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Lynn Fainsilber Katz is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Psychology, Medicine, and Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Clinical Psychology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's work covers several subfields and topics, notably:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Speech and Hearing

Key thematic areas include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare

Recent publications by Lynn Fainsilber Katz exemplify their contributions to developmental and clinical psychology as well as pediatric health:

  • "An emotion coaching parenting intervention for families exposed to intimate partner violence." (2020), published in Developmental Psychology
  • "The role of parental emotion reactivity and regulation in child maltreatment and maltreatment risk: A meta-analytic review." (2021), published in Clinical Psychology Review
  • "Stress and psychological adjustment in caregivers of children with cancer." (2021), published in Health Psychology
  • "Creating a Pathway for Psychosocial Support in Siblings of Youth with a Chronic Illness: Findings from an International Summit." (2020), published in Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics
  • "Relationships Between Adolescents with Cancer and Healthy Peers: A Qualitative Study." (2020), published in Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology

Frequent coauthors working alongside Katz include:

  • Liliana J. Lengua
  • Kaitlyn Fladeboe
  • Liana R Galtieri
  • Bruce E. Compas
  • Kyrill Gurtovenko

The scholar has commonly published in the following venues:

  • Health Psychology
  • Journal of Family Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology Review
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics

Best Publications

  • Parental meta-emotion philosophy and the emotional life of families: Theoretical models and preliminary data.

    John M. Gottman;Lynn Fainsilber Katz;Carole Hooven

  • Meta-Emotion: How Families Communicate Emotionally

    John Mordechai Gottman;Lynn Fainsilber Katz;Carole Hooven

  • Effects of Marital Discord on Young Children's Peer Interaction and Health

    John M. Gottman;Lynn Fainsilber Katz

  • Patterns of marital conflict predict children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors.

    Lynn Fainsilber Katz;John M. Gottman

  • How a couple views their past predicts their future: Predicting divorce from an oral history interview.

    Kim Therese Buehlman;John Mordechai Gottman;Lynn Fainsilber Katz

  • Spillover effects of marital conflict: In search of parenting and coparenting mechanisms

    Lynn Fainsilber Katz;John M. Gottman

  • Buffering children from marital conflict and dissolution

    Lynn Fainsilber Katz;John M. Gottman

  • Parental Meta-Emotion Philosophy: A Review of Research and Theoretical Framework

    Lynn Fainsilber Katz;Ashley C. Maliken;Nicole M. Stettler

  • Parental meta-emotion structure predicts family and child outcomes

    Carole Hooven;John Mordechai Gottman;Lynn Fainsilber Katz

  • Maternal Meta‐emotion Philosophy and Adolescent Depressive Symptomatology

    Lynn Fainsilber Katz;Erin C. Hunter

  • Marital violence, co-parenting, and family-level processes in relation to children's adjustment.

    Lynn Fainsilber Katz;Sabina M. Low

  • Brief Report: Associations between Emotional Competence and Adolescent Risky Behavior

    Danielle M. Hessler;Lynn Fainsilber Katz

  • Hostility, Hostile Detachment, and Conflict Engagement in Marriages: Effects on Child and Family Functioning

    Lynn Fainsilber Katz;Erica M. Woodin

  • Parental meta-emotion philosophy in families with conduct-problem children: links with peer relations.

    Lynn Fainsilber Katz;Bess Windecker-Nelson

  • Vagal tone protects children from marital conflict

    Lynn Fainsilber Katz;John M. Gottman

  • Domestic violence, emotion coaching, and child adjustment

    Lynn Fainsilber Katz;Bess Windecker-Nelson

  • Exploring the Impact of Parental Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation on Evidence-Based Parenting Interventions: A Transdiagnostic Approach to Improving Treatment Effectiveness

    Ashley C. Maliken;Lynn Fainsilber Katz

  • Domestic Violence, Emotional Competence, and Child Adjustment

    Lynn Fainsilber Katz;Danielle M. Hessler;Amalia Annest

  • Conflict and emotions in marital, sibling, and peer relationships.

    Lynn Fainsilber Katz;Laurie Kramer;John M. Gottman

  • Children's Emotional Reactions to Stressful Parent-Child Interactions: The Link Between Emotion Regulation and Vagal Tone

    John Mordechai Gottman;Lynn Fainsilber Katz

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Gottman
John M. Gottman University of Washington
Nicholas B. Allen
Nicholas B. Allen University of Oregon
Lisa Sheeber
Lisa Sheeber Oregon Research Institute
Joann Wu Shortt
Joann Wu Shortt National Institutes of Health
Bruce E. Compas
Bruce E. Compas Vanderbilt University
James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
Emily J. Ozer
Emily J. Ozer University of California, Berkeley
Kevin M. King
Kevin M. King University of Washington
Liliana J. Lengua
Liliana J. Lengua University of Washington
Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota

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