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| 1 | Childhood trauma, the neurobiology of adaptation, and “use-dependent” development of the brain: How “states” become “traits” | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1995 | 903 |
| 2 | Effects of a secure attachment relationship on right brain development, affect regulation, and infant mental health | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2001 | 897 |
| 3 | The capacity for understanding mental states: The reflective self in parent and child and its significance for security of attachment | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1991 | 862 |
| 4 | The effects of early relational trauma on right brain development, affect regulation, and infant mental health | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2001 | 777 |
| 5 | The nurse–family partnership: An evidence-based preventive intervention | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2006 | 586 |
| 6 | Toward a synactive theory of development: Promise for the assessment and support of infant individuality | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1982 | 476 |
| 7 | Infant-mother and infant-father synchrony: The coregulation of positive arousal | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2003 | 444 |
| 8 | Toward an interpersonal neurobiology of the developing mind: Attachment relationships, ?mindsight,? and neural integration | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2001 | 418 |
| 9 | Maternal self-efficacy beliefs, competence in parenting, and toddlers' behavior and developmental status | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2003 | 400 |
| 10 | Implicit relational knowing: Its role in development and psychoanalytic treatment | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1998 | 382 |
| 11 | The disturbed caregiving system: Relations among childhood trauma, maternal caregiving, and infant affect and attachment | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1996 | 379 |
| 12 | Dyadically expanded states of consciousness and the process of therapeutic change | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1998 | 346 |
| 13 | Representational models of relationships: Links between caregiving and attachment | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1996 | 343 |
| 14 | Communication patterns, internal working models, and the intergenerational transmission of attachment relationships | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1990 | 294 |
| 15 | INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF ATTACHMENT IN ABUSED AND NEGLECTED MOTHERS: THE ROLE OF TRAUMA-SPECIFIC REFLECTIVE FUNCTIONING | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2015 | 252 |
| 16 | Infant sleep problems: Origins, assessment, interventions | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1993 | 248 |
| 17 | Minding the Baby: Enhancing Reflectiveness to Improve Early Health and Relationship Outcomes in an Interdisciplinary Home‐Visiting Program | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2013 | 239 |
| 18 | Intrinsic motives for companionship in understanding: Their origin, development, and significance for infant mental health | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2001 | 238 |
| 19 | Defining the caregiving system: Toward a theory of caregiving | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1996 | 235 |
| 20 | Etiology of preschool behavior problems: Contributions of temperament attributes in early childhood | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2012 | 231 |
| 21 | Assessing interactional competencies: The early social-communication scales | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1982 | 229 |
| 22 | Efficacy and social support as predictors of parenting stress among families in poverty | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2005 | 225 |
| 23 | Angels in the nursery: The intergenerational transmission of benevolent parental influences | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2005 | 224 |
| 24 | The process of therapeutic change involving implicit knowledge: Some implications of developmental observations for adult psychotherapy | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1998 | 223 |
| 25 | Internal representational models of attachment relationships | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1990 | 221 |
| 26 | Watch, wait, and wonder: Testing the effectiveness of a new approach to mother-infant psychotherapy | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1999 | 211 |
| 27 | Disorganized infant attachment and preventive interventions: A review and meta-analysis | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2005 | 211 |
| 28 | Attachment disturbances and disorders in children exposed to early severe deprivation | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1999 | 189 |
| 29 | Stress, maternal depression, and negative mother-infant interactions in relation to infant attachment | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2002 | 185 |
| 30 | War trauma lingers on: Associations between maternal posttraumatic stress disorder, parent–child interaction, and child development | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2012 | 184 |
| 31 | Early relationships and the development of children | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2000 | 176 |
| 32 | Mothers' insightfulness regarding their children's internal worlds: The capacity underlying secure child-mother relationships | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2002 | 176 |
| 33 | Social support and postpartum depressive symptomatology: The mediating role of maternal self-efficacy | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2006 | 169 |
| 34 | Using the ADI-R to diagnose autism in preschool children | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1993 | 168 |
| 35 | A validity and reliability study of assessment and screening for sustained withdrawal reaction in infancy: The Alarm Distress Baby scale | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2001 | 166 |
| 36 | The role of attachment security, temperament, maternal perception, and care-giving behavior in persistent infant sleeping problems | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2003 | 165 |
| 37 | Affect Attunement and Maternal Attachment: A Pilot Study | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1989 | 162 |
| 38 | Affect regulation and synchrony in mother—infant play as precursors to the development of symbolic competence | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1997 | 158 |
| 39 | Attachment: The parental perspective | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1989 | 154 |
| 40 | Preliminary acceptability and psychometrics of the infant–toddler social and emotional assessment (ITSEA): A new adult-report questionnaire | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1998 | 152 |
| 41 | Brief mother–infant treatment: Psychoanalytically informed video feedback | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2003 | 152 |
| 42 | Posttraumatic stress symptoms following childbirth and mothers' perceptions of their infants | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2008 | 152 |
| 43 | Brain and behavior interface: Stress and the developing brain | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2003 | 151 |
| 44 | A meta‐analysis of home visiting programs: Moderators of improvements in maternal behavior | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2010 | 151 |
| 45 | Outcome evaluation in brief mother-infant psychotherapies: Report on 75 cases | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1996 | 150 |
| 46 | Development of the infant's hand preference for visually directed reaching: Preliminary report of a longitudinal study | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1985 | 145 |
| 47 | Traumatic stress and quality of attachment: Reality and internalization in disorders of infant mental health | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2004 | 144 |
| 48 | The development of the coparenting relationship over the transition to parenthood | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2004 | 144 |
| 49 | The mothers and toddlers program, an attachment‐based parenting intervention for substance‐using women: Results at 6‐week follow‐up in a randomized clinical pilot | Infant Mental Health Journal | 2011 | 144 |
| 50 | Relationship-based intervention with at-risk mothers: Outcome in the first year of life | Infant Mental Health Journal | 1999 | 137 |
