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Miriam Steele

Miriam Steele

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Psychology

D-Index
45
Citations
19566
World Ranking
6522
National Ranking
3535

Overview

Miriam Steele is affiliated with the New School in the United States. Their research spans a range of topics within psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on clinical psychology and social psychology. Their work also intersects with safety research, demography, and public health, environmental, and occupational health.

The main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

The subfields of study covered in their research are:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Safety Research
  • Demography
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Their research topics demonstrate an emphasis on child welfare and family dynamics. Key topics of work include:

  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

Recent papers published by Miriam Steele encompass a variety of issues related to attachment, child welfare, trauma, and psychological assessment. Selected works include:

  • Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues (2021) in Attachment & Human Development
  • Attachment & Child Health (ATTACH) pilot trials: Effect of parental reflective function intervention for families affected by toxic stress (2020) in Infant Mental Health Journal
  • Urgent engagement in 9/11 pregnant widows and their infants: Transmission of trauma (2020) in Infancy
  • Assessing changes in the internal worlds of early- and late-adopted children using the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP) (2020) in Adoption & Fostering
  • Conceptual comparison of constructs as first step in data harmonization: Parental sensitivity, child temperament, and social support as illustrations (2022) in MethodsX

Frequent publication venues for Steele's work include:

  • Adoption & Fostering
  • Attachment & Human Development
  • Infant Mental Health Journal
  • Research in Psychotherapy Psychopathology Process and Outcome
  • The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child

Collaborations have often involved a core group of co-authors. Notable frequent collaborators are:

  • Howard Steele
  • Saul Hillman
  • Jeanne Kaniuk
  • Carlo Schuengel
  • John Simmonds

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

  • Adverse childhood experiences, poverty, and parenting stress

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Attachment representations and adoption: associations between maternal states of mind and emotion narratives in previously maltreated children

    Miriam Steele;James Hodges;Jeanne Kaniuk;Saul Hillman

  • Changes in Attachment Representations Over the First Year of Adoptive Placement: Narratives of Maltreated Children.

    Jill Hodges;Miriam Steele;Saul Hillman;K. A. Y. Henderson

  • Early attachment predicts emotion recognition at 6 and 11 years old

    Howard Steele;Miriam Steele;Carla Croft

  • How does microanalysis of mother-infant communication inform maternal sensitivity and infant attachment?

    Beatrice Beebe;Miriam Steele

  • Meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development

    H Steele;M Steele;M Woolgar;S Yabsley

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard Steele
Howard 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
Femmie Juffer
Femmie Juffer Leiden University
Susan Golombok
Susan Golombok University of Cambridge
Pehr Granqvist
Pehr Granqvist Stockholm University
Charles H. Zeanah
Charles H. Zeanah Tulane University
Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota

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