Social-Emotional Development: An Intergenerational Effect." Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology. 31 (2017): 99-107.
"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.
"Mental health of displaced and refugee children resettled in high-income countries: risk and protective factors." Lancet. 379.9812 (2012): 266-82.
"Maternal immune activation: Implications for neuropsychiatric disorders." Science (New York, N.Y.). 353 (2016): 772-7.
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