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Charles H. Zeanah

Charles H. Zeanah

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Psychology

D-Index
109
Citations
39898
World Ranking
416
National Ranking
265

Overview

Charles H. Zeanah is affiliated with Tulane University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on psychology and social sciences, with a significant number of publications in these fields. Subfields covered include clinical psychology, safety research, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, sociology and political science, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The main topics of Zeanah's work concentrate on child welfare and adoption, child abuse and trauma, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, early childhood education and development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, family and disability support research, and child and adolescent health.

Frequent publication venues for Zeanah include the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Infant Mental Health Journal, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, UNC Libraries, and the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

They have collaborated extensively with several coauthors, notably Nathan A. Fox, Charles A. Nelson, Kathryn L. Humphreys, Katie A. McLaughlin, and Mark Wade.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Zeanah encompass the following:

  • Increased Risk for Family Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, PEDIATRICS)
  • Institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children 1: a systematic and integrative review of evidence regarding effects on development (2020, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues (2021, Attachment & Human Development)
  • Institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children 2: policy and practice recommendations for global, national, and local actors (2020, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health)
  • The implications of COVID-19 for the care of children living in residential institutions (2020, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health)

Best Publications

  • Cognitive Recovery in Socially Deprived Young Children: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project

    Charles A. Nelson;Charles H. Zeanah;Nathan A. Fox;Peter J. Marshall

  • Handbook of infant mental health

    Charles H. Zeanah

  • Attachment in institutionalized and community children in Romania

    Charles H. Zeanah;Anna T. Smyke;Sebastian F. Koga;Elizabeth Carlson

  • A relational perspective on PTSD in early childhood.

    Michael S. Scheeringa;Charles H. Zeanah

  • Two approaches to the diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder in infancy and early childhood.

    Michael S. Scheeringa;Charles H. Zeanah;Martin J. Drell;Julie A. Larrieu

  • New findings on alternative criteria for PTSD in preschool children.

    Michael S. Scheeringa;Charles H. Zeanah;Leann Myers;Frank W. Putnam

  • Infant development and developmental risk: a review of the past 10 years

    Charles H. Zeanah;Neil W. Boris;Julie A. Larrieu

  • Designing research to study the effects of institutionalization on brain and behavioral development: the Bucharest Early Intervention Project.

    Charles H. Zeanah;Charles A. Nelson;Nathan A. Fox;Anna T. Smyke

  • Attachment Disturbances in Young Children. I: The Continuum of Caretaking Casualty

    Anna T. Smyke;Alina Dumitrescu;Charles H. Zeanah

  • Variation in neural development as a result of exposure to institutionalization early in childhood

    Margaret A. Sheridan;Nathan A. Fox;Charles H. Zeanah;Katie A. McLaughlin

  • Causal effects of the early caregiving environment on development of stress response systems in children.

    Katie A. McLaughlin;Margaret A. Sheridan;Florin Tibu;Nathan A. Fox

  • Mothers' Representations of Their Infants Assessed Prenatally: Stability and Association with Infants' Attachment Classifications

    Diane Benoit;Kevin C. H. Parker;Charles H. Zeanah

  • Institutional rearing and psychiatric disorders in Romanian preschool children.

    Charles H. Zeanah;Helen L. Egger;Anna T. Smyke;Charles A. Nelson

  • The caregiving context in institution‐reared and family‐reared infants and toddlers in Romania

    Anna T. Smyke;Sebastian F. Koga;Dana E. Johnson;Nathan A. Fox

  • Placement in Foster Care Enhances Quality of Attachment Among Young Institutionalized Children

    Anna T. Smyke;Charles H. Zeanah;Nathan A. Fox;Charles A. Nelson

  • Telomere length and early severe social deprivation: linking early adversity and cellular aging

    S S Drury;K Theall;M M Gleason;A T Smyke

  • Intergenerational transmission of maltreatment: insights from attachment theory and research.

    Charles H. Zeanah;Paula D. Zeanah

  • The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology

    Charles H. Zeanah

  • Disorganized attachment in infancy : a review of the phenomenon and its implications for clinicians and policy-makers

    Pehr Granqvist;L. Alan Sroufe;Mary Dozier;Erik Hesse

  • Clinical Applications of a Parent Perception Interview in Infant Mental Health

    Charles H. Zeanah;Diane Benoit

  • Report of the APSAC task force on attachment therapy, reactive attachment disorder, and attachment problems.

    Mark Chaffin;Rochelle Hanson;Benjamin E. Saunders;Todd Nichols

  • Toward Establishing Procedural, Criterion, and Discriminant Validity for PTSD in Early Childhood

    Michael S. Scheeringa;Claire D. Peebles;Cynthia A. Cook;Charles H. Zeanah

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Kathryn L. Humphreys
Kathryn L. Humphreys Vanderbilt University
Michael S. Scheeringa
Michael S. Scheeringa Tulane University
Katie A. McLaughlin
Katie A. McLaughlin University of Oregon
Margaret A. Sheridan
Margaret A. Sheridan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alicia F. Lieberman
Alicia F. Lieberman University of California, San Francisco
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn University College London
Thomas F. Anders
Thomas F. Anders Brown University
Peter J. Marshall
Peter J. Marshall Temple University

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