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A cognitive approach to child abuse preventionDaphne Blunt Bugental
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
J Fam Psychol 16:243-58. 2002..Benefits were greatest in families that included a medically at-risk child. A linear pattern of benefits was found for child health; as program features were added, benefits for child health increased...
Preventing children's aggression: outcomes of an early interventionDaphne Blunt Bugental
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Dev Psychol 48:1443-9. 2012..Findings suggest that an early, cognitively based intervention may lead to reduced child aggression as a result of increased maternal social-emotional availability within the caregiving relationship...- Adaptive calibration of children's physiological responses to family stress: the utility of evolutionary developmental theory: comment on Del Giudice et al. (2012) and Sturge-Apple et al. (2012)Daphne Blunt Bugental
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Dev Psychol 48:806-9. 2012.... - Increases in parental investment and child health as a result of an early interventionDaphne Blunt Bugental
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 106:30-40. 2010..This pattern supports an evolutionary model of parental investment in which parents show discriminative solicitude based on the reproductive potential of the child and parents' access to relevant resources... - A cognitive approach to child mistreatment prevention among medically at-risk infantsDaphne Blunt Bugental
Department of Psychology, University of California, USA
Dev Psychol 45:284-8. 2009..The sample (N = 102) was primarily Latino; however, the effects of the intervention were not qualified by ethnicity, maternal education, or immigration status... 
Hormonal sensitivity of preterm versus full-term infants to the effects of maternal depressionDaphne Blunt Bugental
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Infant Behav Dev 31:51-61. 2008..As a result, they may manifest very different hormonal outcomes--with implications for their later development...- Predicting infant maltreatment in low-income families: the interactive effects of maternal attributions and child status at birthDaphne Blunt Bugental
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Dev Psychol 40:234-43. 2004..It is suggested that lack of perceived parental power constrains investment in protective relationships and fosters sensitization to potential threat... - Children "tune out" in response to the ambiguous communication style of powerless adultsD B Bugental
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106, USA
Child Dev 70:214-30. 1999..Results were interpreted as showing that adult ambiguity (naturally occurring or experimentally produced) leads to reductions in children's attentional engagement... - The hormonal costs of subtle forms of infant maltreatmentDaphne Blunt Bugental
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Horm Behav 43:237-44. 2003.... - Parental and child cognitions in the context of the familyD B Bugental
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 51:315-44. 2000..As a growth area, there is emerging interest in the application of our knowledge of cognitions to the clinical context in programs designed to remediate and prevent family problems... - Acquisition of the algorithms of social life: a domain-based approachD B Bugental
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106, USA
Psychol Bull 126:187-219. 2000..Empirical evidence for domain specificity was strongest for the attachment domain; supportive evidence was also found for the distinctiveness of the 4 other domains. Implications are considered at theoretical and applied levels... - In charge but not in control: the management of teaching relationships by adults with low perceived powerD B Bugental
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106, USA
Dev Psychol 35:1367-78. 1999..Women with low perceived power were also more likely to attribute intentionality to children whose behavior was ambiguous. Results were interpreted as having implications for violence within adult-child relationships... - Maternal variations in stress reactivity: implications for harsh parenting practices with very young childrenGabriela A Martorell
Department of Psychology, Portland State University, Portland, USA
J Fam Psychol 20:641-7. 2006..These findings have clinical implications for the ways in which parental empowerment (via early interventions) can serve to reduce stress and thus the negative outcomes at-risk children may experience... - A bio-social-cognitive approach to understanding and promoting the outcomes of children with medical and physical disordersDaphne Blunt Bugental
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, CA 93106, USA
Adv Child Dev Behav 31:329-61. 2003 - Gender, power, and violence in the familyDaphne Blunt Bugental
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Child Maltreat 7:56-64. 2002..Women (but no men) with a history of abuse attributed less power or control to self than to children. Implications are drawn for gender differences in the role of biased attributions as a consequence of physical abuse...
Research Grants
- SOCIAL POWER AS A REGULATOR OF CAREGIVING SYSTEMSDAPHNE BUGENTAL; Fiscal Year: 1999..Future instances of abusive or coercive patenting will be assessed as a combined function on parental power perceptions and child temperament characteristics. ..
- A Biosocial Study of Childhood DisabilityDAPHNE BUGENTAL; Fiscal Year: 2006..Finally, we will study the benefits of an attribution-based home visitation program for new parents of "challenged" children as a means of reducing risk and fostering opportunity. ..