2026

Abramov, R., Stern, A., Feniger-Schaal, R., Elefant, C., Goldner, L., & Rabinowitch, T. C. (2026). ‘Just Play’(JP)-creative arts therapies-based dyadic intervention for children with intellectual disability and their mothers: Study protocol for a mixed-methods randomized controlled trial. PloS one, 21(5), e0349576. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0349576  View

Dolev, S. (2026). The Parental Journey through Autism Diagnosis: Experiences of Acceptance, Support, and Cultural Sensitivity. In Collaborative Care and Partnerships in Autism Diagnosis and Treatment: Therapists, Parents, Children (pp. 27-43). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

Feniger-Schaal, R. (2026). From trauma to performance: An autoethnographic study of play in post-genocide Rwanda. Drama Therapy Review, 12(1), 91-109. https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr_00179_1  View

Foster, S. L., Schofield, G., Geoghegan, L., Hood, R., Sagi-Schwartz, A., Bakkum, L., … Duschinsky, R. (2026). Attachment theory and research: what should be on the core curriculum for child and family social workers? Social Work Education, 45:3, 803-820. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2025.2531859   View

Leshem, M., & Sher-Censor, E. (2026). Parental resolution of children’s neurodevelopmental disorders among asylum seekers: Associations with trauma, stress, and protective factors. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-025-07196-x  View

Opie, J. E., Waters, E., Duschinsky, R., Hammarlund, M., Madigan, S., Foster, S., Forslund, T., Thompson, R., Steele, H., Steele, M., Roisman, G. I., Groh, A. M., Fonagy, P., Dagan, O., Alessandro, T., Rossen, L., Tronick, E., Fearon, P., Granqvist, P., Sagi-Schwarz, A.... & Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. (2026). Practitioner review: Clinical insights from attachment theory and research for professionals working with young children and their families. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 67(5), 723-739.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70126  View 

Sher-Censor, E., Feniger-Schaal, R., Oppenheim, D., Koren-Karie, N., Raya, M., & Klertag, O. (2026). Understanding the Impact of War on Mothers and Children Through the Family Stress Model and Adverse Childhood Experiences Framework. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9459838/v1  View 

Sher-Censor, E., Harel, M., Oppenheim, D., & Aran, A. (2026). Parental representations and emotional availability: The case of children with autism and severe behavior problems. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 56(4), 1489-1502.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06629-3  View

2025

Abu Baker-Watad, R. A., Jammal-Agbaria, M., Zuabi, J., & Havron, N. (2025). The relationship between maternal input, culture, and the strength of noun bias in Palestinian-Arabic-learning infants. Journal of Child Language, 21, 1-20.

doi: 10.1017/S030500092510041X  

Alkalay, S., & Sagi-Schwartz, A. (2025). The legacy of Mary Main in attachment and developmental research in Israel. Attachment & Human Development, 27(1), 34-66..‏ https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2422044  View

Assor, A., Cohen, R., Grolnick, W., Smetana, J. G., Sher-Censor, E., & Itshaki, N. (2025). Parents Value Demonstration as a Determinant of Youth Experiences and Responses to Parents’ Warnings Following the Onset of Risk Behavior. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 54(11), 2946-2961. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02196-7  View

Ben-Tzur, B., & Feniger-Schaal, R. (2025). Aesthetic distance: Conceptualization and practical use. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 92, 102230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2024.102230  View

Boullion, A., Linde-Krieger, L. B., Sher-Censor, E., & Yates, T. M. (2025). Narrative development among emerging adults who aged out of foster care: Patterns and implications for adaptation. Children and Youth Services Review, 172, 108268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108268

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Gur, A., Sher-Censor, E., Zisberg, A., & Gur-Yaish, N. (2025). Hospital nurses’ attachment styles, burnout, and intention to leave the nursing profession: The role of cognitive appraisal and responses to conflicts with patients’ relatives. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-04-2025-0191  View

Lucca., …Havron, N…..,  et al. (2025) infants’ social evaluation of helpers and hinderers: a large-scale, multi-lab, coordinated replication study. Developmental Science, 28(1), e13581.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.13581

https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13581  View

Oppenheim, D. (2025). Foreword. In K. R. Kelly (Ed.), Narrative Story Completion Methodologies: Research Approaches Across the Lifespan (pp. viii - x). Oxford University Press.

Oppenheim, D., Dolev, S., Hamburger, L., Lottan, R., Kunst, S., Friedelman, J., ... & Yirmiya, N. (2025). The Association Between Classroom Quality and the Social Competence of Autistic Preschool-Age Boys. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-9. DOI: 10.1007/s10803-025-06747-6  View 

Oppenheim, D., Mottes-Peleg, M., Dolev, S., & Yirmiya, N. (2025). Play interactions of autistic preschoolers with their mothers and fathers without toys yield more positive interactions than play with toys. Autism, 29(8), 1987–1997  https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613251329975  View

Oppenheim, D., Mottes‐Peleg, M., Hamburger, L., Slonim, M., Maccabi, Y., & Yirmiya, N. (2025). The social skills of autistic boys in preschool: the contributions of their dyadic and triadic interactions with their parents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 66(3), 322-332.  https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.14061   View

Sagi-Schwartz, A. (2025). Attachment Theory in Legal Rulings: How Can It Lead to Optimal Legal Decisions. Psychoactualia, June issue, 49-56 (in Hebrew).  https://www.psychology.org.il/staticcontent/magazine0625/index.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com  View

Scaff, C., Loukatou, G., Cristia, A., & Havron, N. (2025). Demographic Biases in Naturalistic Language Recordings in the CHILDES Database. Developmental Science, 28(3), e70011. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70011  View

Sher-Censor, E., Feniger-Schaal, R., Slonim, M., & Koren-Karie, N. (2025). Effects of adverse childhood experiences on observed parenting and children’s behavior problems among Jewish and Arab Muslim families in Israel. Development and Psychopathology, 37(3), 1294-1304.

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579424001111  View

Sher‐Censor, E., Gur‐Yaish, N., Polachek, E., & Ziv, Y. (2025). Fathers' rejection sensitivity: Links with fathers' and children's social information processing. Family Relations, 74(1), 63-79. doi: 10.1017/S0954579424001111. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.13103   View 

Sher-Censor, E., Makarov, M., & Shai, A. (2025). The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Pain and Subjective Cognitive Decline in Patients Treated for Localized Breast Cancer: The Mediating Role of Sense of Coherence, Sense of Danger, and Psychosocial Distress and Danger. Sense of Danger, and Psychosocial Distress and Danger. The Breast, 80, 103884.  View

Slonim, M., Oppenheim, D., Maccabi, Y., Hamburger, L., Kalir, C., Koren-Karie, N., & Yirmiya, N. (2025). Coparenting Representations and Interactions Among Parents of Preschoolers with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Parenting, 25(1), 23-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2024.2426675  View

Soderstrom M., …Havron, N. ...et al. (2025). Testing the relationship between preferences for infant-directed speech and vocabulary development: A multi-lab study. Journal of child language, 52(5), 984-1009. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000924000254  View

Steele, H., & Cassidy, J. (2025). Introduction to the double issue, the first and second issues of 2025, in honor of the legacy of Mary Main. Attachment & Human Development, 27(1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2025.2455820 View

Yu, Y., Havron, N., & Fisher, C. (2025). Syntactic Adaptation and Word Learning in 3‐to 4‐Year‐Olds. Language Learning, 75(1), 117-145. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12661  View   

Zohar, O., Mantin, I., Elata, J., Ben-Zvi Zalts, S., & Sher-Censor, E. Mentalization of Developmental Allied Healthcare Professionals: The Capacity to Hold the Child and the Parent in Mind. Available at SSRN 5414742.  View  

2024

Aravena-Bravoa, P., . …Havron, N. …et al. (2024). Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021. Journal of Cognition and Development, 25(2), 242-260. DOI:10.1080/15248372.2023.2231083  View

Babineau, M., Barbir, M., de Carvalho, A., Havron, N., Dautriche, I., & Christophe, A. (2024). Syntactic bootstrapping as a mechanism for language learning. Nature Reviews Psychology, 3(7), 463-474. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-024-00317-w  View

Bar-Or, S. & Havron, N. (2024) Is the effect of gross motor development on vocabulary size mediated by language-promoting interactions? Language Development Research, 4(1), 207–232. https://doi.org/10.34842/swwf-e586

Boullion, A., Linde-Krieger, L. B., Sher-Censor, E., & Yates, T. M. (2024). Emancipated Foster Youth's Narrative Features Across the Transition to Adulthood: Patterns and Implications for Adaptation. Available at SSRN 4967912. DOI:10.2139/ssrn.4967912  View‏ 

Dagan, O., Schuengel, C., Verhage, M. L., Madigan, S., Roisman, G. I., Bernard, K., ... & Volling, B. L. (2024). Configurations of mother–child and father–child attachment relationships as predictors of child language competence: An individual participant data meta‐analysis. Child development, 95(1), 50-69. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13998 . View

Dagan, O., Schuengel, C., Verhage, M. L., Madigan, S., Roisman, G. I., Van IJzendoorn, M., ... & Oosterman, M. (2024). Attachment relationship quality with mothers and fathers and child temperament: An individual participant data meta-analysis. Developmental Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/dev0001677  View

Feniger-Schaal, R., Constien, T., & Orkibi, H. (2024). Playfulness in times of extreme adverse conditions: a theoretical model and case illustrations. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), 1-10.  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03936-z  View

Feniger-Schaal, R., & Shabtay, A. G. (2024). Challenges and strengths in the use of photovoice with people with intellectual disabilities. Evidence-Based Nursing, 27(4), 149-149. DOI: 10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103782  View

Moshe, S., Oppenheim, D., Slonim, M., Hamburger, L., Maccabi, Y., & Yirmiya, N. (2024). Positive and challenging themes in parents’ perceptions of their relationships with their child with autism: Comparison between mothers and fathers. Autism, 28(3), 744-754. DOI: 10.1177/13623613231182513   View

Oppenheim, D., Bernard, K., Dozier, M., Lieberman, A. F., Mays, M & West, J. (2024). An Invited Commentary on Mentoring in Infant Mental Health: A Symposium Commemorating Robert N. Emde. Infant Mental Health Journal, 45(5), 569-578. https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.22127  View

            Oppenheim, D., & Koren-Karie, N. (2024). Parents’ Insightfulness: The Importance of Keeping the Inner World of the Child in Mind for Parenting Plan Evaluations. Invited contribution for the 3rd  edition of K. Kehnle, & L. Drozd (Eds.), Parenting plan evaluations: Applied research for the family court (pp 67-85). New York:  Oxford University Press.

Oppenheim, D., Koren-Karie, N., Slonim, M., Mottes-Peleg, M., Sher-Censor, E., Dolev, S., & Yirmiya, N. (2024). Maternal and paternal insightfulness and reaction to the diagnosis in families of preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder: Associations with observed parental sensitivity and inter-parent interaction. Attachment & Human Development, 26(1), 22-40. View https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2326416

River, L. M., Narayan, A. J., Castillo, M. L., Sher-Censor, E., & Lieberman, A. F. (2024). Narratieve coherentie over de intieme partner tijdens de zwangerschap: relatie met kindermishandeling en PTSS-symptomen. Gezinstherapie Wereldwijd, 35(3), 242-264.

Sher-Censor, E., Dolev, S., Shalem Gan-or, M.& Zach, E. (2024). Positive and multifaceted perceptions of Israeli kindergarten teachers contribute to developmental gains of children with developmental delay, [Special issue: Early Childhood Education in Israel], Early Child Development and Care, 194(5-6) 769-782. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2024.2341732. View

Sher-Censor, E., Fengier-Schaal, R., Oppenheim, D., Koren-Karie, N., Raya, M., & Klartag, O. (2024). Risk and resilience in parents and children in the face of the events of October 7 and the 'Iron Swords' war. Psychoactualia, 96, 40-48. [In Hebrew].

Sher-Censor, E., Harel, M., Oppenheim, D., & Aran, A. (2024). Parental Representations and Emotional Availability: The Case of Children with Autism and Severe Behavior Problems. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-14. View

Sher-Censor, E., & Nir, B. (2024). Integrating attachment and linguistic perspectives on the coherence of narratives regarding close relationships: A qualitative illustration. Acta Psychologica, 246, 104242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104242  View

Steffan, A., Zimmer, L., … Havron, N.... & Schuwerk, T. (2024). Validation of an open source, remote web‐based eye‐tracking method (WebGazer) for research in early childhood. Infancy, 29(1), 31-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12564 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/infa.12564 View

Stern, A., Feniger-Schaal, R., & Rabinowitch, T. C. (2024). ‘Just Play’: Developing a drama therapy dyadic play intervention for children with intellectual developmental disabilities and their parents. Drama Therapy Review, 10(2), 163-171.  https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr_00154_7  View

Stolarski, E., Cohen, D., Deitcher-Mizrachi, C., & Sagi-Schwartz, A. (2024). Early childcare setting in Israel: Structural quality, caregiver sensitivity, and children's behaviour. Early Child Development and Care, 194(5-6), 685-694.

https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2023.2267783  View

Tamari, R., Aviezer, O., & Oppenheim, D. (2024). Early maternal guidance of mother-child emotion dialogues predicts adolescents’ attachment representations: a longitudinal study. Attachment & Human Development, 26(5), 446-463. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2391310  View

2023

Ariav-Paraira, I., Oppenheim, D., & Sagi-Schwartz., A., & Zreik, G. (2023). Disrupted Maternal Communication and Disorganized Attachment in the Arab Society in Israel. Infant Mental Health Journal, 44(3), 335-347. https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.22047 View

Dolev, S., Sher-Censor, E., Zach, E. & Shalem Gan-Or, M. (2023). Teacher-child one-on-one playtime: Teachers’ non-intrusiveness predicts developmental gains of children with developmental delay. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 136, 104478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2023.104487 PMID: 36958126. View

Feniger‐Schaal, R., Stern, A., & Elizarov, E. (2023). The effect of medical/therapeutic clowns on the playfulness of children with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2023; 36(1), 186–195.‏ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jar.13049   

https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.13049  View

Golan, M., Shkara, M. A., & Havron, N. (2023). Children infer the meaning of novel verbs through morphological bootstrapping. 

https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xk8eu

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/xk8eu View

Gurgand, L., Lamarque, L., Havron, N., Y, J., Ramus, F., & Peyre, H.  (2023) The Influence of Sibship Composition on Language Development at Age 2 years in the ELFE Birth Cohort Study. Developmental Science, 26(4), e13356. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z4wxr.

Havron, N., de Carvalho, A., Babineau, M., Barbir, M., Dautriche, I., & Christophe, A. (2023) There might be more to being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping: A look at person and prosody in naturalistic child-directed speech. Journal of Child Language, 50, 1074-1078.  DOI:10.1017/S0305000923000181

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36891934/ View

Keisari, S., Feniger-Schaal, R., Butler, J. D., Sajnani, N., Golan, N., & Orkibi, H. (2023). Loss, Adaptation and Growth: The Experiences of Creative Arts Therapists during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 82,  101983, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2022.101983 View

Kosie, J., Zettersten, M., Abu-Zhaya, R., Amso, D., Babineau, M., Baumgartne, H., ... & Casey, Z. (2023). ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time. Jan 2023. DOI:10.31234/osf.io/ck3vd

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ck3vd View

Lamoreau, R., Obus, E., Koren-Karie, N., & Gray, S. A. (2023). The protective effects of parent-child emotion dialogues for preschoolers exposed to intimate partner violence. Attachment & human development, 25(6), 613-639. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2023.2272268 View

Moshe, S., Oppenheim, D., Slonim, M., Hamburger, L., Maccabi, Y., & Yirmiya, N. (2023). Positive and challenging themes in parents’ perceptions of their relationships with their child with autism: Comparison between mothers and fathers. Autism, 13623613231182513 View

Opie, J. E., Booth, A. T., Rossen, L., Fivaz‐Depeursinge, E., Duschinsky, R., Newman, L., ... & McHale, J. P. (2023). Initiating the dialogue between infant mental health and family therapy: a qualitative inquiry and recommendations. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 44(4), 412-439. https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1569. View

Oppenheim, D., Koren-Karie, N., Hamburger, L., Maccabi, Y., Slonim, M., & Yirmiya, N. (2023). Parental insightfulness is associated with cooperative interactions in families of preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(9), 1359-1368. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13788. Online ahead of print. https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jcpp.13788   View

Polachek, E., Gur-Yaish, N., Sher-Censor, E., & Ziv, Y. (2023). Association of Mothers’ Rejection Sensitivity and Their Children’s Cognitions Regarding Peer Rejection and Social Self-Perception. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 40(6) 1792-1809.

 https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075221131077 View

River, L. M., Narayan, A. J., Castillo, M. L., Sher-Censor, E., & Lieberman, A. F. (2023). Narrative coherence about romantic partners during pregnancy: Associations with childhood maltreatment and PTSD symptoms. Journal of Family Violence, 38, 673-686.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-022-00404-7

Serur, Y., Sher-Censor, E., Frumer, D., Daon, K., Sobol Havia, D., Weinberger, R., Shulman, C., & Gothelf, D. (2023). Parental Expressed Emotion and behavioral problems in young children with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome and Idiopathic Autism Spectrum Disorder. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 54(4), 1085-1093. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01310-7 View

Yuval-Adler, S. & Oppenheim, D. (2023). The contribution of mother-father-child interactions to children’s emotion narratives. Social Development, 32(1), 299–314. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12642 View