Publications
Maternal behavior and developmental psychopathology." Biol. Psychiatry. 51.1 (2002): 27-43.
"On the mechanics of economic development." Journal of Monetary Economics. 22.1 (1988): 3-42.
"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.
"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.
"Mediation in the schools: Self-regulation, self-esteem, and self-discipline." Mediation Quarterly. 7 (1989): 149-155.
"Maternal care as a model for experience-dependent chromatin plasticity?" Trends Neurosci.. 28.9 (2005): 456-63.
"Men and maternal health: The dilemma of short-lived male involvement strategies in Uganda." Health Care for Women International (2018): 1-13.
"Moving from Evidence to Implementation of Early Childhood Programs: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally, 2016.
Mental health and childhood adversities: a longitudinal study in Kabul, Afghanistan." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 50.4 (2011): 349-63.
" Me, Myself and I: How Children Build Their Sense of Self : 18 to 36 Months. Goddard Press, 1999.
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.
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 of displaced and refugee children resettled in low-income and middle-income countries: risk and protective factors." Lancet. 379.9812 (2012): 250-65.
"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.
"Masculinities and COVID-19: Making the Connections. Promundo, 2020.
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.
"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.
"Maximizing the potential of early childhood education to prevent externalizing behavior problems: A meta-analysis." J Sch Psychol. 53 (2015): 243-63.
"Mediation as a method of parent intervention in children's disputes." J Fam Psychol. 18.1 (2004): 147-59.
"Minding the baby a reflective parenting program." Psychoanal Study Child. 60 (2005): 74-100.
"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.
"Maternal brain response to own baby-cry is affected by cesarean section delivery." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 49 (2008): 1042-52.
"Mothers' AdvocateS In the Community (MOSAIC)--non-professional mentor support to reduce intimate partner violence and depression in mothers: a cluster randomised trial in primary care." BMC Public Health. 11 (2011): 178.
"Mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings: linking practice and research." Lancet. 378 (2011): 1581-91.
"Missing out: Refugee education in crisis. UNHCR, 2016.
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.
A multi-site evaluation of Parents Raising Safe Kids Violence Prevention Program." Children and Youth Services Review. 33.10 (2011): 1960-1967.
"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.
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