Curriculum Vitae

DEBORAH B. JACOBVITZ

Department of Human Development and Family Sciences

School of Human Ecology

The University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712

debj@austin.utexas.edu

512-743-5539

Education:

Academic and Professional Appointments: 2016 - Present Director

University of Texas at Austin, School of Human

Ecology, Dept. of Human Development & Family

Sciences

2015 Interim Director

University of Texas at Austin, School of Human

Ecology, Dept. of Human Development & Family

Sciences

2003 - Present Professor University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Human

Development & Family Sciences

2008 - 2016 Department Chair University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Human

Development & Family Sciences

2003 - 2008 Division Head University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Human

Ecology, Division of Human Dev. & Family Sciences

1994 – 2003 Associate Professor

University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Human

Ecology, Division of Human Dev. & Family Sciences

2001 Visiting Professor Universita di Roma, La Sapienza

Department of Psychology and Philosophy

1995 - 1996 Visiting Scientist University of California at Berkeley

Department of Psychology

1987-1994 Assistant Professor University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Human

Ecology, Child Development & Family Relationships

1982-1987 Ph.D. Child

Psychology

University of Minnesota, Institute

of Child Development

1981 B.S., with honors Psychology University of California at Berkeley

Awards and Honors:

2007 Senate’s Professor of the Month in recognition of a dedication to students and passion for

teaching, Senate of College Councils & Natural Science Council, University of Texas

2005 Outstanding Research Award, Dept of Human Ecology, University of Texas

2003 Research Award, Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

1995 Faculty Research Award, University of Texas at Austin

1989 Outstanding Paper, American Psychological Association

1986-1987 Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota

1986. 1983-1986 Graduate Fellowship, NIMH Training Grant

1982-1983 Graduate Student Fellowship, University of Minnesota

1980 Highest Distinction in Academic Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley

1980 Phi Beta Kappa, University of California at Berkeley

Service:

University:

Women’s Faculty Organization Steering Committee, 2002 - present

President Berdahl’s Committee “The Year of the Child”, 1995- 1997

Applied Learning and Development, 1989 - 1990

College of Natural Sciences:

Director, School of Human Ecology, 2016-present

Interim Director, School of Human Ecology, Nov – Dec, 2015

Chair, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, 2008 - 2016

Promotion and Tenure, 2007 - 2008

Chair, Dedication of Seay Building, 2001 - 2002

Minority Recruitment, 1993 - 1994

Co-op Program Committee, College of Natural Sciences, 1990 - 1991

School of Human Ecology: Director, School of Human Ecology, 2016-present

Division Head, Human Development and Family Sciences, 2003 - 2008

Strategic Planning Committee, 2003 - 2009

Post-Tenure Review Committee, 1998 – 2001; 2006 - 2007

Space and Resources, 1993-1995, 2006 - 2009

Merit Review Committee, 1999 - 2002

Graduate Student Advisory Committee, 1997 – 1998

Human Subjects, 1996 - 1997

Computer Committee, 1995 - 1996

Committee on Teaching Excellence, 1988 - 1992, Chair, 1990 - 1992

Undergraduate Advising and Curriculum Committee, 1988 - 1990

Department of Human Development and Family Sciences:

Department Chair, 2008-2016

Division Head, 2003-2008

Chair, Space and Resources, 1994 – 1996, 2002, 2007

Faculty Search Committee, 1987 - 1990, 1993 – 1995, 2006 - 2008

Member, Space and Resources, 1994 – 1996, 2002 – present

Chair, Reference Room Committee, 1988 -1989, 1994 - 1995

Chair, Graduate Admissions, 1997 – 2001

Graduate Admissions Committee, 1987 - 2002

Graduate Advisor, Fall 1998

Assistant Division Head, 1990 - 1994

Graduate Studies Committee, 1987 - present

Undergraduate Advisor, 1987 - 1990

Chair, Curriculum Committee, 1988 - 1990

Chair, Child and Family Lab Research, 1987 - 1989

Chair, Priscilla Flawn Conference on Child Development, 1991-1992

Professional Service:

Editorial Boards:

Attachment and Human Development

Journal of Psychology and Philosophy

Guest Reviewer:

Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Development and Psychopathology, Journal of

Family Psychology, Journal for Research on Adolescence, Personal Relationships

Textbook Reviewer: Freeman Press, Houghton Mifflin Company, Wadsworth

Southwestern Society for Research in Human Development,

President, 1998 - 2000

President-elect, 1996 – 1998

Chair, Local Arrangements for the Biennial Meetings, 2002, 1994

Member of the Board, 1990‑ 1994

Submission Reviewer for Meetings, 1992, 1994, 1996

Society for Research in Child Development

Submission Reviewer for Meetings (Social Development and Family Panels), 1997, 1995, 1993,

2013, 2015

Intensive Training Institutes and Workshops:

Adult Attachment Institute: Held at Harvard University, The University, California, Berkeley,

University of Texas at Austin, Universita di Roma, La Sapienza, 1996 – 2015

Assessing Narratives: Held at Harvard Medical School, 2012

Advisory Board Member:

Women’s Faculty Organization, Univ. of Texas, Austin, 2002- present

Austin IN Connections, 2006 – 2015

Parent Teen Council, Children’s First, 1994 – 2004

Communities in Schools, Even Start Program, 1995-1999

March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, 1987 - 1991

Grant Reviewer:

National Institute of Mental Health, Adolescent Family Life

National Institute of Mental Health, Violence and Traumatic Stress

Hogg Foundation for Mental Health

National Science Foundation, Language, Cognition and Social Behavior

Grant in Progress

The Obesity Paradox: Intergenerational Influence on Child Weight Trajectory. The National Institutes of

Health. PI: Jacobvitz ($1.6M). Submitted in June, 2016.

Grants Awarded:

Dates

Agency and Title

1/1/17 – 5/31/18

Wellcome Trust.

Disorganized attachment in contemporary Attachment Theory: A critical

analysis of paradigms, debates and applications

PI: Robert Duschinsky

Consortium Co-I: Deborah Jacobvitz ($40,000)

1/1/14 – 1/31/17

RGK Foundation.

Fostering social and emotional development in young children, $200,000

PI: Deborah Jacobvitz

6/15/08 – 8/31/10

Texas Methodist Foundation.

Parent training in positive guidance: Stability and change in parental attitudes

about discipline and children’s social and emotional competence, $44,967

PI: Deborah Jacobvitz, Co-PIs: Rachel Saunders and Nancy Hazen

9/1/06 – 8/31/07

Hudson Foundation.

Risk and resilience: Overcoming harsh early parenting, $25,000

PI: Nancy Hazen, Co-PI: Deborah Jacobvitz

7/1/04 – 6/30/05

St. David’s CHPR (Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

Research in Underserved Populations), $15,000

“Early attachment and later alcohol and other drug use in homeless youth”

PI: Margaret Taylor, Co-PIs: Deborah Jacobvitz, Lori Holleran, & Lynn Rew

6/1/02 – 7/31/02

Faculty Research Award, Office of the Vice President and Dean of Graduate

Studies University of Texas at Austin, $7,500.

“ The Intergenerational Transmission of Family Relationships”

PI: Deborah Jacobvitz

9/1/96 – 8/31/98

Hogg Foundation for Mental Health

“Marital Conflict and Parenting: The Intergenerational Transmission of

Family Pattern.” $45,296

PI: Deborah Jacobvitz, Co-PI: Nancy Hazen

8/1/92 – 8/1/96

National Science Foundation (#DBS-9212990)

“Parental Models of Attachment and Caregiving” $234,815

PI: Deborah Jacobvitz, Co-PI: Nancy Hazen

9/1/90 – 5/31/91.

University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin,

“Regulation Self‑ Esteem and Intimacy in Friendships and Romantic

Relationships" $4,400

PI: Deborah Jacobvitz

Summer 1989

Summer Research Award, Office of the Vice President and Dean of Graduate

Studies, University of Texas, “The Transmission of Parental Behavior: A Study

of Three Generations" $7,556, PI: Deborah Jacobvitz

9/1/86 – 8/31/87

Dissertation Research Grant, The University of Minnesota,

"The Early Caregiver‑ Child Relationship and Attention‑ deficit

Hyperactivity in School Children" $8,400 PI: Deborah Jacobvitz

Publications

Jacobvitz, D. (in press). Dismissing Avoidant Attachment. In M.H. Bornstein (Ed)., The Sage

Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Publications.

Gallegos, M.I., Murphy, S.E., Benner, A.D., Jacobvitz, D.B., & Hazen, N.L. (in press).

Marital, parental, and whole family predictors of toddler emotion regulation: The role of

parental emotional withdrawal. Journal of Family Psychology.

Murphy, S.E., Jacobvitz, D.B., & Hazen, N.L (in press). Dyadic and Triadic Family

Interactions as Simultaneous Predictors of Children’s Externalizing Behaviors. Family

Relations.

Beverung, L.M. & Jacobvitz, D. (2016). Women’s retrospective experiences of bereavement:

Predicting unresolved attachment. Journal of Death and Dying, 73, 126-140. DOI:

10.1177/0030222815575897.

Lyons-Ruth, K., & Jacobvitz, D. (2016). Attachment Disorganization from Infancy to

Adulthood: Neurobiological Correlates, Parenting Contexts, and Pathways to Disorder.

In J. Cassidy & P. Shaver (eds.), Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research and

Clinical Applications (3rd Edition). New York: Guilford Press.

Murphy, S., Jacobvitz, D. & Hazen, N. (2016). What’s so bad about competitive

coparenting? Family-level predictors of children’s externalizing symptoms. Journal of

Child and Family Studies, 25, 1684-1690. DOI: 10.1007/s10826-015-0321-5.

Frankel, L.A., Umemura, T., Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N. (2015). Marital conflict and parental

responses to infant negative emotions: Relations with toddler emotional regulation,

Infant Behavior and Development, 40, 73-83. DOI: org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2015.03.004.

Hazen, N., Allen, S., Umemura, T., Heaton, C., & Jacobvitz, D. (2015). Very extensive

nonmaternal care predicts mother-infant attachment disorganization: Convergent

evidence from two samples. Development and Psychopathology, 27, 649-661.

DOI:10.1017/S0954579414000893.

Reisz, S, Jacobvitz, D., & George, C. (2015). Birth and Motherhood: Childbirth Experience

and Mothers’ Perceptions of Themselves and Their Babies. Infant Mental Health

Journal, 36, 167-178. DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21500.

Christopher, C., Umemura, T., Mann, T., Jacobvitz, D. & Hazen, N. (2015). Marital Quality

over the Transition to Parenthood as a Predictor of Coparenting. Journal of Child and

Family Studies. 24, 3636-3651. DOI 10.1007/s10826-015-0172-0.

Umemura, T., Christopher, C., Mann, T., Jacobvitz, D. & Hazen, N. (2015). Coparenting

Problems with Toddlers Predict Children’s Symptoms of Psychological Problems at

Age 7. Journal of Child and Family Studies. 46, 981-996. DOI: 10.1007/s10578-015-

0536-0

Umemura, T. & Jacobvitz, D. (2014). Nonmaternal care hours and temperament predict

infants’ proximity-seeking behavior and attachment subgroups. Infant Behavior and

Development, 37, 352-365. DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.05.007.

Zaccagnino, M., Cussino, M., Saunders, R., Jacobvitz, D., & Veglia, F. (2014). Alternative

Caregiving Figures and their Role on Adult Attachment Representations. Clinical

Psychology & Psychotherapy, 21, 276-287. DOI: 10.1002/cpp.1828.

Umemura, T. Jacobvitz, D., Messina, S., & Hazen, N. (2013). Do toddlers prefer the primary

caregiver or the parent with whom they feel more secure? The role of toddler emotion.

Infant Behavior and Development, 36, 102-114. DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.10.003.

Christopher, C., Saunders, R., Jacobvitz, D., Burton, R., & Hazen, N. (2013). Maternal

empathy and changes in mothers’ permissiveness as predictors of toddlers’ early social

competence with peers: A parenting intervention study. Journal of Child and Family

Studies, 22, 769-778. DOI: 10.1007/s10826-012-9631-z.

Saunders, R., Piazza, L., Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N., & Burton, R. (2013). Maternal knowledge

and behaviors regarding discipline: The effectiveness of a hands-on education program

in positive guidance. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 22, 322-334. DOI:

10.1007?s10826-012-9581-5.

Jin, M. K., Jacobvitz, D., Jung, S. H., & Hazen, N. (2012). Maternal sensitivity and infant

attachment security in Korea: Cross-cultural validation of the Strange Situation.

Attachment and Human Development,14, 33-44. DOI:

10.1080//14616734.2012.636656.

McFarland-Piazza, L., Hazen, N., Jacobvitz, D., & Boyd-Soisson, E. (2012). The

development of father-child attachment: Associations between adult attachment

representations, recollections of childhood experiences and caregiving. Early Child

Development & Care, 182, 701-721.DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2011.573071.

Hazen, N., Jacobvitz, D., Higgins, K., Allen, S., & Jin, M. K. (2011). Pathways from

disorganized attachment to later social-emotional problems: The role of gender and

parent-child interaction patterns (167-206). In J. Soloman & C. George (Eds.),

Disorganization of attachment and caregiving: Research and clinical advances. NY:

Guilford.

Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N., Zaccagnino, M., Messina, S., & Beverung, L. (2011). Frightening

maternal behavior, infant disorganization, and risks for psychopathology. In D. Ciccetti

& G. Roisman (eds.), The Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology: The origins and

organization of adaptation and maladaptation, 36. New York: Wiley. Pp. 283-322

Saunders, R., Jacobvitz, D., Zaccagnino, M., Beverung, L. & Hazen, N. (2011). Pathways to

earned-security: The role of alternative support figures. Attachment and Human

Development, 13, 403-420.

Zaccagnino, M., Cussino, M., Cook, R., Jacobvitz, D., & Veglia, F. (2011). Alternative

attachment figures and their impact on the intergenerational transmission of attachment.

Psicologia Clinica dello Sviluppo, 3, 669-692.

Jin, M. K., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (2010). A cross-cultural study of attachment in Korea

and the United States: Infant and maternal behavior during the Strange Situation. In P.

Erdman and K. M. Ng (Eds.), Attachment: Expanding the cultural connections. New

York: Routledge.

Hazen, N., McFarland, L. Jacobvitz, D., & Boyd-Soisson, E. (2010). Fathers’ frightening

behaviors and sensitivity with infants: Relations with fathers’ attachment

representations, father-infant attachment, and children’s later outcomes. Early Child

Development and Care, 180, 51-69. DOI: 10.1080/03004430903414703.

Hazen, N., McFarland, L. Jacobvitz, D., & Boyd-Soisson, E. (2010). Fathers’ frightening

behaviors and sensitivity with infants: Relations with fathers’ attachment

representations, father-infant attachment, and children’s later outcomes . In L.A.

Newland, H.S. Freeman, & D.D. Coyle (Eds.), Emerging Topics on Father Attachment:

Considerations in Theory, Context and Development. New York: Routledge.

Taylor-Seehafer, M.A, Jacobvitz, D., & Steiker, L.H. (2009). Patterns of attachment

organization, social connectedness, and substance use in a sample of older homeless

adolescents: Preliminary finding, Family and Community Health, 31, 81 – 88.

Leit, L., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (2008). Conversational Narcissism in Marriage:

Narcissistic attention seeking behaviors in face-to-face interactions: Implications for

marital stability and partner mental health. Germany: Verlag Publishing.

Lyons-Ruth, K. & Jacobvitz, D. (2008). Attachment Disorganization: Genetic factors,

parenting contexts and developmental transformations from infancy to adulthood. In J.

Cassidy & P. Shaver (eds.), Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research and Clinical

Applications. Volume II. NY: Guilford Press.

Jacobvitz, D. (2008). Reflections on the clinical applications of the Adult Attachment

Interview. In H. Steele & M. Steele (Eds.), Clinical Applications of the Adult

Attachment Interview. Guilford Press.

Curran, M.A., Hazen, N., Jacobvitz, D., & Sasaki, T. (2006). How representations of the

parental marriage predict marital emotional attunement during the transition to

parenthood. Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 477 – 484. DOI:

Hazen, N., Jacobvitz, D., & McFarland (2006). Antecedents of Boundary disturbances in

families with young children: Intergeneational transmission and parent-infant

caregiving patterns (pp. 85-110). In P. Kerig (Ed.), Implications of Parent-Child

Boundary Dissolution for Developmental Psychology. N.J.: Routledge,

Jacobvitz, D., Leon, K., & Hazen, N. (2006). Does expectant mothers' unresolved trauma

predict frighening/frightened maternal behavior? Risk and protective factors.

Development and Psychopathology, 18, 363-379.

Curran, M.A., D., Hazen, N., Jacobvitz, D., & Feldman, A. (2005). Representations of early

family relationships predict marital maintenance during the transition to parenthood.

Journal of Family Psychology, 19, 189 –197.

Hazen, N., Jacobvitz, D, & McFarland, L. (2005). Antecedents of boundary disturbances in

families with young children: Intergenerational transmission and early parent-child

interaction patterns. Journal of Emotional Abuse (Special issue on Interventions,

Research & Theories of Psychological Maltreatment, Trauma & Nonphysical

Aggression), 5, 85 – 110.

Saunders, R., Manheimer, J., Bryan, A., Jacobvitz, D. & Hazen, N. (2004). Overcoming

negative early experiences with parents: Pathways to Earned Security, Psychotherapia.

Special Monograph on Attachment. [translated into Italian].

Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N., Curran, M., & Hitchens, K. (2004). Observations of early triadic

family interactions: Boundary disturbances in the family predict depressive, anxious,

and ADHD symptoms in middle childhood. Development and Psychopathology, 16,

577-592.

Leon, K., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (2004). Maternal resolution of loss and abuse:

Association with adjustment to the transition to parenthood. Infant Mental Health, 25,

130 – 148. DOI: 10.1002/imhj.10091.

Jacobvitz, D. (2003). Fostering resilience in children: The importance of early relationship

experiences. In L. Eiklenborg (Ed.), Vision 2003: Families over the Lifecourse. New

York: Allen Bacon.

Leon, K. & Jacobvitz, D. (2003). Relationships between adult attachment representations and

family ritual quality: A prospective longitudinal study. Family Process, 42, 419-432.

Jacobvitz, D., Curran, M., & Moller, N. (2002). Measurement of adult attachment: The place

of self-report and interview methodology. Attachment and Human Development, 4,

207-215.

Kretchmar, M.D., & Jacobvitz, D. (2002). Observing mother-child relationships across

generations: Boundary patterns, Attachment, and the transmission of caregiving. Family

Process, 41, 351-374.

Riggs, S. A., & Jacobvitz, D. (2002). Expectant parents' representations of early attachment

relationships: Associations with mental health and family history. Journal of

Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 195-204.

Riggs, S., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (2002). Adult attachment and history of psychotherapy

in a normative sample. Psychotherapy, 39, 344-353.

Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N., & Thalhuber, K. (2001). The origins of attachment disorganization in

infancy: Links with mothers’ history of trauma and current mental health (pp. 125-156).

In G. Suess, H. Scheuerer-Englisch, & W. P. Pfeifer (Eds.), Bindungundstheorie und

Familiendynamik [Attachment and Family Dynamics], Munich:Psychosozial-Verlag.

Thalhuber, K., & Jacobvitz, D. (2000). Intergenerational attachment disorganization:

Processes underlying its origins and outcomes. Prospettive Psicoanalitiche nel Lavoro

Instituzionale [Psychoanalytic Prospectives on Work Institutions], 17, 239 - 266. 41.

Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (1999). Developmental pathways from infant

disorganization to childhood peer relationships (pp. 127–159). In J. Solomon & C.

George (Eds.), Attachment Disorganization. Guilford Press.

Jacobvitz, D., & Riggs, S., & Johnson, E.M. (1999). Cross-sex and same-sex family alliances:

Immediate and long-term effects on daughters and sons (pp. 34–55). In N.D. Chase

(Ed.), Burdened Children: Theory, Research and Treatment of Parentification.

Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Lyons-Ruth, K. & Jacobvitz, D. (1999). Attachment Disorganization: Unresolved loss,

relational violence, and lapses in behavioral and attentional strategies (pp. 520 - 554). In

J. Cassidy & P. Shaver (eds.), Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research and Clinical

Applications. Guilford Press.

Sroufe, L. A., Jacobvitz, D, & Mangelsdorf.S. (1997). 26/The Psychophysiology of

Temperament." Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Infancy and

Preschoolers: Development and Syndromes, 56, 250.

Jacobvitz, D. (1996). Banishing the ghosts of abuse. Discovery, 14, 40-45.

Jacobvitz, D.B., & George, C. (1996). Attachment in adults: Clinical and developmental

perspectives. Merrill Palmer Quarterly, 42, 446-471.

Jacobvitz, D., & Bush, N. (1996). Reconstructions of family relationships: Parent-child

alliances, personal distress and self-esteem. Developmental Psychology, 32, 732-743.

Carlson, E. A., Jacobvitz, D. & Sroufe, L.A. (1995). A developmental investigation of

inattentiveness and hyperactivity. Child Development, 66, 37-54.

Fullinwider-Bush, N. & Jacobvitz, D. B. (1993). The transition to young adulthood:

Generational boundary dissolution and female identity development. Family Process,

32, 87-103.

Jacobvitz, D. B., Morgan, E., Kretchmar, M., & Morgan, Y. (1991). The transmission of

boundary disturbances across three generations, Development and Psychopathology. 3,

513‑ 527.

Jacobvitz, D. (1990). Tracing development over the lifespan. Contemporary Psychology. 34,

179‑ 180.

Jacobvitz, D., Sroufe, L.A., Stewart, M., & Leffert, N. (1990). Treatment of attentional and

hyperactive problems in children with sympathomimetic drugs: A follow‑ up review.

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 29, 677‑ 688.

Reprinted in: Lilienfeld, O. (1995). Seeing Both Sides: Classic Controversies in

Abnormal Psychology. New York: Brooks Cole.

Sroufe, L. A. & Jacobvitz, D. (1989). Diverging pathways, developmental transformations,

multiple etiologies and the problem of continuity in development. Human

Development, 32, 196‑ 204.

Egeland, B., Jacobvitz, D., & Sroufe, L.A. (1988). Breaking the cycle of abuse. Child

Development, 59, 1080‑ 1088.

Egeland, B., Jacobvitz, D., & Papatola, K. (1987). Intergenerational continuity of parental

abuse. In J. Lancaster & R. Gelles (Eds.), Biosocial aspects of child abuse (pp. 255 -

278). New York: Jossey‑ Bass.

Jacobvitz, D., & Sroufe, L.A. (1987). The early caregiver‑ child relationship and Attention

Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity in kindergarten: A prospective study. Child

Development, 58, 1488‑ 1495.

Sroufe, L.A., Jacobvitz, D., Mangelsdorf, S., DeAngelo, E., & Ward, M.J. (1985). Generational

boundary dissolution between mothers and their preschool children: A relationship

systems approach. Child Development, 56, 316‑ 325.

Articles under Review:

Brazeau, N., Reisz, S., George, C. & Jacobvitz, D. (under review). Compromised caregiving:

Contributions of attachment trauma to postpartum depression and maternal self-

efficacy. Infant Mental Health.

Murphy, S. , Gallegos, M. , Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N. (under review). Coparenting Dynamics:

Mothers’ and Fathers’ Differential Support and Involvement.

Scott, J., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (under review). Mothers’ and Fathers’ Limit-Setting Profiles: A Person-Oriented Approach Predicting Toddlers’ Compliance.

Invited Addresses

Jacobvitz, D. (2017, June). The 8th International Attachment Conference, London.

Jacobvitz, D. (2017, February). The Mechanism of transmission of Attachment Disorganization across

Generations. 18th Annual Bridging the Gap Conference: Clinical Application of Attachment

Theory and Research. The Children’s Center, Salt Lake City Utah.

Jacobvitz, D. (2016, January). Attachment Disorganization: Pathways and predisposing factors.

Duchinsky, R. (Organizer). Disorganized Infant Attachment Conference, Berkeley, California.

Jacobvitz, D. (2015, March). Frightening maternal behavior, attachment disorganization and

psychopathology. In Steele, H. (Chair). The Adult Attachment Interview. Paper presented at a pre-

conference at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Development, Philadelphia, PA.

Jacobvitz, D., Reisz, S., Umemura, T., & Hazen, N. (2013, April). Spousal Boundary

Disturbances Pre-birth Predict Parent-child Alliances, Children: Emotion Regulation

and Later Adjustment. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for

Research in Child Development, Seattle.

Jacobvitz, D. (2009, April). The Case of Ellie and Little Hans. Invited presentation at the meeting of the

American Psychological Association, San Antonio, TX.

Jacobvitz, D. (2007, April). Parental Correlates of Attachment Disorganization in Infancy. In Pederson,

D., (Chair). Attachment Disorganization. Address delivered at a pre-conference at the biennial

meeting of the Society for Research in Development, Boston, MA.

Jacobvitz, D. (2005, April). Continuity and discontinuity in attachment over the first two years of life. In

Pederson, D.(Chair). From Security to Autonomy: Approaches to the Study of Developmental

Processes. Paper presented at a pre-conference at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research

in Development, Atlanta, GE.

Jacobvitz, D. (2003, April). The Adult Attachment Interview: How do adults’ represent their relationships

with their parents during childhood? In Pederson, D., (Chair). The Adult Attachment Interview.

Paper presented at a pre-conference at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in

Development, Tampa, FL.

Jacobvitz, D. (2002, December). Analyzing discourse to assess security in adults. Phase-Oriented

Treatment of Psychological Trauma: Attachment Disorders, Trauma and Relational Disturbance.

Department of Continuing Education, Harvard Medical School.

Jacobvitz, (2002, December). Models of Attachment in Adulthood: Links with Maternal Well-Being and

Caregiving. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

Jacobvitz, D. (2002, November). Identifying Markers of Risk in Children and Adolescents. Plenary

Address delivered at the meeting of the National Conference on Family Relations. Houston, TX.

Jacobvitz, D. (2001, June). Husbands and wives’ style of communication: Contributions of attachment

security in adulthood. Department of Psychology, Universita di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy.

Jacobvitz, D. (2001, June). Developmental precursors of school-age children’s representations of

relationships among family members: A longitudinal analysis. Department of Psychology,

Universita di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy.

Jacobvitz, D. (2001, April). Precursors and developmental antecedents of frightening caregiving

behavior with 8-month old children. In Main, M., Hesse, E., Dazzi, N., Jacobvitz, D., Pederson,

D., & Sroufe, J. (Co—Chairs). The Adult Attachment Interview. Paper presented at a pre-

conference at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Jacobvitz, D. (2000, November). Phenotypic similarities between dissociative states in infants and

adults. Plenary Address delivered at the biennial meeting of the International Society for the

Study of Dissociation. San Antonio.

Jacobvitz, D.B. (1998, June). Mothers' unresolved trauma: Effects on caregiving with infants and

toddlers. Department of Psychology, Universita di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy.

Jacobvitz, D.B. (1998, April). Effects of disorganized mental processes in mothers on their mother-infant

interactions. Department of Psychology, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada.

Jacobvitz, D.B. (1998, April) Disorganized mental processes in mothers, frightening/frightened

caregiving and disoriented, disorganized behavior in infancy. Department of Psychology,

University of Western Ontario. Ontario, Canada.

Jacobvitz, D. (1998, March). Frightening caregiving: Links with mother’s history of abuse and

trauma. Presidential Address delivered at the biennial meeting of the Southwest Society for

Research on Human Development, Galveston, TX.

Jacobvitz, D.B. (1996, March). Do memories of childhood family relationships influence affect

regulation in intimate relationships? Department of Psychology. University of California at

Davis. Davis, CA.

Jacobvitz, D.B. (1996, April). Observations of boundary maintenance and breakdown across

three generations: When do boundary violations matter? Department of Psychology,

University of California at Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, CA.

Jacobvitz, D. B. (1996, April). Analyzing adults’ discourse patterns during discussions of early

relationships experiences. Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San

Francisco Medical School. San Francisco, CA.

Jacobvitz, D.B. (1996, May). The intergenerational transmission of attachment processes.

Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley,

CA.

Jacobvitz, D. (1993, April). Emotion regulation across parent-child and marital relationships: A

relationship systems approach. Colloquium, Department of Psychology, Trinity University. San

Antonio, TX.

Jacobvitz, D. (1992, April). Origins of maternal sensitivity: An observational study of relationships

among grandmothers, daughters and grandchildren. Colloquium, Department of Psychology,

Texas A & M University. College Station, TX.

Jacobvitz, D. (1991, March). Reconstructions of family relationships and the development of intimacy in

close relationships: A systems approach. Colloquium, Department of Family and Child Studies,

Auburn University. Auburn, Alabama.

Sroufe, L. A. & Jacobvitz, D. (1987, June). Developmental and longitudinal aspects of Attention Deficit

Disorders. Conference on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity in Children and Adolescents:

Assessment and Intervention, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Jacobvitz, D. (1987, February). Family antecedents of self-regulatory capacities in school children.

Colloquium, Department of Child and Family Studies, Cornell University. Ithaca, NY.

Jacobvitz, D. (1987, January). The origins of attentional, impulsive and overactive behavior in middle

childhood. Colloquium, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University. East Lansing, MI.

Presentations at National and International Conferences:

Gallegos, M., Jacobvitz, D.B. & Hazen, N. (2017, April). Mother and father-infant attachment

as predictors of child anxiety symptoms. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the

Society for Research in Child Development, Austin.

Jacobvitz, D.(2017, April). Symposia Chair and Discussant: The Role of Attachment on

Children’s Social Cognitive and Social Behaviors. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of

the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin.

Messina, S. & Jacobvitz, D.B. & Hazen, N. (2017, April). Do all the roads lead to Rome?

Investigating pathway leading to children’s development of anxious depression and ADHD

symptoms. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child

Development, Austin.

Murphy, S., Gallegos, M.I., Jacobvitz, D.B., & Hazen, N. (2017, April). Marital, parent-child

and whole family predictors of toddlers’ adaptive emotion regulation, underregulation and

overregulation. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child

Development, Austin.

Poulsen, H., & Jacobvitz, D.B. & Hazen, N. (2017, April). Parents’ joint attachment

representations & Caregiving: The mediating role of marital quality. Paper presented at the

biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin.

Reisz, S. & Jacobvitz, D.B. & Hazen, N. (2017, April). Attachment and caregiving

dysregulation: Associations with the parent and child outcomes. Paper presented at the

biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin.

Gallegos, M., Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N., (2016, November). Negative and positive family

interactions predicting children’s emotion regulation. Paper presented at the meeting of the

National Council on Family Relations, Minneapolis, MN.

Murphy, S.E., Gallegos, M.I., Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N., (2016, November). Coparenting

Dynamics: Mothers’ and Fathers’ Differential Support and Involvement. Paper presented at

the meeting of the National Council on Family Relations, Minneapolis, MN.

Poulsen, H., Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N., Reisz, S. (2016, May). Parents' Joint Attachment

Representations & Caregiving: The Moderating Role of Marital Quality. Paper presented at

the 15th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, Prague.

Reisz, S., & Jacobvitz, D. (2016, May). Birth and motherhood: Attachment representations and

the subjective experience of childbirth. Paper presented at the 15th World Congress of the

World Association for Infant Mental Health, Prague.

Gallegos, M., Murphy, S., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N., (2016, March). Relations of Family

Stressors and Mother and Father Parenting Distress: A Test of the Crossover Hypothesis.

Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Human Development,

Denver.

Poulsen, H., Reisz, S. Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D., (2016, March). Parent’s Joint Attachment

Representations: The Moderating Role of Marital Quality. Paper presented at the biennial

meeting of the Society for Research in Human Development, Denver.

Reisz, S., & Jacobvitz, D. (2016, March). Birth and motherhood: Attachment representations

and subjective experiences of childbirth. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the

Society for Research in Human Development, Denver.

Jacobvitz, D., Messina, S., Reisz, S., Pettit, K., Poulsen, H., & Hazen, N. (2015, March).

Family dynamics from an attachment perspective: Parents’ attachment pairings predict couple

and parent-infant interactions. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for

Research in Child Development, Philadelphia.

Messina, S., Reisz, S., Garza, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2015, March). Paper presented at the

biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia.

Murphy, S., Hazen, N. & Jacobvitz, D. (2015, March). Is the Whole greater than the sum of the

parts? Paper to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child

Development, Philadelphia.

Burton, R. S., Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N., & Reisz, N. (2014, March) Changes in Parenting

Behaviors: Does maternal attachment Security matter? Paper presented at the biennial

meeting of the Society for Research in Human Development (SRHD, Austin, TX.

Messina, S., Jacobvitz, D., Reisz, S, Garza, N., & Hazen-Swann, N. (2014, March). Early

predictors of children’s emotional wellbeing: The role of feeding interactions between

mothers and their 8-month-old infants. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society

for Research in Human Development (SRHD, Austin, TX.

Murphy, S., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (2014, March). Triadic Co-parenting and Dyadic

Parent-Child Interactions as Predictors of Children’s Later Externalizing Symptoms Paper

presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Human Development

(SRHD), Austin, TX.

Wittenberg, B., Jacobvitz, D., Beverung, L., Karras, C., & Hazen, N. (2014, March). Parents’

Prenatal Wishes for their Children: Relations with Parenting Quality and Child Outcomes.

Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Human Development

(SRHD), Austin, TX.

Wittenberg, Hazen, N., Jacobvitz, D., Beverung, L., Karras (2013, November). Prenatal

Wishes: The Impact of Parents’ Wishes on Parenting Quality", Paper presented at the biennial

meeting of the National Conference on Family Relations (NCFR), San Antonio.

Bichteler, A., Hazen, N. & Jacobvitz, D. (2013, April). Associations between Past Adult

Attachment Representation and Current Weight: Coping, Control, and the AAI. Paper

presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle.

Christopher, C., Umemura, T., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (2013, April). Coparenting Problems

at 2 Years Predict 7-Year-Old Children’s Developmental Psychopathology: Focusing on

Gender Differences. Paper to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research

in Child Development, Seattle.

Messina, S., Reisz, S., Garza, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2013, April). Mothers-babies feeding

interactions: Another bridge on the transmission gap? Paper to be presented at the biennial

meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle.

Umemura, T., Christopher, C., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (2013, April). Supportive and

Undermining Coparenting: Relations to Changes in Marital Quality across the Transition to

Parenthood. Paper to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child

Development, Seattle.

Christopher, C. H., Umemura, T., Allen, S., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (2012, June). The

relation of extensive nonmaternal care to attachment disorganization. Paper to be presented at

biennial meetingof the International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis, MN.

Umemura, T., Christopher, C. H., Allen, S. D., Jacobvitz, D. & Hazen, N. (2012, March).

Extensive nonmaternal care predicts attachment disorganization: Convergent evidence from

two samples. Paper to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in

Human Development, New Orleans, LA.

Lewinski, K., Beverung, L., Singh, H., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (2012, March). Extensive

nonmaternal care predicts attachment disorganization: Convergent evidence from two

samples. Paper to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Human

Development, New Orleans, LA.

Beverung, L. M., Jacobvitz, D., Thomson, R., Burton, R. S., Saunders, R. C., & Hazen, N.

(2011, March). Conditions predicting unresolved attachment status for loss and secondary

attachment classifications. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research

in Child Development, Montreal.

Heaton, C. C., Saunders, R. C., Jacobvitz, D. B., & Hazen, N. (2011, March). The relation of

hands-on training in positive guidance to changes in toddlers' social competence: The role of

maternal permissiveness and empathy. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society

for Research in Child Development, Montreal.

Frankel, L., Hazen, N., Noonan, S., & Jacobvitz, D. B. (2011, March). Parental reactions to

infants’ negative emotions: Parenting antecedents and child outcomes. Paper presented at the

biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal.

Beverung, L.M. Jacobvitz, D.B., Thomson, R., Burton, R., Saunders, R.C., & Hazen, N. (2011,

April). Conditions predicting unresolved attachment status for loss and secondary attachment

classifications. Paper to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in

Child Development, Montreal, Canada.

Frankel, L., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D.B. (2011, April). Harsh Parental Reactions to Infant

Escape Behavior: Related to Emotional and Behavioral Problems at age Seven. Paper to be

presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development,

Montreal, Canada.

Heaton, C.C., Saunders, R.C., Jacobvitz, D.B., & Hazen, N. (2011, April). The Relation of

Maternal Empathy and Hands-on Training in Positive Guidance to Changes in Toddlers'

Social Competence Paper to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research

in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.

Umemura, T., Jacobvitz, D.B., Bichteler, A., Messina, S., & Hazen, N. (2011, April). Toddlers'

Preferences for Mothers Versus Fathers During Triadic Interactions: Links with Toddlers'

Emotions and Attachment History. Paper to be presented at the biennial meeting of the

Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.

Umemura, T., Jacobvitz, D. B., Bichteler, A., Beverung, L. M., & Hazen, N. (2011, March).

Effect of fathers' involvement in particular caregiving tasks on toddlers' interactions with their

father: An attachment framework. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for

Research in Child Development, Montreal.

Heaton, C., Saunders, R., Burton, R., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (2010, April). Changes in

mothers’ permissiveness and depression and predictors of toddlers’ early social competence

with peers. . Presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Human

Development, San Antonio, TX.

Frankel, L., Hazen, N., Boyd-Soisson, E., & Jacobvitz, D. (2010, April). Mothers’ and fathers’

differential use of emotional socialization to boys and girls: Related to behavioral/emotional

problems at age seven. Presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in

Human Development, San Antonio, TX.

Frankel, L., Hazen, N., Jacobvitz, D. B., Roetzel, A. C., & Boyd-Soisson, E. F. (2009 April).

Mothers' and fathers' attachment relationships and emotional socialization as predictors of

toddlers' emotional expressivity. Presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for

Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Higgins, K. N., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. B. (2009 April). The impacts of different parenting

style dyads on toddler compliance and defiance. Presented at the biennial meeting of the

Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Higgins, K.N., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D.B. (2009, April). Determining the Impact of Infant-Father

Attachment and Paternal Limit-Setting on Toddler Compliance and Defiance. Paper presented at

the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Jacobvitz, D. (2009, April). Commentary on the Case of Little Ellie, Annual meeting of the American

Psychological Association, Division 39. San Antonio, TX.

Jacobvitz, D., Zaccagnino, M., Mock, L., & Hazen, N. (2009, April). Intergenerational Transmission of

Attachment Disorganization: The Role of Anomalous Maternal Behavior. Paper presented at the

biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Mock, L.N., Jacobvitz, D.B., Saunders, R.C., & Boyd-Soisson, E. (2009, April). Attachment and emotional

communication in the marriage assessed prenatally: Effects on caregiving with two-year olds.

Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development,

Denver, CO.

Umemura, T., Messina, S., Jacobvitz, D.B., & Hazen, N. (2009, April). The Effects of a Toddlers'

Attachment History With Their Mother and Father on Their' Triadic Interactions. Effects on

caregiving with two-year olds. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research

in Child Development, Denver, CO.

Burton, R., Saunder, R., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (2008, April). The impact of hands-on parenting

education program on mother's use of discipline with their children. Poster to be presented at the

biennial meeting of the Society for Human Development, Little Rock, AR.

Hazen, N., Jacobvitz, D. B., Allen, S. D., Higgins, K. N., & Jin, M. K. (2007 March). Pathways from

disorganized attachment to later social-emotional problems: The role of gender and parent-child

interactions. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child

Development, Boston, MA.

Boyd-Soisson, E. F., Hazen, N. McFarland, L. D., & Jacobvitz. D. B. (2007 March). A longitudinal study

of emotional sensitivity in the family. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for

Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Roetzel, A. C., Jacobvitz, D. B., Higgins, K. N., Saunders, R. C., Hazen, N. (2007 March). Links among

prenatal marital qualities, mother-toddler interactions in dyadic and triadic contexts, and child

anxiety and aggression. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in

Child Development, Boston, MA.

Saunders, R. C., Jacobvitz, D. B., Zaccagnino, M., Roetzel, A.C., & Hazen, N. (2007 March). The role of

alternative support figures in adult earned-security. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the

Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N., Loch, L., & Saunders, R. (2006, March). Boundary Disturbances in Marriage:

Links with Triadic Family Interactions. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for

Research on Adolescence. San Francisco, CA.

Saunders, R, Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N., & Zaccagnino, M. (2006, April). Origins and correlates of earned

attachment security in adulthood. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for

Research on Human Development. Dallas, TX.

Higgins, K., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2006 April). Perceptions of self, parents, and peers in children

with symptoms of ADHD and conduct disorder. Paper presented at the Society for Research in

Human Development, Fort Worth, TX.

Jin, M, Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, (2006, April). A Cross-Cultural Study of Infant Attachment Patterns in

Korea and the U.S. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Human

Development. Dallas, TX.

Cook, R., Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N., & Jin, M. (2005, March). Earned-Secure Attachment Status in

Adulthood: Associations with Marital Quality, Infant Attachment Status, and Therapy. Paper

presented at the bienniel meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GE.

Jin, M., Jacobvitz, D., Cook, R., & Hazen, N. (2005, March). Infant Attachment Processes in Korea and

the U.S. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child

Development, Atlanta, GE.

Boyd, E., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2004). Parents’ Socialization of Children’s Emotions: The Role of

Adult Attachment. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Counsel on Family Relations.

Cook, R., Sullivan, K., Jacobvitz, D. (2004, April). Origins of Earned-Secured Attachment Status in

Adulthood. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Human

Development, Park City, UT.

Jin, M.K., Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, H. (2004, April). Marital quality and parenting: The role of infant

temperament, maternal depression, and maternal personality. Paper to be presented at the Society

for Research in Human Development, Park City, UH.

Sullivan, K., Cook, R., Jacobvitz, D. (2004, April). Observations of Early Triadic Family Interactions

Predict School-aged Children’s Perceptions of Relationships with their Families. Paper presented

at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Human Development, Park City, UH.

Feldman, A., Jacobvitz, D., Boyd-Soisson, E., & Jin, M. (2003, April). The Intergenerational

Transmission of Parent-Child Relationships: Links with Children’s Peer Relationships. Paper

presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.

Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N., Feldman, A, & Steffeck, L. (2003, April). The Intergenerational

Transmission of Parent-Child Alliances. Paper presented in symposia at the biennial meeting of

the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.

Jacobvitz, D. (2003, April). The Adult Attachment Interview: How do adults’ represent their relationships

with their parents during childhood? In Pederson, D., Jacobvitz, D. & Sroufe, J. (Co-Chairs). The

Adult Attachment Interview. Talk delivered at a pre-conference sponsored by the Society for

Research in Development, Tampa, FL.

Boyd-Soisson, E., Hazen, N. & Jacobvitz, D. (2002, March). Parents’ responses to children’s emotions:

The role of adults’ mental representations of attachment. Presented at the biennial meeting of the

Southwest Society for Research in Human Development, Austin, TX.

Curran, M., Feldman, A., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2002, March). Intergenerational transmission of

marital quality based upon adults’ memories of their parents’ marriages. Paper presented at

Southwestern Society for Research in Human Development, Austin, Texas.

Feldman, A., Curran, M., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (2002, March). Relationships between adults’

recollections of their parents’ marital quality and their childhood experiences with their parents.

Paper presented at Southwestern Society for Research in Human Development, Austin, Texas.

Sroufe, L.A., Carlson, E., Levy, A., & Jacobvitz, D. (2001, April). Longitudinal perspectives on normative

developmental processes. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in

Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Jacobvitz, D., Booher, C., & Hazen, N. (2001, February). Communication within the dyad: An

attachment-theoretical perspective. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society of Social and

Personality Psychologists, San Antonio, TX.

Jacobvitz, D., Anders, M., Hazen, N. (2000, April). Antecedents of Disorganized Infant Attachment

Patterns: Maternal Risk Factors, Unresolved Loss/Trauma and Frightening Caregiving. Paper

presented at the biennial meeting of the Southwest Society for Research in Human Development,

Eureka Springs, AR.

McFarland, L., Hazen, N., Boyd, E. & Jacobvitz, D. (2000, April). Relationship between adult attachment

and various aspects of caregiving for mothers and fathers. Paper presented at the biennial meeting

of the Southwest Society for Research in Human Development, Eureka Springs, AR.

Riggs, S. A. & Jacobvitz, D. (1999, August). Adult Attachment: Relation to History of Therapy and

Mental Health. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological

Association, Boston, MA.

Jacobvitz, D., & Riggs, S. (1999, April). Therapy and mental health of mothers: Associations with

unresolved loss or trauma and frightened/frightening caregiving. Paper presented at the biennial

meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM.

Thalhuber, K., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, H. (1999, April). ). Mothers’ past traumatic experiences and their

perceptions of the transition to parenthood. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society

for Research in Child Development. Albuquerque, NM.

Johnson, E., & Jacobvitz, D. (1998, November). Processes underlying mothers' and fathers' decision-

making about daycare. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the National Conference on

Family Relations. Milwaukee, WI.

Riggs, S., & Jacobvitz, D. (1998, November). Who are “U”? History of therapy and mental health in

“Unresolved” adults. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Texas Psychological

Association, Houston, TX.

Johnson, E., & Jacobvitz, D. (1998, March). Relations between women’s working models of attachment

and their use of infant day care. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Southwest Society

for Research on Human Development, Galveston, TX.

Riggs, S. A. & Jacobvitz, D. (1998, March). Mental health factors related to the “Unresolved”

classification in the Adult Attachment Interview. Presented at the biennial meeting of the Southwest

Society for Research on Human Development, Galveston, TX.

Thalhuber, K., Jacobvitz, D, & Hazen, N.L. (1998, March). Effects of mothers’ past traumatic

experiences on mother-infant interactions. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the

Southwest Society for Research on Human Development, Galveston, TX.

Jacobvitz, D.B., Hazen, N.L., & Riggs, S.A. (1997, April). Disorganized mental processes in

mothers, frightening/frightened caregiving and disoriented, disorganized behavior in

infancy. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child

Development, Washington, D.C.

Jacobvitz, D., & Brennan, K. (1997, April). Adult Attachment and Personality Predictors of Infant

Attachment. Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D.C.

Jacobvitz, D.B. & Kretchmar, M.D. (1996, August). Breakdown and maintenance of mother-

daughter boundaries. 25th International Conference on Psychology, Montreal, Canada.

Burton, H., Jacobvitz, D.B. Martin-Brace, D., & Hazen, N. (1996, August). Attachment across

generations: The role of maternal expectations of parenthood. Paper presented at the 8th

International Conference on Personal Relationships, Banff, Canada.

Sweeden Yates, L., Hazen, N.L., & Jacobvitz, D.B. (August, 1996). Mothers’ perceptions of

childbirth and the mother-infant relationship: Relations with mothers’ internal working

models of attachment. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Personal

Relationships, Banff, Canada.

Johnson, E., & Jacobvitz, D.B. (1995, November). Work and childcare: Couples’ decision-making

processes over the transition to parenthood. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National

Council on Family Relations, Portland, Oregon.

Burton, H., Jacobvitz, D.B., & Hazen, N. (1995, March). Prenatal caregiving expectations as related to

adult attachment classifications. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for

Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Kretchmar, M., Jacobvitz, D.B. (1995, March). Mother-child observations across three generations:

Attachment, boundary patterns and caregiving. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the

Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Jacobvitz, D., Kretchmar, M.D., & Wright, M. (1994, August). Breakdown and maintenance of mother-

child boundaries across three generations. Paper presented at the meeting of the American

Psychological Association, Los Angeles, California.

Jacobvitz, D., & Burton H. (1994, July). Caregiving relationships in “earned secure” adults. Paper

presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Personal

Relationships, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Jacobvitz, D., Kretchmar, M.D., & Wright, M. (1994, June). The effects of parent-child role-reversal on

subsequent generations. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for Infant

Studies, Paris, France.

Kretchmar, M., & Jacobvitz, D.B. (1994, February). Intergenerational boundary issues and attachment:

A theoretical analysis of the transmission of parenting processes. Paper presented at the

Southwestern Society for Research in Human Development, Austin, Texas.

Jacobvitz, D., Burton, H., & Kretchmar, M. (1993, March). Parental models of attachment: Affect

regulation across marital and parent-child relationships. Paper presented at the biennial meeting

of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans, LA.

Jacobvitz, D., Goldetsky, G., & Hazen, N. (1993, March). Romantic and caregiver relationships in

“earned secure” adults. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in

Child Development, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jacobvitz, D., Kretchmar, M., & Burton, H. (1992, May). Transmission of boundary disturbances across

three generations. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Infant

Studies, Miami, Florida.

Kretchmar, M., & Jacobvitz, D. (1992, March). Parenting: Doing what comes naturally? A study of the

Intergenerational transmission of parenting processes. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of

the Southwestern Society for Research in Human Development, Tempe, Arizona.

Fullinwider, N., Jacobvitz, D, & Goldetsky, G. (1992, March). Links among adolescent reconstructions of

early family relationships and current identity development. Paper presented at the biennial

meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Washington, D.C.

Jacobvitz, D. (1991, October). Parenting across three generations: Antecedents of maternal intrusiveness

and sensitivity. Paper presented at the Conference on Psychoanalysis and Attachment Theory:

Toward an Integration of Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives, Austin, Texas.

Jacobvitz, D. & Holden, G. (1991, April). Intergenerational transmission of parenting: Attachment,

empathy and discipline. Co‑ chair and organizer of symposium at the biennial meeting of the

Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, Washington.

Jacobvitz, D., Fullinwider, N., & Loera, L. (1991, April). Representations of childhood family patterns

and intimacy in romantic relationships. Paper Presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for

Research in Child Development, Seattle, Washington.

Jacobvitz, D., Morgan, E., Morgan, Y., & Kretchmar, M. (1991, April). Parenting across three

generations: The development of maternal empathy. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the

Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, Washington.

Jacobvitz, D., & Fullinwider, N. (1990, July). Young adults' reconstruction of their family networks: links

among Family patterns, self‑ esteem, and depression. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of

the International Conference on Personal Relationships, University of Oxford, Oxford, England.

Jacobvitz, D. (1990, February). Invited Rapporteur for workshop on Childhood and Adolescent Mental

Health. Seventh Robert Lee Sutherland Seminar on Mental Health Research in Texas. Sponsored

by the Hogg Foundation on Mental Health, Austin, Texas.

Jacobvitz, D. (1989, August). Attachment and caregiving: The transmission of parenting across

generations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association,

New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jacobvitz, D. (1989, April). Developmental antecedents of hyperactivity and depression in middle

childhood: A prospective study. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for

Research in Child Development, Kansas City, Kansas.

Jacobvitz, D. (1988, August). Family relationships and behavior problems in school children. Paper

presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

Jacobvitz, D. (1987, April). A prospective study of hyperactivity: Stability and antecedents. Paper

presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore,

Maryland.

Sroufe, L.A., & Jacobvitz, D. (1987, April). Diverging pathways, developmental transformations,

multiple etiologies and the problem of continuity in development. Paper presented at the Society

for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, Maryland.

Jacobvitz, D., & Sroufe, L.A. (1985, April). Antecedents of hyperactivity. Presentation at the biennial

meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Toronto, Canada.

Egeland, B., & Jacobvitz, D. (1984, May). Intergenerational continuity of abuse. Presentation at the

Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, York, Maine.

Invited Seminars & Colloquia in the Community

Jacobvitz, D. (2014, November). Helping Children Cope with Stress. Family Matters, Austin In

Connections.

Jacobvitz, D. (2014, March). Parents’ Influence on Sibling Relationships. Austin Psychoanalytic Society.

Jacobvitz, D. (2012, February). Helping Children Cope with Stress. Family Matters, Austin In Connections.

Jacobvitz, D. & Marriott, S. (2011, February). How to bounce back from tough times” , Family Matters,

Austin In Connections.

Jacobvitz, D. (2001, May). “The place of evaluation research in community projects”. Communities in

Schools. Austin, Texas.

Jacobvitz, D. (2000, March). “Attachment and caregiving across generations. Communities in Schools.

Austin, Texas.

Jacobvitz, D. (1994, November). “How mothers influence their daughter’s parenting styles.” Grandmothers

Delight. Austin,Texas.

Jacobvitz, D. (1994, September). The origins and developmental course of Attention-deficit Hyperactivity

Disorder, Employee Assistance Program., The University of Texas at Austin.

Jacobvitz, D. (1993, October). Young adults reconstructions of early family relationships, family alliances

and self-esteem. Colloquium, Department of Psychology. The University of Texas at Austin.

Jacobvitz, D. (1989, March). Is it a boy or is it a girl? Sex-role socialization in young children. Participant

in workshop on sex-role socialization. Austin Education Service Center.

Jacobvitz, D. (1988, January). Drug treatment of hyperactive children. Austin Association of Children and

Adults with Learning Disabilities, Austin, Texas.

Jacobvitz, D. (1988, February). The role of the parent‑ child relationship in fostering social and emotional

growth in preschoolers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Austin Association for the

Education of Young Children, Austin, Texas.

Jacobvitz, D. (1985, September). "The development of Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity. Paper

presented to the Kiel Clinic, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Teaching:

Undergraduate Infant and Toddler Development

Child Development

Infant Development and Attachment Relationships,

Family Relationships

Theories of Child and Family Development

Graduate: Attachment Across the Life Cycle

Attention & Behavior Problems in Children

Intergenerational Parenting

Family Interaction and Development

Social and Personality Development

Teaching in the 21st Century

Doctoral Dissertation Advisor:

Elizabeth Leigh Morgan. Maternal Sensitivity with 6-Month-Old Infants: Relationship to Memories of

Childhood Experiences and Current Belief System. Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Texas

at Austin, 1991.

William Edwards. Predicting Adult Attachment Classification from Conceptual Level of Representation.

Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 1992.

Nell Fullinwider Bush. Links Among Older Adolescent Reconstructions of Early Family Relationships and

Current Identity Status. Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993.

Molly Dorrow Kretchmar. Mother-Child Observations Across Three Generations: Attachment, Boundary

Patterns, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Caregiving. Doctoral Dissertation, The

University of Texas at Austin, 1995.

Lloyd Berg. Quality of Adult Attachment and Differential Self-Esteem Dimensions in Expectant Mothers.

Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995.

Holly Ann Burton. Pregnant Mothers’ Models of Attachment and their Expectations of Becoming Parents.

Doctoral Dissertation. The University of Texas at Austin, 1995.

Yvonne Ann Morgan. An Investigation of Adult Attachment and Intergenerational Support. Doctoral

Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997

Elizabeth Johnson. Work and childcare: Couples’ decision- making processes over the transition to

parenthood. Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000.

Maria Cristina Gonzalez. Communication Within the Marital Dyad: An Attachment-Theoretical

Perspective. Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000.

Shelley Ann Riggs. Adult Discourse and Internal Working Models of Attachment: Relation to History of

Therapy. Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000.

A. Janay Boswell Shafer. Toward an Integration of Beck's Cognitive Theory and Bowlby's Attachment

Theory: Self-Scheme and Adult Attachment Classification in Relation to Depressive Symptoms.

Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000.

Kimberly Thalhuber Leon. Predicting Family Rituals: Examining the Contributions of Parents’ Attachment

Representations and Marital Communication. Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Texas at

Austin, 2001.

Elizabeth Kaufman. The Intergenerational Transmission of Anxiety: A Prospective Study. Doctoral

Dissertation. The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2003.

Sarah Hinshaw-Fusilier. Identifying Early Risk Factors Associated with Attachment Disorganization in

Infancy. Doctoral Dissertation. The University of Texas at Austin, May 2004.

Mi Kyoung Jin. A cross-cultural study of infant attachment patterns in Korea and the U.S.: Associations

with infant temperament and maternal personality. Doctoral Dissertation. The University of Texas

at Austin, May 2005.

Jenny Trapani. The Differential Influence of Multiple Reporters on the Relationship Between Attachment in

Infancy and Internalizing Behaviors in Middle Childhood.

Doctoral Dissertation. The University of Texas at Austin, August 2005.

Lisa Loch Leit.. How Conversational Narcissism in Marriage Predicts Partner Mental Health and Marital

Quality During the Transition to Parenthood. Doctoral Dissertation. The University of Texas at

Austin, December, 2007.

Amy Roetzel. Associations between marital quality and child aggression seven years later: The role of

maternal insensitivity and child negativity during the toddler years. Doctoral Dissertation. The

University of Texas at Austin, December 2008

Rachel Saunders, Stability and change in parenting attitudes and behaviors regarding discipline: The

effectiveness of a hands-on training program in positive guidance Doctoral Dissertation. The

University of Texas at Austin, May 2009.

Lauren Beverung, Conditions Leading to Unresolved Attachment Status for Loss

and the Role of Complicated Grief. Doctoral Dissertation. The University of Texas at Austin, May

2012

Tomotaka Umemura, Hours of Nonmaternal Care and Infants’ Proximity-Seeking Behavior in the

Strange Situation. Doctoral Dissertation. The University of Texas at Austin, December 2012.

Rosalinda Burton, Pursuing a Child: An Interactive Qualitative Analysis of the Infertility Treatment

Experience. Doctoral Dissertation. The University of Texas at Austin, August 2015.

Serena Messina. Not just about food: An Attachment Perspective on Feeding. Doctoral Dissertation. The

University of Texas at Austin, June 2015.

Reisz, Samantha. Adults’ Attachment Security over the Transition to Parenthood: Associations with

Caregiving. Doctoral Dissertation. The University of Texas at Austin, December 2016.

Masters Thesis Advisor:

Molly Dorrow Kretchmar. Parenting: Doing What Comes Naturally? A Study of the Intergenerational

Transmission of Parenting Processes. Master’s Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 1992.

Erin Gordon. Unresolved Loss, Maternal Depression and Frightening Caregiving Behaviors. Master’s

Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995.

Pamela Holland. The Effects of Father Involvement on the Mother-Child Attachment Relationship. Master’s

Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997.

Kimberly Thalhuber Leon. Mothers’ Past Traumatic Experiences and Caregiving Behaviors with their

Infants. Master’s Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999.

Rachel Saunders. Origins and Correlates of Earned-Secured Attachment Status in Adulthood.Master’s

Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005.

Lisa Loch Leit. Boundary disturbances in marriage: Links with triadic family interactions. Master’s Thesis.

The University of Texas at Austin, 2006.

Tomotaka Umemura, The effect of infants’ separation experiences from their mothers on their behavior in

the Strange Situation. Master’s Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, December, 2009

Rosalinda Burton, Adult attachment security and effective parenting strategies: The impact of an interactive

parent training program. Master’s Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, May, 2010.

Bichteler, Anne. Toward a Developmental Origin of Perceived Control: How Representations of

Childhood Are Associated with Health in Adulthood. Master’s Thesis, The University of Texas at

Austin, December, 2012.

Reisz, Samantha, Birth and Motherhood: Childbirth Experience and Mothers’ Perceptions of Themselves

and Their Babies. Master’s Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, June, 2014.

Poulsen, Helen,. Master’s Thesis, Parent’s Joint Attachment Representations: The Moderating Role of Marital Quality. Master’s Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, May, 2017.

Media Appearances and Interviews:

Documentary Appearance: “Anna Freud Under Analysis”, October, 2002

Public Radio Broadcast Interviews:

“Drug Treatment of Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder", October 1994

"Ritalin Treatment of Hyperactive Children", February, 1989

"Breaking the Cycle of Abuse", November 1984