Research Publications

Hennighausen K, Bureau J, David DH, Lyons-Ruth K. Disorganized attachment in adolescence: Validation in relation to Adult Attachment Interview Classifications at age 25. In: Solomon J. and George C., editors. Disorganized attachment and caregiving. New York: Guilford; 2011. p. 207-244.

Melnick S, Finger B, Hans S, Patrick M, Lyons-Ruth K. Hostile-helpless states of mind in the AAI: A proposed additional AAI category with implications for identifying disorganized infant attachment in high-risk samples. In: Steele H, Steele M, editors. Clinical applications of the adult attachment interview. New York: Guilford; 2008. p. 399-423.

Lyons-Ruth K, Jacobvitz D. Disorganized attachment: Genetic factors, parenting contexts, and developmental transformation from infancy to adulthood. In: Cassidy J, Shaver P, editors. Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications. 2nd Edition. New York: Guilford; 2008. p. 666-697.

Kobak R, Cassidy J, Lyons-Ruth K, Ziv Y. Attachment, stress, and psychopathology: A developmental pathways model. In: Cicchetti, D. and Cohen, D, editors. Developmental psychopathology, Second Edition, New York: Wiley; 2006. p. 333-369.

Henninghausen K. Lyons-Ruth, K. Disorganization of behavioral and attentional strategies toward primary attachment figures: From biologic to dialogic processes. In: Carter, S., Ahnert, L. et al., editors. Attachment and bonding: A new synthesis. Dahlem Workshop Report 92. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press; 2005. p. 269-301.

Lyons-Ruth K, Wolfe R, Lyubchik A, Grogan T, Steingard R. Prevalance and correlates of depressive symptoms in parents of children under three: Results of the Commonwealth Survey. In: Halfon N, McLearn K, Schuster M., editors. Child rearing in America: Challenges facing parents with young children. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; 2002. p.217-259.

Lyons-Ruth K, Lyubchik A, Wolfe R, Bronfman E. Parental depression and child attachment: Hostile and helpless profiles of parent and child behavior among families at risk. In: Goodman S, Gotlib I, editors. Children of depressed parents: Alternative pathways to risk for psychopathology. Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association Press; 2002. p. 89-121.

Lyons-Ruth K, Jacobvitz D. Attachment disorganization: Unresolved loss, relational violence, and lapses in behavioral and attentional strategies. In: Cassidy J, Shaver P, editors. Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications. New York: Guilford; 1999. p. 520-554.

Lyons-Ruth K, Bronfman E, Atwood G. A relational diathesis model of hostile-helpless states of mind: Expressions in mother-infant interaction. In: Solomon J, George C, editors. Attachment disorganization. New York: Guilford; 1999. p. 33-69.

Lyons-Ruth K. Disorganized, controlling, and unresolved/unclassifiable states of mind regarding attachment: Relational correlates of psychopathology? Book review of Atkinson L, Zucker K, editors. Attachment and psychopathology. Infant Ment Health J. 1998; 19:420-421.

Lyons-Ruth K. Lexicons, eyes, and videotape: Invited commentary on Steele, H. & Steele, M. Bowlby and psychoanalysis: Time for a reunion. Soc Dev. 1998; 7:127-131.

Lyons-Ruth K, Zeanah C, Benoit D. Disorder and risk for disorder during infancy and toddlerhood. In: Mash E, Barkley R, editors. Child psychopathology. New York: Guilford; 1996. p. 457-491.

Crockenberg S, Lyons-Ruth K, Dickstein S. The family context of infant mental health Part II: Infant development in multiple family relationships. In: Zeanah C, editor. Handbook of infant mental health. New York: Guilford; 1993. p. 38-55.

Lyons-Ruth K, Zeanah C. The family context of infant mental health Part I: Affective development in the primary caregiving relationship. In: Zeanah C, editor. Handbook of infant mental health. New York: Guilford; 1993. p. 14-37.

Lyons-Ruth K. Maternal depressive symptoms, disorganized infant-mother attachment relationships and hostile-aggressive behavior in the preschool classroom: A prospective longitudinal view from infancy to age five. In: Cicchetti D, Toth S, editors. Rochester symposium on developmental psychopathology, Vol. 4: A developmental approach to affective disorders. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum; 1992. p.131-171.

Lyons-Ruth K, Connell D, Zoll D. Patterns of maternal behavior among infants at risk for abuse: Relations with infant attachment behavior and infant development at 12 months of age. In: Cicchetti D, Carlson V, editors. Child maltreatment: theory and research on the causes and consequences of child abuse and neglect. New York: Cambridge University Press; 1989. p. 464-493.
Cohn J, Tronick E, Matias R, Lyons-Ruth, K. Face-to-face interactions of depressed mothers with their infants. In: Tronick E, Field T, editors. Maternal depression and infant disturbance. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 1986. p. 31-44.

Lyons-Ruth K, Zoll D, Connell D, Grunebaum H. The depressed mother and her one-year-old infant: Environmental context, mother-infant interaction and attachment and infant development. In: Tronick E, Field T, editors. Maternal depression and infant disturbance. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 1986. p. 61-82.

Lyons-Ruth K, Botein S, Grunebaum H. Reaching the hard to reach: Serving multi-risk families with infants in the community. In: Cohler B, Musick J, editors. Intervention with psychiatrically disabled parents and their young children. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 1984. p. 95-122.

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