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Name: David Oppenheim Date: March 23 2015
CURRICULUM VITAE
1. Personal Details Name: David Oppenheim
Date of Birth: 3/12/58
Country of Birth: U.S.A
Date of Aliyah: March 1959
Identity Card Number: 065223364
Marital Status: Married; 3 children
Permanent Home Address: 22 Yotam St. Haifa, Israel
Home Telephone Number: 04-834-5643
Office Telephone Number: 04-8240197
Electronic Address: [email protected]
Fax Number: +972-04-825-3896
2. Higher Education
Date of Degree Degree Name of Institution
and Department
Period of
Study
1983 B.A.
University of Haifa, Psychology and Philosophy
1980-1983
1986 M.A. University of Haifa, Psychology
1983-1985
1990 Ph.D. University of Utah, Psychology
1985-1990
Postdoctoral University of Colorado, Department of Psychiatry, Robert N. Emde, Laboratory Head
1990-1992
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3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education
. Rank/Position Name of Institution and
Department
Dates
Lecturer Dept. of Psychology, University of Haifa
1992-1997
Senior Lecturer (with tenure)
Dept. of Psychology, University of Haifa
1997-2004
Visiting Scholar Dept. of Psychology, University of Utah, USA
1999-2000
Associate Professor (with tenure)
Dept. of Psychology, University of Haifa
2004-2010
Full Professor (with tenure)
Dept. of Psychology, University of Haifa
2010- current
4. Offices in University Academic Administration
2002 – 2005 Chair, B.A. Committee, Dept. of Psychology.
2002 – current Co-head of the Developmental Psychology program
2004 – 2006 Member of the University’s Discipline Committee.
2005 – 2007 Member of teaching committee, Faculty of Social Sciences.
2005 – 2008 Chair, Ph.D. Committee, Dept. of Psychology.
2008 – 2011 Chair, Department of Psychology.
2009 – current Head of MA committee, Child Development Program, Faculty of
Social Sciences.
2012 – 2015 Member, University of Haifa Appointment and Promotion
Committee
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Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the University
Editorial Positions: 1) Consulting Editor, Child Development, 2008 - 2012.
2) Associate Editor, Infant Mental Health Journal, 2000 – 2008
3) Member of the Editorial board, Attachment and Human Development, 2004 -
current.
4) Member of the Editorial board, Parenting: Science and Practice, 2014 - current.
Journal Reviewing:
Ad-hoc reviewing for the following journals: Child Development, Developmental Psychology,
Human Development, Family Process, Merril-Palmer Ouarterly, International Journal of Behavioral
Development, Social Development, Development and Psychopathology.
Chairing Review Panels for Funding Agencies
Chairing the Psychology review panel, Israel Science Foundation, 2005, 2006.
Reviewing Grant Proposals for Funding Agencies
1) Reviewing research proposals for the Israel Science Foundation, Bi-national Science
Foundation, Shalem Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada.
2) Member of the Psychology review panel for the Israel Foundation Trustees.
Reviews for Scientific Conferences
1) Chair of review panel for the International Conference on Infant Studies, 2002.
2) Reviewing submissions for the biennial conference of the Society for Research in Child
Development, Denver, Colorado, 2009.
3) Reviewing submissions and Alternate Chair of Review Panel for the biennial conference
of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada, 2009.
Professional Activities Outside the University
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1) Member of the Executive Committee and Treasurer, World Association of
Infant Mental Health, 2000-2003.
2) Research consultant, Center for the Study of the Family, Department of
Psychiatry, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 2001 – 2004.
3) Member of Malag-appointed committee (A. Henik, chair) for implementing the
recommendations of the Review of Departments of Psychology in Israel, 2010.
5. Participation in Scholarly Conferences
a. Active Participation
a. 1. Conferences held in Israel
Subject of
Lecture/Discussion/Comments
and Authors
Place of
Conference
(Israel)
Name of
Conference
Date
Separate influences of mother-and father-child co-constructions on children’s independent narratives (with Emde)
Ramat-Gan, Israel
Israel Psychological Association
October 1993
Children’s and parents' narratives about family relationships: Associations with child and family socio-emotional adaptation (with Emde)
Be’er Sheva, Israel
Israel Psychological Association
October 1995
Mother-child narrative co-construction: Relations with early attachment (with Koren-Karie, & Sagi).
Tel-Aviv, Israel Israel Psychological Association
October 1997
Attachment in Autism The Dead Sea Developmental Psychology section of the Israeli Psychological Association
February 2007
Parent-child emotion dialogues Ma’a lot Developmental Psychology section of the Israeli Psychological Association
February 2008
The Psychological Secure Base in Parent-Child Dialogues: Can it
Jerusalem Trauma in Early Childhood
June 2009
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Buffer Against the Effects of Trauma?
Conference
Maternal Insightfulness into the emotional experience of the child: Its significance for children's development in normative and high-risk conditions
Akko World Association for Infant Mental Health Regional Meeting
October 2009
The significance of maternal sensitivity for the development of preschoolers with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva
Conference in Honor of the Retirement of Judy Auerbach
June 2010
a. 2. Conferences held outside Israel
Subject of
Lecture/Discussion/Comments
and Authors
Place of
Conference
(abroad)
Name of
Conference
Date
Infant-Adult security of attachment on Israeli Kibbutzim in the first year of life and its relation to social-emotional development four years later (with Sagi & Lamb).
Los Angeles, CA International Conference on Infant Studies.
April 1986
Representational assessments of attachments in 3-to 6-year-olds
Baltimore, MD Society for Research in Child Development.
April 1987
Assessments of child-mother attachment at the preschool age.
Vancouver, Canada
International Conference on Personal Relationships
July 1988
Assessing preschoolers’ attachment security using a doll interview (with Lamb)
Kansas City Society for Research in Child Development
April 1989
Parent’s narratives about their children’s birth: Associations with marital, parental, and child emotional distress (with Wamboldt & Emde)
Denver, Colorado
Developmental Psychobiology Research Group annual meeting
May 1991
Vulnerable child discussion group (Emde & Oppenheim)
New York, NY American Psychoanalytic Association meeting
December 1991
a) How parents and children co-construct narratives about
Miami, Florida International Conference on
May 1992
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emotionally charged events: Global and microanalytic perspectives (with Reily & Emde).
Infant Studies
b) Parents and children’s co-construction of narratives about emotionally charged events: Relation to children’s independent performance and socioemotional adaptation (with Emde).
c) Co-constructing the point of departure: Parents’ stories of their child’s birth (with Wamboldt, Renouf, & Emde)
d) Cross-gender patterns in parents’ perceptions of their children: Like mother like son, like father like daughter (with Winfrey & Emde)
Narratives from the early years: Emotionally charged events, conflict, and risk for Psychopathology (with Emde)
Chicago, Illinois
World Association for Infant Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
September 1992
Construction and co-construction of preschoolers’ narratives about emotions: Family influences (with Emde)
New Orleans Society for Research in Child Development
March 1993
Do negative themes/emotions in children's play predict behavior problems? (Warren, Emde, & Oppenheim)
San Antonio, Texas,
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
October 1993
a) Children’s Family Narratives: A new window into their experience
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development
June 1994
b) Preschoolers’ moral narratives: A window into early struggles with internal conflict (with Hasson & Emde))
a) Children’s and parents' narratives about family relationships: Associations with child and family socioemotional adaptation.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Society for Research in Child Development
March 1995
b) The emotional quality of
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parental presentations in child narratives: Associations with child and family functioning (with Milika & Emde). c) Children secure coping during narrative co-constructions with mothers: Links to healthy family functioning (with Nir & Emde).
a) Mothers’ empathic understanding: Relations with early attachment (with Koren-Karie & Sagi).
Washington DC Society for Research in Child Development
April 1997
b) The MacArthur Story-Stem Battery: A new tool for research on children’s emotions and relationships.
Attachment in childhood: Representation as assessed through doll-play and pictures.
Bern, Switzerland
International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development
July 1998
a) Working models of the relationship between SRCD and the international community
Albuquerque, New Mexico,
Society for Research in Child Development
April 1999
b) The coherence of preschoolers’ narratives: Relations with early attachment (with Wagner & Sagi)
Maternal empathic understanding: Relations with attachment (with Koren-Karie & Sagi)
Montreal World Association for Infant Mental Health
July 2000
a) The psychological secure base: Contributions from mother-child discourse and reflections in children’s expectations of others
Minneapolis Society for Research in Child Development
April 2001
b) Maternal empathic understanding: Is it associated with positive therapeutic change in high risk preschoolers? (with Koren-Karie & Goldsmith)
c) Mother-child talk about emotions: Is it related to early attachment? (with Koren-Karie)
Collective sleeping on the kibbutz: Implications for infant mental health
Amsterdam World Association for Infant Mental Health
July 2002
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a) Clinical applications of attachment theory and research (Co-organizer of conversation hour with Slade)
Tampa Society for Research in Child Development
April 2003
b) Mothers’ insightfulness regarding their children’s inner experience and mother-child emotion dialogues: A study of high risk preschoolers (with Goldsmith & Koren-Karie).
a) Maternal Insightfulness But Not Infant Attachment Predicts 4 Year Olds' Theory of Mind (with Koren-Karie, Etzion-Carasso, Sagi-Schwartz)
Atlanta Society for Research in Child Development
April 2005
b) Assessing the Secure Base in Mother-Child Emotion Dialogues (with Koren-Karie & Sagi-Schwartz)
a) Assessing Emotional Availability for Children Diagnosed with Autism
Boston, MA Society for Research in Child Development
April 2007
b) Maternal Insightfulness into the Child's Internal Experience is Related to Secure Attachment Among Children with Autism (with Koren-Karie, Dolev, & Yirmiya)
a) Maternal Resolution of the Child's ASD Diagnosis: Associations with Mother-Child Emotional Availability (with Dolev, Koren-Karie, & Yirmiya)
Denver Colorado
Society for Research in Child Development
April 2009
b) Adjustment of female-adolescents to leaving home for military service as predicted by their individuation two years earlier (with Sher-Censor)
c) Mothers' Reactions to Their Children's Diagnosis of Intellectual Disability: Relations to Maternal Sensitivity (with Feniger-Schaal)
Maternal resolution of the child's ASD diagnosis over time: Thematic continuity and change (with Dolev et al.)
Leipzig, Germany
World Association for Infant Mental Health
June 2010
Maternal insightfulness into the
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emotional experience of the child: The capacity underlying maternal sensitivity
Workshop: Assessing mothers' insightfulness into their children's inner worlds (with Koren-Karie)
a) The Significance of Maternal Sensitivity for the Development of Preschoolers with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (Organizer and Presenter)
Montreal, Canada
Society for Research in Child Development
April, 2011
b) The Power of Dialogue: Understanding Developmental Origins and Outcomes of Mother-Child Conversations (Discussant)
c) Novel Applications of Five Minute Speech Sample Methodology in Developmental Research (Discussant)
d) Maternal Insightfulness and attachment among children with intellectual disability (with Feniger-Shaal & Koren-Karie)
b. Organization of Conferences or Sessions
Subject of Conference/
Role at Conference/
Comments
Place of
Conference
Name of
Conference
Date
Annual conference devoted to the clinical application of developmental research. I organize and lead the conference together with Dr. Douglas Goldsmith
Salt Lake City, Utah Bridging the Gap Between Developmental Research and Clinical Practice
2000 – Current, once a year
6. Colloquium Talks
Presentation/Comments Name of Forum Place of Lecture Date
The development of attachment theory
Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Colorado.
Denver, Colorado. October 1990
How do children learn to talk about their internal worlds?
Department of Psychology, the Hebrew University.
Jerusalem, Israel November 1991
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The development of emotion narratives in children.
School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
Tel Aviv, Israel November 1991
Maternal empathic Understanding.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah.
Utah, USA April 2000
Maternal empathic understanding: Contribution to secure attachment.
Department of Psychiatry grand rounds, University of California San Francisco.
San Francisco May 2000
A critical review of story stem assessments with children
Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame.
Notre Dame, Indiana
May 2000
Mother-child communication about emotional events: Implications for mental health
Department of Psychiatry, University of Lausanne.
Lausanne, Switzerland
July 2001
Maternal empathic understanding: Significance for clinical interventions
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, California.
February 2003
Mothers’ Insightfulness regarding their children’s internal world: Significance for clinical intervention
Department of Psychology, University of Delaware.
Delaware October 2003
Mothers’ Insightfulness regarding their children’s internal worlds: The case of Autism.
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts.
Boston, Massachusetts
October 2003
New perspectives on Infant Mental Health.
Department of Continuing Medical Education, University of California San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
February 2005
Mothers-child emotion dialogues: How they can establish (but also undermine) relational security
Department of Psychology, Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York August 2005
Maternal Insightfulness into the emotional world of the child: It's significance for children's development in normative and high risk conditions
Erikson Institute Chicago April 2006
Maternal Insightfulness into the emotional world of the child: It's significance for children's development in
Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv April, 2007
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normative and high risk conditions
Mother-child dialogues as a secure base
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco. Invited lecture in a conference on attachment and trauma.
San Francisco, California.
February 2008
Attachment in Autism: The contribution of Maternal Insightfulness and Resolution of the Diagnosis
Tampere University Hospital
Tampere, Finland June 2009
Maternal Insightfulness and Resolution: Implications for attachment in Autism
Sapienza, University of Rome
Rome, Italy October 2010
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Workshops
Subject of Workshop Forum of
Workshop
Place of
Workshop
Date
Assessment of parent-child emotion narratives (2-day workshop).
Department of Psychology, University of Quebec in Montreal.
Quebec, Canada June 1997
Narrative and communication assessment(2-day workshop).
University of Goteborg, Sweden.
Goteborg, Sweden. September 1998
Insightfulness Assessment (5-day workshop with Nina Koren-Karie)
The Children’s Center Salt Lake City, Utah September 2005
Insightfulness Assessment (5-day workshop with Nina Koren-Karie)
Institut Mutualiste Montsouris
Paris, France July 2006
Insightfulness Assessment (5-day workshop with Nina Koren-Karie)
University of Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland
October 2007
Development through relationships: Research and treatment of children with Autism (two 1-day workshops with Anat Oppenheim)
Yokohama, Japan Kyoto, Japan
August 2008
Maternal Insightfulness and Child Attachment in Typical and atypical Development
Children’s Health Council Palo Alto, California January 2009
Development through relationships: Research and treatment of children with Autism (1-day workshop with Anat Oppenheim)
LMU - Klinikum der Universität München
Munich, Germany October 2009
Insightfulness Assessment (5-day workshop with Nina Koren-Karie)
Hunter College New York, NY September 2012
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Invited Talks Presentation/Comments Name of Forum Place of Lecture Date
Invited discussant: A review of therapeutic applications of attachment in infancy
International conference: Attachment: Therapeutic applications
Paris, France July 2005
Plenary Talk: Maternal Insightfulness regarding the internal world of preschoolers with Autism
Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders
Washington, DC November 2005
Invited participant: Mother-child dialogues as a Secure Base
Emory Cognition Project Symposium: The Relations between Stress and Memory in Development: The Influence of Biological, Social and emotional Contexts
Atlanta April 2006
Master Lecture: Maternal Insightfulness into the emotional experience of the child: Its significance for children's development in normative and high-risk conditions
World Association for Infant Mental Health biennial meetings
Paris, France July 2006
Plenary Address: Maternal Insightfulness into the emotional experience of the child: Its significance for children's development in normative and high-risk conditions
International Association for Infant Massage
Barcelona, Spain October 2006
Plenary session: Interfaces between the internal worlds of mother and child and their observable interaction: The case of a young child with Autism Spectrum Disorder
World Association for Infant Mental Health
Yokohama, Japan
August 2008
Master Lecture: Maternal Insightfulness into the emotional experience of the child: Its significance for children's development in normative and high-risk conditions
World Association for Infant Mental Health,
Yokohama, Japan
August 2008
Invited Talk: Attachment in Autism
Society for Research in Child Development pre
Montreal, Canada April, 2011
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Conference Attachment Workshop
Keynote Speaker: Attachment in Autism
International Attachment Conference
Oslo, Norway August, 2011
7. Research Grants
a. Grants Awarded
Amount Year Funded by Topic Co-
Researchers
Role in
Research
$100,000 1995 - 1998
Israel Science Foundation
Communication and narratives about emotions in four-Year-olds: Relations to attachment in infancy
Abraham Sagi-Schwartz
Co-PI
$100,000 1997 -2000
Israel Science Foundation
Mothers’ empathic understanding of their infants: Relations with maternal sensitivity and infant attachment
Nina Koren-Karie
CI
$80,000 1998 Israel Science Foundation
System for digital storage and retrieval of video information (Equipment grant)
Abraham Sagi-Schwartz and Nina Koren-Karie
Co-PI
$100,000 1999 - 2002
Israel Science Foundation
The development of representations and communication in mothers and children during the first seven years of life: An attachment perspective
Abraham Sagi-Schwartz
Co-PI
$120,000 2002 - 2005
Israel Science Foundation
Maternal empathic Understanding: Links with maternal sensitivity and attachment in young children with autism and PDD
Nurit Yirmiya and Nina Koren-Karie
PI
$60,000 2002 Israel Science Foundation
Digital audiovisual observational laboratory (equipment grant)
Abraham Sagi-Schwartz
Co-PI
NIS 500,000
2007 - 2011
Israel Science Foundation
A longitudinal study of material
Nina Koren-Karie and Nurit
PI
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insightfulness and resolution of the diagnosis: Associations with mother-child interaction among children with Autism
Yirmiya
$18,000 2007 - 2008
Frederick H. Leonhardt Foundation
Caregiver-child relationships in foster care
PI
NIS 79,290
2007 - 2010
Shalem Foundation
Associations between maternal insightfulness, mother-child interaction, and child attachment: The case of Mental retardation
PI
$122,000 2008 - 2010
Autismspeaks Mentor grant for a post-doctoral fellow
PI
b. Submission of Research Proposals - Pending
None
8. Scholarships, Awards and Prizes
1996 University of Haifa Etti and Dusty Miller prize for outstanding young scholar ($10,000).
9. Teaching
a. Courses Taught in Recent Years
Number
of
Students
Degree
B.A./M.A./M.Sc/Ph.D. Type of Course
Lecture/Seminar/
Workshop
Name of Course Year
150 - 200 B.A. Lecture Developmental Psychology
1992-current
150 B.A. Lecture Psychology of Personality
1992-93
15 B.A. Seminar Research seminar 1992-1999
20 M.A. Seminar Socioemotional Development
1992-current
10 M.A. Seminar Research Practicum
1998-current
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b. Supervision of Graduate Students
Co-
Supervision Details of
Publication
Date of
Completi
on /
in
Progress
Degree Title of Thesis Name of
Student
International Journal of Behavioral Development (D17)
1996 Post Doctoral
Mothers’ empathic understanding.
Dr. Nina Koren-Karie
2004 Post Doctoral
Maternal Insightfulness and preschool attachment
Dr. Galia Shamir-Essakow
In progress
Post Doctoral
Early identification of Autism
*Dr. Ayelet Ben Sasson
In progress
Post-Doctoral
Early mother-child relationship and later development among children with ASD
*Dr. Smadar Dolev
Avi Sagi-Schwartz
Attachment and Human Development (D25)
2000 Ph.D. Infant-mother attachment and social information processing in middle childhood
Dr. Yair Ziv
Avi Sagi-Schwartz
International Journal of Behavioral Development (D27)
2001 Ph.D. Joint story telling between mothers and their 7-year-olds: relations to early attachment
Dr. Motti Gini
Avi Sagi-Schwartz
2004 Ph.D. The establishment of goal corrected partnership between mothers and their children: Relations with attachment in infancy
Dr. Ayelet Etzion- Carasso
Child Development (D31)
2006 Ph.D. Maternal insightfulness and its relations to maternal sensitivity in mothers of children with PDD/Autism
Dr. Smadar Dolev
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Avi Sagi-Schwartz
2007 Ph.D. Discrepancies between Adolescents and Mothers perception of their communication: Relation with communication characteristics and emotional and cognitive factors
Dr. Efrat Sher-Censor
2008 Ph.D. Mother-child co-construction of a narrative about an emotional event: Relations to children's memory of the event
Dr. Smadar Gertner
2010 Ph.D. Resolution of the Diagnosis in mothers of children with Intellectual Disability
Rinat Feniger-Schaal
Avi Sagi-Schwartz
Ongoing Ph.D. Infant-Mother attachment in the Arab population in Israel
Gadir Zreik
Nina Koren-Karie
Ongoing Ph.D. Parental Insightfulness: its contribution to he family alliance in families with toddlers
Inbal Marco
Ora Aviezer
Ongoing Ph.D. The development of autobiographical memory and self representations: a longitudinal study
Revital Tamari
Ongoing Ph.D. Family alliance and parental insightfulness: Their contribution to children’s emotion narratives
Shira Yuval-Adler
Nina Koren-Karie
Ongoing Ph.D. Maternal insightfulness in infancy: its associations with adolescent’s best friendships
Tali Maharik
Developmental Psychology (D9)
1994 M.A. Mother-child co-construction of narratives about separations and reunions.
Ayelet Nir
1995 M.A. Behavioral inhibition in child narratives.
Lior Haklay
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International Journal of Psychoanalysis (D12)
1995 M.A. Resolutions of moral dilemmas of 3-5 year olds.
Michal Hason
1996 M.A. Parents’ teaching strategies: Relations to learning effectiveness.
Motti Klein
Child Development (D10)
1997 M.A. Representations of parents in child narratives: Relations with behavior problems.
Rakefet Milika
1997 M.A. Conversations about emotions of 4-year olds and their mothers.
Halit Sagiv
International Journal of Behavioral Development (D17)
1998 M.A. Mothers’ empathic understanding of children.
Yael Cohen
Attachment and Human Development (D16)
Sep. 1998 M. A. Open communication between mothers and preschoolers: Relations with secure attachment
Ayelet Etzion-Carasso
May 1999 M.A. Narrative co-construction of mothers and 4 year olds: Relations with attachment in infancy.
Rachel Branski
Sep. 1999 M.A. Balanced mother-child competition: Related to early security of attachment.
Michal Kenny
1999 M.A. Mother-child communication during emotional conversations
Galit Gross
Developmental Psychology (D19)
1999 M.A. Mothers’ empathic understanding and their sensitivity
Smadar Dolev
Ora Aviezer
2001 M.A. Early attachment patterns and internal representations in early adolescence
Nakdimon-Kabalis, Vered
. In book: Family Stories and the Lifecourse: Across Time
2001 M.A. Coherence of child narratives: Relation to early attachment.
Ella Wagner
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and Generations (E7)
Nina Koren-Karie
In book: Family Stories and the Lifecourse: Across Time and Generations (E7)
2001 M.A. Attachment and emotion regulation: Can we learn about the associations between them through children’s narratives?
Efrat Sher
Nina Koren-Karie
In book: Revealing the inner worlds of young children: The MacArthur Story Stem battery (E5)
2002 M.A. Mother-child dialogues about emotional events: relations to early attachment
Zipi Haimovitch
2003 M.A. Fathers’ emotional involvement and emotional availability towards their two years old children
Lahavi-Elieli, Shani
2004 M.A. Representations of parents and self-esteem in preschoolers with emotional and behavioral disorders
Michal Dvir-Koren
2005 M.A. Maternal mind-mindedness at 1 year: Links with Maternal insightfulness and child behavior
Wahle-Fridman, Ayala
2005 M.A. Mothers’ mind-mindedness toward their infants at 6 months
Yamit Nehab
2005 M.A. Association between maternal mind-mindedness at 12 months and dyadic emotional dialogue at age four
Shirly Gelman
Ora Aviezer
2007 M.A. The development of children’s self representations
Orit Razy
2007 M.A. The associations between maternal insightfulness and joint attention during play
Tamar Nir
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interactions between children with autism
and their mothers Nina Koren-Karie
2007 M.A. Parenting styles, emotional communication and conflict among adolescent girls and their mothers
Yana Segal
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities (D33)
2008 M.A. Maternal structuring and attachment in ASD
Inbal Marco
2008 M.A. Gender differences in individuality and connectedness among adolescents
Na’ama Herzog
2008 M.A. The relationship between parenting style and expressions of individuality and connectedness in the interactions between adolescent girls and their mothers
Ayelet Sofer
2008 M.A. Emotion dialogues between fathers and their children
Miri Ben Simon Cohen
2009 M.A. Mother-infant emotional availability at 12 months Relations with mother-child narrative co-construction at age 4 years
Iris Noiman-Shani
2009 M.A. Adolescent coping prior to military recruitment: Relations with maternal separation anxiety and mother - adolescent communication
Ruth Blankstein
2009 M.A. Individuation and Identity in adolescence
Daphna Rapaport
M.A. Emotionally matched mother-adolescent dialogues and their associations with
Efrat Koren-Kopp
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adolescent self esteem
2010 M.A. Mothers’ resolution of their children’s Autism diagnosis: Associations with longitudinal change in children’s intelligence and daily functioning:
Shira Taube Dayan
2010 M.A. Mother-child emotion dialogues in foster care: Associations with degree of child challenge and maternal insightfulness
Shira Yuval-Adler
PUBLICATIONS
Note: For joint publications, the order of the listed authors appears according to their relative contribution except for items D19 and D21 in which the first two authors made equal contributions. All Impact Factors are 5-year Impact Factors.
A. Ph.D. Dissertation
“Assessing the validity of a doll play interview for measuring attachment in preschoolers”.
Dissertation in English, 94 pages, approved March 1990.
Advisor: Michael E. Lamb
Dissertation committee members: Barbara Rogoff, Donald Hartmann, Donna Gelfand,
Cheryl Wright. (Publication: Item D8)
B. Scientific Books (Refereed)
Edited Books – Published
1) Emde, R. N., Wolf, D. P., & Oppenheim, D. (2003). Revealing the inner worlds of young
children: The MacArthur Story Stem Battery. Oxford University Press (407 pages).
2) Oppenheim D. and Goldsmith, D. F. (2007). Attachment Theory in Clinical Work with
Children: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice. New York: Guilford (256 pages).
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2a) The book has been translated to Korean and published in 2009 by Hanshin
University Press, to Italian and published in 2010 by Borla Publishing Company,
Rome, and to Japanese in 2011 and published by Mivervashobo Publishing.
C. Articles in Refereed Journals
1) Oppenheim, D., Sagi, A., & Lamb, M.E. (1988). Infant-adult attachments in the
Kibbutz and their relation to socioemotional development four years later.
Developmental Psychology, 24, 427-433.
Reprinted as:
1a) Oppenheim, D., Sagi, A., & Lamb, M.E. (1989). Infant-adult attachments in the
Kibbutz and their relation to socioemotional development four years later. In S.
Chess and A. Thomas (Eds.), Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child
Development (pp. 92-106).
2) Emde, R. N., Biringen, Z., Clyman, R. B., & Oppenheim, D. (1991). The moral
self of infancy: Affective core and procedural knowledge. Developmental Review, 11, 251-
270.
3) Morelli, G. A., Rogoff, B., Oppenheim, D., & Goldsmith, D. (1992). Cultural
variations in infants’ sleeping arrangements: Questions of independence. Developmental
Psychology, 28, 604-613.
4) Oppenheim, D., & Waters, H. (1995). Narrative processes and attachment
representations: Issues of development and assessment. In E. Waters, B. Vaughn, G.
Posada, & K. Kondo-Ikemura (eds.), Constructs, cultures, and caregiving: new growing
points in attachment theory and research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child
Development, 60(2-3), 197-215.
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5) Oppenheim, D., Wamboldt, F., Gavin, L. A., Renouf, A. G., & Emde, R. N. (1996).
Couples’ co-construction of the story of their child’s birth: Associations with marital
adaptation. Journal of Narrative and Life History, 6, 1-21.
6) Oppenheim, D., Emde, R. N., & Wamboldt, F. S. (1996). Associations between 3-
year-olds’ narrative co-constructions with mothers and fathers and their story-
completions about affective themes. Early Development and Parenting, 5, 149-160.
7) Warren, S. L., Oppenheim, D., & Emde, R. N. (1996). Can emotions and themes in
children’s play predict behavior problems? Journal of the American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, 34, 1331-1337.
8) Oppenheim, D. (1997). The attachment doll play interview for preschoolers.
International Journal of Behavioral Development, 20, 681-697.
9) Oppenheim, D., Nir, A., Warren, S., & Emde, R. N. (1997). Emotion regulation in
mother-child narrative co-construction: Associations with children’s narratives and
adaptation. Developmental Psychology, 33, 284-294.
10) Oppenheim, D., Emde, R. N., & Warren, S. (1997). Children’s narrative
representations of mothers: Their development and associations with child and mother
adaptation. Child Development, 68, 127-138.
11) Emde, R. N., Kubicek, L., & Oppenheim, D. (1997). Imaginative reality observed
during early language development. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 78, 115-133.
11a) Emde, R. N., Kubicek, L., & Oppenheim, D. (1999). Imaginative Realitat in der
Entwicklung fruhkindlicher Sprache. Psyche, 53, 249 – 279.
12) Oppenheim, D., Emde, R. N., Hasson, M., & Warren, S. (1997). Preschoolers face
moral dilemmas: A longitudinal study of acknowledging and resolving internal
conflict. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 78, 943-957.
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13) Oppenheim, D. (1998). Perspectives on infant mental health from Israel: The case
of changes in collective sleeping on the kibbutz. Infant Mental Health Journal, 19, 76-86.
14) Harel, J., Oppenheim, D., Tirosh, E., & Gini, M. (1999). Associations
between mother-child play interactions and children’s later self and mother
knowledge. Infant Mental Health Journal, 20, 123-137.
15) Oppenheim, D. (1999). Two philosophies, two caregiving experiences. Human
Development, 42, 45-49.
16) Etzion-Carasso, A. & Oppenheim, D. (2000). Open mother-preschooler
communication: Relations with early secure attachment. Attachment and Human
Development, 2, 362-385.
17) Oppenheim, D., Koren-Karie, N., & Sagi, A. (2001). Mothers’ empathic
understanding of their preschoolers’ internal experience: Relations with early
attachment. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 25, 16-26.
18) Solomonica-Levi, D., Yirmiya, N., Erel, O., Samet, I., & Oppenheim, D. (2001).
The associations among observed maternal behavior, children’s narrative
representations of mothers and children’s behavior problems. Journal of Social and
Personal Relationships, 18, 673-690.
19) Koren-Karie, N., Oppenheim, D., Dolev S., Sher, E., & Etzion-Carasso, A. (2002).
Mothers’ insightfulness regarding their infants’ internal experience: Relations with
maternal sensitivity and infant attachment. Developmental Psychology, 38, 534-542.
20) Reiss-Brennan, B., Oppenheim, D. & Kirsten, J. (2002). Rebuilding family
relationship competencies as a primary health intervention. The Primary Care Companion
to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 4, 41-53.
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21) Oppenheim, D. & Koren-Karie, N. (2002). Mothers’ insightfulness regarding their
children’s internal worlds: The capacity underlying secure child-mother relationships.
Infant Mental Health Journal, 23, 593-605.
22) Oppenheim, D., Goldsmith, D., & Koren-Karie, N. (2004). Maternal Insightfulness
and preschoolers’ emotion and behavior problems: Reciprocal influences in a day-
treatment program. Infant Mental Health Journal, 25, 352-367.
23) Goldsmith, D. F., Oppenheim, D., & Wanlass, J. (2004). Separation and
reunification: Using attachment theory and research to inform decisions affecting
the placements of children in foster care. Juvenile and Family Court Journal, 55,
1-13.
24) Koren-Karie, N., Oppenheim, D., & Getzler, R. (2004). Mothers who were severely
abused during childhood and their children talk about emotions: Co-construction of
joint narratives in light of maternal trauma. Infant Mental Health Journal, 25, 300-317.
25) Ziv, Y., Oppenheim, D., & Sagi-Schwartz, A. (2004). Social information processing
in middle childhood: Relation to infant-mother attachment. Attachment and Human
Development, 6, 327-348.
26) Oppenheim, D. (2006). Child, parent, and parent-child emotion narratives:
Implications for Developmental Psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 18,
771-790.
27) Gini, M., Oppenheim, D., & Sagi-Schwartz, A. (2007). Negotiation styles in
mother-child narrative co-construction in middle childhood: Associations with
early attachment. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 31, 149-160.
28) Oppenheim, D., Koren-Karie, N., & Sagi-Schwartz, A. (2007). Emotion
dialogues between mothers and children at 4.5 and 7.5 years: Relations with
children's attachment at 1 year. Child Development, 78, 38-52.
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29) Koren-Karie, N., Oppenheim, D., Dolev, S., & Yirmiya, N. (2009). Mothers of
securely attached children with Autism Spectrum Disorder are more sensitive than
mothers of insecurely attached children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50,
643-650.
30) Koren-Karie, N., Oppenheim, D., & Gezler-Yosef, R. (2008). Shaping children's
internal working models through mother–child dialogues: The importance of
resolving past maternal trauma. Attachment and Human Development, 10, 465-483.
31) Oppenheim, D., Koren-Karie, N., Dolev, S., & Yirmiya, N. (2009). Maternal
insightfulness and Resolution of the Diagnosis are related to secure attachment in
preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Child Development, 80, 519 – 527.
Translated to German:
31a) Oppenheim, D., Koren-Karie, N., Dolev, S., & Yirmiya, N. (2010). Welchen
Einfluss haben die Einfuhlsamkeit der Mutter und ihre Fahigkeit zur Verarbeitung
der Diagnose auf die Bindungssicherheit autistisch gestorter Kinder? In K. H. Brish
(Ed.), Bindung und Fruhe Storungen der Entwicklung (pp. 203 – 222). Stuttgart: Klett-
Cota.
32) Dolev, S., Oppenheim, D., Koren-Karie, N., & Yirmiya, N. (2009). Emotional
Availability in mother-child interaction: The case of children with Autism Spectrum
Disorders. Parenting: Science and Practice, 9, 183-197.
33) Marco, I., Oppenheim, D., Koren-Karie, N., Dolev, S., & Yirmiya, N. (2009).
Symbolic play and attachment in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of
Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 1321-1328.
34) Milshtein, S., Yirmiya, N., Oppenheim, D, Koren- Karie, N., & Levi, S. (2009).
Resolution of the Diagnosis among Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum
Disorder: Associations with Parent and Child Characteristics. Journal of Autism and
Developmental Disorders, 39, 1321-1328.
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35) Sher-Censor, E., & Oppenheim, D. (2010). Female Adolescents Leaving Home
for the Military: Links with Earlier Individuation. Journal of Adolescence, 33, 625 - 532.
36) Yirmiya, N., Shaked, M., Koren-Karie, N., & Oppenheim, D. (2010). Attachment
among individuals with autism spectrum disorders: A qualitative review. International
Public Health Journal, 2, 37-50.
37) Oppenheim, D. (2012). Emotional Availability: Research advances and theoretical
questions. Development and Psychopathology. 24, 131 – 136.
38) Sher-Censor, E., Oppenheim, D., & Sagi-Schwartz, A. (2012). Individuation of
female adolescents: Relations with adolescents’ perceptions of maternal behavior and
with adolescent–mother discrepancies in perceptions. Journal of Adolescence, 35, 397 -
405.
39) Oppenheim, D., Koren-Karie, N., Dolev, S., & Yirmiya, N. (2012). Maternal
Sensitivity mediates the link between Maternal Insightfulness/Resolution and Child-
Mother attachment: The case of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Attachment
and Human Development, 14, 567 – 584.
40) Feniger-Shaal, R., & Oppenheim, D. (2012). Resolution of the diagnosis and
maternal sensitivity among mothers of children with Intellectual Disability.
Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 306-313.
41) Koren-Karie, N., Oppenheim, D., Yuval-Adler, S., & Mor, H. (2013). Emotion
dialogues of foster caregivers with their children: the role of the caregivers, above
and beyond child characteristics, in shaping the interactions. Attachment and
Human Development, 15(2), 175-188.
42) Oppenheim, D., & Koren-Karie, N. (2013). The insightfulness assessment:
measuring the internal processes underlying maternal sensitivity. Attachment and
Human Development.
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43) Sher-Censor, E., Assor, A., & Oppenheim, D. (2014). The Interplay between
Observed Maternal Perspective Taking and Clear Expectations: Links with Male
Adolescents' Externalizing and Internalizing Problems. Journal of Child and
Family Studies.
44) Dolev, S., Oppenheim, D., Koren-Karie, N., & Yirmiya, N. (2014). Early
attachment and maternal insightfulness predict educational placement of children
with autism. Research in autism spectrum disorders, 8, 958 – 967.
45) Yirmiya, N., Seidman, I., Koren-Karie, N., Oppenheim, D., & Dolev, S. (in press).
Stability and Change in Resolution of Diagnosis among Parents of Children with
Autism Spectrum Disorder: Child and Parental Contributions. Development and
Psychopathology.
E. Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books
(which are not Conference Proceedings)
Published
1) Lamb, M. E., & Oppenheim, D. (1989). Fatherhood and father-child relationships:
The last five years of research. In S. Cath, A. Gurwitt, & L. Gunsberg (Eds.), Fathers
and their families (pp. 11-26). Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.
2) Emde, R. N., & Oppenheim, D. (1995). Shame, Guilt, and the oedipal drama:
Developmental considerations concerning morality and the referencing of critical
others. In K. Fischer and J. Tangney (Eds.), Self-Conscious Emotions (pp. 413-436). New
York: The Guilford Press.
2a) Reprinted in French: Emde, R. N., & Oppenheim, D. (2002). La honte, la
culpabilite, et le drame oedipien. Devenir, 14, 335-362.
3) Bretherton, I., Suess, G. J., Golby, B., & Oppenheim, D. (2001). Attachment
Story Completion Task (ASCT): Method zur Erfassung der Bindungsqualitat im
Kindergartenalter durch Geschhichtenergenzungen im Puppenspiel. In G. Suess,
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H. Scheuerer-Englisch, & W. Pfeifer (Eds.), Bindungstheorie und Familienynamik (pp.
83-124). Giesen: Psychosozial-Verlag.
4) Oppenheim, D. (2003). Children’s emotional resolution of MSSB narratives:
Relations with child behavior problems and parental psychological distress. In R. N.
Emde, D. P. Wolf, and D. Oppenheim (Eds.), Revealing the inner worlds of young children:
The MacArthur Story Stem battery and parent-child narratives (pp. 147-162). Oxford
University Press.
5) Koren-Karie, N., Oppenheim, D., Haimovich, Z., & Etzion-Carasso, A. (2003).
Dialogues of seven-year-olds with their mothers about emotional events: Development
of a typology. In R. N. Emde, D. P. Wolf, and D. Oppenheim (Eds.), Revealing the inner
worlds of young children: The MacArthur Story Stem battery and parent-child narratives (pp. 338-
354). Oxford University Press.
6) Bretherton, I. & Oppenheim, D. (2003). The MacArthur Story Stem Battery:
Development, Administration, Reliability, Validity and Reflections about Meaning. In
R. N. Emde, D. P. Wolf, and D. Oppenheim (Eds.), Revealing the inner worlds of young
children: The MacArthur Story Stem battery and parent-child narratives (pp. 55-80). Oxford
University Press.
7) Sher-Censor, E. & Oppenheim, D. (2004). Coherence of preschoolers’ narratives but
not representations of competence is related to early child-mother attachment. In M.
W. Pratt and B. E. Fiese (Eds.) Family Stories and the Lifecourse: Across Time and
Generations (pp. 77 – 107). Erlbaum: Hillsdale NJ.
7a) Reprinted in French: Sher-Censor & Oppenehim (2008). Les narratives d’enfants et
leur lien avec comportements d’attachment precoce. Enfance, 1, 31 – 41.
8) Koren-Karie, N., Oppenheim, D., and Goldsmith, D. (2007). Keeping the inner world
of the child in mind: Using the insightfulness assessment with mothers in a therapeutic
preschool. In D. Oppenheim and D. F. Goldsmith (Eds.), Attachment Theory in Clinical
Work with Children: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice (pp. 31-57). New York:
Guilford.
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9) Oppenheim, D., Dolev, S., Sher-Censor, E., Koren-Karie, N., & Yirmiya, N. (2007).
Parental resolution of the child's diagnosis and the parent-child relationship: Insights
from the reactions to diagnosis interview. In D. Oppenheim & D. Goldsmith (Eds.),
Attachment Theory in Clinical Work with Children: Bridging the Gap Between Research and
Practice (pp. 109-138). NY: Guilford.
10) Solomonica-Levi, D., Yirmiya, N., Oppenheim, D. (2007). The contribution of
mother-child interaction and children's internal representations of their mothers for
predicting success in first grade. In Esther Cohen (Ed.), The experience of parenting:
Development, Coping, and relationships (in Hebrew) (pp. 89-118).
11) Salomon, S., Yirmiya, N., Koren-Karie, N., & Oppenheim, D. (2007). Parenting and
autism: Attachment, parental insightfulness and resolution of the diagnosis. In Esther
Cohen (Ed.), The experience of parenting: Development, Coping, and relationships (in Hebrew)
(pp. 253-276).
12) Oppenheim, D. & Koren-Karie, N. (2009) Parents' Insightfulness Regarding their
Children’s Internal Worlds: Assessment, Research, and Clinical Implications. In C.
Zeanah, (Ed.), Handbook of Infant Mental Health, 3rd edition (pp. 266-280). New York:
Guilford.
13) Oppenheim, D. & Koren-Karie, N. (2009). Mother-child Emotion Dialogues: A
window into the Psychological Secure Base. In J. Quas and R. Fivush (Eds.), Emotion
and Memory in Development: Biological, Cognitive, and Social Considerations (pp. 142 -165).
Oxford University Press.
14) Feniger-Schaal, R., Oppenheim, D., Koren-Karie, N., & Yirmiya, N. (2011).
Attachment and intellectual disabilities. In J. Burak (Ed.), Handbook of Intellectual
Disability (pp. 334 – 348). New York: Oxford University Press.
15) Oppenheim, D. & Koren-Karie, N. (2012). Parents' Insightfulness: The Importance
of Keeping the Inner World of the Child in Mind for Parenting Plan Evaluations. In
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Kuehnle, K. & Drozd, L. (Eds.), Parenting Plan Evaluations: Applied Research for the Family
Court (pp.25 – 48). New York: Oxford University Press.
16) Oppenheim, D. & Koren-Karie, N. (2014) Parental Insightfulness and Child-Parent
Emotion Dialogues: Their Importance for Children’s Development. In M. Mikulincer
and P. Shaver (Ed.), Mechanisms of Social Connection: From brain to group (pp. 205 – 220).
New York: American Psychological Association.
17) Yuval-Adler, S., & Oppenheim, D. (2014). Story Completion Play Narrative Methods
for Preschool Children. In O. Sarracho (Ed.) Handbook of Research Methods in Early
Childhood Education. Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishing.
F. Articles in Conference Proceedings - None
G. Entries in Encyclopedias - None
H. Other Scientific Publications - None
I. Other Publications
Oppenheim, D., Koren-Karie, N., Dolev, S., & Yirmiya, N. (2008). Secure
Attachment in Children With Autistic Spectrum Disorder: The Role of
Maternal Insightfulness. Zero to Three, March 2008, 25 – 30.
J. Other Works Connected with my Scholarly Field - None
K. Books, Articles and Other Works Submitted for Publication
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L. Summary of my Activities and Future Plans
My work over the past 20 years has examined the way internal representations and
affective meaning-making in parents and children shape their attachment relationships and
in turn are shaped by them. I have used narratives to study these processes, and following
my earlier work on children's narratives using the MacArthur Story-Stem Battery I
developed (together with Dr. Nina Koren-Karie) two additional narrative methods: The
Insightfulness Assessment which assesses mothers' capacity to show empathic
understanding into the child's inner world, and the Autobiographical Emotional Events
Dialogue procedure which assesses the degree to which mothers and children are able to
jointly construct coherent and emotionally contained narratives regarding emotional events
experienced by the child.
My work on maternal insightfulness began with normative populations, and these
studies helped establish the validity on this procedure. I then moved on to study the
significance of insightfulness in high risk contexts, including risk that involves mothers
(e.g., history of trauma) and risk that involves the children. In particular I have devoted
much attention to insightfulness in mothers of children with Autism. This work has
demonstrated that insightfulness appears to be as important for the attachment of children
with Autism as it is for typically developing children, and also that resolution of the
diagnosis appears to be an integral part of insightfulness when children with Autism are
concerned. In our current work we are following up the Autism sample in order to
examine whether the early assessments of insightfulness, attachment, and mother-child
interactions have implications for children’s later development. Our analyses have shown
that the emotional quality of mother-child interaction during the preschool years appear to
have significant implications for the development of these children. Their ASD diagnosis
notwithstanding, children whose mothers were more sensitive during the preschooler years
showed higher gains in IQ, improvements in adaptive functioning, and decrease in autistic
symptomatology compared to children whose mothers were less sensitive. These findings
are significant both theoretically and practically and are currently being written up for
publication.
Alongside this project we have examined insightfulness in other risk samples such as
those involving children with Intellectual Disabilities, children in foster care, and children
experiencing behavior problems. Our work on Insightfulness is drawing considerable
attention from various research groups internationally who are now using this procedure in
high- and low-risk samples and as a pre and post measure in interventions.
As mentioned above my other line of work involves mother-child dialogues. Here too
we began with normative samples, and established the validity of our assessment. We then
moved on to various high risk samples, in order to examine how risk in the mothers
and/or in the children may impact the way they communicate around emotional issues and,
in turn, how communication patterns may impact the emotional well-being of mothers and
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children. A recent study of children in foster care was particularly illuminating because it
permitted us to observe caregivers with two children under their care and explore the
relative contributions of caregivers and children, including children who are particularly
challenging, to the emotional quality of the dialogue they co-construct. An additional study
I wish to highlight addresses the limitation of previous studies in which the emotional
events talked about were not standard and not observed by the investigators. In this study
we examined how children form narratives from "lived" emotional experiences that take
place as part of the study and the impact of mother-child dialogues on these narratives.
Both this and the foster care study are currently being written up.
I plan to continue these two strands of research – namely, research on maternal
insightfulness and on mother-child dialogues – in my future work with the following
questions in mind. First, I would like to examine insightfulness and mother-child dialogues
in additional populations including additional risk groups (e.g., children or mothers with
chronic medical conditions, adopted children and their parents) and additional cultures
(e.g., the Arab culture). I believe the varying the contexts in which we apply the
assessments we developed helps test the limits of their utility and refine our theoretical
understanding. Second, I would like to further develop the theoretical model regarding
insightfulness by identifying moderating variables that specify the conditions under which
insightfulness is and is not evidenced in mother-child interactions and in child outcomes.
Third, I would like to develop interventions that target lack of insightfulness, and explore
whether we can show that improvements in insightfulness lead to improved mother-child
interactions and child outcomes.
Another central aspect of my professional activities involves the clinical application
of attachment theory and dissemination of developmental research to international clinical
audiences. I have given master classes and plenary addresses in conferences of the World
Association of Infant Mental health, and presented my work in presentations and workshops
internationally (most recently in Germany, Finland, Japan, Switzerland, France, Spain, and
the US). For the last 10 years I have organized annual conferences in the US (together with
Dr. Douglas Goldsmith) devoted to bringing the most recent developments in attachment
research to clinical audiences. These conferences have led to the formation of a group of
researchers/clinicians, and we have met several times to discuss how to "bridge the gap"
between theory and practice. One product of the group was a special issue of Infant Mental
health Journal about these issues which I have edited, and the second product was a
collaborative book which I co-edited with Dr. Douglas Goldsmith entitled Attachment theory
in Clinical Work with Children. The book has been translated to Korean and Italian and is
currently translated to Japanese.