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Overview

Alicia F. Lieberman is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with significant contributions also in clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, sociology and political science, obstetrics and gynecology, and social psychology.

The main topics of their work encompass child abuse and trauma, migration, health and trauma, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, family support in illness, stress responses and cortisol, and family and disability support research.

Lieberman has published extensively, with recent notable papers including:

  • Intergenerational transmission and prevention of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), 2021, Clinical Psychology Review
  • The COVID-19 pandemic and maternal mental health in a fragile and conflict-affected setting in Tumaco, Colombia: a cohort study, 2021, The Lancet Global Health
  • Type versus timing of adverse and benevolent childhood experiences for pregnant women's psychological and reproductive health, 2020, Children and Youth Services Review
  • Developmental Origins of Ghosts and Angels in the Nursery: Adverse and Benevolent Childhood Experiences, 2020, Adversity and Resilience Science
  • Adversity in early life and pregnancy are immunologically distinct from total life adversity: macrophage-associated phenotypes in women exposed to interpersonal violence, 2021, Translational Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors in their studies include Angela J. Narayan, Nicole R. Bush, Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Ann T. Chu, and Luisa M. Rivera.

Lieberman's work has appeared repeatedly in venues such as the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Infant Mental Health Journal, Clinical Psychology Review, and The Lancet Global Health.

Best Publications

  • Toward Evidence-Based Treatment: Child-Parent Psychotherapy with Preschoolers Exposed to Marital Violence

    Alicia F. Lieberman;Patricia Van Horn;Chandra Ghosh Ippen

  • Child-parent psychotherapy: 6-month follow-up of a randomized controlled trial.

    Alicia F. Lieberman;Chandra Ghosh Ippen;Patricia Van Horn

  • Positive childhood experiences predict less psychopathology and stress in pregnant women with childhood adversity: A pilot study of the benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) scale

    Angela J. Narayan;Angela J. Narayan;Luisa M. Rivera;Rosemary E. Bernstein;William W. Harris

  • Preventive intervention and outcome with anxiously attached dyads

    Alicia F. Lieberman;Donna R. Weston;Jeree H. Pawl

  • Early Face-to-Face Interaction and Its Relation to Later Infant-Mother Attachment.

    Mary C. Blehar;Alicia F. Lieberman;Mary D. Salter Ainsworth

  • Intergenerational transmission and prevention of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

    Angela J. Narayan;Angela J. Narayan;Alicia F. Lieberman;Ann S. Masten

  • Psychotherapy with Infants and Young Children: Repairing the Effects of Stress and Trauma on Early Attachment

    Alicia F. Lieberman;Patricia Van Horn

  • Psychopharmacological Treatment for Very Young Children: Contexts and Guidelines

    Mary Margaret Gleason;Helen Link Egger;Graham J. Emslie;Laurence L. Greenhill

  • Angels in the nursery: The intergenerational transmission of benevolent parental influences

    Alicia F. Lieberman;Elena Padrón;Patricia Van Horn;William W. Harris

  • Recruiting and retaining low-income Latinos in psychotherapy research.

    Jeanne Miranda;Francisca Azocar;Kurt C. Organista;Ricardo F. Muñoz

  • Prevention of Postpartum Depression in Low-Income Women: Development of the Mamás y Bebés/Mothers and Babies Course☆

    Ricardo F. Muñoz;Huynh Nhu Le;Chandra Ghosh Ippen;Manuela A. Diaz

  • PROPOSAL TO INCLUDE A DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA DISORDER DIAGNOSIS FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN DSM-V

    Bessel A. van der Kolk;Robert S. Pynoos;Dante Cicchetti;Marylene Cloitre

  • Traumatic and stressful events in early childhood: Can treatment help those at highest risk?

    Chandra Ghosh Ippen;William W. Harris;Patricia Van Horn;Alicia F. Lieberman

  • Traumatic stress and quality of attachment: Reality and internalization in disorders of infant mental health

    Alicia F. Lieberman

  • Preschoolers' Competence with a Peer: Relations with Attachment and Peer Experience

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  • Trauma in early childhood: Empirical evidence and clinical implications

    Alicia F. Lieberman;Ann Chu;Patricia Van Horn;William W. Harris

  • Preschooler witnesses of marital violence: predictors and mediators of child behavior problems.

    Alicia F. Lieberman;Patricia Van Horn;Emily J. Ozer

  • DSM-V diagnostic criteria for bereavement-related disorders in children and adolescents: developmental considerations

    Julie B. Kaplow;Christopher M. Layne;Robert S. Pynoos;Judith A. Cohen

  • Clinical implications of traumatic stress from birth to age five.

    Ann T. Chu;Alicia F. Lieberman

  • Adverse childhood experiences and prenatal mental health: Type of ACEs and age of maltreatment onset.

    Victoria M. Atzl;Angela J. Narayan;Luisa M. Rivera;Alicia F. Lieberman

  • Disorders of attachment

    Charles H. Zeanah Jr.;Oommen K. Mammen;Alicia F. Lieberman

  • Infant-parent psychotherapy with toddlers

    Alicia F. Lieberman

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles H. Zeanah
Charles H. Zeanah Tulane University
Joy D. Osofsky
Joy D. Osofsky Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
Robert S. Pynoos
Robert S. Pynoos University of California, Los Angeles
Ricardo F. Muñoz
Ricardo F. Muñoz Palo Alto University
Alice S. Carter
Alice S. Carter University of Massachusetts Boston
Julie B. Kaplow
Julie B. Kaplow Baylor College of Medicine
Julian D. Ford
Julian D. Ford University of Connecticut
Judith A. Cohen
Judith A. Cohen Allegheny General Hospital
Sharon M. Hall
Sharon M. Hall University of California, San Francisco
Ann S. Masten
Ann S. Masten University of Minnesota

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