Publications

The members and affiliates of the Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being are at the forefront of innovative research and practice in the early childhood field. The publications compiled below offer various ideas, theories and methods related to early childhood.

2023

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Falgas-Bague I, Thembo T, Kaiser JL, Hamer DH, Scott NA, Ngoma T, Paul R, Juntunen A, Rockers PC, Fink G. Trends in maternal mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic-evidence from Zambia. PLoS One. 2023; 18(2):e0281091.

 

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Rockers PC, Zuilkowski SS, Fink G. Childhood adversity and educational attainment: Evidence from Zambia on the role of personality. Front Psychol. 2023; 14:995343.

 

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Juntunen A, Kaiser JL, Ngoma T, Hamer DH, Fink G, Rockers PC, Biemba G, Scott NA. Lessons from a Year of COVID-19 in Zambia: Reported Attendance and Mask Wearing at Large Gatherings in Rural Communities. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2023 Feb 01; 108(2):384-393.

 

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Killion JP, Silverman DT, Evans D, Coetzee, L, Tarullo, AR, Hamer, DH & Rockers, PC. Vaccination coverage at seven months of age in Limpopo Province, South Africa: a cross-sectional survey. Global Health Promotion. 2023;30(1):42-52.

2022

Institute Affiliate: Ruth Paris

Stephen L. Buka, Lee S. Beers, Matthew G. Biel, Nathaniel Z. Counts, James Hudziak, Stephanie H. Parade, Ruth Paris, Ronald Seifer, Stacy S. Drury (2022). The Family is the Patient: Promoting Early Childhood Mental Health in Pediatric Care. Pediatrics May 2022; 149 (Supplement 5): e2021053509L. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-053509L

Institute Affiliate: Dina Castro

Castro, D. C. & Meek, S. (2022). Beyond Castañeda and the “language barrier” ideology: Young children and their right to bilingualism. Language Policy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-021-09608-x

Institute Affiliate: Dina Castro

Lee, E.*, Subramaniam, K., Castro, D. C. (2022). Early childhood pre-service teachers’ descriptions of equity in science education: A thematic analysis. Early Childhood Education Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-022-01318-1

Institute Affiliate: Emily Feinberg

Declercq E, Feinberg E, Belanoff C. Racial inequities in the course of treating perinatal mental health challenges: Results from listening to mothers in California. Birth. 2022;49:132–140. https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12584

2020-2021

Institute Affiliate: Dina Castro

Castro, D. C. & Artiles, A. J. (Eds.) (2021). Language, Learning and Disability in the Education of Young Bilingual Children. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics. Multilingual Matters Publishing.

  • Equitable learning opportunities for young bilingual children: Strategies to promote oral language development

Institute Affiliate: Dina Castro

Castro, D. C., & Franco, X. (2021). Equitable learning opportunities for young bilingual children: Strategies to promote oral language development. In I. Alanis & I. Iruka (Eds.), Advancing Equity in Early Childhood Education (pp. 73-77). Washington, D.C.: National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Institute Affiliate: Dina Castro

Castro, D. C., Hammer, C. S., Franco, X., Cycyk, L., Scarpino, S. & Burchinal, M., (2020). Documenting bilingual experiences in the early years: Validation of the CECER-DLL Family and Teacher Questionnaires. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23 (5), 958-963. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728920000401./

 

Published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal 

Institute Affiliate: Ruth Paris

Paris, R. & Herriott, A., Hacking, S., Maru, M. & Sommer, A. (2020). Secrecy versus disclosure: Women with substance use disorders share experiences in help seeking during pregnancy. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 24, 1396–1403. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-020-03006-1

Published in: Social Work

Institute Affiliate: Ruth Paris

Walsh, T., Paris, R., Ribaudo, J. & Gilkerson, L. (2021) Locating infant and early childhood mental health at the heart of social work. Social Work, 66(3), 187-196. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swab022

Published in: Journal of Child and Family Studies

Institute Affiliate: Amanda Tarullo

Kao, K., Tuladhar, C., & Tarullo, A. (2020). Parental and family-level sociocontextual correlates of emergent emotion regulation: Implications for early social competence. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29, 1630-1641. doi: 10.1007/s10826-020-01706-4.

Published in: Development and Psychopathology

Institute Affiliate: Amanda Tarullo

Tarulllo, A., Tuladhar, C.,* Kao, K., Drury, E.,** & Meyer, J. (2020). Cortisol and socioeconomic status in early childhood: A multi-dimensional assessment. Development and Psychopathology, 32, 1876-1887.

Published in: Journal of Family Issues

Institute Affiliate: Ruth Paris

DeVoe, E. R., Ross, A. M., Spencer, R., Drew, A., Acker, M., Paris, R., & Jacoby, V. (2020). Coparenting across the deployment cycle: Observations from military families with young children. Journal of Family Issues, 41(9), 1447-1469. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X19894366.