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Ann Easterbrooks |
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Professor of Child Development
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| Departmental Affiliation: |
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Child Development Department
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| Degrees: |
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Ph.D. University of Michigan; M.S. University of Wisconsin; B.A. University of Washington |
| Expertise: |
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Social and emotional development in infancy and childhood; developmental risk and resilience; parent-child attachment relationships; child maltreatment; emotional availability; adolescent parenting
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Professional Activities:
Board Member and Past-President, Boston Institute for the Development of Infants and Parents; Advisory Board, Connected Beginnings Training Institute; Chair, Publications Committee, Society for Research in Child Development; Founding Member, Massachusetts Association for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health; Editorial Board, Infant Mental Health Journal; Ad Hoc Reviewer to journals including:Attachment and Human Development; Child Development, Development and Psychopathology, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Family Issues. |
| E-mail: |
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ann.easterbrooks@tufts.edu
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| Scholarship & Research: |
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CO-PI: Massachusetts Healthy Families Evaluation;
Co-PI Evaluation of Brazelton Touchpoints;
Principal investigator: Pathways to Successful Young Fatherhood.
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Bureau, J.F., Easterbrooks, M.A., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (in press). Attachment
disorganization and controlling behavior in middle childhood: maternal and child
precursors and correlates. Attachment & Human Development.
Chaudhuri, J.H., Easterbrooks, M.A., & Davis, C.R. (in press). Emotional
availability as a component of parenting in culturally diverse adolescent mother
sample. Parenting: Science and Practice.
Easterbrooks, M.A., & Biringen, Z. (in press). Emotional Availability in US and
International Contexts: Addressing the Applicability of the Emotional
Availability Scales across Diverse Groups. Parenting: Science and Practice.
Bureau, J.F., Easterbrooks, M.A., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (2009). Maternal depression
in infancy: Critical to children’s depression in childhood and adolescence?
Development and Psychopathology, 21 (2), 519-537.
Biringen, Z., & Easterbrooks, M.A. (2008). Child care and relationships:
Understanding relationships and relationship interventions. Journal of Early
Childhood and Infant Psychology, 4,1-3.
Swartz, M., & Easterbrooks, M.A. (2008). Enhancing parent-provider relationships
and communication in infant and toddler classrooms. Journal of Early
Childhood and Infant Psychology, 4, 53-71.
Riley, S., Brady, A.E., Goldberg, J., Jacobs, F., & Easterbrooks, M.A. (2008).
Once the door closes: Understanding the parent/provider relationship. Children
and Youth Services Review, 30 (5), 597-612.
Easterbrooks, M.A., Driscoll, J.R., & Bartlett, J.D. (2008). Resilience in
infancy: A relational approach. Research in Human Development, 5 (3),
139-152.
Easterbrooks, M.A., Barrett, L.R., Brady, A.E., & Davis, C.R. (2007).
Complexities in Research on Fathering: Illustrations from the Tufts Young
Fathers Study. Applied Developmental Science, 11 (4), 214-220.
Mistry, J., Deshmukh, I., & Easterbrooks, M.A. (2007). Culture and infancy. In
A. Slater & M. Lewis (Eds.), Introduction to Infant Development, 2nd
edition. (pp. 303-319). New York: Oxford University Press.
Easterbrooks, M.A., Chaudhuri, J.H., & Gestsdottir, S. (in press). Patterns of emotional availability among young mothers and their infants: A dyadic, contextual analysis. Infant Mental Health Journal.
Lyons-Ruth, K., & Easterbrooks, M.A. (in press). Assessing mediated models of family change in response to infant home-visiting: A two-phase longitudinal analysis. Infant Mental Health Journal.
Easterbrooks, M.A., Brady, A.E., Barrett, L.R., Sobey, S., & Golin, J. (2003). Supporting Young Families by Understanding Young Fathers. Newsletter of the Boston Institute for the Development of Infants and Parents, 21, 3-6.
Thompson, R., Easterbrooks, M.A., & Padilla-Walker, L. (2003). Social and emotional development in infancy. In I.B. Weiner (Ed.), Handbook of psychology: Vol. 6. Developmental Psychology. (pp. 91-112). New York: Wiley.
Easterbrooks, M.A., Biesecker, G., & Lyons-Ruth, K.A. (2000). Infancy predictors of emotional availability in middle childhood: The role of attachment and maternal depression. Attachment and Human Development, 2, 170-187.
Easterbrooks, M.A., & Abeles, R. (2000). Windows to the self in eight-year-olds: Bridges to attachment representation and behavioral adjustment. Attachment and Human Development, 2, 85-106.
Graham, C.A., & Easterbrooks, M.A. (2000). School-aged children’s vulnerability to depression: The role of quality of attachment, maternal mental health, and economic risk. Development and Psychopathology, 12, 201-213.
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