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Mary Dozier is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology, medicine, and social sciences, with notable specialization in clinical psychology, social psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, safety research, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The focus of their work centers on several key topics, including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Early Childhood Education and Development

They have contributed extensively to various publication venues, frequently publishing in:

  • Development and Psychopathology
  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Attachment & Human Development
  • Developmental Psychobiology
  • Infant Mental Health Journal

Recent publications by Mary Dozier include:

  • Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues (2021, Attachment & Human Development)
  • Early Parenting Intervention Effects on Brain Responses to Maternal Cues Among High-Risk Children (2020, American Journal of Psychiatry)
  • Transitioning to telehealth due to COVID-19: Maintaining model fidelity in a home visiting program for parents of vulnerable infants (2021, Infant Mental Health Journal)
  • Parental sensitivity mediates the sustained effect of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up on cortisol in middle childhood: A randomized clinical trial (2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology)
  • Adverse caregiving in infancy blunts neural processing of the mother (2020, Nature Communications)

Mary Dozier has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Alexandra R. Tabachnick
  • Kristin Bernard
  • Lindsay Zajac
  • K. Lee Raby
  • Madelyn H. Labella

Best Publications

  • Attachment and psychopathology in adulthood.

    Mary Dozier;K. Chase Stovall-McClough;Kathleen E. Albus

  • Attachment for Infants in Foster Care: The Role of Caregiver State of Mind

    Mary Dozier;K. Chase Stovall;Kathleen E. Albus;Brady Bates

  • Psychophysiology in Attachment Interviews: Converging Evidence for Deactivating Strategies

    Mary Dozier;R. Rogers Kobak

  • Clinicians as Caregivers: Role of Attachment Organization in Treatment

    Mary Dozier;Kelly L. Cue;Lara Barnett

  • Attachment organization and treatment use for adults with serious psychopathological disorders

    Mary Dozier

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

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

  • Developing Evidence‐Based Interventions for Foster Children: An Example of a Randomized Clinical Trial with Infants and Toddlers

    Mary Dozier;Elizabeth Peloso;Oliver Lindhiem;M. Kathleen Gordon

  • Effects of an attachment-based intervention on the cortisol production of infants and toddlers in foster care.

    Mary Dozier;Elizabeth Peloso;Erin Lewis;Jean-Philippe Laurenceau

  • Effective treatment relationships for persons with serious psychiatric disorders: the importance of attachment states of mind.

    Christine L. Tyrrell;Mary Dozier;Gregory B. Teague;Roger D. Fallot

  • The development of attachment in new relationships: single subject analyses for 10 foster infants.

    K. Chase Stovall;Mary Dozier

  • Foster children's diurnal production of cortisol: an exploratory study

    Mary Dozier;Melissa Manni;M. Kathleen Gordon;Elizabeth Peloso

  • Forming attachments in foster care: infant attachment behaviors during the first 2 months of placement.

    K. Chase Stovall-McClough;Mary Dozier

  • 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

  • Early-life stress is associated with impairment in cognitive control in adolescence: An fMRI study

    Sven C. Mueller;Francoise S. Maheu;Francoise S. Maheu;Mary Dozier;Elizabeth Peloso

  • Effects of therapeutic interventions for foster children on behavioral problems, caregiver attachment, and stress regulatory neural systems.

    Philip A. Fisher;Megan R. Gunnar;Mary Dozier;Jacqueline Bruce

  • 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

  • The effect of placement instability on adopted children's inhibitory control abilities and oppositional behavior.

    Erin E. Lewis;Mary Dozier;John Ackerman;Sandra Sepulveda-Kozakowski

  • Differential patterns of whole-genome DNA methylation in institutionalized children and children raised by their biological parents

    Oksana Yu. Naumova;Maria Lee;Roman Koposov;Moshe Szyf

  • The role of attachment in therapeutic relationships.

    Mary Dozier;Christine Tyrrell

  • Discrepancies between self- and other-report of psychiatric symptomatology: Effects of dismissing attachment strategies

    Mary Dozier;Spring W. Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristin Bernard
Kristin Bernard Stony Brook University
Robert F. Simons
Robert F. Simons University of Delaware
Charles H. Zeanah
Charles H. Zeanah Tulane University
Nim Tottenham
Nim Tottenham Columbia University
Elizabeth A. Carlson
Elizabeth A. Carlson University of Minnesota
Annie Bernier
Annie Bernier University of Montreal
Philip A. Fisher
Philip A. Fisher Stanford University
Carlo Schuengel
Carlo Schuengel Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn University College London
Elena L. Grigorenko
Elena L. Grigorenko University of Houston

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