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Reactive attachment disorder in maltreated toddlersCharles H Zeanah
Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, 1440 Canal Street TB-52, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Child Abuse Negl 28:877-88. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: RAD may be reliably identified in maltreated toddlers. Emotionally withdrawn/inhibited and indiscriminate/disinhibited types of RAD are not entirely independent...
The Bucharest Early Intervention Project: case study in the ethics of mental health researchCharles H Zeanah
Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 200:243-7. 2012..In discussing how these questions were addressed as the study was designed and after it was initiated, we describe our attempts to wed sound scientific practices with meaningful ethical protections for participants...- Attachment relationship experiences and childhood psychopathologyCharles H Zeanah
Institute for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Health Sciences Center, Tulane University School of Medicine, Tidewater Building TB 52, 1440 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1008:22-30. 2003..We describe recent findings and highlight areas of emerging consensus and areas of continuing controversy regarding both disorganized patterns of attachment and clinical disorders of attachment in young children... - Temperament and attachment disordersCharles H Zeanah
Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 33:32-41. 2004..We consider possible directions for research efforts designed to explore the biological underpinnings of the complex phenomenon of attachment disorders... - Institutional rearing and psychiatric disorders in Romanian preschool childrenCharles H Zeanah
Department of Psychiatry, Tulane University School of Medicine, TB 52, 1440 Canal St, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Am J Psychiatry 166:777-85. 2009..This study aimed to determine whether removing young children from institutional care and placing them with foster families would reduce psychiatric morbidity at 54 months of age... - Attachment disturbances in young children. II: Indiscriminate behavior and institutional careCharles H Zeanah
Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41:983-9. 2002.... - Attachment in institutionalized and community children in RomaniaCharles H Zeanah
Department of Psychiatry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Tidewater Building TB 52, 1440 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Child Dev 76:1015-28. 2005..Ratings of attachment behavior in the Strange Situation and caregiver reports of signs of Reactive Attachment Disorder converged moderately. The implications of these findings for different perspectives on attachment are discussed... - Evaluation of a preventive intervention for maltreated infants and toddlers in foster careC H Zeanah
Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 40:214-21. 2001..To determine the effectiveness of an intervention designed to improve outcomes for infants and toddlers in foster care... - Designing research to study the effects of institutionalization on brain and behavioral development: the Bucharest Early Intervention ProjectCharles H Zeanah
Department of Psychiatry, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Dev Psychopathol 15:885-907. 2003.... - A relational perspective on PTSD in early childhoodM S Scheering
Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
J Trauma Stress 14:799-815. 2001..Also, a Compound Model is proposed, with three distinctive patterns of the parent-child relationship that impact on posttraumatic symptomatology in young children. Implications for clinical practice and research directions are discussed... - Toward establishing procedural, criterion, and discriminant validity for PTSD in early childhoodM S Scheeringa
Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 40:52-60. 2001..To explore several key aspects of the diagnosis and assessment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in infants and young children... - Factors affecting the diagnosis and prediction of PTSD symptomatology in children and adolescentsMichael S Scheeringa
Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, TB52, 1440 Canal St, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:644-51. 2006..For older children, parent-child agreement was investigated... - The caregiving context in institution-reared and family-reared infants and toddlers in RomaniaAnna T Smyke
Tulane University, LA, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:210-8. 2007.... - The traumatic impact of Hurricane Katrina on children in New OrleansStacy S Drury
Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine, Health Science Center, 1440 Canal Street, TB 52, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 17:685-702, x. 2008..The authors review preliminary studies about the affects of the hurricane on children and adolescents and conclude with a consideration of the lessons learned from both practice and policy perspectives... - Reconsideration of harm's way: onsets and comorbidity patterns of disorders in preschool children and their caregivers following Hurricane KatrinaMichael S Scheeringa
Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70005, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 37:508-18. 2008..Differences by race and gender were largely nonsignificant. Children's new PTSD symptoms correlated more strongly to caregivers with new symptoms compared to caregivers with old or no symptoms... - A new model of foster care for young children: the Bucharest early intervention projectAnna T Smyke
Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1440 Canal Street TB 52, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 18:721-34. 2009..For some domains of development, earlier placement was associated with better outcomes but for others, timing of placement did not appear to matter... - Placement in foster care enhances quality of attachment among young institutionalized childrenAnna T Smyke
Department of Psychiatry Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Child Dev 81:212-23. 2010..Foster care is an important intervention to reduce the adverse effects following early deprivation... - Attachment research and Early Head Start: from data to practiceNeil W Boris
Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
Attach Hum Dev 13:99-104. 2011..In this commentary, we offer some initial thoughts on how each of the studies presented might be used to foster program improvement and inspire research that will address pressing questions looking forward... - Predictive validity in a prospective follow-up of PTSD in preschool childrenMichael S Scheeringa
Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 44:899-906. 2005..To examine the predictive validity of an alternative to the DSM-IV for diagnosing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in preschool children and prospectively explore the course of PTSD symptomatology... - Comparing criteria for attachment disorders: establishing reliability and validity in high-risk samplesNeil W Boris
Tulane University, Department of Community Health Sciences, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:568-77. 2004.... - Partner violence among homeless young adults: measurement issues and associationsNeil W Boris
Department of Psychiatry, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
J Adolesc Health 30:355-63. 2002..The primary goal of this study was to test the reliability of the Partner Violence Interview and examine validity by measuring differential correlates of partner violence... - Attachment disorders: assessment strategies and treatment approachesThomas G O'Connor
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Attach Hum Dev 5:223-44. 2003..An absence of established treatment guidelines or consensus regarding the mechanisms of change are highlighted as barriers to further progress... - New findings on alternative criteria for PTSD in preschool childrenMichael S Scheeringa
Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, 1440 Canal Street, TB52, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:561-70. 2003..An alternative set of criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for preschool children was analyzed for validity... - Attachment disturbances in young children. I: The continuum of caretaking casualtyAnna T Smyke
Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41:972-82. 2002..To determine whether signs of disordered attachment were greater in young children being reared in more socially depriving caregiving environments... - Disturbances of attachment in young children adopted from institutionsC H Zeanah
Department of Psychiatry, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 21:230-6. 2000..Three explanations for this divergence of recovery curves are considered. It is likely that future systematic studies will illuminate many areas that are unclear at this time... 
Telomere length and early severe social deprivation: linking early adversity and cellular agingS S Drury
Department of Psychiatry, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
Mol Psychiatry 17:719-27. 2012....- Modification of depression by COMT val158met polymorphism in children exposed to early severe psychosocial deprivationStacy S Drury
Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
Child Abuse Negl 34:387-95. 2010..To examine the impact of the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) val(158)met allele on depressive symptoms in young children exposed to early severe social deprivation as a result of being raised in institutions... - Current perspectives on attachment disorders: rejoinder and synthesisCharles H Zeanah
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Attach Hum Dev 5:321-6. 2003 - Heart period and variability findings in preschool children with posttraumatic stress symptomsMichael S Scheeringa
Department of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Development Mental Health, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Biol Psychiatry 55:685-91. 2004.... - Distorted maternal mental representations and atypical behavior in a clinical sample of violence-exposed mothers and their toddlersDaniel S Schechter
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
J Trauma Dissociation 9:123-47. 2008.... - Psychobiological dysregulation in violence-exposed mothers: salivary cortisol of mothers with very young children pre- and post-separation stressDaniel S Schechter
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Bull Menninger Clin 68:319-36. 2004..e., physical or sexual abuse, and domestic violence) and related posttraumatic stress... - Introduction to the special issue: current perspectives on assessment and treatment of attachment disordersCharles H Zeanah
Attach Hum Dev 5:221-2. 2003 - Observational procedures and psychopathology in young childrenCharles H Zeanah
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:611-3. 2008 - Parent-infant relationship global assessment scale: a study of its predictive validityYutaka Aoki
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Tokai University School of Medicine, Iseharashi Bouseidai, Japan
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 56:493-7. 2002..These results contribute to the predictive validity of the PIRGAS as a measure of mother-infant relationship adaptation... - Cognitive recovery in socially deprived young children: the Bucharest Early Intervention ProjectCharles A Nelson
Harvard Medical School and Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Science 318:1937-40. 2007..These results point to the negative sequelae of early institutionalization, suggest a possible sensitive period in cognitive development, and underscore the advantages of family placements for young abandoned children... - Psychopharmacological treatment for very young children: contexts and guidelinesMary Margaret Gleason
Bradley Hasbro Research Center, Providence, RI 02903, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:1532-72. 2007..The purpose of this effort is to promote responsible treatment of young children, recognizing that this will sometimes involve the use of medications... - Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with reactive attachment disorder of infancy and early childhoodNeil W Boris
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 44:1206-19. 2005..Coercive treatments with children with attachment disorders are potentially dangerous and not recommended... - Maternal mental representations of the child in an inner-city clinical sample: violence-related posttraumatic stress and reflective functioningDaniel S Schechter
Division of Developmental Psychobiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
Attach Hum Dev 7:313-31. 2005..Level of maternal reflective functioning and severity of PTSD were not significantly correlated in this sample. Clinical implications are discussed... - Effects of early intervention on EEG power and coherence in previously institutionalized children in RomaniaPeter J Marshall
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Dev Psychopathol 20:861-80. 2008..Supplementary analyses examined whether the EEG measures mediated changes in intellectual abilities within the foster care children, but no clear evidence of mediation was observed...