Joy D Osofsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 89663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joy D Osofsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joy D |
| FAMILY NAME | Osofsky |
| SIGNATURE | OSOFSKY J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6775-8831 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 263 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Oil Spill: Lessons learned about short‐term and long‐term effects
The impact and lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Oil Spill are described as an example of work done reflecting best practices and theory to gain a better understanding of risk and resilience for children and families. Hurricane Katrina, described as the worst natural disaster in the US history, resulted in traumatic separations of children and families and devastation of communities and schools. The impact was greater on familie…
The importance of adverse childhood experiences during the perinatal period
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study (Felitti et al., 1998) has led to an understanding of how exposure to abuse, neglect, and family dysfunction in childhood are related to subsequent physical and mental health problems. These issues are important to consider during the perinatal period, with studies indicating that pregnant women who report adverse experiences in childhood may be at risk of experiencing mental health and substance use…
Psychological and social impact of Covid-19
The high numbers of COVID-19 infections and deaths, economic difficulties, uncertainty about the future, as well as the approaches needed to contain the spread of the virus are all playing critical roles in the short and long-term social and psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Inequities based on race and socioeconomic status influence the rates of infection and deaths and steps that are needed to achieve recovery. This commentary focu…
Three-year longitudinal study of perceptions of competence and well-being among youth exposed to disasters
This article examines perceptions of competence/well-being over time and linkages to exposure to natural disaster experiences and stress associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in youth. A multi-wave naturalistic design was used to follow N = 3,399 students, ages 8–18 years who were evaluated for perceptions of competence/well-being, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, hurricane exposure experiences, and stress related to the o…
Building Resilience after Disasters through the Youth Leadership Program: The Importance of Community and Academic Partnerships on Youth Outcomes
Building Resilience after Disasters through the Youth Leadership Program: The Importance of Community and Academic Partnerships on Youth Outcomes
The YLP demonstrated how disaster response interventions supporting resilience-based leadership and empowerment influenced students' perceived ability to achieve goals fostering post-disaster resilience. Successful initiatives, such as the YLP, emphasize the importance of parallel and interactive individual, family and community support processes to enhance the recovery experience for both individuals and communities
Factors Contributing to Mental and Physical Health Care in a Disaster-Prone Environment
Environment as a contextual factor plays an important role in southeastern Louisiana, as this area represents a major economic hub for the United States port, petroleum, and fishing industries. The location also exposes the population to both natural and technological disasters, including Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf oil spill. This study explored associations among hurricane loss, oil spill disruption, and environmental quality of life on ment…
Children’s disaster experiences and psychological symptoms: An international comparison between the Chilean earthquake and tsunami and Hurricane Katrina
Improved understanding of the psychological impact on children following natural disasters is needed to assist with psychological recovery. The purpose of this exploratory study was to compare the disaster experiences and psychological symptoms of children, ages 8 to 17, following the Chilean earthquake and tsunami, and Hurricane Katrina. Over one-third of all students ( N = 827) met the symptom cut-off for mental health referral. Two one-sided t…
Louisiana Spirit Specialized Crisis Counseling: Counselor perceptions of training and services
Clinical work with traumatized young children
Maternal Perceptions of Temperament Among Infants and Toddlers Investigated for Maltreatment: Implications for Services Need and Referral
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…
Perspectives on helping traumatized infants, young children, and their families
Traumatized infants, toddlers, and young children can affect adults in different ways but most often pull extreme reactions ranging from empathy to anger. It is important for those who support, intervene, and provide therapeutic services for traumatized young children and their families to understand that various traumatization, compassion, fatigue, and burnout can be an integral part of the work. All interveners, including child welfare workers,…
Working within the context of relationships: Multidisciplinary, relational, and reflective practice, training, and supervision
Posttraumatic stress symptoms in children after Hurricane Katrina: Predicting the need for mental health services
The purpose of this study was to examine factors related to the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms in children and adolescents after Hurricane Katrina. It was hypothesized that a positive correlation would exist between trauma exposure variables and symptoms indicating need for mental health services experienced 2 years after Hurricane Katrina. Specifically, the authors hypothesized that experiences associated with natural disaster incl…
A judicial–mental health partnership to heal young children in juvenile court
In this article, we describe the background and issues to be addressed related to dependent children in juvenile court. In an important effort to systematically examine developmental functioning and treatment needs in maltreated and violence‐exposed young children, the Prevention and Evaluation of Early Neglect and Trauma (PREVENT) initiative of the Dependency Court Intervention Program for Family Violence, a national demonstration project in the…
The development and evaluation of the intervention model for the Florida Infant Mental Health Pilot Program
The focus of this paper is on the development and evaluation of an intervention model for Florida's Infant and Young Child Mental Health Pilot Program, designed to identify families with children at risk for abuse and neglect, and to provide clinical evaluation and treatment services. The evaluation model, intervention strategies, and results presented in this paper are all part of the Florida pilot project developed as a response to the recommen…
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall: Promoting the health and well being of infants and toddlers in juvenile court
Approximately one‐third of the children in the child welfare system are under the age of six. These children are almost invisible in our juvenile courts. It is now clear from the emerging science of early childhood development that during the first few years of life, children develop the foundation and capabilities on which all subsequent development builds. Living in emotional and environmental impoverishment and deprivation provides a poor foun…
Revisiting “ghosts” and finding “angels”
Irving B. Harris: In memoriam
Ghosts and angels: How can we find them in the nursery and beyond
Community outreach for children exposed to violence
Children are traumatized by community and domestic‐violence exposure as victims and witnesses. Being exposed to violence and being abused also can doubly traumatize them. Information on the effects of violence exposure on children is presented in this article, including developmental implications, resultant behaviors, and the most extreme reaction, posttraumatic stress disorder. Parental and caregiver traumatization also are discussed. Prevention…
Working with police to help children exposed to violence
Children's exposure to community and domestic violence is a major problem in our country. Exposure to violence can contribute to negative short‐ and longer‐term outcomes for children that includes significant risk for later violent behavior. Prevention and intervention programs for children exposed to violence benefit from creative strategies and collaborations to identify and reach children earlier in order to prevent or reduce the risk. This ar…
Infant mental health interventions in juvenile court: Ameliorating the effects of maltreatment and deprivation
The juvenile court has provided a fertile opportunity for the exercise of therapeutic jurisprudence since its inception a century ago. Unfortunately, until 1997 when the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) was passed, the parent (and not the child) was the center of the child welfare system. With the change in dependency law after ASFA, the juvenile court has a legal responsibility to focus on the well-being and safety of the child as its param…
Prevalence of Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment: Implications for Prevention and Intervention
The effects of exposure to violence on young children
The Impact of Violence on Children
Existing research on the effects of children's exposure to violence covers a broad range of community, family, and media violence. This research is relevant and useful to an examination of domestic violence in two key ways. First, understanding how exposure to various types of violence affects children and what best enables them to cope can point to important considerations when trying to help children cope with exposure to domestic violence in p…
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…
Parent-child interaction: Daughters' effects upon mothers' and fathers' behaviors
Perspectives on helping traumatized infants, young children, and their families
Traumatized infants, toddlers, and young children can affect adults in different ways but most often pull extreme reactions ranging from empathy to anger. It is important for those who support, intervene, and provide therapeutic services for traumatized young children and their families to understand that various traumatization, compassion, fatigue, and burnout can be an integral part of the work. All interveners, including child welfare workers,…
Parenting after trauma: Supporting parents and caregivers in the treatment of children impacted by violence
The deleterious impact of trauma on parents and their capacity to parent their children seems well recognized in the clinical community, although not sufficiently studied empirically. The purposes of this article are to present an overview of current knowledge about trauma and parenting, to provide an illustrative clinical case study, and to offer recommendations for systemic treatment modalities, multidisciplinary program design, and empirical e…
Working within the context of relationships: Multidisciplinary, relational, and reflective practice, training, and supervision
The development and evaluation of the intervention model for the Florida Infant Mental Health Pilot Program
The focus of this paper is on the development and evaluation of an intervention model for Florida's Infant and Young Child Mental Health Pilot Program, designed to identify families with children at risk for abuse and neglect, and to provide clinical evaluation and treatment services. The evaluation model, intervention strategies, and results presented in this paper are all part of the Florida pilot project developed as a response to the recommen…
Adolescents as mothers: An interdisciplinary approach to a complex problem
Community outreach for children exposed to violence
Children are traumatized by community and domestic‐violence exposure as victims and witnesses. Being exposed to violence and being abused also can doubly traumatize them. Information on the effects of violence exposure on children is presented in this article, including developmental implications, resultant behaviors, and the most extreme reaction, posttraumatic stress disorder. Parental and caregiver traumatization also are discussed. Prevention…
A judicial–mental health partnership to heal young children in juvenile court
In this article, we describe the background and issues to be addressed related to dependent children in juvenile court. In an important effort to systematically examine developmental functioning and treatment needs in maltreated and violence‐exposed young children, the Prevention and Evaluation of Early Neglect and Trauma (PREVENT) initiative of the Dependency Court Intervention Program for Family Violence, a national demonstration project in the…
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall: Promoting the health and well being of infants and toddlers in juvenile court
Approximately one‐third of the children in the child welfare system are under the age of six. These children are almost invisible in our juvenile courts. It is now clear from the emerging science of early childhood development that during the first few years of life, children develop the foundation and capabilities on which all subsequent development builds. Living in emotional and environmental impoverishment and deprivation provides a poor foun…
Infant mental health interventions in juvenile court: Ameliorating the effects of maltreatment and deprivation
The juvenile court has provided a fertile opportunity for the exercise of therapeutic jurisprudence since its inception a century ago. Unfortunately, until 1997 when the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) was passed, the parent (and not the child) was the center of the child welfare system. With the change in dependency law after ASFA, the juvenile court has a legal responsibility to focus on the well-being and safety of the child as its param…
Building Resilience after Disasters through the Youth Leadership Program: The Importance of Community and Academic Partnerships on Youth Outcomes
The YLP demonstrated how disaster response interventions supporting resilience-based leadership and empowerment influenced students' perceived ability to achieve goals fostering post-disaster resilience. Successful initiatives, such as the YLP, emphasize the importance of parallel and interactive individual, family and community support processes to enhance the recovery experience for both individuals and communities
Working with police to help children exposed to violence
Children's exposure to community and domestic violence is a major problem in our country. Exposure to violence can contribute to negative short‐ and longer‐term outcomes for children that includes significant risk for later violent behavior. Prevention and intervention programs for children exposed to violence benefit from creative strategies and collaborations to identify and reach children earlier in order to prevent or reduce the risk. This ar…
Relationships between neonatal characteristics and mother-infant interaction
Maternal Perceptions of Temperament Among Infants and Toddlers Investigated for Maltreatment: Implications for Services Need and Referral
Ghosts and angels: How can we find them in the nursery and beyond
Androgyny as a Life Style
The present paper discusses androgyny, or a society with no sex role differentiation, as a life style. It is the opinion of the authors that such a style offers a viable option for many individuals in the near future. Traditional sex role socialization, and the results of such socialization, have been discussed. It has been pointed out that harmful effects to individuals of both sexes have frequently resulted from traditional norms. The authors h…
Adolescents as mothers: Results of a program for low-income pregnant teenagers with some emphasis upon infants' development
Low-income pregnant adolescents and their offspring represent high risk individuals from medical, educational, and social points of view. This paper reports the results of an interdisciplinary program for such girls and their babies. Striking successes are noted for both mothers and infants. However, residual problems remain, and these are discussed
The Shaping of Mother's Behavior by Children
The present study has attempted to investigate some of the child effects upon parents. Utilizing a structured laboratory situation and an~ intervention approach, role playing children were trained to behave differently in each of three situations in an effort to determine possible effects upon the mothers. Differences in mothers' reinforcing behavior and teaching style were noted in response to the children's changing behaviors. The findings lend…
Parent-child interaction: Daughters' effects upon mothers' and fathers' behaviors
The psychological reaction of patients to legalized abortion
Available research concerning psychological effects of abortion is reviewed, and background and psychological data from patients attending a legalized abortion program in New York State are presented. Patients demographically reflected the community at large, and, consistent with the literature, experienced few psychological difficulties. Scientific and ethical implications are discussed
Androgyny as a Life Style
The present paper discusses androgyny, or a society with no sex role differentiation, as a life style. It is the opinion of the authors that such a style offers a viable option for many individuals in the near future. Traditional sex role socialization, and the results of such socialization, have been discussed. It has been pointed out that harmful effects to individuals of both sexes have frequently resulted from traditional norms. The authors h…
Adolescents as mothers: An interdisciplinary approach to a complex problem
Relationships between neonatal characteristics and mother-infant interaction
The Abortion Experience: Psychological and Medical Impact
Challenges of home visitor interventions with adolescent mothers and their infants
Issues in designing a home visitor intervention and research program for 130 adolescent mothers, 17 and under, and their infants from birth to 30 months are discussed. The overall project is described, and various aspects of creating and maintaining a home visitor intervention program are discussed, including: (1) Issues and problems that arise with the integration of a home visitor intervention component into an ongoing health department program…
Attachment theory and research and the psychoanalytic process.
Attachment theory and research and the psychoanalytic process
Utilite de la theorie de l'attachement objectal en tant que theorie developpementale susceptible d'aider a la comprehension du processus de la cure analytique et de l'etiologie des troubles du developpement
Speaking for the baby: A therapeutic intervention with adolescent mothers and their infants
Adolescent mothers frequently experience problems in mother-infant interaction. However, intervention can be very difficult, particularly when complicated by unresolved conflicts involving relationships in the young woman's past. This article describes a therapeutic intervention, based on the work of Fraiberg, which allows the young mother to learn to interpret her infant's cues while also encouraging her to express her own emotions in the contex…
Children of adolescent mothers: A group at risk for psychopathologyS
Developmental psychopathology focuses on developmental aspects of pathology as well as individual patterns of adaptation and maladaptation. Adaptation involves the resolution of earlier issues, with successful resolution facilitating adaptation and earlier developmental failures increasing the likelihood of future problems. The study of developmental psychology provides knowledge about normal processes in order to better understand psychopatholog…
Chronic Community Violence: What Is Happening to Our Children?
Chronic violence is a growing problem in our society today as evidenced, among other factors, by the ever-increasing murder rate in many of our large urban centers in the United States. Emphasis has begun to be placed on chronic violence, causes that may contribute to it, and the impact of this violence on cities and the country at large. While concern has been expressed, we still have not addressed adequately, nor do we fully understand, the eff…
Introduction to Harris symposium on prevention and intervention
Introduction to constructions of the infant's representational world
Dyadic affect regulation in three caregiving environments
Investigation of patterns of mother-child affect across three caregiving groups indicated that both adolescent and adult high-social-risk mothers showed less individual positive affect than did adult low-social-risk mothers. High-social-risk adolescent mothers also showed more individual negative affect and participated with their children in more dyadically misregulated affect exchanges than did adult mothers from either high- or low-social-risk…
Perspectives on attachment and psychoanalysis.
Perspectives on attachment and psychoanalysis
Attachment theory and research have emphasized the importance of understanding the individual as existing withing a network of relationships. The idea of development being relationship based, and interactions with the primary caretaker leading toward the internalization of a relationship experience, is quite different from and complements psychoanalytic ideas about development. In this article, attachment as a relationship approach for understand…
Perspectives on attachment and psychoanalysis
The importance of infancy
The effects of exposure to violence on young children
Language patterns of adolescent and older mothers and their one-year-old children: A comparison study
Adolescent mothers (15;4 years) were compared with older mothers (23;7 years) when talking to their one-year-old infants using precise coding of written transcripts. The 32 subjects were similar on demographic characteristics other than age: white, primiparous, and had no more than 12 years of education. Multivariate and univariate analysis of variance indicated that, compared with older mothers, the adolescent mothers spoke significantly fewer w…
Relating the adolescent mother—child relationship to preschool outcomes
Two domains of potential risk in relation to the cognitive-linguistic outcomes of preschool children of adolescent mothers were investigated: (1) interactive features of the mother—child relationship and (2) aspects of the demographic context of parenting. Sixty-nine adolescent mothers and their children participated in evaluations when the children were 13, 20, 30, and 44 months old. Results indicated that the cognitive-linguistic development of…
A collaborative effort to study mother—child interaction in three risk groups: Social risk mother, adolescent mother, preterm infant
This paper describes the collaborative efforts of three intervention projects with similar data sets on high-risk populations of mothers and their children at 13 and 20 months. The three projects collected data on a total of 190 dyads from three risk groups: adolescent mothers and their infants, high social risk mothers and their infants, and high social risk mothers and their preterm infants. The authors define the common set of measures and res…
Psychology (57 works) · Developmental psychology (29 works) · Medicine (29 works) · Psychiatry (25 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (20 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (19 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Mental health (17 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Poison control (12 works)