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Mary Dozier

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ID4415535
NAMEMary Dozier
GIVEN NAMESMary
FAMILY NAMEDozier
SIGNATUREDOZIER M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Delaware
ORCID0000-0002-3618-4361
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS191
WORKS AS AUTHOR39
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX8
  • Differential Effects of In-person and Telehealth Implementation of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up on Parental Sensitivity and Intrusiveness

    Open Access•Kirsten McLaughlin, Regina M Fasano et al.•ARTICLE•Maternal and Child Health Journal•2026

    Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) is a home visiting program designed for parents of children between birth and 48 months of age who have experienced early adversity. Previous research demonstrated that ABC enhances parental sensitivity and reduces parental intrusiveness through both in-person and hybrid delivery methods (Roben et al.in Child Development 88(5):1447–1452, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12898 ; Schein et al. in Child …

  • Adolescent-specific adaptations to caregiving unpredictability

    Open Access•Erica Niemiec, Andrea Fields et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2026

    Increasing evidence for enhanced cognitive flexibility following early-life caregiving unpredictability indicates that developmental adaptations can occur during early sensitive periods of infant development. However, existing research does not clarify the timing of the developmental window during which unpredictability can shape cognitive outcomes. This study tested the developmental uniqueness of early life versus adolescence to ask whether ada…

  • Consensus statement on developmentally appropriate policy and practice for adolescents in foster care

    Open Access•Mary Dozier, Judith G Smetana et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2025

  • Is Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up effective for parents with insecure attachment states of mind

    Open Access•Madelyn H Labella, K Lee Raby et al.•ARTICLE•Child Development•2024

    Prior research suggests that attachment-based interventions, including Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC), may be less effective at enhancing parenting quality among parents who self-report having an insecure attachment style. The current study tested whether effects of ABC on parental behavior were moderated by categorical and dimensional measures of attachment obtained via Adult Attachment Interviews with 454 parents who were approxima…

  • The importance of both individual differences and dyadic processes in children’s emotion expression

    Julie A Hubbard, Christina Moore et al.•ARTICLE•Applied Developmental Science•2024

    Although children display strong individual differences in emotion expression, they also engage in emotional synchrony or reciprocity with interaction partners. To understand this paradox between trait-like and dyadic influences, the goal of the current study was to investigate children's emotion expression using a Social Relations Model (SRM) approach. Playgroups consisting typically of four same-sex unfamiliar nine-year-old children ( N = 202) …

  • An invited commentary on mentoring in infant mental health

    Open Access•David Oppenheim, Kristin Bernard et al.•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2024

    This paper is based on a symposium on mentoring in infant mental health that took place at the 18th World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) conference. The symposium commemorated Robert N. Emde who was one of the founders of the field of Infant Mental Health, and devoted much of his career to mentorship. From an IMH perspective, mentoring experiences are best thought of as relationships, significant for both mentor and mentee, with pos…

  • The unanticipated side effects of an attachment intervention

    Caroline Gaudreau, Amanda Delgado et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2024

    Research suggests foster children are at risk for poor language skills. One intervention, attachment and biobehavioral catch-up (ABC), was shown to successfully improve not only young foster children's attachment to their parents, but also their receptive vocabulary skills (Bernard et al., 2017; Raby et al., 2019). Given that language acquisition is intricately linked to parents' sensitive interactions with their children, we ask whether the ABC …

  • Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood

    Open Access•Julie A Hubbard, Christina Moore et al.•ARTICLE•Child Development•2023

    This study investigated emotion transmission among peers during middle childhood. Participants included 202 children (111 males; race: 58% African American, 20% European American, 16% Mixed race, 1% Asian American, and 5% Other; ethnicity: 23% Latino(a) and 77% Not Latino(a); M income = $42,183, SDincome = $43,889; M age = 9.49; English-speaking; from urban and suburban areas of a mid-Atlantic state in the United States). Groups of four same-sex …

  • Children’s social information processing predicts both their own and peers’ conversational remarks

    Open Access•Julie A Hubbard, Megan K Bookhout et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    The goal of the current study was to investigate whether children's social information processing (SIP) predicts their conversations with peers, including both their remarks to peers and peers' remarks to them. When children ( N = 156; 55% male; United States; Representation by Race: 60% African American, 18% Mixed race, 15% European American, 7% Other; Representation by Latino/a Ethnicity: 22% Latino/a, 78% Not Latino/a; M income = $39,419) were…

  • Changes in provider Fidelity after introducing a new model of intervention

    Open Access•Amanda M Flagg, Amanda H Costello et al.•ARTICLE•Current Psychology•2022

  • Individual differences and dyadic processes in conversations with peers in middle childhood

    Open Access•Christina Moore, Julie A Hubbard et al.•ARTICLE•Social Development•2022•References: 11

    The goal of the current study was to investigate the contribution of both trait‐like individual differences and dyadic processes to the content of children's conversations. Fifty‐two groups typically consisting of four same‐sex unfamiliar nine‐year‐old children ( N = 202) interacted in all possible dyads, resulting in six dyads per group. Each dyad completed a 5‐min frustration task and a 5‐min planning task. Observers coded children's verbalizat…

  • Adapting psychophysiological data collection for Covid‐19

    Open Access•Alexandra R Tabachnick, Tabitha Sellers et al.•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 17

    The COVID‐19 pandemic has significantly disrupted research activities globally. Researchers need safe and creative procedures to resume data collection, particularly for projects evaluating infant mental health interventions. Remote research is uniquely challenging for psychophysiological data collection, which typically requires close contact between researchers and participants as well as technical equipment frequently located in laboratory set…

  • Introduction of Special Section of Infant Mental Health Journal

    Open Access•Mary Dozier•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    Parents of infants and young children who experience harsh circumstances are among those most vulnerable to the added stressors associated with COVID‐19. Home visiting models have been shown to enhance outcomes for parents and infants when delivered in person, but in many parts of the world, the pandemic rendered in‐person home visits difficult or impossible. In this special section, we examine adaptations made by home visiting programs to allow …

  • Transitioning to telehealth due to Covid‐19

    Open Access•Caroline K P Roben, Evan Kipp et al.•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 52

    Maintaining treatment fidelity when implementing evidence‐based interventions is a significant challenge. The inability to deliver in‐person services due to the COVID‐19 pandemic critically challenged the foundation of implementation fidelity for home visiting programs across the globe. The Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐Up (ABC) program is an evidence‐based home visiting intervention designed to increase sensitivity in parents of infants who…

  • Promoviendo la sensibilidad parental con una intervención temprana basada en la evidencia

    Open Access•Marta Benito-Gomez, Pablo Carrera et al.•ARTICLE•Papeles del Psicólogo -…•2021

    Early caregiving experiences set the stage for children’s developmental trajectories. Children who experience early adversity are more likely to show difficulties regulating their behaviors, emotions, and physiology than children who do not experience adversity. Parenting interventions designed to enhance parental sensitivity and responsiveness can buffer children from the detrimental effects of early adverse experiences and ultimately enhance ch…

  • Secure attachment in infancy predicts context-dependent emotion expression in middle childhood

    Open Access•Alexandra R Tabachnick, Yunqi He et al.•ARTICLE•Emotion•2021

    Attachment security has been linked to healthy socioemotional development, but less is known about how secure attachment in infancy relates to emotional functioning in middle childhood, particularly across multiple contexts. The present study examined associations between secure attachment in infancy and children's context-dependent emotion expression during a parent-child interaction at age 9 (N = 78) among families with Child Protective Service…

  • Navigating the international dissemination of an evidence-based intervention

    Open Access•Amanda H Costello, Stevie S Schein et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 26

  • Attachment Disorganization in Infancy

    Open Access•Lindsay Zajac, Megan K Bookhout et al.•ARTICLE•Child Development•2020

    This study examined infant attachment as a predictor of social information processing (SIP) in middle childhood (n = 82) while controlling for parental sensitivity in middle childhood. Attachment quality was assessed using the Strange Situation. Although attachment insecurity did not predict SIP, attachment disorganization positively predicted the early SIP steps of hostile attributional bias and aggressive goals. Children with disorganized attac…

  • Promoting Compliance in Children Referred to Child Protective Services

    Open Access•Teresa Lind, Kristin Bernard et al.•ARTICLE•Child Development•2020

    Early experiences of maltreatment have long-term negative effects on children's compliance. This randomized clinical trial examined whether a brief preventative intervention (Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up; ABC) was effective in enhancing compliance in children who had been referred to Child Protective Services. Participants included 101 parent–child dyads who received either ABC or a control intervention when children were infants (M = 9.…

  • CPS-referred mothers’ psychophysiological responses to own versus other child predict sensitivity to child distress

    Kristin Bernard, Sierra Kuzava et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    Maltreating mothers often struggle to respond sensitively to their children's distress. Examining psychophysiological processing of own child cues may offer insight into neurobiological mechanisms that promote sensitive parenting among high-risk mothers. The current study used event-related potential (ERP) methodology to examine associations between mothers' neural responses to their own child versus other children and observed sensitivity to dis…

  • Disorganized attachment in infancy

    Open Access•Pehr Granqvist, L Alan Sroufe et al.•ARTICLE•Attachment & Human Development•2017

    Disorganized/Disoriented (D) attachment has seen widespread interest from policy makers, practitioners, and clinicians in recent years. However, some of this interest seems to have been based on some false assumptions that (1) attachment measures can be used as definitive assessments of the individual in forensic/child protection settings and that disorganized attachment (2) reliably indicates child maltreatment, (3) is a strong predictor of path…

  • Trajectories of Change in Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up Among High‐risk Mothers

    Open Access•Heather A Yarger, Julie R Hoye et al.•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2016•Cited by: 4•References: 49

    Using an intensive short‐term longitudinal design, this study first examined whether there were significant differences in maternal sensitivity and intrusiveness after completion of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up (ABC; Dozier & the Infant‐Caregiver Project Lab, 2013) when compared to a control condition. The second aim was to explore the rate and shape of change in parenting behaviors. Participants were 24 mothers and their biological chil…

  • I want to be there when he graduates

    Open Access•Albert Lo, Caroline K P Roben et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 20

  • Consensus statement on group care for children and adolescents

    Mary Dozier, Joan Kaufman et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Orthopsychiatry•2014

    Group care for children and adolescents is widely used as a rearing environment and sometimes used as a setting in which intensive services can be provided. This consensus statement on group care affirms that children and adolescents have the need and right to grow up in a family with at least 1 committed, stable, and loving adult caregiver. In principle, group care should never be favored over family care. Group care should be used only when it …

  • The Effectiveness of an Attachment‐Based Intervention in Promoting Foster Mothers’ Sensitivity toward Foster Infants

    Open Access•Johanna Bick, Mary Dozier•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2013•Cited by: 16•References: 35

    Infants in foster care need sensitive, responsive caregivers to promote their healthy outcomes. The current study examined the effectiveness of the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up Intervention, a short‐term, targeted, attachment‐based intervention program designed to promote sensitive caregiving behavior among foster mothers. Ninety‐six foster mother–infant dyads participated in this study; 44 dyads were assigned to the Attachment and Biobe…

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  • The effect of placement instability on adopted children's inhibitory control abilities and oppositional behavior

    Erin E Lewis, Erin Lewis et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2007•Cited by: 41•References: 3

    This study assessed relations among placement instability, inhibitory control, and caregiver-rated child behavior. The sample included 33 adopted children who had experienced placement instability, 42 adopted children who had experienced 1 stable placement, and 27 children never placed in foster care. Five- and 6-year-old children completed the day-night task, which requires children to inhibit a prepotent response, and a control task that presen…

  • Developing Evidence‐Based Interventions for Foster Children

    Open Access•Mary Dozier, Mary E Dozier et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues•2006•Cited by: 24•References: 58

    Children who enter foster care have usually experienced maltreatment as well as disruptions in relationships with primary caregivers. These children are at risk for a host of problematic outcomes. However, there are few evidence‐based interventions that target foster children. This article presents preliminary data testing the effectiveness of an intervention, Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up, to target relationship formation in young childr…

  • Infants in Foster Care

    K Chase Stovall, Mary Dozier•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•1998•Cited by: 24•References: 4

    This article highlights the importance of attachment issues for infants placed in foster care. We offer a framework for understanding how early separation and maltreatment may affect infants' ability to securely rely on a foster parent. We argue that disruptions in foster infants' primary attachment relationships, combined with a history of maltreatment, place these infants at risk for developing predominantly insecure or disorganized attachments…

  • The Effectiveness of an Attachment‐Based Intervention in Promoting Foster Mothers’ Sensitivity toward Foster Infants

    Open Access•Johanna Bick, Mary Dozier•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2013•Cited by: 16•References: 35

    Infants in foster care need sensitive, responsive caregivers to promote their healthy outcomes. The current study examined the effectiveness of the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up Intervention, a short‐term, targeted, attachment‐based intervention program designed to promote sensitive caregiving behavior among foster mothers. Ninety‐six foster mother–infant dyads participated in this study; 44 dyads were assigned to the Attachment and Biobe…

  • Intervening with foster infants' caregivers

    Open Access•Mary Dozier, Elizabeth Higley et al.•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2002•Cited by: 16•References: 19

    This article presents the theoretical and empirical rationale for an intervention that targets three critical needs of infants and young children in foster care. First, foster children tend to give behavioral signals that lead even nurturing caregivers to provide non‐nurturing care. Foster parents, therefore, need services that help them to reinterpret children's behavioral signals. Second, some caregivers are not comfortable providing nurturance…

  • Institutional Care for Young Children

    Open Access•Mary Dozier, Charles H Zeanah et al.•ARTICLE•Social Issues and Policy Review•2012•Cited by: 14•References: 8

    Millions of infants and toddlers are in institutional care around the world, care that is poorly suited to meet young children's developmental needs. In this article, we briefly review the history of institutional care and surrogate care. We then discuss why institutional care is at odds with children's needs, and review the empirical evidence regarding the effects of institutional care on young children's development. Finally, we discuss alterna…

  • Examining infants' cortisol responses to laboratory tasks among children varying in attachment disorganization

    Kristin Bernard, Mary Dozier•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2010•Cited by: 11•References: 4

    Cortisol is a hormone involved in mounting a stress response in humans. The evidence of stress reactivity among young children has been mixed, however. In the present study, the order of two laboratory tasks (i.e., Strange Situation and play) was counterbalanced, and home saliva samples were obtained. Saliva samples were also collected upon the children's arrival at the laboratory and at 40, 65, and 80 min after arrival. The authors examined chan…

  • Foster Parents' Understanding of Children's Problematic Attachment Strategies

    Christine L Tyrrell, Christine Tyrrell et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•1999•Cited by: 9•References: 3

    Foster mothers and biological mothers were interviewed regarding their understanding of children's insecure attachment strategies and their knowledge of foster care issues. In addition, parent sensitivity was assessed and case workers in the foster care system reported on foster mothers' effectiveness. As expected, foster mothers reported significantly more attachment-related difficulties with their foster children than biological mothers reporte…

  • Foster mother state of mind and treatment use

    Open Access•Mary Dozier, Sandra Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2004•Cited by: 6•References: 9

    On the basis of our research findings from the last 10 years, we have developed a training program for foster parents that targets three critical needs for infants in foster care. This treatment program has now been manualized to allow dissemination to other sites. With our intervention as well as any other, we see it as critical to tailor services to the needs of individual clients rather than adhering in doctrinaire fashion to the manual. In pa…

  • Navigating the international dissemination of an evidence-based intervention

    Open Access•Amanda H Costello, Stevie S Schein et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 26

  • The importance of maternal state of mind regarding attachment and infant age at placement to foster mothers' representations of their foster infants

    Open Access•Brady C Bates, Mary Dozier et al.•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2002•Cited by: 5•References: 21

    Previous research has found that foster mother state of mind with respect to attachment and infant age at placement into foster care influence the developing foster mother–foster child relationship (Dozier, Albus, Stovall, & Bates, 2000; Stovall & Dozier, 2000). This study extends prior research by assessing factors related to foster mothers' representations of their foster infants. Participants were 48 foster mother–foster infant dyads in two mi…

  • Trajectories of Change in Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up Among High‐risk Mothers

    Open Access•Heather A Yarger, Julie R Hoye et al.•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2016•Cited by: 4•References: 49

    Using an intensive short‐term longitudinal design, this study first examined whether there were significant differences in maternal sensitivity and intrusiveness after completion of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up (ABC; Dozier & the Infant‐Caregiver Project Lab, 2013) when compared to a control condition. The second aim was to explore the rate and shape of change in parenting behaviors. Participants were 24 mothers and their biological chil…

  • I want to be there when he graduates

    Open Access•Albert Lo, Caroline K P Roben et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 20

  • This is my baby

    Open Access•Kristin Bernard, Mary Dozier•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2011•Cited by: 4•References: 22

    This study examined the association between foster parents' commitment to their young foster children and the delight they showed in their interactions with children. Seventy foster parent–child dyads were included as participants. The dyads were videotaped during a play interaction when children were between 9 and 28 months, with delight coded on the basis of foster parents' responses to children. Caregivers were interviewed with the “This Is My…

  • Children’s social information processing predicts both their own and peers’ conversational remarks

    Open Access•Julie A Hubbard, Megan K Bookhout et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 3

    The goal of the current study was to investigate whether children's social information processing (SIP) predicts their conversations with peers, including both their remarks to peers and peers' remarks to them. When children ( N = 156; 55% male; United States; Representation by Race: 60% African American, 18% Mixed race, 15% European American, 7% Other; Representation by Latino/a Ethnicity: 22% Latino/a, 78% Not Latino/a; M income = $39,419) were…

  • Transitioning to telehealth due to Covid‐19

    Open Access•Caroline K P Roben, Evan Kipp et al.•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 52

    Maintaining treatment fidelity when implementing evidence‐based interventions is a significant challenge. The inability to deliver in‐person services due to the COVID‐19 pandemic critically challenged the foundation of implementation fidelity for home visiting programs across the globe. The Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐Up (ABC) program is an evidence‐based home visiting intervention designed to increase sensitivity in parents of infants who…

  • Adapting psychophysiological data collection for Covid‐19

    Open Access•Alexandra R Tabachnick, Tabitha Sellers et al.•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 17

    The COVID‐19 pandemic has significantly disrupted research activities globally. Researchers need safe and creative procedures to resume data collection, particularly for projects evaluating infant mental health interventions. Remote research is uniquely challenging for psychophysiological data collection, which typically requires close contact between researchers and participants as well as technical equipment frequently located in laboratory set…

  • Introduction of Special Section of Infant Mental Health Journal

    Open Access•Mary Dozier•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    Parents of infants and young children who experience harsh circumstances are among those most vulnerable to the added stressors associated with COVID‐19. Home visiting models have been shown to enhance outcomes for parents and infants when delivered in person, but in many parts of the world, the pandemic rendered in‐person home visits difficult or impossible. In this special section, we examine adaptations made by home visiting programs to allow …

  • CPS-referred mothers’ psychophysiological responses to own versus other child predict sensitivity to child distress

    Kristin Bernard, Sierra Kuzava et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    Maltreating mothers often struggle to respond sensitively to their children's distress. Examining psychophysiological processing of own child cues may offer insight into neurobiological mechanisms that promote sensitive parenting among high-risk mothers. The current study used event-related potential (ERP) methodology to examine associations between mothers' neural responses to their own child versus other children and observed sensitivity to dis…

  • Social disability in the young adult mentally ill

    Mary Dozier, Jack L Franklin et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Orthopsychiatry•1988•References: 4

    The social functioning of young mentally ill adults was assessed in relationship to that of older mentally ill adults. In terms of family and friends, the younger and older groups were found to experience similar social withdrawal, although the younger group was more likely to be employed. It is suggested that such withdrawal may be typical of young mentally ill adults not enrolled in programs emphasizing social involvement

  • Infants in Foster Care

    K Chase Stovall, Mary Dozier•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•1998•Cited by: 24•References: 4

    This article highlights the importance of attachment issues for infants placed in foster care. We offer a framework for understanding how early separation and maltreatment may affect infants' ability to securely rely on a foster parent. We argue that disruptions in foster infants' primary attachment relationships, combined with a history of maltreatment, place these infants at risk for developing predominantly insecure or disorganized attachments…

  • Foster Parents' Understanding of Children's Problematic Attachment Strategies

    Christine L Tyrrell, Christine Tyrrell et al.•ARTICLE•Adoption Quarterly•1999•Cited by: 9•References: 3

    Foster mothers and biological mothers were interviewed regarding their understanding of children's insecure attachment strategies and their knowledge of foster care issues. In addition, parent sensitivity was assessed and case workers in the foster care system reported on foster mothers' effectiveness. As expected, foster mothers reported significantly more attachment-related difficulties with their foster children than biological mothers reporte…

  • Indiscriminate friendliness and terror of strangers in infancy

    Open Access•Kathleen E Albus, Mary Dozier•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•1999•References: 9

    Indiscriminate friendliness toward strangers and severe stranger anxiety have been described in the diagnostic literature on disorders of attachment (e.g., American Psychiatric Association, 1994; Lieberman & Pawl, 1998; Zeanah, 1996; Zeanah, Mamman & Lieberman, 1993). In this paper we present case studies of infants in foster care who have demonstrated indiscriminate friendliness and terror of strangers. Infants in foster care have endured attach…

  • Attachment for Infants in Foster Care

    Open Access•Mary Dozier, K Chase Stovall et al.•ARTICLE•Child Development•2001

    The concordance between foster mothers' attachment state of mind and foster infants' attachment quality was examined for 50 foster mother – infant dyads. Babies had been placed into the care of their foster mothers between birth and 20 months of age. Attachment quality was assessed between 12 and 24 months of age, at least 3 months after the infants' placement into foster care. The two-way correspondence between maternal state of mind and infant …

  • The importance of maternal state of mind regarding attachment and infant age at placement to foster mothers' representations of their foster infants

    Open Access•Brady C Bates, Mary Dozier et al.•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2002•Cited by: 5•References: 21

    Previous research has found that foster mother state of mind with respect to attachment and infant age at placement into foster care influence the developing foster mother–foster child relationship (Dozier, Albus, Stovall, & Bates, 2000; Stovall & Dozier, 2000). This study extends prior research by assessing factors related to foster mothers' representations of their foster infants. Participants were 48 foster mother–foster infant dyads in two mi…

  • Intervening with foster infants' caregivers

    Open Access•Mary Dozier, Elizabeth Higley et al.•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2002•Cited by: 16•References: 19

    This article presents the theoretical and empirical rationale for an intervention that targets three critical needs of infants and young children in foster care. First, foster children tend to give behavioral signals that lead even nurturing caregivers to provide non‐nurturing care. Foster parents, therefore, need services that help them to reinterpret children's behavioral signals. Second, some caregivers are not comfortable providing nurturance…

  • Foster mother state of mind and treatment use

    Open Access•Mary Dozier, Sandra Sepúlveda•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2004•Cited by: 6•References: 9

    On the basis of our research findings from the last 10 years, we have developed a training program for foster parents that targets three critical needs for infants in foster care. This treatment program has now been manualized to allow dissemination to other sites. With our intervention as well as any other, we see it as critical to tailor services to the needs of individual clients rather than adhering in doctrinaire fashion to the manual. In pa…

  • Developing Evidence‐Based Interventions for Foster Children

    Open Access•Mary Dozier, Mary E Dozier et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues•2006•Cited by: 24•References: 58

    Children who enter foster care have usually experienced maltreatment as well as disruptions in relationships with primary caregivers. These children are at risk for a host of problematic outcomes. However, there are few evidence‐based interventions that target foster children. This article presents preliminary data testing the effectiveness of an intervention, Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up, to target relationship formation in young childr…

  • The effect of placement instability on adopted children's inhibitory control abilities and oppositional behavior

    Erin E Lewis, Erin Lewis et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2007•Cited by: 41•References: 3

    This study assessed relations among placement instability, inhibitory control, and caregiver-rated child behavior. The sample included 33 adopted children who had experienced placement instability, 42 adopted children who had experienced 1 stable placement, and 27 children never placed in foster care. Five- and 6-year-old children completed the day-night task, which requires children to inhibit a prepotent response, and a control task that presen…

  • Examining infants' cortisol responses to laboratory tasks among children varying in attachment disorganization

    Kristin Bernard, Mary Dozier•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2010•Cited by: 11•References: 4

    Cortisol is a hormone involved in mounting a stress response in humans. The evidence of stress reactivity among young children has been mixed, however. In the present study, the order of two laboratory tasks (i.e., Strange Situation and play) was counterbalanced, and home saliva samples were obtained. Saliva samples were also collected upon the children's arrival at the laboratory and at 40, 65, and 80 min after arrival. The authors examined chan…

  • This is my baby

    Open Access•Kristin Bernard, Mary Dozier•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2011•Cited by: 4•References: 22

    This study examined the association between foster parents' commitment to their young foster children and the delight they showed in their interactions with children. Seventy foster parent–child dyads were included as participants. The dyads were videotaped during a play interaction when children were between 9 and 28 months, with delight coded on the basis of foster parents' responses to children. Caregivers were interviewed with the “This Is My…

  • Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children

    Open Access•Kristin Bernard, Mary Dozier et al.•ARTICLE•Child Development•2012

    Young children who have experienced early adversity are at risk for developing disorganized attachments. The efficacy of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC), an intervention targeting nurturing care among parents identified as being at risk for neglecting their young children, was evaluated through a randomized clinical trial. Attachment quality was assessed in the Strange Situation for 120 children between 11.7 and 31.9 months of age (M …

  • Institutional Care for Young Children

    Open Access•Mary Dozier, Charles H Zeanah et al.•ARTICLE•Social Issues and Policy Review•2012•Cited by: 14•References: 8

    Millions of infants and toddlers are in institutional care around the world, care that is poorly suited to meet young children's developmental needs. In this article, we briefly review the history of institutional care and surrogate care. We then discuss why institutional care is at odds with children's needs, and review the empirical evidence regarding the effects of institutional care on young children's development. Finally, we discuss alterna…

  • The Effectiveness of an Attachment‐Based Intervention in Promoting Foster Mothers’ Sensitivity toward Foster Infants

    Open Access•Johanna Bick, Mary Dozier•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2013•Cited by: 16•References: 35

    Infants in foster care need sensitive, responsive caregivers to promote their healthy outcomes. The current study examined the effectiveness of the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up Intervention, a short‐term, targeted, attachment‐based intervention program designed to promote sensitive caregiving behavior among foster mothers. Ninety‐six foster mother–infant dyads participated in this study; 44 dyads were assigned to the Attachment and Biobe…

  • Consensus statement on group care for children and adolescents

    Mary Dozier, Joan Kaufman et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Orthopsychiatry•2014

    Group care for children and adolescents is widely used as a rearing environment and sometimes used as a setting in which intensive services can be provided. This consensus statement on group care affirms that children and adolescents have the need and right to grow up in a family with at least 1 committed, stable, and loving adult caregiver. In principle, group care should never be favored over family care. Group care should be used only when it …

  • I want to be there when he graduates

    Open Access•Albert Lo, Caroline K P Roben et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 20

  • Trajectories of Change in Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up Among High‐risk Mothers

    Open Access•Heather A Yarger, Julie R Hoye et al.•ARTICLE•Infant Mental Health Journal•2016•Cited by: 4•References: 49

    Using an intensive short‐term longitudinal design, this study first examined whether there were significant differences in maternal sensitivity and intrusiveness after completion of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch‐up (ABC; Dozier & the Infant‐Caregiver Project Lab, 2013) when compared to a control condition. The second aim was to explore the rate and shape of change in parenting behaviors. Participants were 24 mothers and their biological chil…

  • Disorganized attachment in infancy

    Open Access•Pehr Granqvist, L Alan Sroufe et al.•ARTICLE•Attachment & Human Development•2017

    Disorganized/Disoriented (D) attachment has seen widespread interest from policy makers, practitioners, and clinicians in recent years. However, some of this interest seems to have been based on some false assumptions that (1) attachment measures can be used as definitive assessments of the individual in forensic/child protection settings and that disorganized attachment (2) reliably indicates child maltreatment, (3) is a strong predictor of path…

  • CPS-referred mothers’ psychophysiological responses to own versus other child predict sensitivity to child distress

    Kristin Bernard, Sierra Kuzava et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    Maltreating mothers often struggle to respond sensitively to their children's distress. Examining psychophysiological processing of own child cues may offer insight into neurobiological mechanisms that promote sensitive parenting among high-risk mothers. The current study used event-related potential (ERP) methodology to examine associations between mothers' neural responses to their own child versus other children and observed sensitivity to dis…

  • Attachment Disorganization in Infancy

    Open Access•Lindsay Zajac, Megan K Bookhout et al.•ARTICLE•Child Development•2020

    This study examined infant attachment as a predictor of social information processing (SIP) in middle childhood (n = 82) while controlling for parental sensitivity in middle childhood. Attachment quality was assessed using the Strange Situation. Although attachment insecurity did not predict SIP, attachment disorganization positively predicted the early SIP steps of hostile attributional bias and aggressive goals. Children with disorganized attac…

  • Promoting Compliance in Children Referred to Child Protective Services

    Open Access•Teresa Lind, Kristin Bernard et al.•ARTICLE•Child Development•2020

    Early experiences of maltreatment have long-term negative effects on children's compliance. This randomized clinical trial examined whether a brief preventative intervention (Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up; ABC) was effective in enhancing compliance in children who had been referred to Child Protective Services. Participants included 101 parent–child dyads who received either ABC or a control intervention when children were infants (M = 9.…

  • Promoviendo la sensibilidad parental con una intervención temprana basada en la evidencia

    Open Access•Marta Benito-Gomez, Pablo Carrera et al.•ARTICLE•Papeles del Psicólogo -…•2021

    Early caregiving experiences set the stage for children’s developmental trajectories. Children who experience early adversity are more likely to show difficulties regulating their behaviors, emotions, and physiology than children who do not experience adversity. Parenting interventions designed to enhance parental sensitivity and responsiveness can buffer children from the detrimental effects of early adverse experiences and ultimately enhance ch…

  • Secure attachment in infancy predicts context-dependent emotion expression in middle childhood

    Open Access•Alexandra R Tabachnick, Yunqi He et al.•ARTICLE•Emotion•2021

    Attachment security has been linked to healthy socioemotional development, but less is known about how secure attachment in infancy relates to emotional functioning in middle childhood, particularly across multiple contexts. The present study examined associations between secure attachment in infancy and children's context-dependent emotion expression during a parent-child interaction at age 9 (N = 78) among families with Child Protective Service…

  • Navigating the international dissemination of an evidence-based intervention

    Open Access•Amanda H Costello, Stevie S Schein et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 26

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