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Name: Ann Easterbrooks
Title: Professor of Child Development
Director of Graduate Studies
Departmental Affiliation: Child Development Department
Degrees: Ph.D. University of Michigan; M.S. University of Wisconsin; B.A. University of Washington
Expertise: Social and emotional development; attachment and family relationships; infancy; developmental psychopathology; adolescent pregnancy and parenting
Major Awards: Co-President, Boston Institute for the Development of Infants and Parents; Ad Hoc Reviewer to journals including: Attachment and Human Development; Child Development; Developmental Psychology; Journal of Family Issues; Social Development; Development and Psychopathology; and Infant Mental Health Journal
E-mail: ann.easterbrooks@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Click here to download Ann Easterbrooks's CV.

CO-PI: Massachusetts Healthy Families Evaluation; Co-PI Evaluation of Brazelton Touchpoints; Principal investigator: Pathways to Successful Young Fatherhood.

Representative publications:

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.

Easterbrooks, M.A. & Graham, C. (1999). Security of attachment and parenting: Homeless and low-income housed mothers and infants. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 69, 337-346.

Lyons-Ruth, K., Easterbrooks, M.A., & Cibelli, C.E. (1997). Disorganized attachment strategies and mental lag in infancy: Prediction of externalizing problems at age seven. Developmental Psychology, 33, 681-692.

Easterbrooks, M.A., Cummings, E.M., & Emde, R.N. (1994). Young children's responses to constructive marital disputes. Journal of Family Psychology, 8, 160-169.

Easterbrooks, M.A., Davidson, C. E., and Chazan, R.Z. (1993). Psychosocial risk, attachment, and behavior problems among school-aged children. Development and Psychopathology, 5, 389-420.

Pipp, S. L., Easterbrooks, M. A., & Harmon, R. J. (1992). The relation between attachment and knowledge of self and mother in one- to three-year-old infants. Child Development, 63, 738-750.

Easterbrooks, M. A., & Goldberg, W. A. (1991). Parental attitude toward child rearing questionnaire. In J. Touliatos, B. Perlmutter, & M. Straus (Eds.), Handbook of family measurement techniques. Newbury Park: Sage.

Easterbrooks, M.A. & Goldberg, W.A. (1990). Security of attachment to mother and to father during toddlerhood: Relation to children's sociopersonality functioning during kindergarten. In M. Greenberg, D. Cicchetti & E.M. Cummings (Eds.) Attachment in the Preschool Years: Theory, Research, and Intervention. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 221-244.

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