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Overview

Susan J. Spieker is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including psychology, social sciences, and medicine, with a significant focus on clinical psychology and related subfields. The scientist's publication record demonstrates engagement with topics such as child abuse and trauma, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and child welfare and adoption.

The main fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Medicine

The subfields of their research include:

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

Key topics addressed in their work incorporate:

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

Frequent co-authors of Susan J. Spieker include:

  • P Crittenden
  • Monica L. Oxford
  • Andrea Landini
  • Jonika Hash
  • Mary Jane Lohr

The scientist's work has been published regularly in several venues, including:

  • Child Abuse Review
  • Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • PLoS ONE
  • Infant Mental Health Journal
  • UNC Libraries

Notable recent papers by Susan J. Spieker are:

  • "Early Life Adversity and Pubertal Timing: Implications for Cardiometabolic Health" (2020), Journal of Pediatric Psychology
  • "Retention and Turnover of Teaching Staff in a High-Quality Early Childhood Network" (2023), Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • "Randomized Trial of Promoting First Relationships for New Mothers Who Received Community Mental Health Services in Pregnancy" (2021), Developmental Psychology
  • "Staying Alive: A 21st Century Agenda for Mental Health, Child Protection and Forensic Services" (2021), Human Systems Therapy Culture and Attachments
  • "Using Parental Attachment in Family Court Proceedings: An Empirical Study of the DMM-AAI" (2021), Child Abuse Review

Best Publications

  • Are infant attachment patterns continuously or categorically distributed? A taxometric analysis of strange situation behavior.

    R. Chris Fraley;Susan J. Spieker

  • Child Care and Mother-Child Interaction in the First Three Years of Life

    M Appelbaum;DA Batten;J Belsky;C Booth

  • The relation of child care to cognitive and language development

    A Clarke-Stewart;S Friedman;Dane Phillips;CL Booth

  • Trajectories of aggression from toddlerhood to age 9 predict academic and social functioning through age 12

    Susan B. Campbell;Susan Spieker;Margaret Burchinal;Michele D. Poe

  • Nonmaternal Care and Family Factors in Early Development: An Overview of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care

    Virginia Allhusen;Mark Appelbaum;Jay Belsky;Cathryn L. Booth

  • Duration and Developmental Timing of Poverty and Children's Cognitive and Social Development from Birth Through Third Grade.

    Virginia Allhusen;Jay Belsky;Cathryn Booth-LaForce;Robert Bradley

  • The course of maternal depressive symptoms and maternal sensitivity as predictors of attachment security at 36 months

    Susan B. Campbell;Celia A. Brownell;Anne Hungerford;Susan J. Spieker

  • Child-care effect sizes for the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development

    A Huston;C. Booth-LaForce;Robert Bradley;C. Brownell

  • The prosody of maternal speech: infant age and context related changes

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  • Intonation contours as signals in maternal speech to prelinguistic infants.

    Daniel N. Stern;Susan Spieker;Kristine MacKain

  • 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

  • Developmental trajectories of disruptive behavior problems in preschool children of adolescent mothers.

    Susan J. Spieker;Nancy C. Larson;Steven M. Lewis;Thomas E. Keller

  • Familial factors associated with the characteristics of nonmaternal care for infants

    Mark Appelbaum;Dee Ann Batten;Jay Belsky;Cathryn Booth

  • Child care and children's peer interaction at 24 and 36 months: The NICHD study of early child care - NICHD early child care research network

    Mark Appelbaum;Dee Ann Batten;Jay Belsky;Cathryn Booth

  • Does Quality of Child Care Affect Child Outcomes at Age 4 1 ⁄ 2?

    N Marshall;CA Brownell;M Burchinal;B Caldwell

  • Roles of Living Arrangements and Grandmother Social Support in Adolescent Mothering and Infant Attachment.

    Susan J. Spieker;Lillian Bensley

  • Frontal lobe activity and affective behavior of infants of mothers with depressive symptoms.

    Geraldine Dawson;Laura Grofer Klinger;Heracles Panagiotides;Deborah Hill

  • Type of child care and children's development at 54 months

    Virginia Allhusen;Jay Belsky;Cathryn L. Booth;Robert Bradley

  • Infant-mother attachment classification: Risk and protection in relation to changing maternal caregiving quality

    Jay Belsky;Jay Belsky;Cathryn L. Booth-LaForce;Robert Bradley;Celia A. Brownell

  • Frequency and intensity of activity of third-grade children in physical education.

    Jay Belsky;Cathryn Booth;Robert Bradley;Celia A. Brownell

  • Child-care and family predictors of preschool attachment and stability from infancy

    M Appelbaum;J Belsky;C Booth;R Bradley

  • Duration and Developmental Timing of Poverty and Children's Cognitive and Social Development From Birth Through Third Grade National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Early Child Care Research Network

    Jay Belsky;Cathryn Booth-LaForce;Robert Bradley;Celia A. Brownell

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay Belsky
Jay Belsky University of California, Davis
Sarah L. Friedman
Sarah L. Friedman George Washington University
Robert C. Pianta
Robert C. Pianta University of Virginia
Margaret Burchinal
Margaret Burchinal University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Martha J. Cox
Martha J. Cox University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert H. Bradley
Robert H. Bradley Arizona State University
Deborah Lowe Vandell
Deborah Lowe Vandell University of California, Irvine
Margaret Tresch Owen
Margaret Tresch Owen The University of Texas at Dallas
K. Alison Clarke-Stewart
K. Alison Clarke-Stewart University of California, Irvine
Celia A. Brownell
Celia A. Brownell University of Pittsburgh

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