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Overview

Femmie Juffer is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and specializes in the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology. Their research primarily focuses on Clinical Psychology with notable contributions to Safety Research, Demography, Social Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science. The main topics explored in their work include Child Welfare and Adoption, Child Abuse and Trauma, Family Dynamics and Relationships, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Family and Disability Support Research, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, and Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving.

Juffer has published multiple articles in various academic journals, reflecting a concentrated interest in attachment and parenting within child welfare contexts. Recent papers include:

  • Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues (2021, Attachment & Human Development)
  • Positive parenting in foster care: Testing the effectiveness of a video-feedback intervention program on foster parents' behavior and attitudes (2020, Children and Youth Services Review)
  • Conceptual comparison of constructs as first step in data harmonization: Parental sensitivity, child temperament, and social support as illustrations (2022, MethodsX)
  • Attachment development in children adopted from China: The role of pre-adoption care and sensitive adoptive parenting (2020, Attachment & Human Development)
  • Indiscriminate friendliness in foster children: Associations with attachment security, foster parents' sensitivity, and child inhibitory control (2020, Developmental Child Welfare)

The frequent publication venues for Juffer include:

  • Attachment & Human Development
  • Children and Youth Services Review
  • MethodsX
  • Developmental Child Welfare
  • Devenir

Juffer's collaborations involve a network of frequent co-authors, with significant joint publications alongside Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Carlo Schuengel, Sheri Madigan, and Annie Bernier. These collaborators have contributed to advancing research in areas closely aligned with attachment theory, child development, and foster care dynamics.

Best Publications

  • Less is more: Meta-analyses of sensitivity and attachment interventions in early childhood.

    Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn;Femmie Juffer

  • Behavior problems and mental health referrals of international adoptees: a meta-analysis.

    Femmie Juffer;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn

  • Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Insecure Attachment: A Review of the Effects of Attachment‐Based Interventions on Maternal Sensitivity and Infant Security

    Marinus H. van IJzendoorn;Femmie Juffer;Marja G. C. Duyvesteyn

  • The Early Childhood Aggression Curve: Development of Physical Aggression in 10- to 50-Month-Old Children

    Lenneke R. A. Alink;Judi Mesman;Jantien van Zeijl;Mirjam N. Stolk

  • Experimental evidence for differential susceptibility: dopamine D4 receptor polymorphism (DRD4 VNTR) moderates intervention effects on toddlers' externalizing behavior in a randomized controlled trial.

    Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg;Marinus H. Van IJzendoorn;Femke T. A. Pijlman;Judi Mesman

  • The Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture 2006: Adoption as intervention. Meta-analytic evidence for massive catch-up and plasticity in physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive development

    Marinus H. Van IJzendoorn;Femmie Juffer

  • Adoption and cognitive development: a meta-analytic comparison of adopted and nonadopted children's IQ and school performance.

    Marinus H. van IJzendoorn;Femmie Juffer;Caroline W. Klein Poelhuis

  • Fostering security? A meta-analysis of attachment in adopted children.

    Linda van den Dries;Femmie Juffer;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg

  • Maternal sensitivity, infant attachment, and temperament in early childhood predict adjustment in middle childhood: the case of adopted children and their biologically unrelated parents.

    Geert-Jan J. M. Stams;Femmie Juffer;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn

  • Attachment-based intervention for enhancing sensitive discipline in mothers of 1- to 3-year-old children at risk for externalizing behavior problems: a randomized controlled trial.

    Jantien Van Zeijl;Judi Mesman;Marinus H. Van IJzendoorn;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg

  • I. CHILDREN IN INSTITUTIONAL CARE: DELAYED DEVELOPMENT AND RESILIENCE

    Marinus H. van IJzendoorn;Jesús Palacios;Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke;Megan R. Gunnar

  • Cortisol and externalizing behavior in children and adolescents: mixed meta-analytic evidence for the inverse relation of basal cortisol and cortisol reactivity with externalizing behavior.

    Lenneke R.A. Alink;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg;Judi Mesman

  • Effects of Attachment-Based Interventions on Maternal Sensitivity and Infant Attachment: Differential Susceptibility of Highly Reactive Infants

    Mariska Klein Velderman;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg;Femmie Juffer;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn

  • Promoting Positive Parenting : An Attachment-Based Intervention

    Femmie Juffer;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg;Marinus H. van Ijzendoorn

  • The importance of parenting in the development of disorganized attachment: evidence from a preventive intervention study in adoptive families

    Femmie Juffer;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn

  • Disorganized infant attachment and preventive interventions: A review and meta-analysis

    Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg;Marinus H. Van IJzendoorn;Femmie Juffer

  • Adoptees do not lack self-esteem: a meta-analysis of studies on self-esteem of transracial, international, and domestic adoptees.

    Femmie Juffer;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn

  • The Development and Adjustment of 7-year-old Children Adopted in Infancy

    Geert-Jan J. M. Stams;Femmie Juffer;Jan Rispens;René A. C. Hoksbergen

  • Plasticity of Growth in Height, Weight, and Head Circumference: Meta-analytic Evidence of Massive Catch-up After International Adoption

    Marinus H. Van IJzendoorn;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg;Femmie Juffer

  • III. ATTACHMENT AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN INSTITUTIONAL CARE: CHARACTERISTICS AND CATCH UP

    Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg;Howard Steele;Charles H. Zeanah;Rifkat J. Muhamedrahimov

Frequent Co-Authors

Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn University College London
Judi Mesman
Judi Mesman Leiden University
Hans M. Koot
Hans M. Koot Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Geert Jan J. M. Stams
Geert Jan J. M. Stams University of Amsterdam
Miriam Steele
Miriam Steele New School
Howard Steele
Howard Steele New School
Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota
Harold D. Grotevant
Harold D. Grotevant University of Massachusetts Amherst

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