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David Oppenheim

David Oppenheim

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Psychology

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Overview

David Oppenheim is affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with significant contributions in clinical psychology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, demography, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their work addresses key topics such as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, family and disability support research, autism spectrum disorder research, attachment and relationship dynamics, family dynamics and relationships, child development and digital technology, and child nutrition and feeding issues.

Recent publications by David Oppenheim include:

  • Parental insightfulness is associated with mother-father-child interactions among families of preschoolers with an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis (2023, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)
  • Attachment to fathers and mothers in preschoolers with an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis (2022, Attachment & Human Development)
  • Maternal and paternal insightfulness and reaction to the diagnosis in families of preschoolers with Autism spectrum disorder: associations with observed parental sensitivity and inter-parent interaction (2024, Attachment & Human Development)

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Nurit Yirmiya
  • Lior Hamburger
  • Michal Slonim
  • Yael Maccabi
  • Nina Koren-Karie

David Oppenheim has published repeatedly in several venues, most notably:

  • Attachment & Human Development
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Autism
  • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Best Publications

  • The moral self of infancy: Affective core and procedural knowledge

    Robert N Emde;Zeynep Biringen;Robert B Clyman;David Oppenheim

  • Mothers' insightfulness regarding their infants' internal experience: relations with maternal sensitivity and infant attachment

    Nina Koren-Karie;David Oppenheim;Smadar Dolev;Efrat Sher

  • Cultural Variation in Infants' Sleeping Arrangements: Questions of Independence

    Gilda A. Morelli;Barbara Rogoff;David Oppenheim;Denise Goldsmith

  • Children's narrative representations of mothers: their development and associations with child and mother adaptation.

    David Oppenheim;Robert N. Emde;Susan Warren

  • Emotion regulation in mother–child narrative co-construction: Associations with children's narratives and adaptation.

    David Oppenheim;Ayelet Nir;Susan Warren;Robert N. Emde

  • Mothers' insightfulness regarding their children's internal worlds: The capacity underlying secure child–mother relationships

    David Oppenheim;Nina Koren-Karie

  • Infant-Adult Attachments on the Kibbutz and Their Relation to Socioemotional Development 4 Years Later.

    David Oppenheim;Abraham Sagi;Michael E. Lamb

  • Revealing the inner worlds of young children : the MacArthur story stem battery and parent-child narratives

    Robert N. Emde;Dennie Wolf;David Oppenheim

  • Can emotions and themes in children's play predict behavior problems?

    Susan L. Warren;David Oppenheim;Robert N. Emde

  • Maternal Insightfulness and Resolution of the Diagnosis Are Associated With Secure Attachment in Preschoolers With Autism Spectrum Disorders

    David Oppenheim;Nina Koren-Karie;Smadar Dolev;Nurit Yirmiya

  • Mothers' empathic understanding of their preschoolers' internal experience : Relations with early attachment

    David Oppenheim;Nina Koren-Karie;Abraham Sagi

  • Child, parent, and parent-child emotion narratives : Implications for developmental psychopathology

    David Oppenheim

  • Emotion Dialogues between Mothers and Children at 4.5 and 7.5 Years: Relations with Children's Attachment at 1 Year.

    David Oppenheim;Nina Koren-Karie;Abraham Sagi-Schwartz

  • Mothers of securely attached children with autism spectrum disorder are more sensitive than mothers of insecurely attached children.

    Nina Koren-Karie;David Oppenheim;Smadar Dolev;Nurit Yirmiya

  • The Attachment Doll-play Interview for Preschoolers

    David Oppenheim

  • Maternal insightfulness and preschoolers' emotion and behavior problems: Reciprocal influences in a therapeutic preschool program

    David Oppenheim;Douglas Goldsmith;Nina Koren-Karie

  • Resolution of the Diagnosis Among Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Associations with Child and Parent Characteristics

    Shahaf Milshtein;Nurit Yirmiya;David Oppenheim;Nina Koren-Karie

  • NARRATIVE PROCESS AND ATTACHMENT REPRESENTATIONS: ISSUES OF DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT

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  • Shaping children's internal working models through mother-child dialogues : the importance of resolving past maternal trauma

    Nina Koren-Karie;David Oppenheim;Rachel Getzler-Yosef

  • Attachment theory in clinical work with children bridging the gap between research and practice.

    David Oppenheim;Douglas F. Goldsmith

  • Maternal sensitivity mediates the link between maternal insightfulness/resolution and child-mother attachment: the case of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

    David Oppenheim;Nina Koren-Karie;Smadar Dolev;Nurit Yirmiya

Frequent Co-Authors

Nurit Yirmiya
Nurit Yirmiya Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Robert N. Emde
Robert N. Emde University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Michael E. Lamb
Michael E. Lamb University of Cambridge
Abraham Sagi
Abraham Sagi University of Haifa
Barbara Rogoff
Barbara Rogoff University of California, Santa Cruz
Maria Muzik
Maria Muzik University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Katherine L. Rosenblum
Katherine L. Rosenblum University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Marinella Paciello
Marinella Paciello UniNettuno University
Avi Assor
Avi Assor Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Luca Cerniglia
Luca Cerniglia UniNettuno University

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