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Madigan,S., Bakermans-Kranenburg,M.J., van IJzendoorn, M.H., Moran, G., Pederson, D.R. & Benoit, D. (2006). Unresolved states of mind, anomalous parental behavior, and disorganized attachment: A review and meta-analysis of a transmission gap. Attachment & Human Development, 8; 89-111.

AMBIANCE ARTICLES

Madigan,S., Moran, G., Schuengel, C., Pederson, D.R. & Otten, R.(2007). Unresolved maternal attachment representations, disrupted maternal behavior and disorganized attachment in infancy: links to toddler behavior problems. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48; 1042-1050.

Gervai, J., Novak, A., Lakatos, K., Toth, I., Danis, I., Ronai, Z., Nemoda, Z., Sasvari-Szekely, M., Bureau, JF., Bronfman, E., & Lyons-Ruth, K. Infant genotype may moderate sensitivity to maternal affective communications: Attachment disorganization, quality of care, and the DRD4 polymorphism. Social Neuroscience,2007; 2, 1-13.

Madigan, S. Pederson, D., Moran, G. (2006) Unresolved states of mind, disorganized attachment relationships, and anomalous mother-infant interactions. Developmental Psychology, 42; 293-304.

Lyons-Ruth, K., Yellin, C., Melnick, S., & Atwood, G. (2004). Expanding the concept of unresolved mental states: Highly defended/helpless states of mind on the adult attachment interview are associated with disrupted mother-infant communication and infant disorganization. Development and Psychopathology, 2005; 17:1-23.

Madigan, S., Pederson D.R., Moran G. (2003). Bridging the gap between unresolved states of mind and disorganized attachment relationships: Links to atypical maternal behavior. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa.

Evans, E.M., Forbes, L.M., Bento, S., Moran, G., Pederson, D.R., & DeOliveira, C.A. (2003). Continuity and change from infancy to toddlerhood in measures of attachment and maternal behavior. Poster presented at biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.

Goldberg, S., Benoit, D., Blokland, K., & Madigan, S. (2003). Atypical maternal behavior, maternal representations and infant disorganized attachment. Development and Psychopathology, 15 (2), 239-257.

Kelly, K.M., Ueng-McHale, J., Grienberger, J., & Slade, A. (2003). Atypical maternal behaviors at 4 months of age and their relation to infant attachment disorganization. Presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, Fl.

Madigan, S., Hawkins, E., Bailey, H., Pederson, D.R., Moran, G. (2003). Pathways to disorganization: A history of physical and sexual abuse, and atypical maternal behavior. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.

Benoit, D., Madigan, S., Lecce, S., Shea, B., & Goldberg, S. (2001) Atypical Maternal Behavior Before and After Intervention. Infant Mental Health Journal, 22, 611-626.

Grienenberger, J. & Kelly, K. (2001). Maternal Reflective Functioning and Caregiving Links Between Mental States and Observed Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission. Paper presented at A. Slade (Chair),Maternal Reflective Functioning in Relation to the Child: Attachment, Caregiving, and Disrupted Relationships. Symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Benoit, D., Blokland, K., & Madigan, S. (2001). Maternal representations of their child and attachment during pregnancy: Association with maternal postnatal disrupted behavior. Paper presented at O. Mayseless & M. Scharf (Chairs), Mothers' Parenting Representation, Their Own, and Their Children's Functioning and Adaptation. Symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Lyons-Ruth, K., Bronfman, E., & Atwood, G. (1999). A relational diathesis model of hostile-helpless states of mind: Expressions in mother-infant interaction. In J. Solomon & C. George (Eds.), Attachment disorganization. New York: Guilford.

The following are additional papers/presentations mentioning AMBIANCE:

Schechter DS, Zeanah CH, Myers MM, Brunelli SA, Liebowitz MR, Marshall RD, Coates SW, Trabka KT, Baca P, Hofer MA (2004). Psychobiological dysregulation in violence-exposed mothers: Salivary cortisol of mothers with very young children pre- and post-separation stress. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic,68(4), 319-337.

Schechter DS, Kaminer, T, Grienenberger JF, Amat J (2003). Fits and starts: A mother-infant case study involving pseudoseizures across three generations in the context of violent trauma history (with Commentaries by RD Marshall, CH Zeanah, T Gaensbauer). Infant Mental Health Journal. 24(5), 510-28.

Schechter DS (2003). Intergenerational communication of maternal violent trauma: Understanding the interplay of reflective functioning and posttraumatic psychopathology. In S.W. Coates, J.L. Rosenthal and D.S. Schechter (eds.) September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds. Hillside, NJ: Analytic Press, Inc. pp. 115-142.