Efrat Sher-Censor The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Child Development, the School of Psychological Sciences, and the Center for the Study of Child Development University of Haifa, Israel Biography Publications Institution JoVE Articles Efrat Sher-Censor Efrat Sher-Censor is the Head of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Child Development, the School of Psychological Sciences, the University of Haifa, Israel. She studies the representations that children, parents and caregivers construct regarding their relationships, and explores how these representations shape their interactions and predict children's adjustment. She is particularly interested in children at-risk, such as children with special needs and children from immigrant and ethnic minority families.Dr. Sher-Censor is currently conducting three longitudinal research projects: The first study, in collaboration with Prof. Tuppett M. Yates from UC Riverside, CA, is funded by the US National Science Foundation, and follows children from preschool to adolescence to examine the effects of the representations which parents and children construct regarding their relationships on children's competence in diverse contexts. The second research examines the effects of the quality of mother-preterm infant's interaction and early neuromotor deficits of the infant on socio-emotional adjustment and motor development in childhood. The third study is in collaboration with Dr. Smadar Dolev from Oranim Academic College for Education, Israel. This study follows teachers and children with Developmental Delay in special education kindergarteners to explore the associations between teachers' representations, the quality of teacher-child interaction, and child adaptation. Publications Assessing the coherence of parents’ short narratives regarding their child using the Five Minute Speech Sample ProcedureJournal of Visualized Experiments. , in press | Pubmed ID: The Reaction to Diagnosis Questionnaire: A preliminary validation of a new self-report measure to assess parents’ resolution of their child’s diagnosisAttachment and Human Development. , 2019 | Pubmed ID: Special education teachers’ narratives and attachment style: Associations with classroom emotional supportJournal of Child and Family Studies. , 2019 | Pubmed ID: Mothers’ rejection sensitivity and their information processing of possible social rejection of their childJournal of Social and Personal Relationships. , 2019 | Pubmed ID: The association between national identity and adjustment: What can we learn from autobiographical narratives? International Journal of Intercultural Relations. , 2018 | Pubmed ID: Associations among mothers’ representations of their relationship with their toddlers, maternal parenting stress, and toddlers’ internalizing and externalizing behaviorsInfant Behavior and Development. , 2018 | Pubmed ID: Coherence of representations regarding the child, resolution of the child’s diagnosis and emotional availability: A study of Arab-Israeli mothers of children with ASDJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. , 2017 | Pubmed ID: Mother-adolescent dialogues and adolescents’ behavior problems in a multicultural sample: The mediating role of representationsJournal of Research on Adolescence. , 2017 | Pubmed ID: Earliest memories in Israeli kibbutz upbringing: It is parental engagement that makes a differenceMemory. , 2017 | Pubmed ID: Preschoolers’ self-regulation moderates relation between mothers’ representations and children’s adjustment to schoolDevelopmental Psychology. , 2016 | Pubmed ID: Resolution of the child’s ASD diagnosis among Arab-Israeli mothers: Associations with maternal sensitivity and wellbeingResearch in Autism Spectrum Disorders. , 2016 | Pubmed ID: The quality of spontaneous movements of infants born preterm: Associations with the quality of mother-infant interactionInfancy. , 2015 | Pubmed ID: The meaning of Emotional Overinvolvement in early development: Prospective relations with child behavior problemsJournal of Family Psychology. , 2015 | Pubmed ID: Five Minute Speech Sample in developmental research: A reviewDevelopmental Review. , 2015 | Pubmed ID: The interplay between observed Maternal perspective taking and clear expectations: Links with male adolescents’ externalizing and internalizing problemsJournal of Child and Family Studies. , 2015 | Pubmed ID: The challenges of Israeli adolescent girls: Gender differences in observed autonomy and relatedness in adolescent-mother interactionsSex Roles: A Journal of Research. , 2015 | Pubmed ID: Mothers’ Expressed Emotion and narrative coherence: Associations with preschoolers’ behavior problems in a multiethnic sampleJournal of Child and Family Studies. , 2015 | Pubmed ID: The intergenerational congruence of narrative affective content and narrative coherenceInternational Journal of Behavioral Development. , 2013 | Pubmed ID: Individuation of female adolescents: Relations with adolescents’ perceptions of maternal behavior and with adolescent-mother discrepancies in perceptionsJournal of Adolescence. , 2012 | Pubmed ID: Perceptions of Mexican American adolescents and parents regarding autonomy: Divergent views and adolescents’ adjustmentThe Journal of Early Adolescence. , 2011 | Pubmed ID: Parents’ promotion of psychological autonomy, psychological control, and Mexican American adolescents’ adjustmentJournal of Youth and Adolescence. , 2011 | Pubmed ID: Adjustment of female adolescents leaving home for the military: Links with earlier individuationJournal of Adolescence. , 2010 | Pubmed ID: Les narratifs d’enfants et leur lien avec les comportements d’attachement précoce. / Children attachment narratives and early attachment behaviorsEnfance. , 2008 | Pubmed ID: Parental resolution of the child’s diagnosis and the parent-child relationship: Insights from the Reaction to Diagnosis InterviewClinical application of attachment theory: Bridging the gap between theory, research, and practice. , 2007 | Pubmed ID: Mother’s insightfulness regarding their infants’ internal experience: Relations with maternal sensitivity and infant attachmentDevelopmental Psychology. , 2002 | Pubmed ID: Bedöma samstämmigheten i föräldrarnas korta berättelser om deras barn med hjälp av fem minuters tal provförfarande Efrat Sher-Censor1 1The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Child Development and the Center for the Study of Child Development, University of Haifa JoVE 60025 Behavior
Bedöma samstämmigheten i föräldrarnas korta berättelser om deras barn med hjälp av fem minuters tal provförfarande Efrat Sher-Censor1 1The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Child Development and the Center for the Study of Child Development, University of Haifa JoVE 60025 Behavior