Alicia F Lieberman
Biographic Data
| ID | 767203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alicia F Lieberman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alicia F |
| FAMILY NAME | Lieberman |
| SIGNATURE | LIEBERMAN A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0981-0793 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Practitioner Review: Clinical insights from attachment theory and research for professionals working with young children and their families
Attachment theory, with its core concepts, perspectives, and insights developed over the past five decades, is influential for professionals working with young children. However, practitioners face challenges translating attachment theory and research into practical applications. This manifests in attachment myths, theoretical misinterpretations, and inconsistency of application. This state‐of‐the‐art review is authored by 47 attachment researche…
Posttraumatic stress in infancy: The roles of cumulative trauma and caregiving context
Infants are exposed to traumatic events at higher rates than older children, potentially leading to posttraumatic stress symptoms. Despite this higher prevalence, posttraumatic stress responses in infancy have not been well researched due to conceptual, developmental, and methodological challenges. This study conducted in the United States investigated the responses of infants aged 3–18 months after exposure to a range of traumatic events. Caregi…
Mitigating the impact of intimate partner violence in pregnancy and early childhood: A dyadic approach to psychotherapy
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is often considered an adult problem despite profound consequences for the children who are exposed toviolent relational patterns. About a third of children and adolescents report past exposure to parental IPV, and a majority were first exposed as infants. Exposure to IPV during pregnancy through the first 5 years of a child's life has consequences ranging from adverse birth outcomes to diagnosable emotional proble…
An invited commentary on mentoring in infant mental health: A symposium commemorating Robert N. Emde
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…
Narrative Coherence About Romantic Partners During Pregnancy: Associations with Childhood Maltreatment and PTSD Symptoms
Intergenerational transmission and prevention of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
Maternal Pregnancy Wantedness and Perceptions of Paternal Pregnancy Wantedness: Associations with Perinatal Mental Health and Relationship Dynamics
Type versus timing of adverse and benevolent childhood experiences for pregnant women’s psychological and reproductive health
Romantic partner support during pregnancy: The discrepancy between self-reported and coder-rated support as a risk factor for prenatal psychopathology and stress
Romantic partner support from the father-to-be is associated with women's mental health during pregnancy. However, most studies of partner support rely upon women's responses to self-report questionnaires, which may be biased and should be corroborated by efficient, coder-rated measures of partner support. This study tested whether the Five-Minute Speech Sample (FMSS), adapted to assess expressed emotion about romantic partners, can provide infor…
Interpersonal Violence, Maternal Perception of Infant Emotion, and Child-Parent Psychotherapy
Associations between prenatal substance exposure, prenatal violence victimization, unintended pregnancy, and trauma exposure in childhood in a clinical setting
Given the importance of early prevention and intervention strategies for children exposed to trauma, detection of early risk factors for exposure to traumatic events in childhood is critical. The present study examined associations between three known prenatal risk factors that characterize environmental instability in utero—prenatal substance exposure, prenatal violence victimization, and unintended pregnancy—and child exposure to interparental …
Positive childhood experiences predict less psychopathology and stress in pregnant women with childhood adversity: A pilot study of the benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) scale
Assessing Angels in the Nursery: A Pilot Study of Childhood Memories of Benevolent Caregiving as Protective Influences
This pilot study provides the first empirical test of the concept of “Angels in the Nursery” by examining whether childhood memories of benevolent caregiving experiences protect against heightened levels of psychopathology in high‐risk mothers. The study hypothesized that (a) elaborated childhood memories of feeling loved by a caregiver (“angel memories”) would moderate adulthood posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in mothers with child…
Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood Dc: 0–5 : Selective Reviews From a New Nosology for Early Childhood Psychopathology
The Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood: Revised Edition (DC:0-5; ZERO TO THREE) is scheduled to be published in 2016. The articles in this section are selective reviews that have been undertaken as part of the process of refining and updating the nosology. They provide the rationales for new disorders, for disorders that had not been included previously in the Diagnostic Classific…
Defining Relational Pathology in Early Childhood: The Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood Dc:0–5 Approach
Infant mental health is explicitly relational in its focus, and therefore a diagnostic classification system for early childhood disorders should include attention not only to within‐the‐child psychopathology but also between child and caregiver psychopathology. In this article, we begin by providing a review of previous efforts to introduce this approach that date back more than 30 years. Next, we introduce changes proposed in the Diagnostic Cla…
Maternal Meta-Emotion Philosophy and Cognitive Functioning in Children Exposed to Violence
A call for integrating a mental health perspective into systems of care for abused and neglected infants and young children
A system of care for abused and neglected infants and young children should adopt a comprehensive perspective, with mental health considerations systematically incorporated into policies and decisions affecting children and their families. Children age birth to 5 years have disproportionately high rates of maltreatment, with long-term consequences for their mental and physical health. Research on normal development and developmental psychopatholo…
The Influence of Domestic Violence on Preschooler Behavior and Functioning
Variations in Behavior Problems of Preschoolers Exposed to Domestic Violence: The Role of Mothers’ Attunement to Children’s Emotional Experiences
Ghosts and angels: Intergenerational patterns in the transmission and treatment of the traumatic sequelae of domestic violence
The article discusses the impact of exposure to domestic violence on infants, toddlers, and preschoolers; the manifestations of post‐traumatic stress disorder in the first years of life; and the parameters of Child‐Parent Psychotherapy as a relationship‐based treatment that aims at enhancing the parent's effectiveness as a protector as a means of restoring the child's momentum towards healthy development. Obstacles to the child's mental health an…
Child-Parent Psychotherapy: 6-Month Follow-up of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Parental Representations in the Play of Preschool Aged Witnesses of Marital Violence
Toward Evidence-Based Treatment: Child-Parent Psychotherapy with Preschoolers Exposed to Marital Violence
Angels in the nursery: The intergenerational transmission of benevolent parental influences
Fraiberg and her colleagues (1975) introduced the metaphor "ghosts in the nursery" to describe the ways in which parents, by reenacting with their small children scenes from the parents' own unremembered early relational experiences of helplessness and fear, transmit child maltreatment from one generation to the next. In this article we propose that angels in the nursery-care-receiving experiences characterized by intense shared affect between pa…
Traumatic stress and quality of attachment: Reality and internalization in disorders of infant mental health
This article describes the interface between the fields of attachment and child trauma, their respective contributions to an understanding of infant mental health disturbances, and the clinical applications of an integration between attachment theory and trauma‐informed treatment and research. The organizing theme is that a dual attachment and trauma lens must be used in the assessment and treatment of infants and toddlers with mental health and …
Angels in the nursery: The intergenerational transmission of benevolent parental influences
Fraiberg and her colleagues (1975) introduced the metaphor "ghosts in the nursery" to describe the ways in which parents, by reenacting with their small children scenes from the parents' own unremembered early relational experiences of helplessness and fear, transmit child maltreatment from one generation to the next. In this article we propose that angels in the nursery-care-receiving experiences characterized by intense shared affect between pa…
A call for integrating a mental health perspective into systems of care for abused and neglected infants and young children
A system of care for abused and neglected infants and young children should adopt a comprehensive perspective, with mental health considerations systematically incorporated into policies and decisions affecting children and their families. Children age birth to 5 years have disproportionately high rates of maltreatment, with long-term consequences for their mental and physical health. Research on normal development and developmental psychopatholo…
Traumatic stress and quality of attachment: Reality and internalization in disorders of infant mental health
This article describes the interface between the fields of attachment and child trauma, their respective contributions to an understanding of infant mental health disturbances, and the clinical applications of an integration between attachment theory and trauma‐informed treatment and research. The organizing theme is that a dual attachment and trauma lens must be used in the assessment and treatment of infants and toddlers with mental health and …
The Influence of Domestic Violence on Preschooler Behavior and Functioning
Variations in Behavior Problems of Preschoolers Exposed to Domestic Violence: The Role of Mothers’ Attunement to Children’s Emotional Experiences
Assessing Angels in the Nursery: A Pilot Study of Childhood Memories of Benevolent Caregiving as Protective Influences
This pilot study provides the first empirical test of the concept of “Angels in the Nursery” by examining whether childhood memories of benevolent caregiving experiences protect against heightened levels of psychopathology in high‐risk mothers. The study hypothesized that (a) elaborated childhood memories of feeling loved by a caregiver (“angel memories”) would moderate adulthood posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in mothers with child…
Ghosts and angels: Intergenerational patterns in the transmission and treatment of the traumatic sequelae of domestic violence
The article discusses the impact of exposure to domestic violence on infants, toddlers, and preschoolers; the manifestations of post‐traumatic stress disorder in the first years of life; and the parameters of Child‐Parent Psychotherapy as a relationship‐based treatment that aims at enhancing the parent's effectiveness as a protector as a means of restoring the child's momentum towards healthy development. Obstacles to the child's mental health an…
Romantic partner support during pregnancy: The discrepancy between self-reported and coder-rated support as a risk factor for prenatal psychopathology and stress
Romantic partner support from the father-to-be is associated with women's mental health during pregnancy. However, most studies of partner support rely upon women's responses to self-report questionnaires, which may be biased and should be corroborated by efficient, coder-rated measures of partner support. This study tested whether the Five-Minute Speech Sample (FMSS), adapted to assess expressed emotion about romantic partners, can provide infor…
Defining Relational Pathology in Early Childhood: The Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood Dc:0–5 Approach
Infant mental health is explicitly relational in its focus, and therefore a diagnostic classification system for early childhood disorders should include attention not only to within‐the‐child psychopathology but also between child and caregiver psychopathology. In this article, we begin by providing a review of previous efforts to introduce this approach that date back more than 30 years. Next, we introduce changes proposed in the Diagnostic Cla…
Parental Representations in the Play of Preschool Aged Witnesses of Marital Violence
Culturally Competent Responses” and “Children: Hidden Victims”
National experts discuss culturally competent domestic violence health care responses and children who witness domestic violence. Comments address culturally competent systems, research, and clinical responses in Native American, Latina immigrant, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities and effects on and responses to children who witness domestic violence
Type versus timing of adverse and benevolent childhood experiences for pregnant women’s psychological and reproductive health
A multivariate analysis of social dominance in children
The social dominance behavior of dyads of unacquainted, same-sex 31/2 year-olds was observed in a familiar laboratory playroom under two conditions: A free play situation and a situation where candy was introduced. In each of the two conditions, a principal components analysis was used to explore two issues: the usefulness of the multivariate approach in devising a definition of dominance, and the cross-situational stability of the construct. In …
Aggression and sexuality in relation to toddler attachment: Implications for the caregiving system
Sexuality and aggression emerge in the second year of life as important motivational systems that organize substantial aspects of the toddler's behavior, affecting the operation of the attachment system and transforming the parents' perceptions and behaviors toward the child. The interconnection between different motivational systems in the parent and child is discussed as an important dimension in broadening our understanding of attachment in th…
Mental health assessment of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in a service program and a treatment outcome research program
This article describes the mental health assessment in preparation for treatment conducted in two University-based clinical programs that offer dyadic child-parent psychotherapy as the treatment modality. The Infant-Parent Program is a mental health program serving children between birth and 3 years of age and their families when the parent-child relationship is jeopardized by risk factors in the parent, child, or family circumstances. The Child …
Children in a violent society
Children in a violent society
Culturally Competent Responses” and “Children: Hidden Victims”
National experts discuss culturally competent domestic violence health care responses and children who witness domestic violence. Comments address culturally competent systems, research, and clinical responses in Native American, Latina immigrant, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities and effects on and responses to children who witness domestic violence
Traumatic stress and quality of attachment: Reality and internalization in disorders of infant mental health
This article describes the interface between the fields of attachment and child trauma, their respective contributions to an understanding of infant mental health disturbances, and the clinical applications of an integration between attachment theory and trauma‐informed treatment and research. The organizing theme is that a dual attachment and trauma lens must be used in the assessment and treatment of infants and toddlers with mental health and …
Toward Evidence-Based Treatment: Child-Parent Psychotherapy with Preschoolers Exposed to Marital Violence
Angels in the nursery: The intergenerational transmission of benevolent parental influences
Fraiberg and her colleagues (1975) introduced the metaphor "ghosts in the nursery" to describe the ways in which parents, by reenacting with their small children scenes from the parents' own unremembered early relational experiences of helplessness and fear, transmit child maltreatment from one generation to the next. In this article we propose that angels in the nursery-care-receiving experiences characterized by intense shared affect between pa…
Child-Parent Psychotherapy: 6-Month Follow-up of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Parental Representations in the Play of Preschool Aged Witnesses of Marital Violence
The Influence of Domestic Violence on Preschooler Behavior and Functioning
Variations in Behavior Problems of Preschoolers Exposed to Domestic Violence: The Role of Mothers’ Attunement to Children’s Emotional Experiences
Ghosts and angels: Intergenerational patterns in the transmission and treatment of the traumatic sequelae of domestic violence
The article discusses the impact of exposure to domestic violence on infants, toddlers, and preschoolers; the manifestations of post‐traumatic stress disorder in the first years of life; and the parameters of Child‐Parent Psychotherapy as a relationship‐based treatment that aims at enhancing the parent's effectiveness as a protector as a means of restoring the child's momentum towards healthy development. Obstacles to the child's mental health an…
A call for integrating a mental health perspective into systems of care for abused and neglected infants and young children
A system of care for abused and neglected infants and young children should adopt a comprehensive perspective, with mental health considerations systematically incorporated into policies and decisions affecting children and their families. Children age birth to 5 years have disproportionately high rates of maltreatment, with long-term consequences for their mental and physical health. Research on normal development and developmental psychopatholo…
Maternal Meta-Emotion Philosophy and Cognitive Functioning in Children Exposed to Violence
Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood Dc: 0–5 : Selective Reviews From a New Nosology for Early Childhood Psychopathology
The Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood: Revised Edition (DC:0-5; ZERO TO THREE) is scheduled to be published in 2016. The articles in this section are selective reviews that have been undertaken as part of the process of refining and updating the nosology. They provide the rationales for new disorders, for disorders that had not been included previously in the Diagnostic Classific…
Defining Relational Pathology in Early Childhood: The Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood Dc:0–5 Approach
Infant mental health is explicitly relational in its focus, and therefore a diagnostic classification system for early childhood disorders should include attention not only to within‐the‐child psychopathology but also between child and caregiver psychopathology. In this article, we begin by providing a review of previous efforts to introduce this approach that date back more than 30 years. Next, we introduce changes proposed in the Diagnostic Cla…
Assessing Angels in the Nursery: A Pilot Study of Childhood Memories of Benevolent Caregiving as Protective Influences
This pilot study provides the first empirical test of the concept of “Angels in the Nursery” by examining whether childhood memories of benevolent caregiving experiences protect against heightened levels of psychopathology in high‐risk mothers. The study hypothesized that (a) elaborated childhood memories of feeling loved by a caregiver (“angel memories”) would moderate adulthood posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in mothers with child…
Positive childhood experiences predict less psychopathology and stress in pregnant women with childhood adversity: A pilot study of the benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) scale
Interpersonal Violence, Maternal Perception of Infant Emotion, and Child-Parent Psychotherapy
Associations between prenatal substance exposure, prenatal violence victimization, unintended pregnancy, and trauma exposure in childhood in a clinical setting
Given the importance of early prevention and intervention strategies for children exposed to trauma, detection of early risk factors for exposure to traumatic events in childhood is critical. The present study examined associations between three known prenatal risk factors that characterize environmental instability in utero—prenatal substance exposure, prenatal violence victimization, and unintended pregnancy—and child exposure to interparental …
Maternal Pregnancy Wantedness and Perceptions of Paternal Pregnancy Wantedness: Associations with Perinatal Mental Health and Relationship Dynamics
Type versus timing of adverse and benevolent childhood experiences for pregnant women’s psychological and reproductive health
Romantic partner support during pregnancy: The discrepancy between self-reported and coder-rated support as a risk factor for prenatal psychopathology and stress
Romantic partner support from the father-to-be is associated with women's mental health during pregnancy. However, most studies of partner support rely upon women's responses to self-report questionnaires, which may be biased and should be corroborated by efficient, coder-rated measures of partner support. This study tested whether the Five-Minute Speech Sample (FMSS), adapted to assess expressed emotion about romantic partners, can provide infor…
Psychology (28 works) · Developmental psychology (23 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (18 works) · Clinical Psychology (17 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Psychiatry (17 works) · Mental health (13 works) · Poison control (12 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (11 works) · Injury prevention (10 works)