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Overview

Pasco Fearon is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and focuses their research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Medicine. Their work encompasses various subfields such as Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Education.

Fearon's research covers a broad range of topics, with a significant emphasis on child development and mental health. The main topics of their work include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care

The scientist has contributed to a number of research papers over recent years, including:

  • "Adverse childhood experiences: a meta-analysis of prevalence and moderators among half a million adults in 206 studies," published in 2023 in World Psychiatry
  • "Conservative and disruptive modes of adolescent change in human brain functional connectivity," published in 2020 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Parental sensitivity and child behavioral problems: A meta-analytic review," published in 2022 in Child Development
  • "An expanding manifold in transmodal regions characterizes adolescent reconfiguration of structural connectome organization," published in 2021 in eLife
  • "The first 20,000 strange situation procedures: A meta-analytic review," published in 2023 in Psychological Bulletin

Pasco Fearon frequently collaborates with several researchers, with the most common coauthors including:

  • Peter Fonagy
  • Sheri Madigan
  • Edward T. Bullmore
  • Raymond J. Dolan
  • Michael Moutoussis

The scientist's studies are regularly published in a core set of academic venues, reflecting their focus on child psychology and psychiatry as well as related disciplines. These publication venues include:

  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Child Development
  • BMJ Open
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Attachment & Human Development

Best Publications

  • The significance of insecure attachment and disorganization in the development of children's externalizing behavior: a meta-analytic study.

    R. M. Pasco Fearon;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn;Anne-Marie Lapsley

  • Are there two qualitatively distinct forms of dissociation? A review and some clinical implications.

    Emily A. Holmes;R J Brown;W Mansell;R P Fearon

  • The Significance of Insecure and Disorganized Attachment for Children’s Internalizing Symptoms: A Meta‐Analytic Study

    Ashley M. Groh;Glenn I. Roisman;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg

  • Development and Validation of a Self-Report Measure of Mentalizing: The Reflective Functioning Questionnaire

    Peter Fonagy;Patrick Luyten;Alesia Moulton-Perkins;Ya Wen Lee

  • Narrowing the Transmission Gap: A Synthesis of Three Decades of Research on Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment

    Marije L. Verhage;Carlo Schuengel;Sheri Madigan;R. M. Pasco Fearon

  • Early attachment security, subsequent maternal sensitivity, and later child development: does continuity in development depend upon continuity of caregiving?

    Jay Belsky;R. M Fearon

  • Adolescence is associated with genomically patterned consolidation of the hubs of the human brain connectome

    Kirstie J. Whitaker;Petra E. Vértes;Rafael Romero-Garcia;František Váša

  • The significance of attachment security for children’s social competence with peers: a meta-analytic study

    Ashley M. Groh;R. Pasco Fearon;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn

  • Maternal postnatal depression and the development of depression in offspring up to 16 years of age

    Lynne Murray;Adriane Arteche;Pasco Fearon;Sarah L Halligan

  • Reliability and Comparability of Psychosis Patients’ Retrospective Reports of Childhood Abuse

    Helen L. Fisher;Thomas K. Craig;Paul Fearon;Kevin D. Morgan

  • Infant-mother attachment security, contextual risk, and early development: A moderational analysis

    Jay Belsky;R. M. Pasco Fearon

  • Attachment in the Early Life Course: Meta-Analytic Evidence for Its Role in Socioemotional Development

    Ashley M. Groh;R. M. Pasco Fearon;Marinus H. van IJzendoorn;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg

  • The Importance of Shared Environment in Mother–Infant Attachment Security: A Behavioral Genetic Study

    Caroline L. Bokhorst;Marian J. Bakermans-kranenburg;R. M. Pasco fearon;Marinus H. Van ijzendoorn

  • A Meta-Analysis of Maternal Prenatal Depression and Anxiety on Child Socioemotional Development.

    Sheri Madigan;Hannah Oatley;Nicole Racine;R.M. Pasco Fearon

  • Psychosis and Place

    Dana March;Stephani L. Hatch;Craig Morgan;James B. Kirkbride

  • 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

  • Risk factors for relapse and recurrence of depression in adults and how they operate: A four-phase systematic review and meta-synthesis

    J.E.J. Buckman;A. Underwood;K. Clarke;R. Saunders

  • Embodying self-compassion within virtual reality and its effects on patients with depression.

    Caroline J. Falconer;Aitor Rovira;John A. King;Paul Gilbert

  • Disentangling the mental health impact of childhood abuse and neglect.

    Charlotte A.M. Cecil;Essi Viding;Pasco Fearon;Danya Glaser

  • Testing the cycle of maltreatment hypothesis: Meta-analytic evidence of the intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment.

    Sheri Madigan;Chantal Cyr;Rachel Eirich;R M Pasco Fearon

  • Therapist Empathy and Depth of Interpretation in Response to Potential Alliance Ruptures: The Role of Therapist and Patient Attachment Styles

    Gabriella Rubino;Chris Barker;Tony Roth;Pasco Fearon

  • The effects of maternal postnatal depression and child sex on academic performance at age 16 years: a developmental approach

    Lynne Murray;Adriane Arteche;Pasco Fearon;Sarah L Halligan

  • Imagery rescripting as a brief stand-alone treatment for depressed patients with intrusive memories.

    Chris R. Brewin;Jon Wheatley;Trishna Patel;Pasco Fearon

  • Bayesian inferences about the self (and others): a review.

    Michael Moutoussis;Pasco Fearon;Wael El-Deredy;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Research Review: Changes in the prevalence and symptom severity of child post-traumatic stress disorder in the year following trauma - a meta-analytic study.

    Rachel M. Hiller;Richard Meiser-Stedman;Pasco Fearon;Sarah Lobo

  • The longitudinal development of emotion regulation capacities in children at risk for externalizing disorders.

    Sarah L. Halligan;Peter J. Cooper;Pasco Fearon;Sarah L. Wheeler

  • A consensus-based transparency checklist

    Balazs Aczel;Barnabas Szaszi;Alexandra Sarafoglou;Zoltan Kekecs

  • Making an effort to feel positive: insecure attachment in infancy predicts the neural underpinnings of emotion regulation in adulthood

    Christina Moutsiana;Pasco Fearon;Lynne Murray;Lynne Murray;Peter Cooper;Peter Cooper

  • Networks of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms Across Development.

    Eoin McElroy;Pasco Fearon;Jay Belsky;Peter Fonagy

  • Genetic and environmental influences on adolescent attachment

    Pasco Fearon;Yael Shmueli-Goetz;Essi Viding;Peter Fonagy

  • The risk-taking and self-harm inventory for adolescents: development and psychometric evaluation

    Ioanna Vrouva;Peter Fonagy;Pasco R. M. Fearon;Trudie Roussow

  • The role of parenting behaviors in childhood post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analytic review

    Victoria Williamson;Cathy Creswell;Pasco Fearon;Rachel M Hiller

  • Developmental stability of general and specific factors of psychopathology from early childhood to adolescence: dynamic mutualism or p-differentiation?

    Eoin McElroy;Jay Belsky;Natacha Carragher;Pasco Fearon

  • A Follow-up Study of Characteristics of Young People that Dropout and Continue Psychotherapy: Service Implications for a Clinic in the Community

    Geoffrey Baruch;Ioanna Vrouva;Pasco Fearon

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
Sarah L. Halligan
Sarah L. Halligan University of Bath
Lynne Murray
Lynne Murray University of Reading
Peter J. Cooper
Peter J. Cooper University of Reading
Sheri Madigan
Sheri Madigan University of Calgary
Manuel Eisner
Manuel Eisner University of Cambridge
Ian M. Goodyer
Ian M. Goodyer University of Cambridge
Carlo Schuengel
Carlo Schuengel Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Nick Midgley
Nick Midgley University College London
Claire Hughes
Claire Hughes University of Cambridge

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