Publications

Selected publications from the CVs of Howard Steele & Miriam Steele

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2021

Forslund, T., Granqvist, P., van IJzendoorn, M. H., Sagi-Schwartz, A., Glaser, D., Steele, M., … Duschinsky, R. (2021). Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues. Attachment & Human Development, 1–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2020.1840762.

2020

Halfon, S., Coşkun, A., Bekar, Ö., & Steele, H. (2020). Imbalances and Impairments in Mental State Talk of Children with Internalizing and Externalizing Problems. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/15289168.2020.1771531

Psouni, E., Breinholst, S., Hoff Esbjørn, B., & Steele, H. (2020). Factor structure of the Friends and Family interview. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 61(3), 460–469. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12604

Steele, H. (2020). COVID-19, fear and the future: An attachment perspective. Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 17(2), 97-99.

Steele, H. (2020). Rupture and Repair: A View from New York City In Honor of Jeremy Safran. The New School Psychology Bulletin, 17(1), 1–2.

2019

Steele, H., Murphy, A., Bonuck, K., Meissner, P., & Steele, M. (2019). Randomized control trial report on the effectiveness of Group Attachment-Based Intervention (GABI©): Improvements in the parent-child relationship not seen in the control group. Development and Psychopathology, 31(1), 203–217. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579418001621

2018

Bekar, O., Steele, M., Shahmoon-Shanok, R., & Steele, H. (2018). Mothers’ Mental State Talk and Preschool Children’s Social-Behavioral Functioning: A Multidimensional Account. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 17(2), 119–133. https://doi.org/10.1080/15289168.2018.1456890

Knafo, H., Murphy, A., Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2018). Treating disorganized attachment in the Group Attachment-Based Intervention (GABI©): A case study. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 74(8), 1370–1382. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22647

2017

Bekar, Z., Shahmoon-Shanok, R., Steele, M., Levy, J., deFressine, L., Giuseppone, K., & Steele, H. (2017). Effectiveness of school-based mental health playgroups for diagnosable and at-risk preschool children. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 87(3), 304–316. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000173

Cordes, K., Smith-Nielsen, J., Tharner, A., Katznelson, H., Steele, H., & Væver, M. (2017). Reflective functioning in postpartum depressed women with and without comorbid personality disorder. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 34(4), 414–421. https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000135

Dagan, O., Asok, A., Steele, H., Steele, M., & Bernard, K. (2017). Attachment security moderates the link between adverse childhood experiences and cellular aging. Development and Psychopathology, 30(4), 1222–1223. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579417001705

Granqvist, P., Sroufe, L. A., Dozier, M., Hesse, E., Steele, M., van Ijzendoorn, M., … Spangler, G. (2017). Disorganized attachment in infancy: a review of the phenomenon and its implications for clinicians and policy-makers. Attachment & Human Development, 19(6), 534–558. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2017.1354040

Persaud, S., Freeman, T., Jadva, V., Slutsky, J., Kramer, W., Steele, M., … 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(1), 13–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12158

Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2017). On conflict in attachment theory and research. In C. Christian, M. N. Eagle, & D. L. Wolitzky (Eds.), Psychological issues book series. Psychoanalytic perspectives on conflict (p. 210–222). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315758589-13

2016

Bekar, Ö., Shahmoon-Shanok, R., Steele, M., Levy, J., deFressine, L., Giuseppone, K., & Steele, H. (2016). Effectiveness of School-Based Mental Health Playgroups for Diagnosable and At-Risk Preschool Children. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ort0000173

Slutsky, J., Jadva, V., Freeman, T., Persaud, S., Steele, M., Steele, H., … Golombok, S. (2016). Integrating donor conception into identity development: adolescents in fatherless families. Fertility and Sterility, 106(1), 202–208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.02.033

Steele, H., Perez, A., Segal, F., & Steele, M. (2016). Maternal Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) collected during pregnancy predicts reflective functioning in AAIs from their first-born children 17 years later. International Journal of Developmental Science, 10(3-4), 113–120. https://doi.org/10.3233/DEV-16201

2015

Esbjørn, Barbara Hoff, Breinholst, S., Kriss, A., Hald, H. H., & Steele, H. (2015). Can attachment and peer relation constructs predict anxiety in ethnic minority youths? A longitudinal exploratory study. Attachment & Human Development, 17(6), 599–614. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2015.1093699

Murphy, A., Steele, H., Bate, J., Nikitiades, A., Allman, B., Bonuck, K., … Steele, M. (2015). Group attachment-based intervention: trauma-informed care for families with adverse childhood experiences. Family & Community Health, 38(3), 268–279. https://doi.org/10.1097/FCH.0000000000000074

Smith-Nielsen, J., Steele, H., Mehlhase, H., Cordes, K., Steele, M., Harder, S., & Væver, M. (2015). Links Among High EPDS Scores, State of Mind Regarding Attachment, and Symptoms of Personality Disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 29(6), 771–793. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2014_28_173

Steele, M., Murphy, A., & Steele, H. (2015). The Art and Science of Observation: Reflective Functioning and Therapeutic Action. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 14(3), 216–231. https://doi.org/10.1080/15289168.2015.1070558

Steele, H. (2015). Commentary—Attachment in middle childhood: Looking back, forward, and within. New directions for child and adolescent development, 2015(148), 99-104.

2014

Murphy, A., Steele, M., Dube, S. R., Bate, J., Bonuck, K., Meissner, P., … Steele, H. (2014). Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) questionnaire and Adult Attachment Interview (AAI): implications for parent child relationships. Child Abuse & Neglect, 38(2), 224–233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2013.09.004

Juffer, F., & Steele, M. (2014). What words cannot say: the telling story of video in attachment-based interventions. Attachment & Human Development, 16(4), 307–314. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2014.912484

Steele, M., Steele, H., Bate, J., Knafo, H., Kinsey, M., Bonuck, K., … Murphy, A. (2014). Looking from the outside in: the use of video in attachment-based interventions. Attachment & Human Development, 16(4), 402–415. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2014.912491

2013

Beebe, B., & Steele, M. (2013). How does microanalysis of mother-infant communication inform maternal sensitivity and infant attachment? Attachment & Human Development, 15(5–6), 583–602. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2013.841050

Esbjørn, Barbara H., Pedersen, S. H., Daniel, S. I. F., Hald, H. H., Holm, J. M., & Steele, H. (2013). Anxiety levels in clinically referred children and their parents: Examining the unique influence of self-reported attachment styles and interview-based reflective functioning in mothers and fathers. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 52(4), 394–407. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12024

Murphy, A.P., 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.

Reiner, I. C., Fremmer-Bombik, E., Beutel, M. E., Steele, M., & Steele, H. (2013). [The Adult Attachment Interview - Fundamentals, Use, and Applications in Clinical Work]. Zeitschrift FüR Psychosomatische Medizin Und Psychotherapie, 59(3), 231–246.

Steele, M., Steele, H., & Murphy, A. (2010). The Adult Attachment Interview and Relational Trauma: Implications for parent-infant psychotherapy. In Baradon, T (Ed.), Relational Trauma in Infancy: Psychoanalytic, Attachment and Neuropsychological Contributions to Parent-Infant Psychotherapy (pp 180-194). London: Routledge.

2012

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(2), 87-95. doi: 10.7411/RP.2012.009

2011

Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Steele, H., Zeanah, C. H., Muhamedrahimov, R. J., Vorria, P., Dobrova-Krol, N. A., … Gunnar, M. R. (2011). Attachment and Emotional Development in Institutional Care: Characteristics and Catch-Up. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 76(4), 62–91. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5834.2011.00628.x

Beebe, B., Steele, M., Jaffe, J., Buck, K. A., Chen, H., Cohen, P., … Feldstein, S. (2011). MATERNAL ANXIETY SYMPTOMS AND MOTHER–INFANT SELF- AND INTERACTIVE CONTINGENCY. Infant Mental Health Journal, 32(2), 174–206. https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.20274

Hill, J., Stepp, S., Wan, M., Hope, H., Morse, J., Steele, M., … Pilkonis, P. (2011). Attachment, borderline personality, and romantic relationship dysfunction. Journal of Personality Disorders, 25(6), 789–805. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2011.25.6.789

Knafo, H., Murphy, A., Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2018). Treating disorganized attachment in the Group Attachment-Based Intervention (GABI©): A case study. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 74(8), 1370–1382. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22647

Steele, H. (2011). Early social and emotional experience matters: The first year of life. Child psychology and psychiatry: Frameworks for practice, 41-44.

2010

Splaun, A., Reiner, I., Steele, M., Steele, H., & Murphy, A. (2010). The congruence of parents' and their children's representations of their relationship. The New School Psychology Bulletin, 7, 51-60.

Steele, M., Murphy, A., & Steele, H. (2010). Identifying therapeutic action in an attachment-based intervention with high-risk families. Clinical Social Work Journal, 38, 61-72.

Steele H. (2010). On re-reading ‘Psychoanalysis and child care’, John Bowlby’s lecture delivered in 1956 on the centenary of Sigmund Freud’s birth. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 15, 453-458.

Steele, H., & Siever, L. (2010). An attachment perspective on Borderline Personality Disorder: Advances in gene-environment considerations. Current Psychiatry Reports, 12, 61-67.

2009

Nedelisky, A., & Steele, M. (2009). Attachment to people and to objects in obsessive-compulsive disorder: an exploratory comparison of hoarders and non-hoarders. Attachment & Human Development, 11(4), 365–383. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616730903016987

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 (pp 193-216). New York: Wiley.

Steele, H., Steele, M., & Murphy, A. (2009). The Adult Attachment Interview: A clinical tool for facilitating and measuring process and change in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 19, 1468-4381.

Steele, H., Steele, M., & Murphy, A. (2009). Use of the Adult Attachment Interview to measure process and change in psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 19(6), 633–643. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503300802609698

2008

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 (E.L. Jurist, A. Slade & S. Bergner, Eds.) Mind to mind: Infant research, neuroscience, and psychoanalysis (pp 115-138). New York: Other Press.

Steele, M., Hodges, J., Kaniuk, J., Steele, H., Hillman, S., Asquith, K. (2008). Forecasting outcomes in previously maltreated children: The use of the AAI in a longitudinal attachment study. In H. Steele & M. Steele (Eds.). Clinical applications of the Adult Attachment Interview (pp 427-451). NY: Guilford Press.

Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2008). Ten Clinical Uses of the Adult Attachment Interview. In H. Steele & M. Steele (Eds.), Clinical applications of the adult attachment interview (pp. 3–30). The Guilford Press.

Steele, H. & Steele, M. (2008). Early attachment predicts emotion recognition at 6 and 11 years. Attachment and Human Development, 10, 379-393.

Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2008). On the origins of reflective functioning. In F. Busch (Ed). Mentalization: Theoretical considerations, research findings, and clinical implications. Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series, 29, pp 133-158. NY: Analytic Books.

Steele, H., Steele, M., & Croft, C. (2008). Early attachment predicts emotion recognition at 6 and 11 years old. Attachment & Human Development, 10(4), 379–393. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616730802461409

Steele, H. (2008). Attachment and day care revisited. Attachment & Human Development, 10, 223-223.

2005

Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2005). The construct of coherence as an indicator of attachment security in middle childhood: The Friends and Family Interview. In K. Kerns & R. Richardson (Eds.), Attachment in middle childhood (pp. 137–160). Guilford Press.

Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2005). Understanding and Resolving Emotional Conflict: Findings from the London Parent-Child Project. In K. E. Grossmann, K. Grossmann, & E. Waters (Eds.), Attachment from infancy to adulthood: The major longitudinal studies (pp. 137–164). Guilford Press.

2004

Perry, B., Burston, A., Stevens, M., Steele, H., Golding, J., & Golombok, S. (2004). Children’s play narratives: What they tell us about lesbian-mother families. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 74(4), 467–479. https://doi.org/10.1037/0002-9432.74.4.467

Steele, M. (2004). Fitting the puzzle pieces together: The complexities of infant–mother interaction and disorganised attachment patterns. Social Development, 13(3), 479–488. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9507.2004.00278.x

Steele, H., Phibbs, E., & Woods, R. (2004). Coherence of mind in daughter caregivers of mothers with dementia: Links with their mothers’ joy and relatedness on reunion in a strange situation. Attachment & Human Development, 6(4), 439–450. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616730412331323415

2003

Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2003). PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF THE ADULT ATTACHMENT INTERVIEW. In M. Marrone & M. Cortina (Eds.), Attachment Theory and the Psychoanalytic Process(pp. 107–126). Whurr Publishers.

2002

Steele, M. (2002). Tavistock Clinic and Anna Freud Centre unite. Psychologist, 15(6), 280.

Steele, M., Steele, H., & Johansson, M. (2002). Maternal predictors of children's social cognition: An attachment perspective. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43(7), 861-872.

1999

Steele, H., & Steele, M. (1999). Psychoanalytic views about development. In D. Messer & S. Millar (Eds.), Exploring Developmental Psychology (pp. 263–283). Francis Arnold.

1997

Fonagy, P., Steele, H., Steele, M., & Holder, J. (1997). Attachment and Theory of Mind: Overlapping Constructs? Bonding and Attachment: Current Issues in Research and Practice, Occasional Papers, 14, 31–40.

1996

Steele, H., Steele, M., & Fonagy, P. (1996). Associations among Attachment Classifications of Mothers, Fathers, and Their Infants. Child Development, 67(2), 541-555. doi:10.2307/1131831

1993

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 Their Infants’ Security of Attachment. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 41(4), 957–989. https://doi.org/10.1177/000306519304100403