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Overview

Catherine Ayoub is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and psychology, including clinical psychology, surgery, safety research, and epidemiology. The scientist's work focuses on topics related to child abuse and trauma, child welfare and adoption, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, as well as shoulder injury and treatment, shoulder and clavicle injuries, and nerve injury and rehabilitation.

Their recent publications include:

  • Pathways to prevention: Early Head Start outcomes in the first three years lead to long-term reductions in child maltreatment, 2020, published in Children and Youth Services Review
  • Postoperative Rehabilitation of Multidirectional Instability Surgery: A Systematic Review, 2021, published in Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review

Frequent coauthors with whom Catherine Ayoub has collaborated include:

  • Beth L. Green
  • Jessica Dym Bartlett
  • Carrie Furrer
  • Rachel Chazan-Cohen
  • Katherine V. Buttitta

Publication venues where Catherine Ayoub's work commonly appears are:

  • Children and Youth Services Review
  • Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review

Their research occupies intersections of clinical psychology and surgical studies, contributing to understanding both psychosocial aspects of child development and rehabilitative approaches in shoulder and nerve injuries. The dual focus on child welfare issues and postoperative rehabilitation highlights a diverse research portfolio engaging both psychological and medical rehabilitation disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Use Your Words: The Role of Language in the Development of Toddlers’ Self-Regulation

    Claire Vallotton;Catherine Ayoub

  • Correlates and Consequences of Spanking and Verbal Punishment for Low-Income White, African American, and Mexican American Toddlers

    Lisa J. Berlin;Jean M. Ispa;Mark A. Fine;Patrick S. Malone

  • Low-Income Children's School Readiness: Parent Contributions Over the First Five Years

    Rachel Chazan-Cohen;Helen Raikes;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn;Catherine Ayoub

  • Predictive validity of the child abuse potential inventory.

    Joel S. Milner;Ruth G. Gold;Catherine Ayoub;Marion M. Jacewitz

  • Predictors of Variation in Maternal Talk to Children: A Longitudinal Study of Low-Income Families

    Meredith Lee Rowe;Barbara Alexander Pan;Catherine Marie Cook Ayoub

  • Parenting Stress of Low-Income Parents of Toddlers and Preschoolers: Psychometric Properties of a Short Form of the Parenting Stress Index

    Leanne Whiteside-Mansell;Catherine Ayoub;Lorraine McKelvey;Richard A. Faldowski

  • Cognitive skill performance among young children living in poverty: Risk, change, and the promotive effects of Early Head Start

    Catherine Ayoub;Erin O'Connor;Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlictmann;Claire Vallotton

  • Using growth modeling to examine systematic differences in growth: an example of change in the functioning of families at risk of maladaptive parenting, child abuse, or neglect

    John B. Willett;Catherine C. Ayoub;David Robinson

  • Psychopathology as adaptive development along distinctive pathways.

    Kurt W. Fischer;Catherine Ayoub;Ilina Singh;Gil Noam

  • Maternal and child posttraumatic stress disorder in cases of child maltreatment

    Richard Famularo;Terence Fenton;Robert Kinscherff;Catherine Ayoub

  • IT TAKES TIME: IMPACTS OF EARLY HEAD START THAT LEAD TO REDUCTIONS IN MATERNAL DEPRESSION TWO YEARS LATER

    Rachel Chazan-Cohen;Catherine Ayoub;Barbara Alexander Pan;Lori Roggman

  • Developmental Trends in Self‐regulation among Low‐income Toddlers

    H. Abigail Raikes;Jo Ann L. Robinson;Robert H. Bradley;Helen H. Raikes

  • Developmental Pathways to Integrated Social Skills: The Roles of Parenting and Early Intervention

    Catherine Ayoub;Claire D. Vallotton;Ann M. Mastergeorge

  • Cognitive and emotional differences in young maltreated children: a translational application of dynamic skill theory.

    Catherine C. Ayoub;Erin O'Connor;Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlichtmann;Kurt W. Fischer

  • In the eyes of the beholder: family and maternal influences on perceptions of adjustment of children with a chronic illness.

    Ellen C. Perrin;Catherine C. Ayoub;John B. Willett

  • The Effect of Early Head Start on Child Welfare System Involvement: A First Look at Longitudinal Child Maltreatment Outcomes

    Beth L. Green;Catherine Ayoub;Jessica Dym Bartlett;Adam Von Ende

  • Emotional distress in children of high-conflict divorce: The impact of marital conflict and violence.

    Catherine C. Ayoub;Robin M. Deutsch;Andronicki Maraganore

  • Position paper: definitional issues in Munchausen by proxy.

    Catherine C. Ayoub;Randell Alexander;David Beck;Brenda Bursch

  • Parenting Supports for Early Vocabulary Development: Specific Effects of Sensitivity and Stimulation through Infancy

    Claire D. Vallotton;Ann Mastergeorge;Tricia Foster;Kalli B. Decker

  • Symbols Build Communication and Thought: The Role of Gestures and Words in the Development of Engagement Skills and Social-Emotional Concepts during Toddlerhood

    Claire D. Vallotton;Catherine C. Ayoub

  • Affective splitting and dissociation in normal and maltreated children: Developmental pathways for self in relationships.

    Kurt W. Fischer;Catherine Ayoub

Frequent Co-Authors

Kurt W. Fischer
Kurt W. Fischer Harvard University
Lori A. Roggman
Lori A. Roggman Utah State University
Helen Raikes
Helen Raikes University of Nebraska–Lincoln
William R. Beardslee
William R. Beardslee Boston Children's Hospital
Joel S. Milner
Joel S. Milner Northern Illinois University
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Columbia University
JoAnn Robinson
JoAnn Robinson University of Connecticut
Robert H. Bradley
Robert H. Bradley Arizona State University
Sheree L. Toth
Sheree L. Toth University of Rochester
Patrick S. Malone
Patrick S. Malone Sapienza University of Rome

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