Research & Evaluation
The NEATS: A Competency-Based, Ecological Assessment for Children and Families
Title IV-E Curriculum Module
Selected references for additional reading
Anderson, Peter (2002). Assessment and development of executive function (EF) during childhood. Child Neuropsychology, 8(2), 71-82.
Cicchetti, Dante & Blender, Jennifer (2006). A multiple levels-of-analysis perspective on resilience: Implications for the developing brain, neural plasticity, and preventive interventions. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1094-248-258.
Cicchetti, Dante & John W. Curtis (2007). Multilevel perspectives on pathways to resilient functioning. Development and Psychopathology, (2007), 19: 627-629.
Davies, Douglas (2004). Child Development: A practitioner’s guide (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford.
Georgieff, Michael K. (2007). Nutrition and the developing brain: Nutrient priorities and measurement. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 85 (2), 614s-620.
Hinshaw-Fusilier, Sarah, Neil W. Boris, & Charles H. Neanah (1999). Reactive attachment disorder in maltreated twins. Infant Mental Health Journal, 20(1), 42-59.
Hohman, Melinda, Rhonda Oliver, and Wendy Wright (2004). Methamphetamine abuse and manufacture: The child welfare response. Social Work, 49(3), 373-381.
Koren-Karie, Nina, David Oppenheim, & Rachel Getzler-Yosef (2004). Mothers who were severely abused during childhood and their children talk about emotions: Co-construction of narratives in light of maternal trauma. Infant Mental Health Journal, 25(4), 300-317.
LeDoux, J. (2002) Synaptic self: How our brains become who we are, New York, Penguin.
LeDoux, J. (1996) The emotional brain, New York, Simon and Schuster.
Lieberman, Alicia F. (2004). Traumatic stress and quality of attachment: Reality and internalization in disorders of infant mental health. Infant Mental Health Journal, 25(4), 336-351.
Mash, Eric J., & David A. Wolfe (2006). Abnormal child psychology (3rd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth (Thomson Learning)
Massaro, An, Rebecca Rothbaum, & Hany Aly (2006). Fetal brain development: The role of maternal nutrition, exposures and behaviors. Journal of Pediatric Neurology, 4(1), 1-6.
Shields, A. and Cicchetti, D. (1998) ‘Reactive aggression among maltreated children: The contributions of attention and emotion dysregulation’, Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 27, pp. 381-395.
Sokol, Robert J., Virginia Delaney-Black, & Beth Nordstrom (2003). Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. JAMA, 290(22), 2996-2999.
Teicher, M. H. (2002) ‘Scars that won’t heal: The neurobiology of child abuse: Maltreatment at an early age can have enduring negative effects on a child’s brain’, Scientific American, 286, pp. 68-76.