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Overview

Blair Paley is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a strong emphasis on clinical psychology as a subfield. Their work frequently addresses topics related to trauma, family support, child development, and mental health.

Paley's main topics of research include:

  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

They have contributed to academic journals with a consistent focus on trauma and child development. The frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Traumatic Stress
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Conceptualizing Emotion Regulation and Coregulation as Family-Level Phenomena, 2022, Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
  • Parental emotion and emotion regulation: A critical target of study for research and intervention to promote child emotion socialization., 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • A Trauma-Informed, Family-Centered, Virtual Home Visiting Program for Young Children: One-Year Outcomes, 2021, Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Parental Wartime Deployment and Socioemotional Adjustment in Early Childhood: The Critical Role of Military Parents' Perceived Threat During Deployment, 2020, Journal of Traumatic Stress
  • Advancing equitable access to high quality early childhood education through a trauma- and resilience-informed community schools approach, 2024, Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Their frequent coauthors suggest ongoing collaborations with several researchers, including:

  • Nastassia J. Hajal
  • Catherine Mogil
  • Hilary Aralis
  • Norweeta G. Milburn
  • Cara J. Kiff

Paley's research contributions revolve around clinical psychology with intersecting interests in sociopolitical aspects of health and education. The work aims to deepen understanding of childhood emotional development, trauma impacts, and family dynamics in psychosocial contexts.

Best Publications

  • FAMILIES AS SYSTEMS

    Martha J. Cox;Blair Paley

  • Understanding Families as Systems

    Martha J. Cox;Blair Paley

  • Marital Perceptions and Interactions across the Transition to Parenthood

    Martha J. Cox;Blair Paley;Margaret Burchinal;C. Chris Payne

  • Interpersonal attachment cognitions and prediction of symptomatic responses to interpersonal stress

    Constance L. Hammen;Dorli Burge;Shannon E. Daley;Joanne Davila

  • Poor interpersonal problem solving as a mechanism of stress generation in depression among adolescent women.

    Joanne Davila;Constance Hammen;Dorli Burge;Blair Paley

  • Interparental conflict and parent–child relationships.

    Martha J. Cox;Blair Paley;Kristina Harter

  • Parental emotion and emotion regulation: A critical target of study for research and intervention to promote child emotion socialization.

    Nastassia J. Hajal;Blair Paley

  • A taxometric study of the Adult Attachment Interview.

    Glenn I. Roisman;R. Chris Fraley;Jay Belsky

  • Family systems and ecological perspectives on the impact of deployment on military families.

    Blair Paley;Patricia Lester;Catherine Mogil

  • Psychiatric conditions associated with prenatal alcohol exposure

    Mary J. O'Connor;Blair Paley

  • A controlled social skills training for children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

    Mary J. O'Connor;Fred Frankel;Blair Paley;Amy M. Schonfeld

  • Predictors of the generation of episodic stress: a longitudinal study of late adolescent women.

    Shannon E. Daley;Constance Hammen;Dorli Burge;Joanne Davila

  • Executive Functioning Predicts Social Skills Following Prenatal Alcohol Exposure

    Amy M. Schonfeld;Blair Paley;Fred Frankel;Mary J. O'Connor

  • The relationship between attachment cognitions and psychological adjustment in late adolescent women.

    Dorli Burge;Constance Hammen;Joanne Davila;Shannon E. Daley

  • Attachment and marital functioning: Comparison of spouses with continuous-secure, earned-secure, dismissing, and preoccupied attachment stances.

    Blair Paley;Martha J. Cox;Margaret R. Burchinal;C. Chris Payne

  • The Relationship of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and the Postnatal Environment to Child Depressive Symptoms

    Mary J. O’Connor;Blair Paley

  • Predictors of stress in parents of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

    Blair Paley;Mary J O'connor;Fred Frankel;Renee Marquardt

  • Neurobehavioral Disorder Associated with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure (ND-PAE): Proposed DSM-5 Diagnosis

    Julie A. Kable;Mary J. O’Connor;Heather Carmichael Olson;Blair Paley

  • Intervention for individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: treatment approaches and case management

    Blair Paley;Mary J. O'Connor

  • Pediatricians' Knowledge, Training, and Experience in the Care of Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

    Sheila Gahagan;Tanya Telfair Sharpe;Michael Brimacombe;Yvonne Fry-Johnson

  • "A controlled social skills training for children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders": Correction to O'Connor et al. (2006).

    Mary J. O'Connor;Fred Frankel;Blair Paley;Amy M. Schonfeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Constance Hammen
Constance Hammen University of California, Los Angeles
Joanne Davila
Joanne Davila Stony Brook University
Martha J. Cox
Martha J. Cox University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elizabeth A. Laugeson
Elizabeth A. Laugeson University of California, Los Angeles
Margaret Burchinal
Margaret Burchinal University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Norweeta G. Milburn
Norweeta G. Milburn University of California, Los Angeles
William R. Beardslee
William R. Beardslee Boston Children's Hospital
Margaret L. Stuber
Margaret L. Stuber University of California, Los Angeles
Karen D. Rudolph
Karen D. Rudolph University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Columbia University

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