Publications
Policy Briefing Note: Early Childhood Development and Its Promise for Peace. Early Childhood Peace Consortium, 2023.
Policy Briefing Note: Taking Action on the Safety, Well-being, and Development of Children in Conflict/Post Conflict Countries. Early Childhood Peace Consortium, 2023.
Parenting interventions to promote early child development in the first three years of life: A global systematic review and meta-analysis." PLOS Medicine. 18.5 (2021): e1003602.
"Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. Vol. 7. American Psychological Association, Division 48, 2021.
‘Post-crisis masculinities’ in Sierra Leone: revisiting masculinity theory." Gender, Place & Culture. 28.6 (2021): 786-805.
"Prenatal attachment: using measurement invariance to test the validity of comparisons across eight culturally diverse countriesAbstract." Archives of Women's Mental Health (2021).
" "Parenting in a pandemic. BBC Parentland, 2020.
Pathways to a more peaceful and sustainable world: The transformative power of children in families." Development and Psychopathology (2020): 1-12.
"Peace Psychology Book SeriesChildren and Peace. Eds. Nikola Balvin, and Daniel J. Christie. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020.
A Pilot Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting in Refugees from Syria in Lebanon and Jordan." Frontiers in Psychiatry. 11 (2020).
" Podcast Children at Heart | Caring for every child in a time of COVID-19. South Africa: UNICEF, 2020.
Podcast Children at Heart | Mental health, children & COVID-19. South Africa: UNICEF, 2020.
Podcast Children at Heart | Parenting under lockdown. South Africa: UNICEF, 2020.
Podcast Children at Heart | Protecting children's rights during a lockdown. South Africa: UNICEF , 2020.
Policy Brief: COVID-19 and the Need for Action on Mental Health. New York City: United Nations, 2020.
Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on children. New York City: United Nations, 2020.
"Paid parental leave and family-friendly policies. An evidence brief. New York, NY: UNICEF, 2019.
Pathways to wellbeing and a more peaceful and sustainable world: The transformative power of children and families." Japanese Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 60 (2019).
" Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive. Celadon Books, 2019.
The Perry Preschoolers at late midlife: A study in design-specific inference. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019.
Pet Ownership and Children’s Emotional Expression: Propensity Score-Matched Analysis of Longitudinal Data from Japan." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16.5 (2019): 758.
"Pathways for peace : inclusive approaches to preventing violent conflict. Washington, D.C.: World Bank,, 2018.
The private sector and the prevention of violence against children in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York, NY: UNICEF, UN Special Representative on to the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children, 2018.
Parents as Partners: A U.K. Trial of a U.S. Couples-Based Parenting Intervention For At-Risk Low-Income Families." Family Process. 56.3 (2017): 589-606.
"Prenatal Risk Factors and the Etiology of ADHD-Review of Existing Evidence." Current psychiatry reports. 19 (2017): 1.
" Pan-African Symposium on Education, Resilience and Social Cohesion - Strengthening Education Policies and Programmes to Achieve SDGs and Africa’s Agenda 2063. Peacebuilding Education and Advocacy in Conflict-affected Contexts Programme, 2016.
Parenting Matters. Eds. Vivian L. Gadsden, Morgan Ford, and Heather Breiner. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2016.
Peace Resolutions., 2016.
Prenatal Maternal Smoking and Increased Risk for Tourette Syndrome and Chronic Tic Disorders." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 55 (2016): 784-91.
"A Prospective Cohort Study of Influences on Externalizing Behaviors Across Childhood: Results From a Nurse Home Visiting Randomized Controlled Trial." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 55 (2016): 376-82.
"Parenting in times of war: supporting caregivers and children in crisis." Early Childhood Matters. 124 (2015): 54-58.
" "Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations." Nat. Neurosci.. 17.1 (2014): 89-96.
"A paternal environmental legacy: evidence for epigenetic inheritance through the male germ line." Bioessays. 36.4 (2014): 359-71.
"Pathways to Peace: The Transformative Power of Children and Families. Vol. 15. Cambridge MA US / London UK: MIT Press, 2014.
Peace is a lifelong process: The importance of partnerships." Pathways to Peace: The Transformative Power of Children and Families. Eds. J. Leckman, C. Panter-Brick, and R. Salah. Vol. 15. MIT Press, 2014. 3-17.
Peptide pathways to peace." Pathways to peace: The transformative power of children and families. Eds. J. F. Leckman, C. Panter-Brick, and R. Salah. Vol. 15. MIT Press, 2014. 43-64.
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.
"Population Quantity, Quality and Mobility." Towards a Better Global Economy: Policy Implications for Citizens Worldwide in the 21st Century. Ed. J.R. Behrman. OUP Oxford, 2014.
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.
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.
"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.
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