Knowledge Base
This knowledge platform for scholarly publishing is provided by the ECPC. Research and scholarly output included here has been selected and deposited based on its relevance to early childhood development, social cohesion, violence prevention and peace promotion, and more. Additional literature will be added as it becomes available.
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. 2006;367:689-90.
Mental health and childhood adversities: a longitudinal study in Kabul, Afghanistan. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2011;50(4):349-63.
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. 2014;55(11):1187-212.
Caregiver-child mental health: a prospective study in conflict and refugee settings. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2014;55(4):313-27.
Violence, suffering, and mental health in Afghanistan: a school-based survey. Lancet. 2009;374(9692):807-16.
Social stressors, mental health, and physiological stress in an urban elite of young Afghans in Kabul. Am J Hum Biol. 2008;20(6):627-41.
How might global health master deadly sins and strive for greater virtues? Glob Health Action. 2014;7:23411.
Conflict, violence, and health: setting a new interdisciplinary agenda. Soc Sci Med. 2010;70:1-6.
Trauma memories, mental health, and resilience: a prospective study of Afghan youth. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2015;56(7):814-25.
Political violence, social integration, and youth functioning: Palestinian youth from the Intifada. Journal of Community Psychology. 2001;29(3):259-280.
Annual Research Review: The experience of youth with political conflict--challenging notions of resilience and encouraging research refinement. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2013;54(4):461-73.
Connectedness in the lives of children and adolescents: a call for greater conceptual clarity. J Adolesc Health. 2008;43(3):209-16.
Adolescents and War: How Youth Deal with Political Violence. Oxford University Press; 2009.
Demographic, physical and mental health assessments in the adolescent brain and cognitive development study: Rationale and description. Developmental cognitive neuroscience. 2018;32:55-66.
Children's physiological and emotional reactions to witnessing bullying predict bystander intervention. Child Dev. 2013;84(1):375-90.
Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers: Current Theoretical Issues in Ecology and Social Organization. Annual Review of Anthropology. 1983;12(1):193-214.
Maternal responsiveness and cognitive development in children. In: Bornstein M.H, editor. Maternal Responsiveness: Characteristics and consequences. San Francisco: Jassey-Bass; 1989.
Developmental origins of non-communicable disease: implications for research and public health. Environ Health. 2012;11:42.
Contributions of nonmaternal caregivers to infant feeding in a low-income African-American sample. Maternal & Child Nutrition. 2018:e12610.
Early childhood development: a new challenge for the SDG era. Lancet Glob Health. 2016;4:e873-e874.
A review of electrophysiology in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: I. Qualitative and quantitative electroencephalography. Clin Neurophysiol. 2003;114(2):171-83.
Oxytocin selectively improves empathic accuracy. Psychol Sci. 2010;21(10):1426-8.
Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person matter. Trends Cogn Sci (Regul Ed). 2011;15(7):301-9.
Effects of oxytocin on recollections of maternal care and closeness. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2010;107(50):21371-5.
Prosocial Behavior and Altruism. In: D. al. Get, editor. The Handbook of Social Psychology. New York: McGraw-HIll; 1998. 2. p. 282-316p.
Oxytocin shapes the neural circuitry of trust and trust adaptation in humans. Neuron. 2008;58(4):639-50.
The Discipline Controversy Revisited. Family Relations. 1996;45:405-414.
Children, Wired: For Better and for Worse. Neuron. 2010;67(5):692-701.
Three-year-old outcomes of a brief universal parenting intervention to prevent behaviour problems: randomised controlled trial. Arch Dis Child. 2010;95(3):187-92.
Parenting in a pandemic. BBC Parentland; 2020.
Toxic Stress in Children. MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. 2019;44(1):53.
Appetitive motivation predicts the neural response to facial signals of aggression. J Neurosci. 2008;28(11):2719-25.
Impact of an educational intervention on caregivers' beliefs about infant crying and knowledge of shaken baby syndrome. Acad Pediatr. 2011;11(6):481-6.
Familiarity promotes the blurring of self and other in the neural representation of threat. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2013;8(6):670-7.
Population Quantity, Quality and Mobility. In: Behrman J.R., editor. Towards a Better Global Economy: Policy Implications for Citizens Worldwide in the 21st Century. OUP Oxford; 2014.
Nutritional supplementation in girls influences the growth of their children: prospective study in Guatemala. Am J Clin Nutr. 2009;90(5):1372-9.
Methodologies to Evaluate Early Childhood Development Programs. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank; 2007.
Teaching Contested Narratives. Cambridge University Press; 2014.
Converging on child mental health - toward shared global action for child development. Glob Ment Health (Camb). 2017;4:e20.
Building, Imagining, and Experiencing Europe: Institutions and Identities in the European Union. In: Bellier I., Wilson T., editors. An Anthropology of the European Union. Oxford: Berg; 2000. 1. p. 1-27p.
Beyond risk, resilience, and dysregulation: phenotypic plasticity and human development. Dev Psychopathol. 2013;25(4 Pt 2):1243-61.
Childhood experience, interpersonal development, and reproductive strategy: and evolutionary theory of socialization. Child Dev. 1991;62(4):647-70.
Variation in Susceptibility to Environmental Influence: An Evolutionary Argument. Psychological Inquiry. 1997;8:182-186.
War, trauma and children's development: Observations from a modern evolutionary perspective. Int J Behav Dev. 2008;32:260-271.
For better and for worse: Differential susceptibility to environmental influences. Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2007;16:300-304.
The intergenerational transmission of parenting: introduction to the special section. Developmental psychology. 2009;45:1201-4.
Genetics and the geography of health, behaviour and attainment. Nature Human Behaviour. 2019.
An assessment of antenatal care among Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Confl Health. 2015;9:8.
Gene variants associated with antisocial behaviour: a latent variable approach. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2013;54:1074-85.
Resolving International Conflicts: The Theory and Practice of Mediation. Lynne Rienner Publishers; 1996.
Genetic syndromes caused by mutations in epigenetic genes. Hum Genet. 2013;132(4):359-83.
Maternal stress during pregnancy predicts cognitive ability and fearfulness in infancy. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2007;46(11):1454-63.
Enhancing attachment organization among maltreated children: results of a randomized clinical trial. Child Dev. 2012;83(2):623-36.
Early Childhood Matters | Special Issue "A good start: Advances in early childhood development". The Netherlands: Bernard van Leer Foundation; 2015.
Early Childhood Matters Magazine . The Netherlands: Bernard van Leer Foundation; 2018.
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