selected scholarly activity
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academic article
- Biological alterations affecting risk of adult psychopathology following childhood trauma: A review of sex differences. Clinical Psychology Review. 66:69-79. 2018
- Child maltreatment and adult multimorbidity: results from the Canadian Community Health Survey. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 109:561-572. 2018
- Association between maternal childhood maltreatment and mother-infant attachment disorganization: Moderation by maternal oxytocin receptor gene and cortisol secretion. Hormones and Behavior. 102:23-33. 2018
- Dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2), dopamine transporter solute carrier family C6, member 4 (SLC6A3), and catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) genes as moderators of the relation between maternal history of maltreatment and infant emotion regulation. Development and Psychopathology. 30:581-592. 2018
- Mothers’ Personal and Interpersonal Function as Potential Mediators Between Maternal Maltreatment History and Child Behavior Problems. Child Maltreatment. 23:147-156. 2018
- Attentional avoidance of emotional stimuli in postpartum women with childhood history of maltreatment and difficulties with emotion regulation.. Emotion. 18:424-438. 2018
- Healthy Foundations Study: a randomised controlled trial to evaluate biological embedding of early-life experiences. BMJ Open. 8:e018915-e018915. 2018
- Mental disorder in children with physical conditions: a pilot study. BMJ Open. 8:e019011-e019011. 2018
- Classifying child and adolescent psychiatric disorder by problem checklists and standardized interviews. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. 26:e1544-e1544. 2017
- Suicidal Behaviour Among Adolescents and Young Adults with Self-Reported Chronic Illness. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 62:845-853. 2017
- Maternal DRD2, SLC6A3, and OXTR genotypes as potential moderators of the relation between maternal history of care and maternal cortisol secretion in the context of mother-infant separation. Biological Psychology. 129:154-164. 2017
- Difficulties with emotion regulation moderate the association between childhood history of maltreatment and cortisol reactivity to psychosocial challenge in postpartum women. Hormones and Behavior. 95:44-56. 2017
- Child Welfare Responses Linked to Subtypes of Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence From the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 088626051770566-088626051770566. 2017
- The Drosophila foraging gene human orthologue PRKG1 predicts individual differences in the effects of early adversity on maternal sensitivity. Cognitive Development. 42:62-73. 2017
- Improving children’s health and development in British Columbia through nurse home visiting: a randomized controlled trial protocol. BMC Health Services Research. 16:349. 2016
- Stress Physiology in Infancy and Early Childhood: Cortisol Flexibility, Attunement and Coordination. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 28. 2016
- MATERNAL SELF-REPORTED DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AND MATERNAL CORTISOL LEVELS INTERACT TO PREDICT INFANT CORTISOL LEVELS. Infant Mental Health Journal. 37:125-139. 2016
- When mothering goes awry: Challenges and opportunities for utilizing evidence across rodent, nonhuman primate and human studies to better define the biological consequences of negative early caregiving. Hormones and Behavior. 77:182-192. 2016
- British Columbia Healthy Connections Project process evaluation: a mixed methods protocol to describe the implementation and delivery of the Nurse-Family Partnership in Canada. BMC Nursing. 14:47. 2015
- DRD2 and SLC6A3 moderate impact of maternal depressive symptoms on infant cortisol. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 62:243-251. 2015
- Adapting, piloting and evaluating complex public health interventions: lessons learned from the Nurse–Family Partnership in Canadian public health settings. Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice. 35:151-159. 2015
- Correlates of joint child protection and police child sexual abuse investigations: results from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect–2008. Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice. 35:130-137. 2015
- Health care and social service professionals' perceptions of a home-visit program for young, first-time mothers. Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice. 35:160-167. 2015
- Influence on maternal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis function: Role of mood, personality and history of maltreatment. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 61:20-21. 2015
- Parenting and infant HPA function: Adaptation as physiological flexibility. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 61:21-21. 2015
- Correlates of joint child protection and police child sexual abuse investigations: results from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2008.. Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice. 35:130-137. 2015
- Infant Emotion Regulation Strategy Moderates Relations between Self-Reported Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Infant HPA Activity. Infant and Child Development. 25:n/a-n/a. 2015
- Maternal childhood adversity and child temperament: An association moderated by child 5-HTTLPR genotype. Genes, Brain and Behavior. 14:229-237. 2015
- The role of maternal executive function.. Canadian Psychology. 56:46-53. 2015
- Cumulative Risk, Cumulative Outcome: A 20-Year Longitudinal Study. PLoS ONE. 10:e0127650-e0127650. 2015
- Summary cortisol reactivity indicators: Interrelations and meaning. Neurobiology of Stress. 2:34-43. 2015
- Subtypes of exposure to intimate partner violence within a Canadian child welfare sample: Associated risks and child maladjustment. Child Abuse and Neglect. 38:1934-1944. 2014
- Executive function and mothering: Challenges faced by teenage mothers. Developmental Psychobiology. 56:1027-1035. 2014
- Interpersonal Engagement Mediates the Relation between Maternal Affect and Externalising Behaviour in Young Children with Type 1 Diabetes. PLoS ONE. 9:e97672-e97672. 2014
- Maternal sensitivity and infant and mother adrenocortical function across challenges. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 38:2943-2951. 2013
- The impact of childhood maltreatment on biological systems: Implications for clinical interventions. Paediatrics and Child Health. 18:415-418. 2013
- Childhood and family influences on body mass index in early adulthood: findings from the Ontario Child Health Study. BMC Public Health. 12:755. 2012
- Childhood and family influences on depression, chronic physical conditions, and their comorbidity: Findings from the Ontario Child Health Study. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 46:1475-1482. 2012
- Adaptation and Implementation of the Nurse-Family Partnership in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 103:S42-S48. 2012
- Maternal Early Life Experiences and Parenting: The Mediating Role of Cortisol and Executive Function. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 51:673-682. 2012
- Maternal affect and quality of parenting experiences are related to amygdala response to infant faces. Social Neuroscience. 7:252-268. 2012
- Parenting stress mediates between maternal maltreatment history and maternal sensitivity in a community sample. Child Abuse and Neglect. 36:433-437. 2012
- Adaptation and implementation of the nurse-family partnership in Canada.. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 103:eS42-eS48. 2012
- Preliminary Evaluation of the Childhood Experiences of Violence Questionnaire Short Form. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 27:396-407. 2012
- The relation between early life adversity, cortisol awakening response and diurnal salivary cortisol levels in postpartum women. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 34:76-86. 2009
- Preventing child maltreatment: an evidence-based update.. Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. 54:280-286. 2008
- Effects of motherhood on physiological and subjective responses to infant cries in teenage mothers: A comparison with non-mothers and adult mothers. Hormones and Behavior. 53:149-158. 2008
- Maternal and littermate deprivation disrupts maternal behavior and social-learning of food preference in adulthood: Tactile stimulation, nest odor, and social rearing prevent these effects. Developmental Psychobiology. 48:209-219. 2006
- Artificial rearing causes changes in maternal behavior and c-fos expression in juvenile female rats.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 116:999-1013. 2002
- Mothering begets mothering. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 73:61-75. 2002
- Maternally separated rats show deficits in maternal care in adulthood. Developmental Psychobiology. 39:19-33. 2001
- Intergenerational effects of complete maternal deprivation and replacement stimulation on maternal behavior and emotionality in female rats. Developmental Psychobiology. 38:11-32. 2001
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conference paper
- Maternal Depression Moderates the Association Between History of Childhood Maltreatment and Change in Oxytocin Levels Following Mother-infant Interaction. Biological Psychiatry. 312S-312S. 2015
- P.8.b.002 Early maternal experience, maternal sensitivity, infant emotion regulation and HPA function. European Neuropsychopharmacology. S587-S588. 2008
- S.15.03 Early experiences affect brain and behaviour: a comparison of rat and human mothers. European Neuropsychopharmacology. S176-S177. 2008
- Only spontaneous counterfactual thinking is impaired in patients with frontal lobe lesions. Neurology. A163-A164. 2004