Browsing by Author "Lyons-Ruth, Karlen"
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Assessing mediated models of family change in response to infant home visiting: A two-phase longitudinal analysis
Lyons-Ruth, Karlen; Easterbrooks, M. Ann (Wiley, 2006)The objective of this study was to assess whether a mediated model of change could account for the long-term effects of infant home-visiting services observed at ages 5 and 7 years in a high-risk cohort. Participants were ... -
Association Between Dopaminergic Polymorphisms and Borderline Personality Traits Among At-Risk Young Adults and Psychiatric Inpatients
Nemoda, Zsofia; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen; Szekely, Anna; Bertha, Eszter; Faludi, Gabor; Sasvari-Szekely, Maria (BioMed Central, 2010)Background: In the development of borderline personality disorder (BPD) both genetic and environmental factors have important roles. The characteristic affective disturbance and impulsive aggression are linked to imbalances ... -
Attachment disorganization and controlling behavior in middle childhood: maternal and child precursors and correlates
Bureau, Jean François; Ann Easlerbrooks, M.; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen (Informa UK Limited, 2009)Main, Kaplan, and Cassidy's (1985) conceptualizations of disorganization in infancy and controlling behavior in preschool forged new directions in attachment research. However, there currently is no valid coding system for ... -
Attachment Studies with Borderline Patients: A Review
Agrawal, Hans R.; Gunderson, John Gunder; Holmes, Bjarne M.; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2004)Clinical theorists have suggested that disturbed attachments are central to borderline personality disorder (BPD) psychopathology. This article reviews 13 empirical studies that examine the types of attachment found in ... -
Borderline symptoms and suicidality/self-injury in late adolescence: Prospectively observed relationship correlates in infancy and childhood
Lyons-Ruth, Karlen; Bureau, Jean-Francois; Holmes, Bjarne; Easterbrooks, Ann; Brooks, Nancy Hall (Elsevier BV, 2013)The primary objective was to assess whether prospectively observed quality of parent–child interaction in infancy and middle childhood contributed to the prediction of borderline symptoms and recurrent suicidality/self-injury ... -
BPD's Interpersonal Hypersensitivity Phenotype: A Gene-Environment-Developmental Model
Gunderson, John Gunder; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen (Guilford Publications, 2008)This paper explores the development of BPD as it might emerge in the child's early interpersonal reactions and how such reactions might evolve into the interpersonal pattern that typifies BPD. It begins to bridge the ... -
Childhood Adversity is Associated with Left Basal Ganglia Dysfunction During Reward Anticipation in Adulthood
Dillon, Daniel G.; Holmes, Avram J.; Birk, Jeffrey L.; Brooks, Nancy; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen; Pizzagalli, Diego (Elsevier, 2009)Background: Childhood adversity increases the risk of psychopathology, but the neurobiological mechanisms underlying this vulnerability are not well-understood. In animal models, early adversity is associated with dysfunction ... -
Childhood maltreatment and prospectively observed quality of early care as predictors of antisocial personality disorder features
Shi, Zhenyu; Bureau, Jean-Francois; Easterbrooks, M. Ann; Zhao, Xudong; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen (Wiley, 2012)Few studies have evaluated the separate contributions of maltreatment and ongoing quality of parent–child interaction to the etiology of antisocial personality features using a prospective longitudinal design. One hundred ... -
Contributions of the mother–infant relationship to dissociative, borderline, and conduct symptoms in young adulthood
Lyons-Ruth, Karlen (Wiley, 2008)Recent high-risk longitudinal studies have documented a unique contribution of the quality of the early mother–child relationship to diverse forms of psychopathology in young adulthood, even with family economic status, ... -
A controlled study of Hostile-Helpless states of mind among borderline and dysthymic women
Lyons-Ruth, Karlen; Melnick, Sharon; Patrick, Matthew; Hobson, R. Peter (Informa UK Limited, 2007)The aim of this study was to determine whether women with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are more likely than those with dysthymia to manifest contradictory Hostile-Helpless (HH) states of mind. A reliable rater ... -
Cortisol response to interpersonal stress in young adults with borderline personality disorder: A pilot study
Walter, Marc; Bureau, Jean-François; Holmes, Bjarne M.; Bertha, Eszter A.; Hollander, Michael; Wheelis, Joan; Brooks, Nancy Hall; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen (Elsevier BV, 2008)Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis dysregulation after stress was found to be associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Nine female BPD young adults and 12 control subjects were investigated for stress ... -
Developmental correlates and predictors of emotional availability in mother–child interaction: A longitudinal study from infancy to middle childhood
Easterbrooks, M. Ann; Bureau, Jean-Francois; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012)In this investigation we examined the developmental correlates and predictors of maternal emotional availability in interactions with their 7-year-old children among a sample of families at psychosocial risk. We found ... -
Differential attachment responses of male and female infants to frightening maternal behavior: Tend or befriend versus fight or flight?
David, Daryn H.; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen (Wiley, 2005)Taylor and colleagues (2000) proposed that males tend to display fight or flight responses to threat while females are more likely to display affiliative “tend or befriend” responses. In light of this hypothesis, gender ... -
Disorganization of Attachment Strategies in Infancy and Childhood
Hennighausen, Katherine H.; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen (Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development, 2005) -
Disorganized Behavior in Adolescent-Parent Interaction: Relations to Attachment State of Mind, Partner Abuse, and Psychopathology
Obsuth, Ingrid; Hennighausen, Katherine H.; Brumariu, Laura E.; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen (Wiley, 2013)Disoriented, punitive, and caregiving/role-confused attachment behaviors are associated with psychopathology in childhood, but have not been assessed in adolescence. A total of 120 low-income late adolescents (aged 18–23 ... -
Disorganized infant attachment strategies and helpless-fearful profiles of parenting: Integrating attachment research with clinical intervention
Lyons-Ruth, Karlen; Spielman, Eda (Wiley, 2004)In this article, recent research on parenting behaviors associated with infant attachment disorganization is summarized and applied to a parent–infant psychotherapy case. Both hostile/self-referential and helpless-fearful ... -
Dose–Response Effect of Mother–Infant Clinical Home Visiting on Aggressive Behavior Problems in Kindergarten
Lyons-Ruth, Karlen; Melnick, Sharon (Elsevier BV, 2004)Objective The objective of this follow-up study was to assess the long-term effects of clinical infant home-visiting services on child outcomes at school entry. Method Participants were 63 five-year-olds from low-income ... -
Early Maternal Withdrawal and Nonverbal Childhood IQ as Precursors for Substance Use Disorder in Young Adulthood: Results of a 20-Year Prospective Study
Pechtel, Pia; Woodman, Ashley; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen (Springer Nature, 2012)The relation between early mother–infant interaction and later socio-emotional development has been well established. The present study addresses the more recent interest in the impact of maternal caregiving on cognitive ... -
Expanding the concept of unresolved mental states: Hostile/Helpless states of mind on the Adult Attachment Interview are associated with disrupted mother–infant communication and infant disorganization
Lyons-Ruth, Karlen; Yellin, Claudia; Melnick, Sharon; Atwood, Gwendolyn (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2005)In a recent meta-analysis, only 53% of disorganized infants were predicted by parental Unresolved states of mind on the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). The goal of this study was to identify additional predictors of ... -
From Infant Attachment Disorganization to Adult Dissociation: Relational Adaptations or Traumatic Experiences?
Lyons-Ruth, Karlen; Dutra, Lissa; Schuder, Michelle R.; Bianchi, Ilaria (Elsevier BV, 2006)