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Douglas Barnett is affiliated with Wayne State University in the United States and has contributed to multiple areas within psychology, social sciences, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans several subfields, including clinical psychology, education, molecular biology, speech and hearing, and sociology and political science.

Their research has focused on topics such as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, early childhood education and development, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, family support in illness, parental involvement in education, attachment and relationship dynamics, and RNA modifications and cancer.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Douglas Barnett are:

  • Caregivers as gatekeepers: Professional mental health service use among urban minority adolescents, 2020, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
  • Adolescent Achievement: Relative Contributions of Social Emotional Learning, Self-efficacy, and Microsystem Supports, 2020, Education and Urban Society
  • Trust and Communication With a Caregiver Reduces Behavior Problems and Protects Against Stress Among Urban Adolescents, 2020, Youth & Society
  • The neurophysiology of music processing in teenagers with different bilingual backgrounds, 2023, International Journal of Psychophysiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Douglas Barnett include:

  • Yi Tak Tsang
  • Marilyn Franklin
  • Kelsey Sala-Hamrick
  • Brittany Kohlberger
  • Valerie A. Simon

Douglas Barnett's publications commonly appear in venues such as the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Education and Urban Society, Youth & Society, and the International Journal of Psychophysiology, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their work.

Best Publications

  • Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment Relationships in Maltreated Infants.

    Vicki Carlson;Dante Cicchetti;Douglas Barnett;Karen Braunwald

  • The impact of subtype, frequency, chronicity, and severity of child maltreatment on social competence and behavior problems

    Jody Todd Manly;Dante Cicchetti;Douglas Barnett

  • Attachment organization in maltreated preschoolers

    Dante Cicchetti;Douglas Barnett

  • Finding order in disorganization: Lessons from research on maltreated infant's attachments to their caregivers: Theory and research on the causes and consequences

    V Carlson;Dante Cicchetti;D Barnett;K Braunwald

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

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

  • Building New Dreams Supporting Parents' Adaptation to Their Child With Special Needs

    Douglas Barnett;Melissa Clements;Melissa Kaplan-Estrin;Janice Fialka

  • Contributions from the study of high risk populations to understanding the development of emotion regulation

    Dante Cicchetti;Jody Ganiban;Douglas Barnett

  • Family protective factors among urban African American youth.

    Kristen M. McCabe;Rodney Clark;Douglas Barnett

  • First Comes Work, Then Comes Marriage: Future Orientation Among African American Young Adolescents*

    Kristen McCabe;Douglas Barnett

  • Toward the development of a scientific nosology of child maltreatment.

    Dante Cicchetti;Douglas Barnett

  • Atypical attachment in infancy and early childhood among children at developmental risk. V. Maltreatment, negative expressivity, and the development of type D attachments from 12 to 24 months of age

    Douglas Barnett;Jody Ganiban;Dante Cicchetti

  • Parenting and Preschooler Attachment among Low-Income Urban African American Families

    Douglas Barnett;Shari L. Kidwell;Kwan Ho Leung

  • Finding order in disorganization: Lessons from research on maltreated infants' attachments to their caregivers.

    Vicki Carlson;Dante Cicchetti;Douglas Barnett;Karen G. Braunwald

  • Continuing toward an operational definition of psychological maltreatment

    Douglas Barnett;Jody Todd Manly;Dante Cicchetti

  • Perceived social support mediates between prior attachment and subsequent adjustment: a study of urban African American children.

    Ruth McLeister Anan;Douglas Barnett

  • Perceived and actual competence among maltreated and comparison school children

    Joan Vondra;Douglas Barnett;Dante Cicchetti

  • Self-concept, motivation, and competence among preschoolers from maltreating and comparison families.

    Joan I. Vondra;Douglas Barnett;Dante Cicchetti

  • Relationships between teachers and Urban African American children the role of informant

    Rick B. Rey;Ami L. Smith;Jina Yoon;Cheryl Somers

  • Sex with children is abuse: Comment on Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman (1998).

    S. J. Ondersma;M. Chaffin;Lucy Berliner;I. Cordon

  • The Relation Between Familial Factors and the Future Orientation of Urban, African American Sixth Graders

    Kristen M. McCabe;Kristen M. McCabe;Douglas Barnett

  • Atypical attachment in infancy and early childhood among children at developmental risk. I. Atypical patterns of early attachment: theory, research, and current directions.

    Douglas Barnett;Joan I. Vondra

Frequent Co-Authors

Dante Cicchetti
Dante Cicchetti University of Minnesota
Xiaoyi Fang
Xiaoyi Fang Beijing Normal University
Sylvie Naar-King
Sylvie Naar-King Florida State University
Jody M. Ganiban
Jody M. Ganiban George Washington University
Kristen M. McCabe
Kristen M. McCabe University of San Diego
Lucy Berliner
Lucy Berliner University of Washington
Byron Egeland
Byron Egeland University of Minnesota
Gail S. Goodman
Gail S. Goodman University of California, Davis
Benjamin E. Saunders
Benjamin E. Saunders Medical University of South Carolina
Jintao Zhang
Jintao Zhang Shandong University

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