Publications

     Cowan, P.A., & Cowan, C.P. (2006). Developmental psychopathology from family systems and family risk factors perspectives: Implications for family research, practice, and policy. In D. Cicchetti & D.J. Cohen (Eds.), Developmental Psychopathology. Vol. 1 (2nd ed., pp. 530-587). New York: Wiley.

     Cowan, C.P., & Cowan, P.A. (2005). To be partners and parents: The challenge for couples with young children. In S.F. Brown (Ed.), What do mothers want? New York: Analytic Press.

     Cowan, C.P., & Cowan, P.A. (2005). Two Central Roles for Couple Relationships: Breaking Negative Intergenerational Patterns and Enhancing Children's Adaptation. Sexual and relationship therapy, 20, 275-288.

     Cowan, C.P., Cowan, P.A., Pruett, M.K., & Pruett, K. (2005). Encouraging strong relationships between fathers and children. Working Strategies, 8 (4), 1-11.

     Cowan, P.A., Cowan, C.P., Ablow, J., Johnson, V., & Measelle, J. (Eds.) (2005). The family context of parenting in children's adaptation to elementary school. Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum Associates.

     Cowan, P.A. & Cowan, C.P. (2004). From family relationships to peer rejection to antisocial behavior in middle childhood. In K. Dodge, (Ed.). Festschrift for John Coie. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

     Schulz, M.S., Cowan, P.A., Cowan, C.P., & Brennan, R.T. (2004). Coming home upset: Gender, marital satisfaction, and the daily spillover of workday experience into couple interactions. Journal of Family Psychology, 18, 250-263.

     Wood, J.L., Emmerson, N., & Cowan, P.A. (2004). Is early attachment security carried forward into relationships with preschool peers? British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 22, 245-253.

     Johnson, V., Cowan, P.A., & Cowan, C.P. (2003). Linking changes in whole family functioning and children's externalizing behavior across the elementary school years. Journal of Family Psychology, 17, 499-509.

     Cowan, P.A., & Cowan, C.P. (2003). Normative family transitions, Normal family processes, and healthy child development. In Froma Walsh (Ed.). Normal family processes (3rd. ed.). (pp. 424-459). New York: Guilford Press.

     Cowan, P.A., & Cowan, C.P. (2003). Interventions as tests of family systems theories: Marital and family relationships in children's development, and psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology [Special issue on Interventions as Tests of Theories].

     Mikulincer, D., Florian, V., Cowan, P. A., & Cowan, C. P. (2002). Attachment Security in Couple Relationships: A Systemic Model and its Implications for Family Dynamics. Family Process. Special issue on Attachment and Family Relations.  

     Cowan, P. A., & Cowan, C. P. (2002). Normative family transitions, Normal family processes, and healthy child development. In Froma Walsh (Ed.), Normal family processes (3rd. ed.). New York: Guilford Press.  

     Cowan, P.A., & Cowan, C.P. (2002). New families: Modern couples as new pioneers. In M.A. Mason, A. Skolnik, & S. Sugarman (Eds.), All our families: New Policies for a new century (pp. 169-192). Oxford University Press (Second Edition).  

     Cowan, C. P. & Cowan, P.A. (2001). Preventive intervention: a couple perspective on the transmission of attachment patterns. In C. Clulow (Ed.) Adult attachment and couple psychotherapy: The secure base in practice and research. London: Brunner-Routledge.  

     Cowan, P. A., & Cowan, C. P. (2001). What an intervention design reveals about how parents affect their children's academic achievement and behavior problems. In J. G. Borkowski, S. Ramey, & M. Bristol-Powers, (Eds.), Parenting and the child's world: Influences on intellectual, academic, and social-emotional development. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.  

     Cowan, C. P., & Cowan, P. A. (2000). When partners become parents: The big life change for couples. Second Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.  

     Donohue, K., Weinstein, R., Cowan, P.A, & Cowan, C. P. (2000). Patterns of teacher' whole-class perceptions and predictive relationships between teachers and parents' perceptions of individual child competence. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.  

     Cowan, C. P., & Cowan, P. A. (1999). Becoming a parent. In A. S. Skolnick & J. H. Skolnick (Eds.), Family in transition (Pp. 189-201). New York: Addison, Wesley, Longman.  

     Cowan, C. P., & Cowan, P. A. (1999). Eltern und Partner - Die Arbeit mit Paargruppen. In W. Fthenakis, M. Eckert, & M. con Block (Eds.), Handbuch Elternbildung. Band 1: Wenn aus Partnern Eltern Werden. Opladen, Germany: Leske + Budruch. (Pp. 125-136).  

     Cowan, C. P., & Cowan, P. A. (1999). Eltern werden: Was geschach mit mir? In W. Fthenakis, M. Eckert, & M. von Block (Eds.), Handbuch Elternbildung. Band 1: Wenn aus Partnern Eltern Werden. Opladen, Germany: Leske + Budruch. (Pp. 287-298).  

     Johnson, V.K., Cowan, P.A., & Cowan, C.P. (1999). Children's classroom behavior: The unique contribution of family organization. Journal of Family Psychology, 13, No. 3, 1-17.  

     Measelle, J. R., Ablow, J. C., Cowan, P. A., & Cowan, C. P. (1999). Assessing young children's views of their academic, social, and emotional lives: An evaluation of the self-perception scales of the Berkeley Puppet Interview. Child Development.  

     Cowan, C. P., & Cowan, P. A. (1997). Working with couples during stressful transitions. In S. Dreman (Ed.), The family on the threshhold of the 21st. century. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Pp. 17-48.  

     Cowan, P.A., Powell, D., & Cowan, C.P. (1997). Parenting interventions: A family systems perspective. In I. E. Sigel & K. A. Renninger (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology (5th ed.) Vol 4: Child psychology in practice. New York: Wiley. (Pp. 3-72).  

     Cowan, P.A., Cohn, D., Cowan, C.P., & Pearson J.L. (1996). Parents' attachment histories and children's internalizing and externalizing behavior: Exploring family systems models of linkage. Special Section: Attachment and psychopathology, Part I. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64, 53-63.

CAROLYN COWAN Publications, October 2007