Philip Cowan, Professor

Representative Publications

Cowan, P. A. (1978). Piaget: With feeling. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Cowan, C. P., & Cowan, P. A. (1992). When partners become parents: The big life change for couples. New York: Basic Books. Republished by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Fall, 1999.

Kerig, P. K., Cowan, P. A., & Cowan, C. P. (1993). Marital quality and gender differences in parent-child interaction. Developmental Psychology, 29, 931-939.

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.

McHale, J. P., & Cowan, P. A. (Eds.) (1996). Understanding how family-level dynamics affect children's development: Studies of two-parent families. New Directions in Development. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

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

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: Vol 4. Child psychology in practice (5th ed., pp 3-72). New York: Wiley.

Cowan, P. A., & Cowan, C. P. (1998). New families: Modern couples as new pioneers. In M. A. Mason, A. Skolnik, & S. Sugarman (Eds.), The evolving American family: New policies for new families. Oxford University Press.

Measelle, J. R., Ablow, J. C., Cowan, P. A., & Cowan, C. P. (1998). 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, 69, 1556-1576.

Cowan, P.A., & Cowan, C.P. (2002). Strengthening couples to improve children's well-being. Poverty Research News, 3, 18-20.

Cowan, P.A., & Cowan, C.P. (2002). 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 (pp. 75-98). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Cowan, P.A., & Cowan, C.P. (2002). 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. 14, 731-760.

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.

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. (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.

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.

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.

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

PHILIP COWAN Publications, 2007