Publications

Our team is highly productive and publishes research that is rigorous, collaborative and translational. Graduate and undergraduate students in the PROTECT Lab learn and develop skills to conduct novel research studies, analyze data, give conference presentations and write first-authored peer-reviewed papers.

*First author is a graduate student. **First author is an undergraduate student. †Cross-lab internal or external collaboration.

• 2023-2024

  *Merrick, J. S., & Narayan, A. J. (2024 online). A replication and extension of adverse and benevolent childhood experiences along with contemporaneous social support and sociodemographic stress for perinatal mental health. Development and Psychopathology.

  †Narayan, A. J., Brown, M. P., & Lawler, J. M. (2024 online). The future of childhood maltreatment research: Diversity and equity-informed perspectives for inclusive methodology and social justice. Development and Psychopathology.

  *Svelnys, C., & Narayan, A. J. (2024 online). Neighborhood safety and perinatal mental health. Environment and Behavior. 

  †**Wolfe, G.R., Narayan, A. J., Fox, K. R., & Doom, J. R. (2024). Adverse and benevolent childhood experiences in university students and their affective forecasting and event predictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Adversity and Resilience Science, 5, 159-174.

  †*Han, D., Dieujuste, N., Doom, J. R., & Narayan, A. J. (2023). A systematic review of positive childhood experiences and adult outcomes: Promotive and protective processes for resilience in the context of childhood adversity. Child Abuse & Neglect, 144, 106346.

  Narayan, A. J., Merrick, J. S., Lane, A. S., & Larson, M. D. (2023). Dimensional interplay of assets versus adversities: Revised benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) in the context of childhood maltreatment, threat, and deprivation. Development and Psychopathology. 

  Narayan, A. J., Frederick, D. E., Merrick, J. S., Sayyah, M. D., & Larson, M. D. (2023). Childhood centeredness is a broader predictor of young adulthood mental health than childhood adversity, attachment, and other positive childhood experiences. Adversity and Resilience Science, 4, 191-210.

  †*Clark, H. M., Hankin, B. L., Narayan, A. J., & Davis, E. P. (2023). Risk and resilience factors for psychopathology during pregnancy: An application of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). Development and Psychopathology.

  *River, L. M., Narayan, A. J., Castillo, M., Sher-Censor, E., & Lieberman, A. F. (2023). Narrative coherence about romantic partners during pregnancy: Associations with childhood maltreatment and PTSD Symptoms. Journal of Family Violence, 38, 673-686. 

• 2021-2022

  †*Nevarez-Brewster, M., Aran, O., Narayan, A. J., Harrall, K. K., Brown, S. M., Hankin, B. L., & Davis, E. P. (2022). Adverse and benevolent childhood experiences predict prenatal sleep quality. Adversity and Resilience Science, 3, 391-402. 

  Sayyah, M. D., Merrick, J. S., Larson, M. D., & Narayan, A. J. (2022). Childhood adversity subtypes and young adulthood mental health problems: Unpacking effects of maltreatment, family dysfunction, and peer victimization. Children and Youth Services Review, 137, 106455.

  †*River, L. M., O-Reilly-Treter, M., Rhoades, G., & Narayan, A. J. (2022). Parent–child relationship quality in the family of origin and later romantic relationship functioning: A systematic review. Family Process, 61, 259-277.

  †*Lucke, C. M., Narayan, A. J., Monn, A. R., & Masten, A. S. (2022). Social support and parenting among mothers experiencing homelessness. Parenting: Science and Practice, 22, 277-285.

  Narayan, A. J., Lieberman, A. F., & Masten, A. S. (2021). Intergenerational transmission and prevention of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Clinical Psychology Review, 85, 101997.

  *Atzl, V. M., Narayan, A. J., Ballinger, A., Harris, W. W., & Lieberman, A. F. (2021). Maternal pregnancy wantedness and perceptions of paternal pregnancy wantedness: Associations with perinatal mental health and relationship dynamics. Maternal and Child Health, 25, 450-459. (Winner, 2022 Harry Gollub Award for best student paper, University of Denver)

  †*Slomowitz, R. F., Narayan, A. J., Pennington, B. F., Olson, R. K., DeFries, J. C., Willcutt, E. G., & McGrath, L. M. (2021). In search of cognitive promotive and protective factors for word reading. Scientific Studies of Reading, 25, 397-416.

  Doom, J. R., Seok, D., Narayan, A. J., & Fox, K. R. (2021). Adverse and benevolent childhood experiences predict mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Adversity and Resilience Science, 2, 193-204.

   

• 2019–2020

  *Merrick, J. S., & Narayan, A. J. (2020). Assessment and screening of positive childhood experiences along with childhood adversity in research, practice, and policy. Journal of Children and Poverty, 26, 269-281.

  †Davis, E. P., & Narayan, A. J. (2020). Pregnancy as a period of risk, adaptation, and resilience for mothers and infants. Development and Psychopathology, 32, 1625–1639.

  Narayan A.J., Merrick J.S., River L.M., Lieberman A.F. (2020) Lifespan and intergenerational promotive and protective factors against the transmission of interpersonal violence in diverse families. In R. Geffner, J. White, L. Hamberger, A. Rosenbaum, V. Vaughan-Eden, V. Vieth (Eds.), Handbook of Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (pp. xx–xx). New York Springer.

  *Merrick, J. S., Narayan, A. J., Atzl, V. M., Harris, W. W., & Lieberman, A. F. (2020). Type versus timing of adverse and benevolent childhood experiences for pregnant women's psychological and reproductive health. Children and Youth Services Review, 114, 1–11.

  Narayan, A. J., Atzl, V. M., Merrick, J. S., Harris, W. W., & Lieberman, A. F. (2020). Developmental origins of ghosts and angels in the nursery: Adverse and benevolent childhood experiences. Adversity and Resilience Science, 1 , 121–134.

  *Merrick, J. S., Labella, M. H., Narayan, A. J., Desjardins, C. D., Barnes, A., & Masten, A. S. (2020). The Child Life Challenges Scale (CLCS): The Child Life Challenges Scale: A promising brief measure of cumulative childhood adversity. Children, 7, 33–46.

  *River, L. M., Narayan, A. J., Atzl, V., Rivera, L. M., & Lieberman, A. F. (2020). Romantic partner support during pregnancy: The discrepancy between self-reported and coder-rated support as a risk factor for prenatal psychopathology and stress. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 37-27-46.

  **Schmidt, M. R., Narayan, A. J., Atzl, V., Rivera, L. M., & Lieberman, A. F. (2020). Childhood maltreatment on the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) scale versus the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) in a perinatal sample. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, 29, 39-56. 

  *River, L. M., Narayan, A. J., Atzl, V. A., Rivera, L. M., & Lieberman, A. F. (2019). Past made present: The legacy of childhood maltreatment for romantic relationship quality and psychopathology. Psychology of Violence. (Winner, 2020 Harry Gollub Award for best first-authored student publication, University of Denver)

  Narayan, A. J., Atzl, V. M., Merrick, J. S., River, L. M., & Peña, R. (2019). Therapeutic perinatal research with low-income families: Leveraging Benevolent Childhood Experiences (BCEs) and fathers' perspectives to promote resilience. ZERO TO THREE Journal, 39, 43–53.

  *River, L. M., Narayan, A. J., Galvan, T., Rivera, L. M., Harris, W. W., & Lieberman, A. F. (2019). On the verge of motherhood and mental illness: Prenatal mental health service utilization among women at highest risk. ZERO TO THREE Journal, 39, 33–42.

  †*Atzl, V. M., Grande, L. A., Davis, E. P., & Narayan, A. J. (2019). Perinatal promotive and protective factors for women with histories of childhood abuse and neglect. Child Abuse & Neglect, 91, 63–77.

  *Merrick, J. S., Narayan, A. J., DePasquale, C. E., & Masten, A. S. (2019). Benevolent Childhood Experiences (BCEs) in homeless parents: A validation and replication study. Journal of Family Psychology, 33, 493–498. 

  *Atzl, V. M., Narayan, A. J., Rivera, L. M., & Lieberman, A. F. (2019). Adverse childhood experiences and prenatal mental health:Type of ACEs and age of maltreatment onset. Journal of Family Psychology, 33, 304–314. 

  †*Miles, E. M., Narayan, A. J., & Watamura, S. E. (2019). Syrian caregivers in peri-migration: A systematic review from an ecological systems perspective. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 5, 78–90. (Winner, 2019 Best Paper for Inclusive Excellence in Research, University of Denver)

  †Groh, A. M., & Narayan, A. J. (2019). Infant insecurity and baseline physiological activity and physiological interpersonal reactivity to stress: A meta-analytic review. Child Development, 90, 679–693. 

  Narayan, A. J., Ghosh Ippen, C., Harris, W. W., & Lieberman, A. F. (2019). Protective factors that buffer against the intergenerational transmission of trauma from mothers to young children: A replication study of angels in the nursery. Development and Psychopathology, 31, 173–187.

  Labella, M. H., Narayan, A. J., McCormick, C. M., Desjardins, C. D., & Masten, A. S. (2019). Risk and adversity, parenting quality, and children's social-emotional adjustment in families experiencing homelessness. Child Development, 90, 227–240. 

• 2017–2018

  Narayan, A. J., & Masten, A. S. (2018). Resilience in the context of violence and trauma: Promotive and protective processes of positive caregiving. In J. D. Osofsky & B. McAlister Groves (Eds.), Violence and Trauma in the Lives of Children (pp. 25–49). Westport, CT: Praeger.

  Narayan, A. J., Rivera, L. M., Bernstein, R. E., Harris, W. W., & Lieberman, A. F. (2018). Positive childhood experiences predict less psychopathology and stress in pregnant women with childhood adversity: A pilot study of the benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) scale. Child Abuse and Neglect, 78, 19–30. 

  Narayan, A. J., Ghosh Ippen, C., Harris, W. W., & Lieberman, A. F. (2017). Assessing angels in the nursery: A pilot study of childhood memories of benevolent caregiving as protective influences. Infant Mental Health Journal, 38, 461–474. 

  Narayan, A. J., Labella, M. H., Englund, M. M., Carlson, E. A., & Egeland, B. (2017). The legacy of early childhood violence exposure to adulthood intimate partner violence: Variable- and person-oriented evidence. Journal of Family Psychology, 31, 883–843. 

  Narayan, A. J., Rivera, L. M., Bernstein, R. E., Castro, G., Gantt, T., Thomas, M., Nau, M., Harris, W. W., & Lieberman, A. F. (2017). Between pregnancy and motherhood: Identifying unmet mental health needs in pregnant women with lifetime adversity. Zero to Three Journal, 37, 4–13.

  Groh, A. M., Narayan, A. J., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M., Roisman, G. I., Vaughn, B. E., Fearon, R. P., & van IJzendoorn, M. (in press). Attachment and temperament in the early life course: A meta-analytic review. Child Development, 88, 770–795. 

  Monn, A. R., Narayan, A. J., Kalstabakken, A. J., Schubert, E. E., & Masten, A. S. (2017). Executive functioning and parenting in the context of homelessness. Journal of Family Psychology, 31, 61–70. 

  Narayan, A. J., Kalstabakken, A. W., Labella, M. H., Nerenberg, L. S., Monn, A. R., & Masten, A. S. (2017). Intergenerational continuity of adverse childhood experiences: Unpacking exposure to maltreatment versus family dysfunction. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 87, 3–14.

• 2015–2016

  Narayan, A. J., Hagan, M. J., Cohodes, E., Rivera, L. M., & Lieberman, A. F. (2016). Early childhood victimization and physical intimate partner violence during pregnancy: A developmental and person-oriented approach. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. doi: 10.1177/0886260516639261

  Narayan, A. J., Oliver Bucio, G., Rivera, L. M., & Lieberman, A. F. (2016). Making sense of the past creates space for the baby: Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy for pregnant women with childhood trauma. Zero to Three Journal, 36, 22–28.

  Cohodes, E. Hagan, M. J., Narayan, A. J., & Lieberman, A. F. (2016). Matched trauma: The role of parents' and children's shared history of childhood domestic violence exposure in parents' reports of children's trauma-related symptomatology. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 17, 81–96. 

  Labella, M. H., Narayan, A. J., & Masten, A. S. (2016). Emotion climate in families experiencing homelessness: Associations with child affect and socioemotional adjustment in school. Social Development, 25, 304–321. 

  Narayan, A. J. (2015). Personal, dyadic, and contextual resilience in parents experiencing homelessness. Clinical Psychology Review, 36, 56–69. 

  Masten, A. S., Narayan, A. J., Silverman, W. K., & Osofsky, J. D. (2015). Children in war and disaster. In R. M. Lerner (Ed.), M. H. Bornstein and T. Leventhal (vol. Eds.), Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science. Vol. 4. Ecological Settings and Processes in Developmental Systems, 7th ed (pp. 704–745). New York: Wiley.

  Narayan, A. J., Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., & Toth, S. L. (2015). Interrelations of maternal expressed emotion, maltreatment and separation/divorce and links to family conflict and children's externalizing behavior. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43, 217–228. 

  Narayan, A. J., Sapienza, J. K., Monn, A. R., Lingras, K. A., & Masten, A. S. (2015). Risk, vulnerability, and protective processes of parental expressed emotion for children's peer relations in contexts of parental violence. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 44, 676–688. 

  Narayan, A. J., Chen, M., Martinez, P. P., Gold, P. W., & Klimes-Dougan, B. (2015). Interparental violence and maternal mood disorders as predictors of adolescent physical aggression within the family context. Aggressive Behavior, 41, 253–256. 

• 2013–2014

  Narayan, A. J., Englund, M. M., Carlson, E. A., & Egeland, B. (2014). Adolescent conflict as a developmental process in the pathway from exposure to interparental violence to dating violence. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 42, 239–250. 

  Herbers, J. E., Cutuli, J. J., Supkoff, L. M., Narayan, A. J., & Masten, A. S. (2014). Parenting and co-regulation: Adaptive systems for competence in children experiencing homelessness. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 84, 420–430. 

  Herbers, J. E., Cutuli, J. J., Monn, A. R., Narayan, A. J., & Masten, A. S. (2014). Trauma, adversity, and parent-child relationships among young children experiencing homelessness. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 42, 1167–1174. 

  Narayan, A. J., Englund, M. M., & Egeland, B. (2013). Developmental timing and continuity of exposure to interparental violence and externalizing behavior as prospective predictors of dating violence. Development and Psychopathology, 25, 973–990. 

  Narayan, A. J. Allen, T. A., Cullen, K., & Klimes-Dougan (2013). Disturbances in reality testing in offspring of parents with bipolar disorder: A developmental psychopathology perspective. Bipolar Disorders, 15, 723–740. 

  Wright M. O., Masten A. S., & Narayan A. J. (2013). Resilience processes in development: Four waves of research on positive adaptation in the context of adversity. In S. Goldstein, S. & R. B. Brooks (Eds.), Handbook of Resilience in Children, 2nd ed. (pp. 15–37). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum. 

  Klimes-Dougan, B., Desjardins, C. D., James, M., Narayan, A. J., Long, J. D., Cullen, K., Gold, P. W., & Martinez, P. E. (2013). The development of thought problems: A longitudinal family risk study of offspring of bipolar, unipolar, and well parents. Development and Psychopathology, 25, 1079–1091. 

• 2012 and Earlier

  Narayan, A. J., Herbers, J. E., Plowman, E. J., Gewirtz, A. H., & Masten, A. S. (2012). Expressed emotion in homeless families: A methodological study of the five-minute speech sample. Journal of Family Psychology, 26, 648–653. 

  Masten, A. S. & Narayan, A. J. (2012). Child development in the context of disaster, war and terrorism: Pathways of risk and resilience. Annual Review of Psychology, 63, 227–257. 

  Narayan, A. J., & Masten, A. S. (2012). Children and adolescents in disasters, war, and terrorism: Developmental pathways to psychopathology and resilience. In C. Widom (Ed.), Trauma, Psychopathology, and Violence (pp. 131–158). New York: Oxford University Press.

  Gravener, J. A., Rogosch, F. A., Oshri, A., Narayan, A. J., Cicchetti, D., & Toth, S. L. (2011). The relations among maternal depressive disorder, maternal expressed emotion, and toddler behavior problems and attachment. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 40, 803–813. 

  Henin, A., Micco, J. A., Wozniak, J., Briesch, J. M., Narayan, A. J. & Hirshfeld-Becker, D. R. (2009). Neurocognitive functioning in bipolar disorder. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 16, 231–250.