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Dr. Zeanah's major academic interest has been in the area of infant mental health and adverse early experiences. He conducts research on the effects of abuse, neglect, serious deprivation and exposure to violence on young children and on interventions designed to help them recover. He has also studied approaches to understanding and classifying disorders of early childhood, especially disorders of attachment and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Guyon-Harris, K.L., Humphreys, K.L., Miron, D., Tibu, F., Fox, N.A., Nelson, C.A. & Zeanah, C.H. (2021). Early caregiving quality predicts consistency of competent functioning from middle childhood to adolescence following early psychosocial deprivation. Development and Psychopathology, 33(1),18-28. PMID: 31896375. doi:10.1017/S0954579419001500. [PDF]
Guyon-Harris, K., Humphreys, K.L. & Zeanah, C.H. (2021). Adverse caregiving in early life: The trauma and deprivation distinction in young children. Infant Mental Health Journal, 42(1), 87-95. [PDF]
Humphreys, K.L., Machlin, L.S., Guyon-Harris, K.L., Nelson, C.A., Fox, N.A., & Zeanah, C.H. (2021). Psychosocial deprivation and receptive language: A two sample study. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 12(1). [PDF]
Zeanah, P., Larrieu, J., Dickson, A., Osofsky, J., Phillippi Jr., S., & Zeanah, C.H. (2021). Enhancing developmental trajectories for Louisiana’s youngest children: The critical importance of increasing & supporting evidence-based services. Unpublished White paper. https://medicine.tulane.edu/infant-institute
Finelli, J., Gleason, M.M., & Zeanah, C.H. (2021). Assessing infants and toddlers. In M. Dulcan, M.D. (Ed.), Textbook of child and adolescent psychiatry, 3rd edition, pp. 19-43. Arlington, VA, APA Press.
Zeanah, C.H. & Dozier, M. (2021). Attachment and foster care. In: L. Berlin, R. Thompson (Eds.), Attachment: The fundamental questions. New York, Guilford Press. [PDF]
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