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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: oppenhei@psy.haifa.ac.il

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.