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Howard Steele

Howard Steele

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Psychology

D-Index
47
Citations
20555
World Ranking
6020
National Ranking
3263

Overview

Howard Steele is affiliated with the New School in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the field of Psychology, with a significant emphasis on Clinical Psychology and Social Psychology. Their scholarly contributions extend to subfields such as Demography, Safety Research, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The core topics of Howard Steele's work encompass:

  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology

Howard Steele has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • "Covid-19, Fear and the Future: An Attachment Perspective," 2020, PubMed
  • "Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues," 2021, Attachment & Human Development
  • "Attachment & Child Health (ATTACH) pilot trials: Effect of parental reflective function intervention for families affected by toxic stress," 2020, Infant Mental Health Journal
  • "Factor structure of the Friends and Family interview," 2020, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
  • "Configurations of mother-child and father-child attachment relationships as predictors of child language competence: An individual participant data meta-analysis," 2023, Child Development

Their research has appeared primarily in the following publication venues:

  • Attachment & Human Development
  • Research in Psychotherapy Psychopathology Process and Outcome
  • PubMed
  • Infant Mental Health Journal
  • Child Development

Collaboration is an important aspect of Howard Steele's research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Miriam Steele
  • Carlo Schuengel
  • Sheri Madigan
  • Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
  • Glenn I. Roisman

Howard Steele's work predominantly addresses clinical and developmental aspects of attachment, focusing on the psychosocial and emotional development of children and adolescents. The research incorporates domains such as family relationships, child welfare, trauma experiences, and maternal mental health, reflecting an interdisciplinary engagement with both psychological theory and practical family-oriented concerns.

Best Publications

  • The capacity for understanding mental states - the reflective self in parent and child and its significance for security of attachment

    Peter Fonagy;Peter Fonagy;Miriam Steele;Howard Steele;George S. Moran

  • Maternal representations of attachment during pregnancy predict the organization of infant-mother attachment at one year of age

    Peter Fonagy;Howard Steele;Miriam Steele

  • The Relation of Attachment Status, Psychiatric Classification, and Response to Psychotherapy.

    Peter Fonagy;Tom Leigh;Miriam Steele;Howard Steele

  • Attachment, the reflective self, and borderline states: The predictive specificity of the Adult Attachment Interview and pathological emotional development.

    Peter Fonagy;Miriam Steele;Howard Steele;Tom Leigh

  • The Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture 1992 The Theory and Practice of Resilience

    Peter Fonagy;Miriam Steele;Howard Steele;Anna Higgitt

  • Associations among Attachment Classifications of Mothers, Fathers, and Their Infants

    Howard Steele;Miriam Steele;Peter Fonagy

  • REFLECTIVE-FUNCTIONING MANUAL Version 5 FOR APPLICATION TO ADULT ATTACHMENT INTERVIEWS

    Peter Fonagy;Mary Target;Howard Steele;Miriam Steele

  • Measuring the ghost in the nursery: An empirical study of the relation between parents' mental representations of childhood experiences and their infants' security of attachment.

    Peter Fonagy;Miriam Steele;George Moran;Howard Steele

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Questionnaire and Adult Attachment Interview (AAI): Implications for parent child relationships ☆

    Anne Murphy;Miriam Steele;Shanta Rishi Dube;Jordan Bate

  • Infant-mother attachment at one year predicts children's understanding of mixed emotions at six years

    Howard Steele;Miriam Steele;Carla Croft;Peter Fonagy

  • Measuring locus of control: A critique of general, children's, health‐ and work‐related locus of control questionnaires

    Adrian Furnham;Howard Steele

  • Adverse childhood experiences, poverty, and parenting stress

    Howard Steele;Jordan Bate;Miriam Steele;Shanta Rishi Dube

  • Early experiences and attachment relationships of Greek infants raised in residential group care

    Panayiota Vorria;Zaira Papaligoura;Judy Dunn;Marinus H. Van IJzendoorn

  • The theory and practice of resilience

    P Fonagy;M Steele;H Steele;A Higgitt

  • 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 the adult attachment interview

    Howard Steele;Miriam Steele

  • Attachment in anorexia nervosa: A transgenerational perspective

    Anne Ward;Rosalind Ramsay;Susan Turnbull;Miriam Steele

  • The role of attachment security, temperament, maternal perception, and care‐giving behavior in persistent infant sleeping problems

    Julian Morrell;Howard Steele

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

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

  • A psychometric assessment of the Belbin Team‐Role Self‐Perception Inventory

    Adrian Furnham;Howard Steele;David Pendleton

  • Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development

    H Steele;M Steele;M Woolgar;S Yabsley

Frequent Co-Authors

Miriam Steele
Miriam Steele New School
Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
Mary Target
Mary Target University College London
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn University College London
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences
Susan Golombok
Susan Golombok University of Cambridge
Charles H. Zeanah
Charles H. Zeanah Tulane University
Femmie Juffer
Femmie Juffer Leiden University
Kristin Bernard
Kristin Bernard Stony Brook University
Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota

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