Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice ® (CFP) is a scholarly journal publishing peer-reviewed papers representing the science and practice of family psychology. CFP is the official publication of APA Division 43 (Society for Couple and Family Psychology) and is intended to be a forum for scholarly dialogue regarding the most important emerging issues in the field, a primary outlet...

The purpose of this dissertation was to generate a broad overview of children’s exposure to and recovery from trauma in order to promote theory building and the design of prevention and intervention activities. First, a general population study was conducted in 1770 primary school children. They filled out a questionnaire in a quiet classroom setting. Fourteen percent of the children reported...

This thesis describes a variety of studies using a developmental framework to promote greater understanding of the interaction between genotypes and environmental influences on outcomes later in childhood. In this thesis a developmental approach was used to understand how nature (genotypes) and nurture (e.g. environmental risk or protective factors) interact to determine developmental outcomes...