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Phyllis Zelkowitz

Phyllis Zelkowitz

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Psychology

D-Index
44
Citations
6371
World Ranking
7047
National Ranking
477

Overview

Phyllis Zelkowitz is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and focuses primarily on research within the fields of Medicine and Psychology. Their work spans several subfields including Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; Clinical Psychology; Reproductive Medicine; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; and Social Psychology.

The research topics most commonly addressed by Zelkowitz encompass maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, reproductive health and technologies, infant development and preterm care, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, assisted reproductive technology and twin pregnancy, maternal and perinatal health interventions, as well as ovarian function and disorders.

Frequent publication venues for Zelkowitz include:

  • Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
  • International Journal of Mental Health Systems
  • Human Fertility
  • Journal of Personality Disorders
  • Biological Psychiatry

Several papers demonstrate the scope and focus of Zelkowitz's scholarly output. Notable recent papers include:

  • A comparative study of mothers of infants hospitalized in an open ward neonatal intensive care unit and a combined pod and single-family room design (2020, BMC Pediatrics)
  • Responding to the challenge of Adolescent Perinatal Depression (RAPiD): protocol for a cluster randomized hybrid trial of psychosocial intervention in primary maternal care (2020, Trials)
  • 'I felt less alone knowing I could contribute to the forum': psychological distress and use of an online infertility peer support forum (2021, Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine)
  • Examining the role of mother-child interactions and DNA methylation of the oxytocin receptor gene in understanding child controlling attachment behaviors (2020, Attachment & Human Development)
  • Infertility and perceived stress: the role of identity concern in treatment-seeking men and women (2020, Human Fertility)

Zelkowitz has collaborated extensively with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Stéphanie Robins
  • Eden Noah Gelgoot
  • Oye Gureje
  • Lola Kola
  • Bibilola Oladeji

Best Publications

  • Posttraumatic stress among mothers of very low birthweight infants at 6 months after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit.

    Nancy Feeley;Phyllis Zelkowitz;Carole Cormier;Lyne Charbonneau

  • Oxytocin in pregnancy and the postpartum: relations to labor and its management

    Marie Prevost;Phyllis Zelkowitz;Togas Tulandi;Barbara Hayton

  • Persistent maternal anxiety affects the interaction between mothers and their very low birthweight children at 24 months.

    Phyllis Zelkowitz;Apostolos Papageorgiou;Claudette Bardin;Tongtong Wang

  • Outcome of small-for-gestational age and appropriate-for-gestational age infants born before 27 weeks of gestation

    Claudette Bardin;Phyllis Zelkowitz;Apostolos Papageorgiou

  • Screening for post-partum depression in a community sample.

    P Zelkowitz;T H Milet

  • Factors Associated with Depression in Pregnant Immigrant Women

    Phyllis Zelkowitz;Joy Schinazi;Lilly Katofsky;Jean François Saucier

  • Psychopathology in Offspring of Mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder: A Pilot Study:

    Margaret Weiss;Phyllis Zelkowitz;Ronald B Feldman;Judy Vogel

  • Fathers’ perceptions of the barriers and facilitators to their involvement with their newborn hospitalised in the neonatal intensive care unit

    Nancy Feeley;Elana Waitzer;Kathryn Sherrard;Linda Boisvert

  • The course of postpartum psychiatric disorders in women and their partners.

    Phyllis Zelkowitz;Tamara H. Milet

  • Postpartum psychiatric disorders: their relationship to psychological adjustment and marital satisfaction in the spouses.

    Phyllis Zelkowitz;Tamara H. Milet

  • Depression screening and patient outcomes in pregnancy or postpartum: A systematic review

    Brett D. Thombs;Erin Arthurs;Stephanie Coronado-Montoya;Stephanie Coronado-Montoya;Michelle Roseman

  • Anxiety affects the relationship between parents and their very low birth weight infants

    Phyllis Zelkowitz;Claudette Bardin;Apostolos Papageorgiou

  • Stability and change in depressive symptoms from pregnancy to two months postpartum in childbearing immigrant women.

    P. Zelkowitz;J.-F. Saucier;T. Wang;L. Katofsky

  • Risk factors for borderline pathology in children.

    Jaswant Guzder;Joel Paris;Phyllis Zelkowitz;Keith Marchessault

  • Psychosocial stress moderates the relationships between oxytocin, perinatal depression, and maternal behavior.

    Phyllis Zelkowitz;Phyllis Zelkowitz;Ian Gold;Nancy Feeley;Barbara Hayton

  • The socialization of sex-differentiated skills and academic performance: a mediational model

    Lisa A. Serbin;Phyllis Zelkowitz;Anna-Beth Doyle;Dolores Gold

  • A comparison of the families of mothers with borderline and nonborderline personality disorders

    Ronald B Feldman;Phyllis Zelkowitz;Margaret Weiss;Judy Vogel

  • Diatheses and stressors in borderline pathology of childhood: the role of neuropsychological risk and trauma.

    Phyllis Zelkowitz;Joel Paris;Jaswant Guzder;Ronald Feldman

  • Psychological risk factors for borderline pathology in school-age children.

    Jaswant Guzder;Joel Paris;Phyllis Zelkowitz;Ronald Feldman

  • Neuropsychological factors associated with borderline pathology in children.

    Joel Paris;Phyllis Zelkowitz;Jaswant Cuzder;Shari Joseph

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel Paris
Joel Paris McGill University
Catherine S. Fichten
Catherine S. Fichten McGill University
Jean R. Séguin
Jean R. Séguin University of Montreal
Nicole Letourneau
Nicole Letourneau University of Calgary
Nancy L. Heath
Nancy L. Heath McGill University
Anna-Beth Doyle
Anna-Beth Doyle Concordia University
Niall Bolger
Niall Bolger Columbia University
Andrew G. Ryder
Andrew G. Ryder Concordia University
Ellen Moss
Ellen Moss University of Quebec at Montreal
James C. Coyne
James C. Coyne University of Groningen

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