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  1. ‘Instruments are good at eliciting information; scores are very dangerous’: The perspectives of clinical professionals regarding neurodevelopmental assessment

    Article • Autism, September 2022, SAGE Publications

    MATT Woolgar

  2. Children in foster care with symptoms of reactive attachment disorder: feasibility randomised controlled trial of a modified video-feedback parenting intervention

    Article • BJPsych Open, July 2022, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    MATT Woolgar

  3. Mental health and behavioural difficulties in adopted children: A systematic review of post-adoption risk and protective factors

    Article • Adoption & Fostering, December 2021, SAGE Publications

    MATT Woolgar

  4. Global Workforce Development in Father Engagement Competencies for Family-Based Interventions Using an Online Training Program: A Mixed-Method Feasibility Study

    Article • Child Psychiatry & Human Development, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    MATT Woolgar

  5. Socioemotional profiles of autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and disinhibited and reactive attachment disorders: a symptom comparison and network approach

    Article • Development and Psychopathology, November 2021, Cambridge University Press

    MATT Woolgar

  6. Informing the personalisation of interventions for parents of children with conduct problems: a qualitative study

    Article • BMC Psychiatry, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    MATT Woolgar

  7. Identifying and managing care for children with autism spectrum disorders in general practice: A systematic review and narrative synthesis

    Article • Health & Social Care in the Community, July 2020, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    MATT Woolgar

  8. The diverse neurobiological processes and legacies of early adversity: implications for practice

    Article • Adoption & Fostering, September 2019, SAGE Publications

    MATT Woolgar

  9. Early caregiving predicts attachment representations in adolescence: findings from two longitudinal studies

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, June 2018, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  10. Secondary trauma and compassion fatigue in foster carers

    Article • Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Beatrice Hannah, MATT Woolgar

  11. Parenting in the community: A service evaluation of a universal, voluntary sector parenting intervention

    Article • Journal of Community Psychology, January 2018, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  12. Do children adopted from British foster care show difficulties in executive functioning and social communication?

    Article • Adoption & Fostering, November 2017, SAGE Publications

    MATT Woolgar

  13. Childhood maltreatment and its link to borderline personality disorder features in children: A systematic review approach

    Article • Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, June 2017, SAGE Publications

    MATT Woolgar

  14. A pilot randomized controlled trial of time-intensive cognitive–behaviour therapy for postpartum obsessive–compulsive disorder: effects on maternal symptoms, mother–infant interactions and attachment

    Article • Psychological Medicine, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Fiona Challacombe, MATT Woolgar

  15. Editorial: Looked-after children - a perspective into a more resilient future

    Article • Child and Adolescent Mental Health, October 2015, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  16. Introduction: Looked-after children

    Article • Child and Adolescent Mental Health, October 2015, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  17. Attempting to prevent postnatal depression by targeting the mother–infant relationship: a randomised controlled trial

    Article • Primary Health Care Research & Development, November 2014, Cambridge University Press

    MATT Woolgar

  18. Defiant Children: A Clinican's Manual for Assessment and Parent Training (3rd edn) Russell A. Barkley New York: Guilford, 2013. pp. 238, £26.99 (pb). ISBN: 978-1-4625-0950-8.

    Article • Child and Adolescent Mental Health, August 2014, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  19. Attachment disorders versus more common problems in looked after and adopted children: comparing community and expert assessments

    Article • Child and Adolescent Mental Health, January 2014, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  20. Callous-unemotional traits in children and mechanisms of impaired eye contact during expressions of love: a treatment target?

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, October 2013, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  21. The practical implications of the emerging findings in the neurobiology of maltreatment for looked after and adopted children: recognising the diversity of outcomes

    Article • Adoption & Fostering, October 2013, SAGE Publications

    MATT Woolgar

  22. Social Learning Theory–Based Parenting Programs to Treat Attachment Difficulties: A Case Study of an Older Child Placed Late for Adoption

    Article • Adoption Quarterly, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    MATT Woolgar

  23. The negative consequences of over-diagnosing attachment disorders in adopted children: The importance of comprehensive formulations

    Article • Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, April 2013, SAGE Publications

    MATT Woolgar

  24. Love, eye contact and the developmental origins of empathy v. psychopathy

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, March 2012, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    MATT Woolgar

  25. Developmental psychology through infancy, childhood, and adolescence

    Article • February 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    MATT Woolgar

  26. Emotion processing in infancy: Specificity in risk for social anxiety and associations with two-year outcomes

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, December 2011, SAGE Publications

    MATT Woolgar

  27. Attachment in adolescence: overlap with parenting and unique prediction of behavioural adjustment

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, August 2011, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  28. Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents

    Article • Child and Adolescent Mental Health, August 2011, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  29. Cognitive vulnerability to depression in young people in secure accommodation: The influence of ethnicity and current suicidal ideation

    Article • Journal of Adolescence, January 2010, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  30. How do suicidal ideation and self-harm contribute to depression in adolescents?

    Article • January 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    MATT Woolgar

  31. The representation of fathers by children of depressed mothers: refining the meaning of parentification in high-risk samples

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, September 2009, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  32. Adoption Conversations: What, When and How to Tell

    Article • Child and Adolescent Mental Health, September 2009, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  33. Overcoming Teenage Low Mood and Depression Nicky Dummett and Chris Williams London: Hodder Arnold, 2008. pp. 347. £19.99 (pb). ISBN: 978-0-340-9465-7.

    Article • Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, December 2008, Cambridge University Press

    MATT Woolgar

  34. Processing of faces and emotional expressions in infants at risk of social phobia

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, April 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Andy Young, MATT Woolgar

  35. Conduct Disorder in Older Children and Young People: Research Messages for Practice Problems

    Article • Child and Adolescent Mental Health, February 2008, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  36. Conversations around homework: Links to parental mental health, family characteristics and child psychological functioning

    Article • British Journal of Developmental Psychology, March 2006, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  37. Evidence-based management of conduct disorders

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychiatry, July 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

    MATT Woolgar

  38. Association between childhood feeding problems and maternal eating disorder: role of the family environment

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, March 2004, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    MATT Woolgar

  39. Self-exclusion from health care in women at high risk for postpartum depression

    Article • Journal of Public Health, June 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    MATT Woolgar

  40. Children’s Social Representations in Dolls’ House Play and Theory of Mind Tasks, and their Relation to Family Adversity and Child Disturbance

    Article • Social Development, December 2001, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  41. Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression in 5-year-old Children of Depressed Mothers

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, October 2001, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  42. Children's play narrative responses to hypothetical dilemmas and their awareness of moral emotions

    Article • British Journal of Developmental Psychology, March 2001, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  43. Projective Doll Play Methodologies for Preschool Children

    Article • Child Psychology and Psychiatry Review, September 1999, Cambridge University Press

    MATT Woolgar

  44. Projective Doll Play Methodologies for Preschool Children

    Article • Child and Adolescent Mental Health, September 1999, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar

  45. Depressed Mothers' Speech to Their Infants and its Relation to Infant Gender and Cognitive Development

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, October 1993, Wiley

    MATT Woolgar