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Miriam Steele

Work Address: Department of Psychology

New School for Social Research

80 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 100011, USA

steelem@newschool.edu

DEGREES AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

1991 Qualification in child psychoanalysis, the Anna Freud Centre, London

1990 Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University College London,

title- “Intergenerational patterns of attachment”

1986 M.A., Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology,

Teachers College, Columbia University

1983 B.A., Psychology Department, U.B.C.

APPOINTMENTS

2017- Professor, New School for Social Research, NY

2010-2016 Professor, Director of Clinical Training

New School for Social Research, New York, NY

2004- 2009 Associate Professor, Assistant Director of Clinical Training,

New School for Social Research, New York, NY

1994 - 2004 Lecturer in Psychology, University College London & Course

Organizer of the M.Sc in Psychoanalytic Developmental

Psychology, The Anna Freud Centre and University College

London

1991 - 2004 Child Psychotherapist, The Anna Freud Centre London

AWARDS

2015 35th Annual Daniel Prager Award, George Washington

University Endowment Lecture

2016 American Psychological Association, Division 39 Research

Award

RESEARCH GRANTS

2014-2015 $174, 388 New York Health Foundation with H. Steele, A.

Murphy, P. Meisner, & K. Bonuck “Scaling Up a Promising

Practice for Preventing Child Maltreatment.”

2014-2015 $23,000 IDDRC Pilot Project Award with A. Murphy, J. Fox, S.

Molhom, P. De Sanctis “Exploring brain responses to affective

images in mothers with high or low Adverse Childhood

Experiences (ACEs)

2013-2014 $15,000 Co-Investigator with Sabine Seymour “The Body as

Metaphor” New School Research Cluster Award

2012-2015 $900,000 Co-Investigator Birth to Three: A Pragmatic Clinical

Trial for Child Maltreatment Prevention Extramural MCH

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Research (MCHR) Program Award R40MC23629-01-01

2012-2013 $3000 Co-Investigator Measuring Cortisol responses in the

Birth to Three: A Pragmatic Clinical Trial for Child

Maltreatment Prevention. Marks Family Foundation

2008-2010 $60,000 from Einstein-Montifiore Institute for Clinical and

Translational Research for project ““Efficacy study of an

intervention to prevent child maltreatment in a high risk

population.”

2007-2009 $20,000 Internal grant for collaborative project with Anne

Murphy at the Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center

Albert Einstein School of medicine for a collaboration involving

an attachment based intervention and the measuring mother and

child salivary cortisol with the Division of Reproductive

Endocrinology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology &

Women's Health.

2005-2007 $30,000 from Spence Chapin to study patterns of attachment

and the efficacy of the “Granny” program in Chinese

orphanages

2005-2007 $12,000 from FHL to study attachment representations in young

people ‘aging out’ of foster care

2005-2007 $360,000 from the British Lottery Fund for follow up of

Adoption and Attachment Representations Study into

Adolescence

2002-2004 $185,000 from the Headley Trust to fund a study on “The

assessment of a therapeutic intervention program with late

adopted children”

1995-2001 $647,000 from the Sainsbury Foundation to fund a study on

‘predicting successful adoptive placements’ (with the Director

of the Adoption Service at the Thomas Coram Foundation and

the Child Care Consultation Team at Great Ormond Street)

2000-2002 $37,000 from Quality Protects Haringey Social Services to

Study the added value of the Adult Attachment Interview to the

assessment of Foster Carers.

1998-1999 $55,500 from the Kohler Stiftung, Germany, to fund the 11-

Year follow-up of the London Parent-Child Project, (with H.

Steele).

$74,000 from the Kohler Stiftung, Germany, to fund the 6-Year

follow-up of the London Parent-Child Project, (with H. Steele,

P. Fonagy).

1991-1993 $50,000 from the Kohler Stiftung, Germany, to fund the London

Parent-Child Project (with P. Fonagy, H. Steele)

1990-1991 $7,000 from the MacArthur Foundation, U.S.A. for

collaborative study of children’s understanding of emotion,

(with P. Fonagy).

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Publications

1. Williams, T., Steele, M., Joy, L., Travis, L., Gotowiec, A., Aiken, L.,

Painter, S., & Davidson, S. (1987). Transition to motherhood: A

longitudinal study. Infant Mental Health Journal, 8, 251-265.

2. Steele, M. (1990) Observations of an optimal fit between mother and

baby: Perspectives on normative development. Bulletin of the Anna

Freud Centre, 13, 219-234.

3. Hodges, J., & Steele, M. (1991). On the investigation of narratives about

emotion in young children: A report of two studies. Bulletin of the Anna

Freud Centre, 14, 133-148.

4. Steele, H. & Steele, M. (1991). Predicting security of attachment to

mother at one year from pregnancy assessments. In P. Stratton (Ed.)

Causes and consequences of infant attachment, Proceedings from the 10th

Anniversary Conference of the Society for the Study of Reproductive and

Infant Psychology, Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 8,

264-265.

5. Steele, M. (1991). You can run but you can’t hide: The analysis of a

latency boy. Bulletin of the Anna Freud Centre, 14, 303-321. Reprinted

in German, 1994, Analytische Kinder-und Jugendlichen-Psychotherapie,

25, 147-168.

6. Steele, M., Steele H., & Model, N. (1991). Links across generations:

Predicting parent-child relationship patterns from structured interviews

with expectant parents. Bulletin of the Anna Freud Centre, 14, 95-113.

7. Fonagy, P., Steele, M., Steele, H., & Moran, G. (1991). Measuring the

ghost in the nursery: A summary of the main findings of the Anna Freud

Centre-University College London Parent-Child Study, Bulletin of the

Anna Freud Centre, 14, 115-131.

8. Fonagy, P, Steele, M., Steele, H., Moran, G, & Higgitt, A. (1991) The

capacity for understanding mental states: The reflective self in parent and

child and its significance for security of attachment. Infant Mental Health

Journal, 12, 201-218.

9. Fonagy, P, Steele, H, & Steele, M. (1991). Maternal representations of

attachment during pregnancy predict the organisation of infant-mother

attachment at one-year. Child Development, 62, 891-905. Reprinted in

1992 in M. Hertsig and E. Farber (eds.) Annual Progress in Child

Psychiatry and Child Development: A selection of the year’s outstanding

contributions to the understanding and treatment of the normal and

disturbed child. New York: Brunner/Mazel.

10. Fonagy, P., Steele, M., Moran, G., Steele H., & Higgitt, A. (1992). The

integration of psychoanalytic theory and work on attachment: The issue

of intergenerational psychic processes. In D. Stern & M. Amaniti (Eds.)

Attaccamento E Psiconalis. Rome: Laterza. .

11. Fonagy, P, Steele, M., Moran, G, Steele, H, & Higgitt, A (1993).

Measuring the ghost in the nursery: An empirical study of the relation

between parents’ mental representations of childhood experiences and

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their infants’ security of attachment. Journal of the American

Psychoanalytic Association, 41, 957-989. Winner of the journal prize for

best paper of the year.

12.Steele, H., & Steele, M. (1994). Intergenerational patterns of attachment.

In D. Perlman & K. Bartholomew (Eds.). Adult Attachment

Relationships: Advances in Personal Relationships Series (Vol. 5).

London: Jessica Kingsley.

13. Fonagy, P, Steele, M, Steele, H, Higgitt, A & Target, M (1994). The

Emmanuel Miller Memorial Lecture 1992. The theory and practice of

resilience. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 35, 231-257.

14. Fonagy, P., Leigh, T., Kennedy, R., Mattoon, G., Steele, H., Target, M.,

Steele, M. & Higgitt, A. (1995). Attachment, borderline states and the

representation of emotions and cognitions in self and other. In Cicchetti,

D., & Toth, S.L. (Eds.), Rochester Symposium on Developmental

Psychopathology, Vol. 6: Emotion, Cognition, and Representation.

Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.

15. Fonagy, P., Target, M., Steele, M., & Gerber, A. (1995). Psychoanalytic

perspectives on developmental psychology. In D. Cicchetti, & D. Cohen

(Eds), Developmental Psychopathology, Vol.1, pp 504-554. New York:

John Wiley & Sons.

16. Fonagy, P., Steele, M., Steele, H., Leigh, T., Kennedy, R., Mattoon, G., &

Target, M. (1995). Attachment, the reflective self and borderline states:

The predictive specificity of the Adult Attachment Interview and

pathological emotional development. In S. Goldberg, R. Muir, & J. Kerr

(Eds.) Attachment theory: social, developmental and clinical perspectives,

pp 233-278. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.

17. Steele, M., & Steele, H. (1996). Intergenerational patterns of attachment,

maternal responsiveness and non-maternal care: an idiographic

illustration. In G. Spangler and P. Zimmermann (eds.) Die

Bindungstheorie Grundlagen, Forschung und Anwendung, pp. 161-177.

Stuttgart:Klett-Cotta.

18. Fonagy, P., Leigh, T., Steele, M., Steele, H, Kennedy, R, Matoon, G.,

Target, M., & Gerber, A., (1996). The relation of attachment status,

psychiatric classification, and response to psychotherapy. Journal of

Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64, 22-31.

19. Fonagy, P., Steele, M., Steele, H, Moran, G., & Higgitt, A. (1996).

Fantomes dans las chambre d’enfants: Etude de la repercussion des

represenataions mentales des parents sur la securite de l’attachment.

Psychiatre de l’enfant, 39, 63-83.

20. Steele, H, Steele, M, & Fonagy, P (1996). Associations among attachment

classification of mothers, fathers and their children. Child Development,

67, 541-555.

21. Fonagy, P., Target, M., Steele, M., & Steele, H. (1997). The development

of violence and crime as it relates to security of attachment. In JD Osofsky

(Ed.). Children in a violent society (pp 150-177). New York: Guilford

Press.

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22. Steele, M. (1997). Attachment representations and outcome in adoption.

Adoption & Fostering, 21, 59.

23. Fonagy, P, Steele, H, Steele, M, & Holder J (1997). Attachment and

theory of mind: Overlapping constructs? Association for Child Psychology

and Psychiatry Occasional Papers, 14, 31-40.

24. Fonagy, P., Target, M., Steele, M., Steele, H., Leigh, T., Levenson, A., &

Kennedy, R. (1998). Morality, disruptive behavior, borderline personality

disorder, crime, and their relationship to security of attachment. In L

Atkinson & K J Zucker (Eds.) Attachment and psychopathology, pp 223-

276. New York: Guildford Press.

25.Steele, H. & Steele, M. (1998). Attachment and psychoanalysis: Time for a

reunion. Social Development, 7, 92-119.

26. Steele, H., & Steele, M. (1998). Response to Cassidy, Lyons-Ruth &

Bretherton: A return to exploration. Social Development, 7, 137-141.

27. Fonagy, P., Fearon, P., Steele, M., & Steele, H. (1998) Mentalization as a

core component of parental sensitivity. Infant Behavior and Development,

21:66-66.

28. Steele, H., & Steele, M. (1999). Psychoanalytic views about development.

In D Messer & S Millar (Eds.). Exploring Developmental Psychology, pp

263-283. London: Francis Arnold.

29. Steele, H, Steele, M., Croft, C., & Fonagy, P. (1999). Infant-mother

attachment at one-year predicts children’s understanding of mixed-

emotions at six years. Social Development, 8, 161-178.

30. Steele, M., Hodges, J., Henderson, K., Hillman, S., & Bennett, P. (2000).

The use of story stem narratives in assessing the inner world of the child:

Implications for adoptive placements. In Assessment, Preparation and

Support: Implications from Research. London: British Agencies for

Adoption and Fostering Press.

31. Steele, M., Kaniuk, J., Hodges, J., Haworth, C., & Huss, S. (2000). The

use of the Adult Attachment Interview: Implications of Adoption and

Foster Care. In Assessment, Preparation and Support: Implications from

Research. London: British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering Press.

32. Steele, H. & Steele, M., (2000). Clinical uses of the Adult Attachment

Interview. In G. Gloger-Tippelt (Ed.). Attachment in adolescents and

adults. Stuttgart:Klett-Cotta.

33.Hodges, J., & Steele, M. (2000). Effects of abuse on attachment

representations: narrative assessments of abused children. Journal of Child

Psychotherapy, 26, 433-455.

34. Woolgar, M, Steele, H., Steele, M., Yabsley, S., & Fonagy, P. (2001).

Children’s play narrative responses to hypothetical dilemmas and their

awareness of moral emotions, British Journal of Developmental

Psychology, 19, 115-128

35. Ward, A., Ramsey, R, Turnbull, S., Steele, M., Steele, H., & Treasure, J.

(2001). Attachment in anorexia nervosa: A transgenerational perspective.

British Journal of Medical Psychology, 74, 497-505.

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36. Hodges, J., Steele, M., Hillman, M., & Henderson, K. (2003). Mental

representations and defenses in severely maltreated children: A story stem

battery and rating system for clinical assessment and research applications.

(pp. 240-267.) In R. Emde, D. Wolf, C. Zahn-Waxler & D. Oppenheim

(Eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

37. Steele, M., Steele, H., Woolgar, M., Yabsley, S., Fonagy, P., & Croft, C.

(2003). Children’s emotion narratives reflect their parents’ dreams. In R.

Emde, D. Wolf, C. Zahn-Waxler & D. Oppenheim (Eds). “Revealing the

Inner Worlds of Young Children: The MacArthur Story Stem Battery and

Parent-Child Narratives pp163-181. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

37. Steele, M., Steele, H., & Johansson, M. (2003). Maternal Predictors of

children’s social cognition: An Attachment Perspective. Journal of Child

Psychology and Psychiatry, 44, 6, 861-873.

38. Hodges, J., Steele, M., Hillman, S., Henderson, K., & Kaniuk, J. (2003).

Changes in attachment representations over the first year of adoptive

placement; narratives of maltreated children. Journal of Child Clinical

Psychology. 8, 351-368.

39. Steele, M., Hodges, J., Kaniuk, J., Hillman, S., & Henderson, K. (2003).

Attachment representations in newly adopted maltreated children and their

adoptive parents: Implications for placement and support. Journal of

Child Psychotherapy. 29, 187-205.

40. Steele, M. (2004). Attachment, actual experience and mental

representations In V.Green (ed.) Psychoanalysis, neuroscience and

development. London: Routledge.

41. Howe, D., & Steele, M. (2004) Contact in cases in which children have

been traumatically abused or neglected by their birth parents. In B. Neil

and D. Howe (Eds.) Contact in Permanent Placements: Research, Theory

and Practice. London: British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering Press.

42. Steele, M. (2004). Fitting the puzzle pieces together: The complexities of

infant-mother interaction and disorganized attachment patterns. Social

Cognition.

43. Steele, M., & Baradon, T. (2004). The Clinical Use of the Adult

Attachment Interview in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy. Infant Mental

Health Journal, 25, 284-299.

44. Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2005) The construct of coherence as an indicator

of attachment security middle childhood: The Friends and Family

Interview. In K. Kerns & R. Richardson (Eds.) Attachment in Middle

Childhood. New York: Guildford Press.

45. Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2005) Understanding and Resolving Emotional

Conflict: The London-Parent Child Project. In K. Grossmann, K.

Grossmann, & E. Waters, (Eds.) Attachment from Infant to Adulthood:

The Major Longitudinal Studies. New York: Guildford Press.

46. Hodges, J., Steele, M., Hillman, S., Henderson, K. and Kaniuk, J. (2005).

Change and Continuity in Mental Representations of Attachment after

Adoption. In Brodzinsky, D.M. and Palacios, J. (eds) Psychological

Issues in Adoption – Research and Practice Praeger Publishers.

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47. Steele, M. (2006) The ‘added value’ of attachment theory and research

for clinical work in adoption and foster care. In (J.Kenrick, C. Lindsey, L.

Tollemache, Eds.) Creating New Families: Therapeutic approaches to

fostering, adoption and kinship care. London: Karnac.

48. Steele, M., Hodges, J., Kaniuk, J., Steele, H., D’Agostino, D., Blom, I.,

Hillman, S., and Henderson, K. (2007) Intervening with Maltreated

Children and their Adoptive Parents: Identifying Attachment Facilitating

Behavior. In D. Oppenheim & D. Goldsmith (eds.) Clinical applications of

attachment theory. New York: Guildford Press.

49. Steele, M., Henderson, K., Hodges, J., Kaniuk. J., Hillman, S., & Steele,

H. (2007) In the best interests of the adopted child: A report from the

‘Attachment Representations and adoption outcome study.’ In L. Mayes,

P. Fonagy, & M. Target (Eds.) Developmental Science and

Psychoanalysis. (pp.159-182) London : Karnac.

50. Steele, H., Steele, M. & Croft, C. (2008) Early attachment predicts

emotion recognition at 6 and 11 years. Attachment and Human

Development, 10, 379-393.

51. Steele, M., Hodges, J., Kaniuk, J., Steele, H., Asquith, K., & Hillman, S.

Forecasting outcomes in previously maltreated children: The use of the

AAI in a longitudinal adoption study. (2008) In H. Steele and M. Steele,

(Eds.) “Clinical Applications of the Adult Attachment Interview” New

York: Guildford Press.

52. Baradon, T., & Steele, M. (2008) Integrating the Adult Attachment

Interview in the clinical process of psychoanalytic parent-infant

psychotherapy in a case of relational trauma In H. Steele and M. Steele,

(Eds.) “Clinical Applications of the Adult Attachment Interview” New

York: Guildford Press.

53. Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2008). 10 clinical uses of the Adult Attachment

Interview. In H. Steele & M. Steele (Eds.). Clinical applications of the

Adult Attachment Interview (pp 3-30). NY: Guilford Press.

54. Steele, M., Kaniuk, J., Hodges, J., Asquith, K., Hillman, S., & Steele, H.

(2008) Measuring Mentalization Across Contexts: Links between

Representations of Childhood and Representations of Parenting in an

adoption sample. In (A. Slade & E. Jurist, Eds.) Reflecting on the future of

psychoanalysis: mentalization, internalization and representation. NY:

Guildford Press.

55. Steele, M. Hodges, J., Kaniuk, J., Steele, H., Asquith, K., & Hillman, S.

(2009) Attachment Representations and Adoption Outcome: On the use of

narrative assessments to track the adaptation of previously maltreated

children in their new families. In B. Neil & G. Wrobel (Eds.), International Advances in Adoption Research for Practice. New York:

Wiley.

56. Hodges, J., & Steele, M., Kaniuk, J., Hillman, S., & Asquith, K. (2009)

Narratives in assessment and research on the development of attachments

in maltreated children. In N. Midgely, J. Anderson, E. Grainger, T. Nesic-

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Vuckovic & C. Urwin, Child Psychotherapy and Research, New York:

Routledge.

57.Nedelisky, A., Steele, M., & Simpson, B. (2009). Attachment to

People and to Objects in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: An Exploratory

Comparison of Hoarders and Non-Hoarders. Attachment and Human

Development, 11, 365 – 383.

58. Steele, H., & Steele, M., & Murphy, A. (2009). The Adult Attachment

Interview: Clinical tool to facilitating and measuring process and change

in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 19, 633-643.

59. Steele, M. (2009) “Attachment relationships and adoption outcome:

Implications for policy”. Center for Excellence in Childrens’ Mental

Health, eReview, Child Welfare Series, 1, 1-4.

60. Steele, M., Hodges, J. & Kaniuk, J., & Steele, H. (2010). Mental

representations and change: Developing attachment relationships in an

adoption context. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 30, 25-40.

61. Steele, M., Murphy, A., & Steele, H. (2010). The Adult Attachment

Interview and Relational Trauma: Implications for parent-infant

psychotherapy. In T. Baradon (Ed.) Relational Trauma in Infancy.(pp. 180-

193). New York: Routledge.

62. Steele, M., Murphy, A., & Steele, H. (2010). Identifying therapeutic

action in an attachment based intervention. Journal of Clinical Social

Work, 38, 61-72.

63. Beebe, B., Steele, M., Jaffe, J., Buck, K., Chen, H., Cohen, P., Kaitz, M.,

Markese, S., Andrews. H., Morgolis, A. & Feldstein, S. (2011) Maternal

Anxiety Symptoms and Mother-Infant Self- and Interactive Contingency. Infant

Mental Health Journal. 31, 1-35.

64. Bekar, O., Fried, E, Guadalupe, Z., Logan, M., Shahmoon-Shanok, R.,

Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2012). Peers helping peers in the face of trauma

and developmental challenge: The Relationships for Growth & Leaning

Program. ZERO TO THREE (32), 39-48.

65. Kriss, A., Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2012). Measuring attachment and

reflective functioning in early adolescence: An introduction to the Friends

and Family Interview. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology,

Process and Outcome, 15, 87-95.

66. Shahmoon-Shanok, R., Bekar, O., Fried, E. & Steele, M. (2013) Gems

Hidden in Plain Sight: Peer Play Psychotherapy Nourishes Relationships

and Growth Across Developmental Domains Among Young Children. In

J. Schaefer & D. Friedman (Eds.) Attachment-based clinical social work with children and adolescents. New York, Springer.

67. Murphy, A., Steele, M. & Steele H. (2013). From Out of Sight, Out of

Mind to In-Sight and In Mind: Enhancing Reflective Capacities in a

Group Attachment-Based Intervention. In J. Schaefer & D. Friedman

(Eds.) Attachment-based clinical social work with children and adolescents. New York, Springer.

68. Reiner, I., Bremmer-Bombik, E., Beutel, M., Steele, M., & Steele, H.

(2013) The Adult Attachment Interview - fundamentals, use, and

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applications in clinical work.Zeitschrift fur Psychosomatische Medizin

und Psychotherapie, 59,231-246.

69. Beebe, B. & Steele, M. (2013) How does microanalysis of mother-infant

communication inform maternal sensitivity and infant attachment?

Attachment & Human Development, 15, 583-602.

70. Murphy, A., Steele, M., Dube, S.R., Bonuck, K., Meissner, P., Bate, J.,

Goldman, H., Steele, H. (2014) Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)

Questionnaire and Adult Attachment Interview (AAI): Implications for

Parent Child Relationships, Child Abuse and Neglect. 38, 224-233.

71. Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2014). Attachment Disorders. In M. Lewis & K.

Rudolph, Eds the third edition of the Handbook of Developmental

Psychopathology (pp 357-370). New York: Springer.

72. Steele, M., Steele, H., Bate, J., Knafo, H., Kinsey, M. Bonuck, K.,

Meisner, P. & Murphy, A. (2014) Looking From the Outside In: The Use

of Video in Attachment-Based Interventions. Attachment & Human

Development, 6(4):402-15. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2014.912491.

73. Juffer, F., & Steele, M. (2014) What Words Cannot Say: The Telling

Story of Video in Attachment-Based Interventions. Attachment & Human

Development, 16(4):307-14. DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2014.912484.

74. Murphy, A., Steele, M., Dube, S. R., Bate, J., Bonuck, K., Meissner, P.,

Goldman, H. & Steele, H. (2014). Adverse Childhood Experiences

(ACEs) Questionnaire and Adult Attachment Interview (AAI):

Implications for parent child relationships. Child Abuse & Neglect, 38,

224-233.

75. Smith-Nielsen, J., Steele, H., Mehlhase, H., Cordes, K., Steele, M.,

Harder, & Væver, M. (2015). Links Among High EPDS Scores, State of

Mind Regarding Attachment, and Symptoms of Personality Disorder.

Journal of Personality Disorders, online. (doi: 10.1521/pedi_2014_28_173).

76. Steele, M., Bate, J., Nikitiades, A., Buhl-Nielsen, B. (2015).

Attachment in Adolescence and Borderline Personality Disorder. Journal

of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 14:16-32.

77. Steele, M., & Steele, H. (2015).Attachment Disorders. In P. Lutyen, P.

Fonagy & M. Target (Eds.) Handbook of Psychoanalysis.

78. Steele, M., Murphy, A., & Steele H. (2015) The Art and Science of

Observation: Reflective Functioning and Therapeutic Action. Journal of

Infant, Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy. Volume 14, Issue 3, 216-231. doi:10.1080/15289168.2015.1070558

79. Murphy A, Steele H, Bate J, Nikitiades A, Allman B, Bonuck K,

Meissner, P. Steele, M. (2015) Group attachment-based

intervention:trauma-informed care for families with adverse childhood

experiences. Family Community Health. 38, 268-79. PubMed

PMID:26017004.

80. Archer, M., Steele, M., Lan, J., Jin, X., Herreros, F., & Steele, H. (2015).

Attachment between infants and mothers in China. International Journal

Of Behavioral Development, 39(6), 485-491.

81. Steele, H., Bate, J., Steele, M., Rishi Dube, S., Danskin Chladnicek, K.,

Knafo, H., Nikitiades, A., Bonuck, K., Meissner, P., & Murphy, A. (2016).

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Adverse Childhood Experiences, Poverty and Parenting Stress. Canadian

Journal of Behavioral Science, 48, 32-38.

82. Slutsky J, Jadva V, Freeman T, Persaud S, Steele M, Steele H, Kramer W,

Golombok S. (2016). Integrating donor conception into identity

development:adolescents in fatherless families. Fertility and Sterility.

PMID 27012652.DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.02.033

83. Persaud, S., Freeman, T., Jadva V., Slutsky, J., Kramer, W., Steele, M.,

Steele, H., & Golombok, S. (2017) Adolescents Conceived through Donor

Insemination in Mother-Headed Families: A Qualitative Study of

Motivations and Experiences of Contacting and Meeting Same-donor

Offspring. Children & Society, 31,13–22.

PRESENTATIONS

1. 1986 The concept of “good enough mothering”: An empirical study.

Paper presented to the Third World Congress of Infant Psychiatry and

Allied Disciplines, September, Stockholm, Sweden.

2. 1989 On the use of a prenatal picture set to assess the growing attachment

to the baby in pregnant women. Paper presented at the Fourth World

Congress of Infant Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, Lugano,

Switzerland, September.

3. 1989 Cross-generational and cross-cultural patterns in attachment. In P.

Fonagy (Chair), Cross-cultural perspectives on attachment, symposium

presentation at the Fourth World Congress of Infant Psychiatry and

Allied Disciplines, Lugano, Switzerland, September. (With H. Steele, P.

Fonagy, & A. Higgitt).

4. 1989 A prospective study of adjustment to the parental role: Predicting

from the prenatal period to three months and one-year. Paper presented at

the Fourth World Congress of Infant Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines,

Lugano, Switzerland, September. (With H. Steele, P. Fonagy, & A.

Higgitt).

5. 1990 The reflective-self capacity and its importance in the development

and maintenance of secure attachment relationships. Symposium address

to the London Regional Meeting of the World Association of Infant

Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, November. (with P. Fonagy, G.

Moran, H. Steele & A. Higgitt).

6. 1990 Narratives about emotion in young children: A report on two

studies. Seminar presentation to the London Regional Meeting of the

World Association of Infant Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines,

November. (with J. Hodges).

7. Attachment across the generations. In J. Stevenson-Hinde (Chair), New

directions in attachment research, symposium at the British Psychological

Society’s Developmental Section Conference, September, Cambridge.

(With H. Steele).

8. Forecasting security of attachment: Prenatal assessments of parents’

working models of attachment and subsequent child-mother and child-

father Strange Situation assessments. In H. Steele (Chair), Parental

representations of attachment, symposium at the meetings of the Society

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for Research in Child Development, April, Seattle. (With H. Steele & P.

Fonagy).

9. 1992 Stability and change in maternal models of attachment across the

transition to parenthood, and their association to the quality of the infant-

mother attachment. In B. Vaughn (Chair), Stability and change in

maternal representations of attachment, symposium at the 8th

International Conference of Infant Studies, May, Miami. (With H. Steele

& P. Fonagy).

10. 1993 Does the Adult Attachment Interview tap the internal working

model of attachment? In L. A. Sroufe & K. Grossmann (Chairs), Internal

working models of relationships: continuity and basis in experience,

symposium at the meetings of the International Society for the Study of

Behavior and Development, July, Minneapolis. (With H. Steele & P.

Fonagy).

11. 1993 Associations among attachment classifications of mothers, fathers,

and their infants: A relationship-specific perspective. /Symposium

presentation at the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for Research

in Child Development, New Orleans, LA, March. (with H. Steele & P.

Fonagy).

12. 1993 Early attachment and borderline states. Symposium presentation at

the 60th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for Research in Child

Development, New Orleans, LA, March. (with P. Fonagy, H. Steele, T.

Leigh & G. Mattoon).

13. 1994 Attachment during infancy is an intergenerational and relationship-

specific perspective. Paper to be presented at the meetings of the

International Society for the Study of Behavior and Development,

September, Bonn. (With H. Steele & P. Fonagy).

14. 1995 Infant-mother attachment at one-year predicts the quality of doll

play at 5 years. Symposium presentation at the Meetings of the Society

for Research in Child Development. Indianapolis, IN, USA, April. (with

P. Fonagy & H. Steele).

15. 1995 Belief-Desire reasoning at 5-years is predicted by infant-mother

attachment at one-year. Symposium presentation at the Biennial Meeting

of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, April.

(With H. Steele, J. Holder & P. Fonagy).

16. 1995 Co-constructions between 5-year olds and their mothers: A measure

of attachment security? Symposium presentation at the Biennial Meeting

of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, April.

(With H. Steele, J. Alves, H.Jacobsen & P. Fonagy).

17. 1996 Attachment and life events: Change and continuity in family life

over the first six years of parenthood. Symposium presentation to the

International Congress of Psychology, Montreal, August.(With H. Steele)

18. 1996 Assessing attachment in the sixth-year of life. Symposium

presentation to the International Society for the Study of Behavior and

Development, Quebec City, August.(With H. Steele)

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19. 1997 Attachment, the MacArthur story-stem battery and gender in

longitudinal perspective. Symposium presentation at the Biennial

Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington

DC, April. (With H. Steele)

20. 1997 Attachment research: intergenerational patterns. Invited address to

the 8th Annual Infancy Conference, ‘New Developments in Attachment

Theory—Implications for Adoption and Fostering’, Friday 13th June,

Watershed Media Centre, Bristol.

21. 1997 Attachment representations and outcome in adoption. Invited

presentation at the National Research Symposium (Southern Region) of

the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering. Wednesday 26th

November, London.

22. 1998 What is internal, what is working, and what is modeled by internal

working models of attachment? Symposium presentation to the

International Society for the Study of Behavior and Development, Bern,

Switzerland, July. (With H. Steele)

23. 1999 On the Developmental Sequelae of Catastrophic Holocaust

childhood Experiences across Generations (Discussant) for papers by A.

Sagi, M. Van IJzendoorn, & H. Wiseman. Society for Research in Child

Development, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April.

24. 1999 Linking Inner Working Models of Attachment to Quality of

Autobiographical Discourse. Society for Research in Child Development,

Albuquerque, New Mexico, April.

25. 1999 Invited Address to the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society. Recent

Advances in Attachment Research: implications for work with maltreated

children. Utrecht, Holland. May.

26. 1999 Invited Address to the Inner and Outer London Forum of Judges.

Implications of Developmental Research for work in Infant Mental

Health proceedings. June.

27. 1999 Invited Workshop for British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering.

Current Attachment Research-Implications for Assessment and Support.

London and Bristol, October.

28. 2000 Invited Paper to Conference on Attachment in New Relationships,

Birth, Adoption and Therapy. Attachment Representations and Adoption:

Can we predict success? March 10. Tavistock and Portman Trust.

29. 2000 Invited Workshop on Recent Advances in Attachment Research:

Implications for Assessment and Therapeutic Work in Adoption and

Foster Care, Salt Lake City Utah, April 7.

30. 2000 Invited presenter to Attachment from Infancy to Adulthood

Conference. Munich Germany July 12-14.

31. 2000 Invited Workshop for Inner and North London Panel of Guardians

ad Litem and Reporting Officers. Assessment of Attachment in Young

Children and their Carers. London, November 3.

32. 2000 Invited presenter to The Association of Child Psychology and

Psychiatry Scotland Conference on “Bowlby and Beyond: Issues of

Attachment. Edinburgh , November 24th.

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33. 2000 Invited presenter British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering

Annual Research Symposium, Improving outcomes in family placements:

Expectations and experiences. Workshop title: Assessment of attachment

representations in newly placed adopted children. London, 29

November.

34. 2001 Invited presenter to Open Theoretical Seminar Program at the

Maudsley Hospital Psychotherapy Unit. Implications of Attachment

Theory and Research for Adoption and Foster Care. March.

35. 2001 Invited presented to the Centre for Child Mental Health.

Misconnections, failed connections & broken connections between

parents and their child & what can be done. May.

36. 2001 Invited presenter to the South Devon Healthcare Trust. Recent

Advances in Attachment Research and its Importance to Practice. June.

37. 2001 Invited presenter to the Dutch Psychoanalytic Society. Clinical

Implications of Attachment Theory and Research. November.

38. 2002 Invited presenter to University of Leicester, Centre for Applied

Psychology-Clinical Section on Recent Advances in Attachment

Research: Implications for Clinical work. January.

39. 2002 Invited presenter to the first joint conference of the Tavistock Clinic

and Anna Freud Centre; The Clinical Relevance of Research in Child

Psychotherapy. Ways of Measuring the Child’s internal world: A report

from the Attachment Representations and Adoption Outcome Study.

February.

40. 2002 Invited presenter to Padua, Italy. Northern Region consortium of

Social Work and Clinical Psychology. Recent Advances in Attachment

Research: Implications for Adoption and Foster Care. February.

41. 2002 Invited presenter to Marycliff Institute, Spokane, WA, USA. Recent

Advances in Attachment Research: Implications for Adoption and Foster

Care. March.

42. 2002 Invited presenter to Children’s Centre, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA,

Recent Advances in Attachment Research: Implications for Adoption and

Foster Care. April

43. 2002 Invited workshop to Brighton & Hove, The Attachment Project.

Recent Advances in Attachment Research: Implications for Adoption and

Foster Care. May

44. 2002 Invited presentation to Department of Health, Stakeholders’ Policy

Meeting, Southark Cathedral, London. June.

45. 2002 Invited presentation to the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute

conference “Adoptive parents and children placed for adoption: what can

an attachment perspective tell us?”, London, July.

46. 2002 Invited presentation to Norwood Adoption Agency, “Attachment

Representations and Adoptive Placement: Implications for Matching.”

London, September.

47. 2002 Invited presentation to Parent Infant Psychotherapy Project Study

Day. “The use of attachment theory and research in parent-infant

psychotherapy. London, November

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48. 2002 British Agencies for Adoption and Foster Care Annual Research

Symposium. “Attachment Representations and Adoptive Placement:

Implications for Matching.” London. November.

49. 2002 Invited presentation to Bradford Social Services Fostering and

Adoption Team. Bradford, November.

50. 2002 Invited presentation to the Tavistock Clinic annual study day on

Adoption.” Ways of Measuring the Internal World: A Report from the

Attachment Representations and Adoption Outcome Study “ London,

November.

51. 2003 Invited presentation to Tavistock Clinic- Anna Freud Centre

Research Conference “ What can research teach us?” London, January.

52. 2003 Invited presentation to the annual Mainstay Project “Changing

Narratives: New Stories for Old.” Wiltshire, February.

53. 2003 Invited presentation to the Department of Health, Senior Managers’

committee. February.

54. “Bridging the Gap: Clinical Applications of Attachment Theory”

Society for Research in Child Development Meetings, Tampa, Florida,

April.

55. 2003 “Adult Attachment and Parenting”, Pre-conference organized by

Dave Pederson. Society for Research in Child Development Meetings.

Tampa, Florida, April.

56. 2003 “The Developmental Links Between Trauma, Parenting and

Attachment” Tampa Florida, Society for Research in Child Development

Meetings. April.

57. 2003 “Clinical Implications of Attachment Research”-Conversation Hour,

Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, April.

58. 2003 Attachment Issues in Adoption: Risk and Resilience Factors.

London, June.

59. 2003 Attachment Issues in Adoption: Risk and Resilience Factors.

Manchester, June.

60. 2003 Invited presentation to British Association for Community Child

Health, “Recent Advances in Attachment Research, Wolverhampton,

June.

61. 2003 “ Findings from the 11 year follow up of the London Parent Child

Project”, Attachment from infancy and childhood to adulthood

Conference. University of Regensburg, Germany. July.

62. 2003 “Attachment Representations and Adoption” Royal College of

Psychiatry, York, July.

63. 2003 Invited presentation to the President’s Interdisciplinary Conference

“ The Voice of the Child, Dartington Hall, September.

64. 2003 Invited participant to the 93rd Dahlem Conference “ Attachment and

Bonding: a New Synthesis, Berlin, September.

65. 2003 “ A report from the Attachment Representations and Adoption

Study” address to “Post-placement Contact” Nuffield Foundation Seminar.

November.

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66. 2003 “Attachment, Reciprocity and Working with Families, Keynote

speaker, 5th Annual Solihull Approach Conference, Solihull, November.

67. 2003 Trauma and stress amongst children in placement. Baaf UK

Research Symposium Keynote Presentation, November.

68. 2003 “Adult Attachment Relationships and Adoptive Children:

Implications for matching and outcome. Annual Study Day Midlands

Family Placement Group, Loughborough, November.

69. 2003 Invited presentation to “Developmental Science and Psychoanalysis:

Integration and Innovation, Yale University, December.

70. 2004 Invited consultant to the government committee on the Draft

Guidance on the Assessment of Needs for Adoption and Special

Guardianship Support Services for the Department of Department for

Education and Skills. London, February.

71. 2004 Invited presentation to British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering

conference: “Attachment disorder-concept and controversy. London,

March.

72. 2004 Invited presentation to North West Choice Protects: Assessments?

Attachment?=Success? Widnes, May.

73. 2005 Invited Presenter to Mid-Winter meetings of the American

Psychoanalytic Association, “Attachment Representations and Adoption

Outcome: The special case of trauma.” New York, January.

74. 2005 Grand Rounds Beth Israel Hospital, Department of Psychiatry. New

York, January.

75. 2005 Grand Rounds Bronx Lebanon Hospital, Department of Psychiatry.

New York, January.

76. 2005 Links between parents’ and children’s attachment narratives in an

adoption context: On the evolution of security out of a history of

maltreatment. Society for Research in Child Development Meetings,

Atlanta, April.

77. 2005 Invited Presentation to Harvard Medical School, Attachment and

Related Disorders, Boston, May.

78. 2005 Changing minds: Attachment representations and adoption outcome

in a maltreated sample. Invited presentation to conference at City College,

“Reflecting on the future of psychoanalysis: mentalization, internalization

and representation. New York, September.

79. 2006 Invited presentation to Association of Early Childhood and Infant

Psychologists. “Adoption and Foster Care: An attachment perspective”.

Pace University, February.

80. 2006 Changing minds: attachment representations and adoption outcome

in a maltreated sample. Invited Keynote address, 2nd International

Conference on Adoption Research, Norwich, England, and July.

81. 2006. Invited commentary to Adult Psychotherapy: The Perspectives of

Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis. Adelphi University, New York,

November.

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82. 2006 Assessment and Treatment of Children and Their Families: Using an

Attachment Perspective. The Montreal Children’s Hospital, Department of

Psychiatry. Montreal, November.

83. 2006 Invited lecture to the Montreal Psychoanalytic Society. Bridging the

Gap: Clinical Applications of Attachment Theory. Montreal, November.

84. 2006 Invited presentation at McGill University, Division of Child

Psychiatry, McGill Infant Mental Health group conference on Adoption:

Attachment and Beyond. Montreal, November.

85. 2007. Invited presentation to the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

“Facilitating Reflective Functioning: A treatment Case of a Traumatized

Adolescent.”

86. 2007. Invited presentation to the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

“Intergenerational Patterns of Attachment: A report on the London Parent

child Project from Birth to 17 years.”

87. 2007. Invited presentation to the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

“Changing Minds: Attachment Representation and Adoption Outcome in a

maltreatment Sample.”

88. 2007. Invited presentation to the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

“The development of mentalization: Recent findings from the London

longitudinal study of intergenerational patterns of attachment”. New York,

February.

89. 2007 Changing troubled attachment relations: Views from research and

clinical work. International Attachment Conference, Minho, Portugal,

July.

90. 2007 Invited presentation to the New York Foundling and Vincent J.

Fontana Center for Child Protection, co-sponsored with New York

University School of Social Work conference on “Critical transitions in

child welfare”. New York, November.

91. 2007 Invited presentation to the International and Interdisciplinary

Conference “Ways Towards Secure Attachment in Family and Society

Prevention, Guidance, Counseling and Psychotherapy”. Munich,

December.

92. 2007 Invited “Lauditore” for the conferring of the Arnold-Lucius-Gesell-

Prize to Dr. Karin Grossmann and Prof. Dr. Klaus Grossmann from the

Theodor Hellbrügge Foundation. Munich, December.

93. 2007 Invited presentation "Attachment representations and Adoption

Outcome: The special case of trauma" to the Department of Psychology,

University of Erlangen, December.

94. 2007 Invited presentation “Changing Minds: Attachment Representation

and Adoption Outcome in a maltreatment Sample”to the Hungarian

Academy of Science, Budapest, December.

95. 2007 Institute for Infants, Children & Families, Jewish Board of Family

and Children’s Services, Fall ‘Master Class’, “Bridging the Gap: Clinical

Applications of Attachment Theory, New York, December.

96. 2008 American Psychoanalytic Meeting Winter Discussion Group,

“Parent-Infant Programs At Psychoanalytic Institutes”. New York,

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January.

97. 2008 Presentation with Bloom, C., Baker, C., Eichenbaum, L.,

Garafallou, L., Haick, T., Orbach, S., Rubin, L., Steele, M., Tortora, S.

(2008). Seeing You, Seeing Me: The Role of Attachment in the

Intergenerational Transmission of Body Image. Division 39

(Psychoanalysis) Annual Spring Meeting. New York, NY. April.

98. 2008 Assessment, Diagnosis, and Intervention: Attachment and Bonding. Hunter School of Social Work, Adoption training program. New York,

January.

99. 2008. Therapeutic Applications of Attachment Theory: The Power of the

AAI with Mothers, Fathers, and Their Children. Adult Attachment in

Clinical Context: Applications of the Adult Attachment Interview.

UCLA, Lifespan Learning Institute, March.

100. 2008. Panel Discussion on Findings from Three Longitudinal Studies: Minnesota (Alan Sroufe), London (Howard and Miriam Steele), Berkeley (Mary Main and Erik Hesse) Adult Attachment in Clinical Context:

Applications of the Adult Attachment Interview. UCLA, Lifespan

Leaning Institute, March.

101. 2008. Invited Address at Affect Regulation: Development, Trauma, and

Treatment of the Brain-Mind-body. “Identifying Therapeutic Action in an

Attachment Based Intervention with Traumatized Families. Mt Sinai

School of Medicine, November.

102. 2009. UCSD Department of Psychiatry 4th Annual Pre-Conference

“Assessment and Intervention with Traumatized Families: An

Attachment-Based “toolbox. San Diego, January.

103. 2009: Invited colloquia presentation to the New Mexico Psychoanalytic

Association "Changing attachment representations: The special case

of trauma" & “Defining therapeutic action in an attachment-based

intervention with high risk families- 2 case studies" (with Howard Steele)

104. 2009 Invited participant in the Attachment Preconference, organized by

Alan Sroufe, University of Minnesota, “ Clinical Implications of Current

Trends in Attachment Research, Society for Research in Child

Development Biennial conference, Denver, April.

105. 2009. Paper presentation on ‘Increasing security and decreasing

disorganization: Exploring the effectiveness of a ‘granny’ program

intervention for Chinese orphans. (with Howard Steele, Marc Archer,

Xiaochun Jin, & Fran Herreros), Symposium chairs Howard Steele &

Marinus van IJzendoorn. Society for Research in Child Development

Biennial conference, Denver, April.

106. 2009. Poster presentation on ‘Infant-mother attachment in China:

Community sample norms reflect universal patterns’ (with Howard Steele,

Marc Archer, Fran Herreros & Xiaochun Jin) Society for Research in

Child Development Biennial conference, Denver, April.

107. 2009. Conference presentation with Bloom, C., Eichenbaum, L.,

Garafallou, L., Haick, T., McBirney, E. Orbach, S., Rubin, L., Steele, M.,

Tortora, S., Baker, C. “Seeing You, Seeing Me: The Role of Attachment

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in the Intergenerational Transmission of Body Image.” The William

Alanson White Institute. New York, May.

108. 2009. Invited participant Society for Research in Child Development

sponsored international meeting organized by Robert McCall, Leiden,

May.

109. 2009. Invited speaker to Children Uniting Nations " Keeping The Promise

to Our Children - National Conference, " Woodrow Wilson Plaza and U.S.

State Department, Washington, D.C.

110. 2009. International Attachment Conference, keynote address “Attachment

representation and emotion regulation: Lessons for clinical work from 20

years of research” Barcelona, October.

111. 2009. International Attachment Conference, keynote address “Identifying

therapeutic action in an attachment-based treatment model for traumatized

parents and their toddlers” Barcelona, October.

112. 2010. Separation-Individuation Revisited: Integrating Observations from

the Mahler Nursery with Contemporary Attachment Methodology.(With,

S. Sherkow, A. Bergman & I. Blom. Meetings of the American

Psychoanaltyic Association.

113. 2010. Attachment representations and affect regulation: Implications for

clinical work, Invited speaker “11th Annual Bridging the Gap Conference-

The Children’s Center.” Salt Lake City, Utah. February.

114. 2010. An Attachment Based Intervention with Traumatized Families

Grand Rounds St. Luke's- Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York. March.

115. 2010 The Quality of Attachment and Oedipal Development. Making

Psychoanalytic History: The Oedipal Complex. The Annual Scientific

Conference of the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

116. 2010 Longitudinal intergenerational patterns of attachment: from prenatal

assessments to age 18. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. March.

117. 2010 Invited workshop “Attachment Assessment Toolbox-from infancy to

adulthood. To research team of Professor Susan Golombok Centre for

Family Research, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of

Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K. March.

118. 2010 Invited speaker to Coram Family Conference “The Child’s Right to

Family Life: Obstacles and Solutions” Deutsche Bank, London, U.K.

March.

119. 2010 Invited speaker to conference on “Mentalization-based

interventions with children/families. Yale University. October.

120. 2011 Invited Discussant to “Separation- Individuation Revisited:

Integrating Observations from the Mahler Nursery with Contemporary

Attachment Methodology with Susan Sherkow, Inga Blom & Anni

Bergman, Mid-Winter Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic

Association. New York.

121. 2011 Invited Discussant to “Clinical and Developmental Implications of

Assisted Reproductive Technology”, Weill Cornell Medical College,

February.

122. 2011 Invited Study Day “Translating Developmental Research into

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Clinical Practice: An Attachment Perspective on Trauma, Loss and

Resilience. NYU Silver School of Social Work, March.

123. 2011 FAR Fund Distinguished Lecturer, “Defining Therapeutic

Action in Attachment Based Interventions: How do we account for change?

City College, New York.

124. 2011 Public talk: Adoption, Attachment and Attachment Disorders:

Innovations in Intervention with Dr. Jane Aronson & Dr. George Downing.

New School for Social Research, New York, April.

125. 2011.Co-Convener and speaker at SRCD Attachment Pre-Conference

'‘No research without therapy, no therapy without research': Clinical

work with children, parents and families. Society for Research in Child

Development, Montreal Canada, April.

126. 2011 New Approaches to Parental Sensitivity and Its Outcomes.

Symposium organizers: Judi Mesman, Howard Steele. Society for

Research in Child Development, Montreal Canada, April.

127. 2011 The Influence of Micro- and Macro-Level Family Characteristics on

Children's Theory-of-Mind Development. Society for Research in Child

Development, Montreal, Canada, April.

128. 2011 Defining Therapeutic Action in Attachment Based Interventions:

How do we account for change? International Attachment Conference,

Oslo, August.

129. 2011 McBirney, E.,Steele, M.,& Orbach, S. The impact of the mirror on

self-view and parental representations. International Attachment

Conference, Oslo, August.

130. 2011 Invited Discussant to “Separation- Individuation Revisited:

Integrating Observations from the Mahler Nursery with Contemporary

Attachment Methodology with Susan Sherkow, Inga Blom & Anni

Bergman, Mid-Winter Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic

Association. New York.

132. 2012 Holding Babies in Mind: Using Reflective Function

to Transform Trauma and Build Relationships, Keynote address, New York

Zero to Three Conference, New York.

128. 2012 Understanding Differential Cortisol Responses to Stress Via the Adult

Attachment Interview: Convergent Findings from Low-Risk and High Risk

Respondents. International Society for Behavior and Development,

Edmonton, Canada.

129. 2012 Attachment Theory: Its Theoretical and Practical Implications for

Court Practice. State of New York Unified Court System, Master Class,

NYU Law School, NYC.

131. 2014 Separation-Individuation Revisited-Integrating Observations From

the Mahler Nursery with Contemporary Attachment Methodology. Mid-

Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association. NYC.

130. 2014 Beyond Housing 2014 National Conference. “Preventing Child

Maltreatment: An Intergenerational Group Attachment-Based Intervention

(GABI) for Families in Poverty. NYC.

131. 2014 Early Adolescence: Measuring Attachment Relationships in Late

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Placed Adopted Youth. London, U.K.

132. 2014 Defining therapeutic action in an attachment-based intervention with

high risk families. Madison, Wisconsin.