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  1. Assessing affective touch in early caregiving: Development and validation of the Caregiver-Child Affective Touch Assessment (CCATA)

    Article • Análise Psicológica, March 2026, ISPA - Instituto Universitario

    Professor Isabel Soares

  2. Development and validation of a new scale to assess motivations for fostering

    Article • Journal of Public Child Welfare, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Soares

  3. Changes to women’s childbirth plans during the COVID-19 pandemic and posttraumatic stress symptoms: a cross-national study

    Article • Archives of Women s Mental Health, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Isabel Soares

  4. Configurations of mother–child and father–child attachment relationships as predictors of child language competence: An individual participant data meta‐analysis

    Article • Child Development, August 2023, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  5. Cortisol reactivity and negative affect among preterm infants at 12 months during a mother-infant interaction task

    Article • Infant Behavior and Development, February 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Isabel Soares

  6. Perceção do Impacto do Teletrabalho na Carreira: Validação da Escala do Impacto do Teletrabalho na Carreira para a População Portuguesa

    Article • Revista Iberoamericana de Diagnóstico y Evaluación - e Avaliação Psicológica, January 2023, Associacao Iberoamericana de Diagnostico e Avaliacao Psicologica

    Professor Isabel Soares

  7. Controlling parenting and executive functioning in children born preterm

    Article • Psicologia, December 2022, Associacao Portuguesa de Psicologia

    Professor Isabel Soares

  8. Neural correlates of face familiarity in institutionalised children and links to attachment disordered behaviour

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, December 2022, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  9. Non-invasive diagnosis and monitoring tool of children’s mental health: A point-of-care immunosensor for IL-6 quantification in saliva samples

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, September 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Isabel Soares

  10. Maternal and paternal overprotection of children born preterm: Relations to child and parental factors.

    Article • Journal of Family Psychology, March 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Carolina Toscano, Professor Isabel Soares

  11. Neurobiological Correlates of Fatherhood During the Postpartum Period: A Scoping Review

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Isabel Soares

  12. The Quality of Interactive Behaviors in the Context of Prematurity: Fathers, Mothers, Daughters, and Sons

    Article • Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, October 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Isabel Soares

  13. When birth is not as expected: a systematic review of the impact of a mismatch between expectations and experiences

    Article • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Isabel Soares

  14. Meta-Analysis on Parent–Teacher Agreement on Preschoolers’ Emotional and Behavioural Problems

    Article • Child Psychiatry & Human Development, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Pedro Dias, Professor Isabel Soares

  15. Dataset on maternal attitudes about child maltreatment in nine countries using a Q-sort methodology

    Article • Data in Brief, June 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Isabel Soares

  16. Links Between Reactive Attachment Disorder, Caregiving and Temperament: A Differential Susceptibility Perspective

    Article • The Journal of Genetic Psychology, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Soares

  17. Controlling Parenting Behaviors in Parents of Children Born Preterm: A Meta-Analysis

    Article • Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, April 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Isabel Soares

  18. Mothers' distress exposure and children's withdrawn behavior – A moderating role for the Interferon Gamma gene (IFNG)

    Article • Developmental Psychobiology, February 2020, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  19. Crossing boundaries: A pilot study of maternal attitudes about child maltreatment in nine countries

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, January 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Isabel Soares

  20. Does 5-HTTLPR moderate the effect of the quality of environmental context on maternal sensitivity? Testing the differential susceptibility hypothesis

    Article • Psychiatric Genetics, December 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Pedro M Teixeira, Professor Isabel Soares

  21. Early family adversity, stability and consistency of institutional care and infant cognitive, language and motor development across the first six months of institutionalization

    Article • Infant Behavior and Development, November 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Isabel Soares

  22. Child’s oxytocin response to mother-child interaction: The contribution of child genetics and maternal behavior

    Article • Psychoneuroendocrinology, April 2019, Elsevier

    César Oliveira, Professor Isabel Soares

  23. Caregiving Helplessness Questionnaire (CHQ) applied to Portuguese mothers of preschool-aged children: A psychometric study

    Article • Análise Psicológica, November 2018, ISPA - Instituto Universitario

    Professor Isabel Soares

  24. EARLY MALTREATMENT AND CURRENT QUALITY OF RELATIONAL CARE PREDICT SOCIOEMOTIONAL PROBLEMS AMONG INSTITUTIONALIZED INFANTS AND TODDLERS

    Article • Infant Mental Health Journal Infancy and Early Childhood, October 2018, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  25. Being a mother of preterm multiples in the context of socioeconomic disadvantage: perceived stress and psychological symptoms

    Article • Jornal de Pediatria, September 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Isabel Soares

  26. Maternal Interactive Behaviours in Parenting Children with Williams Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Relations with Emotional/Behavioural Problems

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Isabel Soares

  27. Recent contributions for understanding inhibited reactive attachment disorder

    Article • Attachment & Human Development, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Soares

  28. Development and validation of an observational measure of symptoms of Reactive Attachment Disorder

    Article • Attachment & Human Development, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Soares

  29. Assessing preschoolers interactive behaviour: A validation study of the “Coding System for Mother-Child Interaction”

    Article • Child Care Health and Development, May 2018, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  30. Fathers’ sensitive guidance moderates the association between coparenting and behavioral regulation in preschoolers

    Article • International Journal of Behavioral Development, March 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Isabel Soares

  31. Child’s oxytocin response to mother-child interaction: the contribution of child genetics and maternal behaviour

    Article • European Neuropsychopharmacology, March 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Isabel Soares

  32. Prematuridade, Funções Executivas e Qualidade dos Cuidados Parentais: Revisão Sistemática de Literatura

    Article • Psicologia Teoria e Pesquisa, November 2017, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Isabel Soares

  33. Agreement and Disagreement on Emotional and Behavioral Problems in a Sample of Preschool-Age Children

    Article • Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, October 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Pedro Dias, Dr. Pedro Dias, Professor Isabel Soares

  34. Insights on Social Behavior From Studying Williams Syndrome

    Article • Child Development Perspectives, October 2017, Wiley

    Óscar Gonçalves, Professor Isabel Soares

  35. Inhibited attachment disordered behavior in institutionalized preschool children: links with early and current relational experiences

    Article • Attachment & Human Development, August 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Soares

  36. Psychometric properties of the schedule of growing skills II: Portuguese version

    Article • Psychologica, July 2017, Coimbra University Press

    Professor Isabel Soares

  37. Ein bindungsbasierter Ansatz zum Verständnis der Entwicklung von jungen Heimkindern ohne elterngleiche Fürsorge

    Article • January 2017, Psychosozial Verlag

    Professor Isabel Soares

  38. Maternal Narratives Contribute to Foundations of the Child’s Inner World

    Article • International Journal of Developmental Science, December 2016, IOS Press

    Professor Isabel Soares

  39. Serotonin transporter polymorphism moderates the effects of caregiver intrusiveness on ADHD symptoms among institutionalized preschoolers

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Isabel Soares

  40. Is the ideal mother a sensitive mother? Beliefs about early childhood parenting in mothers across the globe

    Article • International Journal of Behavioral Development, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Isabel Soares

  41. Risk Factors for Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in the Preschool Years: Systematic Literature Review Based on the Child Behavior Checklist 1½–5

    Article • Journal of Child and Family Studies, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Isabel Soares, Dr. Pedro Dias

  42. Maternal and Paternal Mental-state Talk and Executive Function in Preschool Children

    Article • Social Development, February 2016, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  43. Gene–environment interactions in psychopathology throughout early childhood

    Article • Psychiatric Genetics, December 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Isabel Soares

  44. Institutionalization and indiscriminate social behavior: Differential-susceptibility versus diathesis-stress models for the 5-HTTLPR and BDNF genotypes

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, December 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Isabel Soares

  45. Infants’ Style of Emotion Regulation with Their Mothers and Fathers: Concordance between Parents and the Contribution of Father-Infant Interaction Quality

    Article • Social Development, November 2015, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  46. Does infertility history affect the emotional adjustment of couples undergoing assisted reproduction? the mediating role of the importance of parenthood

    Article • British Journal of Health Psychology, November 2015, Wiley

    Mrs Mariana Moura-Ramos, Professor Isabel Soares

  47. Emotions Under the Skin

    Article • Journal of Psychophysiology, November 2015, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Isabel Soares

  48. Epistemological Development and Attachment in European College Students

    Article • Journal of College Student Development, November 2015, Project Muse

    Professor Isabel Soares

  49. Maternal attachment representations in relation to emotional availability and discipline behaviour

    Article • European Journal of Developmental Psychology, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Soares

  50. Neural Correlates of Face Familiarity in Institutionally Reared Children With Distinctive, Atypical Social Behavior

    Article • Child Development, April 2015, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  51. Attachment style impacts behavior and early oculomotor response to positive, but not negative, pictures

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, February 2015, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  52. The interactive effect of maltreatment in the family and unstable institutional caregiving in predicting behavior problems in toddlers

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, December 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Isabel Soares

  53. Quality of institutional care and early childhood development

    Article • International Journal of Behavioral Development, October 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Isabel Soares

  54. DECREASING HARSH DISCIPLINE IN MOTHERS AT RISK FOR MALTREATMENT: A RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL

    Article • Infant Mental Health Journal Infancy and Early Childhood, August 2014, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  55. Enhancing positive parent–child interactions and family functioning in a poverty sample: a randomized control trial

    Article • Attachment & Human Development, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Soares

  56. O impacto da adoção no desenvolvimento da criança

    Article • Psicologia, February 2014, Associacao Portuguesa de Psicologia

    Professor Isabel Soares

  57. Does early family risk and current quality of care predict indiscriminate social behavior in institutionalized Portuguese children?

    Article • Attachment & Human Development, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Soares

  58. Contributos da investigação sobre a vinculação em Portugal

    Article • Psicologia, January 2014, Associacao Portuguesa de Psicologia

    Professor Isabel Soares

  59. Vinculação em mães adolescentes e seus bebés

    Article • Psicologia, January 2014, Associacao Portuguesa de Psicologia

    Professor Isabel Soares

  60. Estilos de vinculação, orientação para o trabalho e relações profissionais

    Article • Psicologia, January 2014, Associacao Portuguesa de Psicologia

    Professor Isabel Soares

  61. Predicting Harsh Discipline in At-Risk Mothers: The Moderating Effect of Socioeconomic Deprivation Severity

    Article • Journal of Child and Family Studies, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Isabel Soares

  62. Predicting children's attachment behaviors from the interaction between oxytocin and glucocorticoid receptors polymorphisms

    Article • Psychiatry Research, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Isabel Soares

  63. SOCIAL WITHDRAWAL BEHAVIOR IN INSTITUTIONALIZED TODDLERS: INDIVIDUAL, EARLY FAMILY AND INSTITUTIONAL DETERMINANTS

    Article • Infant Mental Health Journal Infancy and Early Childhood, October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  64. Joint attention with the mother and the father at 10 months of age

    Article • European Journal of Developmental Psychology, August 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Soares

  65. Scaffolding Verbal Materno e Coerência Estrutural Narrativa da Criança em Idade Pré-escolar

    Article • Análise Psicológica, July 2013, ISPA - Instituto Universitario

    Professor Isabel Soares

  66. Why Do Only Some Institutionalized Children Become Indiscriminately Friendly? Insights From the Study of Williams Syndrome

    Article • Child Development Perspectives, June 2013, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  67. Scaffolding verbal materno no âmbito de uma tarefa de elicitação narrativa em crianças de idade pré-escolar

    Article • Análise Psicológica, March 2013, ISPA - Instituto Universitario

    Professor Isabel Soares

  68. Joint attention at 10 months of age in infant–mother dyads: Contrasting free toy-play with semi-structured toy-play

    Article • Infant Behavior and Development, February 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Isabel Soares

  69. ASSESSMENT OF TEMPERAMENT AT 13 AND 24 MONTHS USINGMATERNAL REPORT: VALIDATION OF THE PORTUGUESE VERSION OF INFANT CHARACTERISTICS QUESTIONNAIRE

    Article • Journal of Human Growth and Development, January 2013, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências

    Dr. Pedro Dias, Professor Isabel Soares

  70. Vinculação no contexto familiar: relações entre cônjuges, entre pais e filhos adolescentes e entre irmãos

    Article • Psicologia Reflexão e Crítica, January 2013, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Isabel Soares

  71. Predição do apego de crianças em função do estilo educativo materno e do tipo de família

    Article • Psicologia Reflexão e Crítica, January 2013, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Isabel Soares

  72. Recuperação desenvolvimental após a adoção: características da criança e da família adotiva

    Article • Psicologia Reflexão e Crítica, January 2013, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Isabel Soares

  73. Diverse Physical Growth Trajectories in Institutionalized Portuguese Children Below Age 3: Relation to Child, Family, and Institutional Factors

    Article • Journal of Pediatric Psychology, December 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Isabel Soares

  74. Child and mother mental-state talk in shared pretense as predictors of children's social symbolic play abilities at age 3

    Article • Infant Behavior and Development, December 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Isabel Soares

  75. Can We Identify Emotion Over-regulation in Infancy? Associations with Avoidant Attachment, Dyadic Emotional Interaction and Temperament

    Article • Infant and Child Development, June 2012, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  76. The indirect effect of contextual factors on the emotional distress of infertile couples

    Article • Psychology & Health, May 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Soares

  77. Indiscriminate behavior observed in the strange situation among institutionalized toddlers: Relations to caregiver report and to early family risk

    Article • Infant Mental Health Journal Infancy and Early Childhood, March 2012, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  78. Individual and relational contributions to parallel and joint attention in infancy

    Article • Infant Behavior and Development, December 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Isabel Soares

  79. Assessing infertility stress: re-examining the factor structure of the Fertility Problem Inventory

    Article • Human Reproduction, November 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mrs Mariana Moura-Ramos, Professor Isabel Soares

  80. Attachment insecurity and strategies for regulation: When emotion triggers attention

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, October 2011, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  81. Network support and parenting in mothers and fathers who conceived spontaneously or through assisted reproduction

    Article • Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, April 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Mrs Mariana Moura-Ramos, Professor Isabel Soares

  82. Autonomic correlates of attachment insecurity in a sample of women with eating disorders

    Article • Attachment & Human Development, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Soares, Dr. Pedro Dias

  83. Parental investment in couples who conceived spontaneously or with assisted reproductive techniques

    Article • Human Reproduction, February 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Isabel Soares

  84. SELECTED ORAL COMMUNICATION SESSION, SESSION 52: PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELLING, Tuesday 5 July 2011 17:00 - 18:00

    Article • Human Reproduction, January 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Isabel Soares

  85. Psychosocial adjustment during the transition to parenthood of Portuguese couples who conceived spontaneously or through assisted reproductive technologies

    Article • Research in Nursing & Health, May 2010, Wiley

    Mrs Mariana Moura-Ramos, Professor Isabel Soares

  86. Social nesting: Changes in social network and support across the transition to parenthood in couples that conceived spontaneously or through assisted reproductive technologies.

    Article • Journal of Family Psychology, January 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Mrs Mariana Moura-Ramos, Professor Isabel Soares

  87. Desenvolvimento, psicopatologia e apego: estudo exploratório com crianças institucionalizadas e suas cuidadoras

    Article • Psicologia Reflexão e Crítica, January 2010, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Isabel Soares, Dr. Pedro Dias

  88. Lessons learnt from a secondary school Sex Education Program in Portugal

    Article • Sex Education, February 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Soares

  89. La théorie de l'attachement : son importance dans un contexte pédiatrique

    Article • Devenir, January 2007, CAIRN

    Professor Isabel Soares

  90. Attachment styles, memories of parental rearing and therapeutic bond: a study with eating disordered patients, their parents and therapists

    Article • European Eating Disorders Review, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  91. N-Heterocyclic carbenes: Advances in transition metal and organic catalysis

    Article • Annual Reports Section "B" (Organic Chemistry), January 2006, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Isabel Soares

  92. FPI profiles in a European sample of 1068 female patients suffering from anorexia or bulimia nervosa

    Article • European Eating Disorders Review, January 2005, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  93. The Portuguese version of the Eating Disorders Inventory: evaluation of its psychometric properties

    Article • European Eating Disorders Review, January 2001, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Soares

  94. A multimedia system for assessment of attachment organizations and heart rate

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Isabel Soares