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Overview

Kristin Bernard is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with significant contributions to clinical psychology and social psychology. Other areas of study include safety research, experimental and cognitive psychology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The main topics addressed in Bernard's work involve child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child abuse and trauma, attachment and relationship dynamics, child welfare and adoption, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, early childhood education and development, and family dynamics and relationships.

Bernard has published numerous papers in various scholarly journals. Some recent notable works include:

  • Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues, 2021, Attachment & Human Development
  • Parental sensitivity mediates the sustained effect of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up on cortisol in middle childhood: A randomized clinical trial, 2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Preoccupied and Dismissing Attachment Representations Are Differentially Associated With Anxiety in Adolescence and Adulthood: A Meta-Analysis, 2020, Clinical Psychological Science
  • Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Chronological Age: Associations With Cognitive Performance in Daily Life, 2023, The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • Changing parental depression and sensitivity: Randomized clinical trial of ABC's effectiveness in the community, 2020, Development and Psychopathology

Bernard frequently collaborates with several other researchers. Notable frequent co-authors include Mary Dozier, Sheri Madigan, Glenn I. Roisman, Or Dagan, and Laura Perrone.

The scientist's work has appeared repeatedly in key venues such as Development and Psychopathology, Developmental Psychobiology, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, and Attachment & Human Development.

Best Publications

  • Enhancing Attachment Organization Among Maltreated Children: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial

    Kristin Bernard;Mary Dozier;Johanna Bick;Erin Lewis-Morrarty

  • 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

  • Effects of a Foster Parent Training Program on Young Children's Attachment Behaviors: Preliminary Evidence from a Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Mary Dozier;Oliver Lindhiem;Erin Lewis;Johanna Bick

  • Association between maternal depression and maternal sensitivity from birth to 12 months: a meta-analysis

    Kristin Bernard;Galia Nissim;Suzanne Vaccaro;Jordan L Harris

  • Cognitive Flexibility and Theory of Mind Outcomes Among Foster Children: Preschool Follow-up Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial

    Erin Lewis-Morrarty;Mary Dozier;Kristin Bernard;Stephanie M. Terracciano

  • Intervening to enhance cortisol regulation among children at risk for neglect: Results of a randomized clinical trial.

    Kristin Bernard;Mary Dozier;Johanna Bick;M. Kathleen Gordon

  • Adult attachment representations and depressive symptoms: A meta-analysis

    Or Dagan;Christopher R. Facompré;Kristin Bernard

  • Examining Infants' Cortisol Responses to Laboratory Tasks among Children Varying in Attachment Disorganization: Stress Reactivity or Return to Baseline?.

    Kristin Bernard;Mary Dozier

  • Parental responsiveness moderates the association between early-life stress and reduced telomere length.

    A. Asok;K. Bernard;T. L. Roth;J. B. Rosen

  • Intervention effects on diurnal cortisol rhythms of Child Protective Services-referred infants in early childhood: preschool follow-up results of a randomized clinical trial.

    Kristin Bernard;Camelia E. Hostinar;Mary Dozier

  • Maltreatment and diurnal cortisol regulation: A meta-analysis

    Kristin Bernard;Allison Frost;Charles B. Bennett;Oliver Lindhiem

  • Cortisol Production Patterns in Young Children Living With Birth Parents vs Children Placed in Foster Care Following Involvement of Child Protective Services

    Kristin Bernard;Zachary Butzin-Dozier;Joseph Rittenhouse;Mary Dozier

  • Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up: Addressing the Needs of Infants and Toddlers Exposed to Inadequate or Problematic Caregiving.

    Mary Dozier;Kristin Bernard

  • Intervention effects on negative affect of CPS-referred children: Results of a randomized clinical trial

    Teresa Lind;Kristin Bernard;Emily Ross;Mary Dozier

  • Effects of an Attachment‐Based Intervention on Child Protective Services–Referred Mothers' Event‐Related Potentials to Children's Emotions

    Kristin Bernard;Robert Simons;Mary Dozier

  • Parental synchrony and nurturance as targets in an attachment based intervention: building upon Mary Ainsworth's insights about mother-infant interaction.

    Kristin Bernard;EB Meade;Mary Dozier

  • Foster Mother–Infant Bonding: Associations Between Foster Mothers' Oxytocin Production, Electrophysiological Brain Activity, Feelings of Commitment, and Caregiving Quality

    Johanna Bick;Mary Dozier;Kristin Bernard;Damion Grasso

  • Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues

    Tommie Forslund;Pehr Granqvist;Marinus H van IJzendoorn;Avi Sagi-Schwartz

  • In Vivo Feedback Predicts Parent Behavior Change in the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up Intervention

    EB Caron;Kristin Bernard;Mary Dozier

  • Effectiveness of interventions in preventing disorganized attachment: A meta-analysis.

    Christopher R Facompré;Kristin Bernard;Theodore E A Waters

  • Infants and Toddlers in Foster Care

    Mary Dozier;Charles H. Zeanah;Kristin Bernard

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary Dozier
Mary Dozier University of Delaware
Carlo Schuengel
Carlo Schuengel Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sheri Madigan
Sheri Madigan University of Calgary
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences
Robert F. Simons
Robert F. Simons University of Delaware
Pasco Fearon
Pasco Fearon University College London
Miriam Steele
Miriam Steele New School
Camelia E. Hostinar
Camelia E. Hostinar University of California, Davis
Glenn I. Roisman
Glenn I. Roisman University of Minnesota
Howard Steele
Howard Steele New School

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