Abigail H Gewirtz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4073284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigail H Gewirtz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigail H |
| FAMILY NAME | Gewirtz |
| SIGNATURE | GEWIRTZ A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7376-2952 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Contextual Adaptation and Digitization of an Online Parenting Program for Displaced Families: A Pilot Study With Latiné Immigrant Parents
Immigrant and refugee families experience heightened stress and trauma before, during, and after their migration journeys. In the last decade, research on parenting interventions for immigrant and refugee families has increased, inspiring researchers to explore effective, efficient, and sustainable methods that enhance service utilization and resilience. While trauma‐informed preventive interventions are available in the United States and other h…
A Trifactor Model Approach to Understand School-Aged Children’s Psychosocial Adjustment: Integrating Father, Mother, and Teacher Perspectives
This study examined factors contributing to shared and unique perspectives among fathers', mothers', and teachers' ratings of school-aged children's psychosocial adjustment among military families. Utilizing baseline data from three randomized controlled trials of a preventive parenting program (N = 870, 51.7% girls; M age = 8.13; 12.7% fathers and 12.8% mothers identified as people of color), we first described the pattern of informant (dis)agre…
Emotion socialization profiles in military parents: Associations with post‐traumatic stress disorder
Military families face many difficulties, including a parent deploying to a warzone and the subsequent risk of returning with symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Symptoms of PTSD are associated with parenting difficulties; however, little is known about how PTSD symptoms may be associated with emotion socialization (ES), a set of processes crucial to children's emotional well‐being. This project investigated observed ES behaviors in…
Replication and extension of the military family stress model: The after deployment adaptive parenting tools Adapt4U study
The military family stress (MFS) model conceptualizes that wartime deployments and post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms are associated with couple, parenting, and child adjustment difficulties. The aim of this study was to replicate and extend the military family stress model by examining the associations among deployment length, PTSD symptoms, marital functioning, parenting practices, and child adjustment in a replication sample of bot…
A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Factors Promoting Intergenerational Resilience in Adolescent Youth With Refugee Status
These findings, originating within the complex dynamics of resettled war-affected families, demonstrated the interconnectedness of adolescent and parent experiences and opportunities to advance resilience in youth navigating integration and supporting their families through those same processes
Enhancing engagement in parenting programs: A comparative study of in-person, online, and telehealth formats
Associations of combat exposure and parental locus of control in deployed mothers and fathers
Post‐traumatic stress symptoms and parenting in military families: A systematic integrative review
Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among service members portends substantial impairments not only for the affected individual but also for their families. However, the association between PTSD symptoms and specific parenting domains remains understudied. Drawing upon the Military Family Stress Model and the Cognitive Behavioral Interpersonal Theory of PTSD, this systematic review provides an overview and synthesis of the literature on PTSD sy…
International psychological research addressing the early phase of the Covid ‐19 pandemic: A rapid scoping review and implications for global psychology
In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID‐19 a global pandemic. Given that keeping abreast of international perspectives and research results is of particular importance for such massive global emergencies, we employed a scoping review methodology to rapidly map the field of international psychological research addressing this important early phase of the pandemic. We included a total of 79 studies, with data mostly collec…
Genetic moderation of the effects of family‐focused interventions ( GxI interaction): A systematic review
Gene by Intervention (GxI) interaction studies examine how a person's genotype may moderate (i.e., increase or decrease benefit from) an intervention's impact, typically in the context of randomized controlled trials. This systematic review examines genetic moderation effects for psychosocial and behavioral interventions that are family‐based or school‐/individual‐based with family components . Differential susceptibility was the most widely used…
Psychological implications of the Covid ‐19 pandemic around the world: Introduction to the special issue
Although psychological researchers have long studied the implications of major crises, the outbreak and spread of the COVID‐19 pandemic have confronted the global community of psychologists and psychological researchers with new challenges. This special issue contributes to the growing empirical literature on the immediate psychological implications of the COVID‐19 pandemic. We present and discuss diverse work from authors that followed our call …
Mechanisms Explaining the Relationship Between Maternal Torture Exposure and Youth Adjustment In Resettled Refugees: A Pilot Examination of Generational Trauma Through Moderated Mediation
Vagal Suppression Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Psychological Inflexibility on Parenting Behaviors in Combat Deployed Fathers
SYNOPSISObjective: Vagal suppression is a parasympathetic physiological indicator of emotion regulation and social engagement behaviors, often measured via heart rate variability. Experiential avoidance reflects psychological inflexibility or poor emotion regulation. We tested the interaction effects of parental vagal suppression and experiential avoidance on observed parenting behaviors among combat deployed fathers. Design. We analyzed data fro…
Growth trajectories of parental emotion socialization and child adjustment following a military parenting intervention: A randomized controlled trial
Children of combat deployed parents are at risk of behavioral problems. Parental emotion socialization (PES) has been theorized to influence children's behaviors; many studies lend support to this theory. However, longitudinal studies examining PES with experimental designs are sparse. In this study, we estimated PES growth trajectories following a parenting intervention and evaluated whether intervention induced improvements in PES predict child…
Bidirectional Relations between Parenting Practices and Child Externalizing Behaviors in Formerly Homeless Families: A Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis
These findings underscore the presence of bidirectional influence processes between parents and children in high-risk families. Implications for intervention programs for high-risk families are discussed
A Call for Theoretically Informed and Empirically Validated Military Family Interventions
Although multiple evidence-based family interventions exist, less than a handful have been developed or rigorously tested specifically for military families. Indeed, few interventions available to military families are theory based or empirically validated; most have good face validity but little data on efficacy or effectiveness. This article argues for an emphasis on the rigorous evaluation, via pragmatic randomized controlled trials, of theory…
Experiential Avoidance, Dyadic Interaction and Relationship Quality in the Lives of Veterans and Their Partners
This study assessed the mediating pathways of observed couple communication on the dyadic associations between experiential avoidance (EA) and relationship quality. A sample of 228 military couples following combat deployment participated in a conflict discussion and completed self-report measures to assess EA and relationship quality. Results of an actor-partner interdependence model using structural equation modeling indicated that for both dya…
Stressful life events and perceived parental control in formerly homeless families: Impact on child-internalizing symptoms
Research has neglected the potential role of perceived parental control as a moderator between stressful life events (SLEs) and child-internalizing symptoms. Using secondary data from the Early Risers "Skills for Success" Program (August, Realmuto, Hektner, & Bloomquist, 2001), this study examined the impact of perceived parental control on the association between SLEs and child internalizing symptoms in formerly homeless families. The sample con…
Fostering resilience in National Guard and Reserve families: A contextual adaptation of an evidence-based parenting program
Military deployment of a parent is a risk factor for children's internalizing and externalizing problems. This risk may be heightened in National Guard and Reserve (NG/R) families who tend to be isolated from other NG/R families and do not benefit from the centralized support system available to active duty families living on military bases. Isolation and trauma-related disorders may complicate the adjustment of military families during reintegra…
The contribution of maternal care and control, and community type to children’s adjustment to political violence
Both the child's gender and the type of community in which he or she lives are associated with maternal distress and children's adjustment to political violence. (PsycINFO Database Record
Improving Child Peer Adjustment in Military Families Through Parent Training: The Mediational Role of Parental Locus of Control
The current study investigated the mechanisms through which a parenting intervention for military families fosters positive peer adjustment in children. A sample of 336 families with a history of parental deployment enrolled in a randomized controlled trial of the After Deployment Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT) preventive intervention. ADAPT is a 14-week preventive intervention designed to strengthen parenting in military families. The interven…
Promoting positive parenting in the context of homelessness
Recent national reports suggest that nearly 1,000,000 families with children experience homelessness and that this number is rising (National Center on Family Homelessness, 2009; U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2010; U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2011). Families experiencing homelessness are disproportionately more likely to have experienced economic, health, and social risk factors. These experiences can adversely influence the pa…
Parenting, parental mental health, and child functioning in families residing in supportive housing
Long-term homelessness is associated with other psychosocial risk factors (e.g., adult mental illness, substance abuse, and exposure to violence). All of these factors are associated with impairments in parenting effectiveness and child adjustment, but there are very limited data investigating parenting among families who are homeless and highly mobile. In particular, there is no literature examining the relationships among observed parenting, pa…
Psychosocial Status of Homeless Children and Youth in Family Supportive Housing
Shelter-based studies have documented risks to homeless children's development, but scant information is available about children residing in family supportive housing, a key strategy for preventing long-term homelessness. This study assessed the psychosocial and health status of 454 formerly homeless children living with their families in 17 supportive housing communities. Findings indicated that children had good access to physical health care.…
The Impact of Project Northland on Selected MMPI-A Problem Behavior Scales
Young Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence: Towards a Developmental Risk and Resilience Framework for Research and Intervention
Growth trajectories of parental emotion socialization and child adjustment following a military parenting intervention: A randomized controlled trial
Children of combat deployed parents are at risk of behavioral problems. Parental emotion socialization (PES) has been theorized to influence children's behaviors; many studies lend support to this theory. However, longitudinal studies examining PES with experimental designs are sparse. In this study, we estimated PES growth trajectories following a parenting intervention and evaluated whether intervention induced improvements in PES predict child…
Psychosocial Status of Homeless Children and Youth in Family Supportive Housing
Shelter-based studies have documented risks to homeless children's development, but scant information is available about children residing in family supportive housing, a key strategy for preventing long-term homelessness. This study assessed the psychosocial and health status of 454 formerly homeless children living with their families in 17 supportive housing communities. Findings indicated that children had good access to physical health care.…
Improving Child Peer Adjustment in Military Families Through Parent Training: The Mediational Role of Parental Locus of Control
The current study investigated the mechanisms through which a parenting intervention for military families fosters positive peer adjustment in children. A sample of 336 families with a history of parental deployment enrolled in a randomized controlled trial of the After Deployment Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT) preventive intervention. ADAPT is a 14-week preventive intervention designed to strengthen parenting in military families. The interven…
Experiential Avoidance, Dyadic Interaction and Relationship Quality in the Lives of Veterans and Their Partners
This study assessed the mediating pathways of observed couple communication on the dyadic associations between experiential avoidance (EA) and relationship quality. A sample of 228 military couples following combat deployment participated in a conflict discussion and completed self-report measures to assess EA and relationship quality. Results of an actor-partner interdependence model using structural equation modeling indicated that for both dya…
Enhancing engagement in parenting programs: A comparative study of in-person, online, and telehealth formats
Vagal Suppression Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Psychological Inflexibility on Parenting Behaviors in Combat Deployed Fathers
SYNOPSISObjective: Vagal suppression is a parasympathetic physiological indicator of emotion regulation and social engagement behaviors, often measured via heart rate variability. Experiential avoidance reflects psychological inflexibility or poor emotion regulation. We tested the interaction effects of parental vagal suppression and experiential avoidance on observed parenting behaviors among combat deployed fathers. Design. We analyzed data fro…
Bidirectional Relations between Parenting Practices and Child Externalizing Behaviors in Formerly Homeless Families: A Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis
These findings underscore the presence of bidirectional influence processes between parents and children in high-risk families. Implications for intervention programs for high-risk families are discussed
The Impact of Project Northland on Selected MMPI-A Problem Behavior Scales
Promoting Children’s Mental Health in Family Supportive Housing: A Community–University Partnership for Formerly Homeless Children and Families
Young Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence: Towards a Developmental Risk and Resilience Framework for Research and Intervention
Psychosocial Status of Homeless Children and Youth in Family Supportive Housing
Shelter-based studies have documented risks to homeless children's development, but scant information is available about children residing in family supportive housing, a key strategy for preventing long-term homelessness. This study assessed the psychosocial and health status of 454 formerly homeless children living with their families in 17 supportive housing communities. Findings indicated that children had good access to physical health care.…
Parenting, parental mental health, and child functioning in families residing in supportive housing
Long-term homelessness is associated with other psychosocial risk factors (e.g., adult mental illness, substance abuse, and exposure to violence). All of these factors are associated with impairments in parenting effectiveness and child adjustment, but there are very limited data investigating parenting among families who are homeless and highly mobile. In particular, there is no literature examining the relationships among observed parenting, pa…
Promoting positive parenting in the context of homelessness
Recent national reports suggest that nearly 1,000,000 families with children experience homelessness and that this number is rising (National Center on Family Homelessness, 2009; U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2010; U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2011). Families experiencing homelessness are disproportionately more likely to have experienced economic, health, and social risk factors. These experiences can adversely influence the pa…
The contribution of maternal care and control, and community type to children’s adjustment to political violence
Both the child's gender and the type of community in which he or she lives are associated with maternal distress and children's adjustment to political violence. (PsycINFO Database Record
Improving Child Peer Adjustment in Military Families Through Parent Training: The Mediational Role of Parental Locus of Control
The current study investigated the mechanisms through which a parenting intervention for military families fosters positive peer adjustment in children. A sample of 336 families with a history of parental deployment enrolled in a randomized controlled trial of the After Deployment Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT) preventive intervention. ADAPT is a 14-week preventive intervention designed to strengthen parenting in military families. The interven…
Stressful life events and perceived parental control in formerly homeless families: Impact on child-internalizing symptoms
Research has neglected the potential role of perceived parental control as a moderator between stressful life events (SLEs) and child-internalizing symptoms. Using secondary data from the Early Risers "Skills for Success" Program (August, Realmuto, Hektner, & Bloomquist, 2001), this study examined the impact of perceived parental control on the association between SLEs and child internalizing symptoms in formerly homeless families. The sample con…
Fostering resilience in National Guard and Reserve families: A contextual adaptation of an evidence-based parenting program
Military deployment of a parent is a risk factor for children's internalizing and externalizing problems. This risk may be heightened in National Guard and Reserve (NG/R) families who tend to be isolated from other NG/R families and do not benefit from the centralized support system available to active duty families living on military bases. Isolation and trauma-related disorders may complicate the adjustment of military families during reintegra…
A Call for Theoretically Informed and Empirically Validated Military Family Interventions
Although multiple evidence-based family interventions exist, less than a handful have been developed or rigorously tested specifically for military families. Indeed, few interventions available to military families are theory based or empirically validated; most have good face validity but little data on efficacy or effectiveness. This article argues for an emphasis on the rigorous evaluation, via pragmatic randomized controlled trials, of theory…
Experiential Avoidance, Dyadic Interaction and Relationship Quality in the Lives of Veterans and Their Partners
This study assessed the mediating pathways of observed couple communication on the dyadic associations between experiential avoidance (EA) and relationship quality. A sample of 228 military couples following combat deployment participated in a conflict discussion and completed self-report measures to assess EA and relationship quality. Results of an actor-partner interdependence model using structural equation modeling indicated that for both dya…
Bidirectional Relations between Parenting Practices and Child Externalizing Behaviors in Formerly Homeless Families: A Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis
These findings underscore the presence of bidirectional influence processes between parents and children in high-risk families. Implications for intervention programs for high-risk families are discussed
Mechanisms Explaining the Relationship Between Maternal Torture Exposure and Youth Adjustment In Resettled Refugees: A Pilot Examination of Generational Trauma Through Moderated Mediation
Vagal Suppression Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Psychological Inflexibility on Parenting Behaviors in Combat Deployed Fathers
SYNOPSISObjective: Vagal suppression is a parasympathetic physiological indicator of emotion regulation and social engagement behaviors, often measured via heart rate variability. Experiential avoidance reflects psychological inflexibility or poor emotion regulation. We tested the interaction effects of parental vagal suppression and experiential avoidance on observed parenting behaviors among combat deployed fathers. Design. We analyzed data fro…
Growth trajectories of parental emotion socialization and child adjustment following a military parenting intervention: A randomized controlled trial
Children of combat deployed parents are at risk of behavioral problems. Parental emotion socialization (PES) has been theorized to influence children's behaviors; many studies lend support to this theory. However, longitudinal studies examining PES with experimental designs are sparse. In this study, we estimated PES growth trajectories following a parenting intervention and evaluated whether intervention induced improvements in PES predict child…
Psychological implications of the Covid ‐19 pandemic around the world: Introduction to the special issue
Although psychological researchers have long studied the implications of major crises, the outbreak and spread of the COVID‐19 pandemic have confronted the global community of psychologists and psychological researchers with new challenges. This special issue contributes to the growing empirical literature on the immediate psychological implications of the COVID‐19 pandemic. We present and discuss diverse work from authors that followed our call …
International psychological research addressing the early phase of the Covid ‐19 pandemic: A rapid scoping review and implications for global psychology
In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID‐19 a global pandemic. Given that keeping abreast of international perspectives and research results is of particular importance for such massive global emergencies, we employed a scoping review methodology to rapidly map the field of international psychological research addressing this important early phase of the pandemic. We included a total of 79 studies, with data mostly collec…
Genetic moderation of the effects of family‐focused interventions ( GxI interaction): A systematic review
Gene by Intervention (GxI) interaction studies examine how a person's genotype may moderate (i.e., increase or decrease benefit from) an intervention's impact, typically in the context of randomized controlled trials. This systematic review examines genetic moderation effects for psychosocial and behavioral interventions that are family‐based or school‐/individual‐based with family components . Differential susceptibility was the most widely used…
Associations of combat exposure and parental locus of control in deployed mothers and fathers
Post‐traumatic stress symptoms and parenting in military families: A systematic integrative review
Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among service members portends substantial impairments not only for the affected individual but also for their families. However, the association between PTSD symptoms and specific parenting domains remains understudied. Drawing upon the Military Family Stress Model and the Cognitive Behavioral Interpersonal Theory of PTSD, this systematic review provides an overview and synthesis of the literature on PTSD sy…
Emotion socialization profiles in military parents: Associations with post‐traumatic stress disorder
Military families face many difficulties, including a parent deploying to a warzone and the subsequent risk of returning with symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Symptoms of PTSD are associated with parenting difficulties; however, little is known about how PTSD symptoms may be associated with emotion socialization (ES), a set of processes crucial to children's emotional well‐being. This project investigated observed ES behaviors in…
Replication and extension of the military family stress model: The after deployment adaptive parenting tools Adapt4U study
The military family stress (MFS) model conceptualizes that wartime deployments and post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms are associated with couple, parenting, and child adjustment difficulties. The aim of this study was to replicate and extend the military family stress model by examining the associations among deployment length, PTSD symptoms, marital functioning, parenting practices, and child adjustment in a replication sample of bot…
A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Factors Promoting Intergenerational Resilience in Adolescent Youth With Refugee Status
These findings, originating within the complex dynamics of resettled war-affected families, demonstrated the interconnectedness of adolescent and parent experiences and opportunities to advance resilience in youth navigating integration and supporting their families through those same processes
Enhancing engagement in parenting programs: A comparative study of in-person, online, and telehealth formats
Psychology (24 works) · Psychiatry (20 works) · Developmental psychology (16 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Mental health (8 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (8 works) · Political science (8 works)