Grants

 Dates: 03/01/2024-02/28/2025

Incorporating Responsive and Sensitive Feeding into ParentCentering at CommUnity Care. Episcopal Health Foundation (Multiple Principal Investigators with Elizabeth Widen and Megan Gray)

Dates: 09/01/2023-12/31/2024

Do infants consuming animal protein have higher dietary quality and protein intake than nonconsumers during complementary feeding? Pork Checkoff Board  (Co-Principal Investigator with Elizabeth Widen)

Dates: 10/01/2023-12/31/2028

Development and validation of algorithms to automatically detect maternal sensitivity to infant distress in gold-standard and everyday interactions.  R01 National Institute for Drug Abuse/National Institutes of Health (Co-Investigator with PI Kaya de Barbaro)

Dates: 9/01/2023 -8/31/2025

Responsive Feeding, Child Self-Regulatory Abilities and Early Life Obesity. College of Natural Sciences Catalyst Grant, University of Texas at Austin. (Co-Principal Investigator with Elizabeth Widen and Nicole Perry)

 Dates: 9/01/2023 -8/31/2024

Role of food insecurity and responsive feeding in early life self-regulation of eating. Dell Children’s Pediatric Research Grant program. University of Texas at Austin. (Co-Principal Investigator with Elizabeth Widen and Megan Gray)

Dates:  1/01/2023-12/31/2024

:First Thousand Days: Prevention of Early Life Obesity in Latino Infants and Toddlers. American Diabetes Association, Nutrition & Diabetes (Co-Investigator with PI Megan Gray)

Dates: 11/02/2020 – 5/02/2024

Mother and careGivers Investing in Children (MAGIC): A family-based intervention for promoting optimal infant feeding and development. Egg Nutrition Center (ENC), (Multiple Principal Investigators with Elizabeth Widen and Ladia Hernandez)

Dates: 9/15/2022 – 9/14/2024

Role of beef in healthy dietary patterns across infancy and effects on growth, motor, self-regulation and neurocognitive development.  National Cattleman's Beef Association (NCBA), (Co-Principal Investigator with Elizabeth Widen and Ladia Hernandez)

Grants (pending)

Dates: 4/01/2024-3/31/2029 

Mothers and CareGivers Investing in Children: A virtual intervention to support healthy growth in infants and toddlers. R01 National Institutes of Health (Co-Principal Investigator with Elizabeth Widen),  Scored 7th percentile

Grants (past 5 years)

Dates: 1/01/2020 – 8/31/2022

A family-based intervention for promoting optimal infant feeding and development. National Cattleman's Beef Association (NCBA), (Co-Principal Investigator with Elizabeth Widen and Ladia Hernandez)

Dates: 9/1/2019 – 9/30/2020

Promoting positive parent feeding practices and healthy eating in young children: An interventoin Guidebook. St. David’s Foundation Opportunity Grant, (Principal Investigator with Nancy Hazen, Ladia Hernandez, and Elizabeth Widen)

Dates: 10/1/2017 – 8/31/2020

Promoting positive parent feeding practices and healthy eating in young children: The unique role of grandparents. St. David’s Foundation Opportunity Grant, (Principal Investigator with Nancy Hazen, Ladia Hernandez, and Elizabeth Widen)

1/1/2017 – 5/31/2018

Disorganized attachment in contemporary Attachment Theory: A critical analysis of paradigms, debates and applications. Wellcome Trust. (Subcontract for Postdoc with PI Robert Duschinsky) 

Selected Publications 

Zhang, S., Hazen, N. & Jacobvitz, D. (In Press). Attachment and perceptions of partner’s parenting as predictors of trust trajectories over the transition to parenthood: Associations with caregiving quality at 24 months. Journal of Family Psychology

Aviles, A., Betar, S., Cline S., Tian., Z., Jacobvitz. D., & Nicholson J.  (2024). Parenting Young Children During COVID-19: Parenting Stress Trajectories, Parental Mental Health, and Child Problem Behaviors. Journal of Family Psychology. 

Verhage, M. L., Schuengel, C., Duschinsky, R., van IJzendoorn, M. H., Fearon, R. P., Madigan, S., ... Jacobvitz, D....& Collaboration on Attachment Transmission Synthesis. (2020). The Collaboration on Attachment Transmission Synthesis (CATS): A Move to the Level of Individual-Participant-Data Meta-Analysis. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(2), 199-206.

Gallegos, M., Jacobvitz, D., Sasaki, T., & Hazen, N. (2019). Parents’ perceptions of their spouses’ parenting and infant temperament as predictors of parenting and coparenting.  Journal of Family Psychology, 33, 542—553.http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000530.

Jacobvitz, D. & Reisz, S. (2019).  Disorganized and Unresolved states in adulthood.  Current Opinions in Psychology, 25, 172-176.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.06.006.

Poulsen, H.B., Hazen, N. & Jacobvitz, D. (2019). Parents’ joint attachment representations and caregiving:  The moderating role of marital quality. Attachment and Human Developmet. 21:6, 597-615.  https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2018.1492003

Reisz, S., Aviles, A.I., Messina, S.,  Duschinsky, R., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (2019). Fathers’ attachment representations and infant feeding practices. Appetite. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2019.104374.

Reisz, S.,  Brennan, J., Jacobvitz, D., George, C. (2019). Adult attachment and birth experience: Importance of secure base and save haven during childbirth. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 37, 26-43.https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2018.1509303. 

Brazeau, N, Reisz, S., Jacobvitz, D, & George, C. (2018). Understanding the connection between attachment trauma and maternal self-efficacy in depressed mothers. Infant Mental Health Journal.39,30-43. DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21692.

Freeland-Graves, J.H., Sachdev, P., & Jacobvitz, D.B., (2018). Role of grandparents in childhood obesity during first two years of life.  Journal of Nutrition Health and Food Science. 6, 1-11. Doi: 10.15226/jnhfs.2018.001141.

Jacobvitz, D. (2018).  Dismissing Avoidant Attachment. In M.H. Bornstein (Ed)., The Sage Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 

Verhage, M.L., Fearon, P., Schuengel, C., van Ijzendoorn, M.H., Bakersmans-Kanenburg…Jacobvitz, D...& Collaboration on Attachment Transmission Synthesis. (2018). Examining ecological constraints on the intergenerational transmission of attachment via individual participant data meta‐analysis. Child Development, 89, 2023-2037.  https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13085

Gallegos, M.I., & Murphy, S.E., Benner, A.D., Jacobvitz, D.B., & Hazen, N.L. (2017). Marital, parental, and whole family predictors of toddler emotion regulation: The role of parental emotional withdrawal. Journal of Family Psychology, 31(3), 294-303.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000245

Granqvist P., Sroufe L.A., Dozier M., Hesse E., Steele M., van Ijzendoorn M… Jacobvitz D….& Duschinsky R. (2017). Disorganized attachment in infancy:  A review of the phenomenon and its implications for clinicians and policy-makers. Attachment and Human Development, 19, 534-558. DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2017.1354040

Murphy, S.E., Boyd-Soisson, Jacobvitz, D.B., & Hazen, N.L (2017). Dyadic and Triadic Family Interactions as Simultaneous Predictors of Children’s Externalizing Behaviors. Family Relations, 66, 346-359.DOI:10.1111/fare.12225.

Murphy, S.E., Gallegos, M.I., Jacobvitz,D.B., Hazen, N.L. (2017). Coparenting dynamics: Mothers’ and fathers’ differential support and involvement.Personal Relationships.DOI: 10.1111/pere.12221 

Wittenberg, D., Beverung, L., Ansari, A., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (2017). Gender differences in parents; prenatal wishes for their children’s future: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Child and Family Studies,26,1865-1874. DOI: 10.1007/s10826-017-0713-9

Beverung, L. & Jacobvitz, D. (2016). Women’s retrospective experiences of bereavement:  Predicting unresolved attachment. Journal of Death and Dying, 73, 126-140. DOI: 10.1177/0030222815575897.

Lyons-Ruth, K., & Jacobvitz, D. (2016). Attachment Disorganization from Infancy to Adulthood: Neurobiological Correlates, Parenting Contexts, and Pathways to Disorder. In J. Cassidy & P. Shaver (eds.), Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research and Clinical Applications (3^rd Edition). New York: Guilford Press.

Murphy, S., Jacobvitz, D. & Hazen, N. (2016). What’s so bad about competitive coparenting?  Family-level predictors of children’s externalizing symptoms. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25, 1684-1690. DOI: 10.1007/s10826-015-0321-5.

Frankel, L.A.,  Umemura, T., Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N. (2015). Marital conflict and parental responses to infant negative emotions: Relations with toddler emotional regulation, Infant Behavior and Development, 40, 73-83. DOI: org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2015.03.004.

Hazen, N.,  Allen, S.,  Umemura, T.,  Heaton, C., & Jacobvitz, D. (2015). Very extensive nonmaternal care predicts mother-infant attachment disorganization: Convergent evidence from two samples.  Development and Psychopathology, 27, 649-661. DOI:10.1017/S0954579414000893.

Reisz, S, Jacobvitz, D. & George, C. (2015). Birth and Motherhood: Childbirth Experience, Mothers’ Perceptions of their babies and maternal self-esteem. Infant Mental Health Journal, 36, 167-178. DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21500.

Christopher, C.,  Umemura, T.,  Mann, T., Jacobvitz, D. & Hazen, N. (2015). Marital Quality over the Transition to Parenthood as a Predictor of Coparenting. Journal of Child and Family Studies. 24, 3636-3651. DOI 10.1007/s10826-015-0172-0

Past 5 years

2023                Affordable Education Champion, University of Texas at Austin

2019-2020       Senate’s Professor of the Month in recognition of a dedication to students and passion for teaching, Senate of College Councils & Natural Science Council, University of Texas

2005                Outstanding Research Award, Dept of Human Ecology, University of Texas 

2001 -2002      Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, La Sapienza, Universita de Roma

1998-2000       President, Southwest Society for Research on Human Development

Presentations  (last 5 years)

Jacobvitz, D. (2023, December).  Current Challenges and Developments in Attachment Theory. Identifying Universal and culturally bound questions. Invited Workshop for Researchers and Professionals Zero to Three Learning Institute, Palm Springs, CA.

Jacobvitz, D., & Widen, E.  (2023, ). Eating right from the first. Invited Talk, Nursing Conference, University of Texas at Austin.

Jacobvitz, D.  (2022, April 15). Coping with stress during COVID-19: Effects on  women’s alcohol consumption”  9^thAnnual Waggoner Center Advance. University of Texas at Austin.

Jacobvitz, D., Tian, Z., Zhang, S., Maclaine, B., & Hazen, N., (2023, March 23-25). Parents' Joint Attachment Representations and Perceptions of their Spouses' Parenting Competence Predict Triadic Family Interactions. Flash talk presented at the biennial meeting of Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UTAH, USA 

Tian, Z., Zhang, S., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2023, March 23-25). Exploring the antecedents of triadic family interaction from a family systems perspective. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UTAH, USA

Foster, S. F., Jacobvitz^, D.,  Hernandez, L.M., Jones, H.S., Marcela R Abrego^, M.R., & Widen, E.M.  (2023, October 7-10) A Comparison of Infant Diet Quality Indices in Infants 7-12 months old. Paper to be presented at the Food and Nutrition Conference & Expo (FNCE), Denver, CO.

Foster, S., Rickman, R., Collins, S., Miller, J., Onono, M, Jacobvitz, D., & Widen, E. (2023, July 22-25). Meeting minimum dietary diversity at nine months is associated with lower risk of stunting in the second year of life among a cohort of infants in Kenya. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Society for Nutrition (ASN),  Boston, MA.

Jacobvitz, D., Tian, Z., Zhang, S., Maclaine, B., & Hazen, N., (2023, March 23-25). Parents' Joint Attachment Representations and Perceptions of their Spouses' Parenting Competence Predict Triadic Family Interactions. Flash talk presented at the biennial meeting of Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UTAH, USA 

Tian, Z., Zhang, S., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2023, March 23-25). Exploring the Antecedents of Triadic Family Interaction from a Family Systems Perspective. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UTAH, USA 

Zhang, S., Shelton, M., Tian, Z., Maclaine, B., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2023, March 23-25). Conversational Narcissism in Marital Relationship: Attachment Antecedents and Coparenting Consequences over the Transition to Parenthood. Flash talk presented at the biennial meeting of Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UTAH, USA 

Jacobvitz, D., Aquino, G., Tian, Z., Foster, S., Hernandez, L., & Widen, E. (2022, July 14-16). Familismo, Triads and Virtual Collection.  In A. Rifkin-Graboi (Chair), “Should we try for consistency? Questions arising when observing attachment across caregivers, settings, and/or collection modes.” International Attachment Conference, Biennial meeting of the Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies, Lisbon, Portugal.

Maclaine, B., Zhang, S., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2022, July 14-16). Fathers’ Attachment Representations: Deleterious effects of idealization of the father on marital quality and caregiving. International Attachment Conference, Biennial meeting of the Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies, Lisbon, Portugal.

Shelton, M., Tian, Z., Zhang, S., Hazen, N., Leit, L. & Jacobvitz, D. (2022, July 14-16). Conversational narcissism in couple relationships: Effects on caregiver sensitivity over the transition to parenthood. International Attachment Conference, Biennial meeting of the Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies, Lisbon, Portugal.

Jacobvitz, D., Zhang, S. & Tian, Z. (2022, April). Covid-19 related stressors and women’s alcohol consumption: Effects of resilience and parenting stress, Waggoner Center Advance, The University of Texas at Austin.

Reasonover, M., Vilamor, M., Tian, Z., Jacobvitz, D., & Nicholson, J. (2022, March 23-26). Relations between Mothers’ Emotion Regulation, Stress, and Depression during COVID-19. Paper presented at the meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Hilton Head, SC.

*Aquilar, D., *Aviles, A., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2021, August 27).  Continuity and change in paternal caregiving qualities: The role of prenatal marital quality and mothers’ perceptions of father’s parenting. Paper presented in the symposia, From Dyads to Families: How previous relationship influence family functioning. International Association of Relationship Research, Virtual Conference.

*Aviles, A.I., Reisz, S. Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N. (2021, August 27). The effects of childhood emotional abuse on perceptions of marital relationships. In A.I. Aviles (Chair). From dyads to families: How previous relationships influence family functioning. International Association for Relationship Research, London.

Jacobvitz, D. (2021, August 27). Discussant for symposia, From Dyads to Families: How previous relationship influence family functioning. International Association of Relationship Research, Virtual Conference.

Jacobvitz, D., *Zhang, S., Hazen, N. & *Tian, Z. (2021, August 7). Early adversity increases parents vulnerability to COVID-19-related stress: Effects on parenting competence and child well-being. Paper presented at the virtual meeting of the American Psychological Association.

*Tian, Z., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2021, August 27). The origins of triadic family interaction: The role of joint attachment with both parents and marital quality. Paper presented in the symposia, From Dyads to Families: How previous relationship influence family functioning. International Association of Relationship Research, Virtual Conference.

*Zhang, S., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2021, August 27). Attachment styles and perceptions of partners parenting predict trust over the transition to parenthood. Paper presented in the symposia, From Dyads to Families: How previous relationship influence family functioning. International Association of Relationship Research, Virtual Conference.

*Tian, Z., Hazen, N., & Nicholson-Bell, J, & Jacobvitz, D. (2021, August 7). Predictors of alcohol use during COVID-19 pandemic: The role of parent- adult child relationships. Paper presented at the virtual meeting of the American Psychological Association.

*Aviles, A.I., *Reisz, S. *Tian, Z., *Zhang, S., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2021, June 25). Antecedents and consequences of early role reversal in parent-child relationships. Special Interest Research Group on Father-Child Attachment and Relationships, Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies.  

*Aquino, G., *Aviles, A., *Tian, Z., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2021, April 7-9). Examining longitudinal influences of prenatal marital quality on children’s ADHD symptomatology through fathers’ parenting quality. Flash talk presented at the Virtual Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. 

*Aviles, A., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2021, April 7-9). The Effects of Emotional Abuse on Maternal Depression over the Transition to Parenthood.  Flash talk presented at the Virtual Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.  

*Zhang, S., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2021, April 7-9). Trust and Caregiving Over the Transition to Parenthood: Role of Adult Attachment and Partner’s Parenting. Flash talk presented at the Virtual Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.  

*Panisch, L. S., Hazen, N.  & Jacobvitz, D. (2021, January 19-22). Exploring longitudinal relationships among maternal trauma history, attachment security, and parenting behaviors with infants. Society for Social Work Research annual conference, San Francisco, CA. 

*Aquilar, D., Aviles, A., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2020).  Continuity and change in paternal caregiving qualities: The role of prenatal marital quality and mothers’ perceptions of father’s parenting. Paper to be presented in the symposia, From Dyads to Families: How previous relationship influence family functioning. International Association of Relationship Research, London.

*Tian, Z., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2020).  The origins of triadic family interaction: The role of joint attachment with both parents and marital quality.  Paper to be presented in the symposia, From Dyads to Families: How previous relationship influence family functioning. International Association of Relationship Research, London.

*Zhang, S., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2020).  Attachment styles and perceptions of partners parenting predict trust over the transition to parenthood. Paper to be presented in the symposia, From Dyads to Families: How previous relationship influence family functioning. International Association of Relationship Research, London.

Aviles, A.I., Hazen, N., &  Jacobvitz , D. (2019, July). Antecedents and consequences of early parent-child role reversal and relations with toddler autonomy. Paper presented in the symposia, Parent-Child Separation at the Border: Lessons from Attachment Theory. International Attachment Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

Jacobvitz, D. (2019, July). Attachment and Caregiving within the Family Context. Organizer and Chair/Discussion for Symposia at the International Attachment Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

Jacobvitz, D. (2019, July). Trauma at the border: Psychological impact of parent-child separation. Paper presented in the symposia, Parent-Child Separation at the Border: Lessons from Attachment Theory. International Attachment Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

*Poulsen, H., Hazen, N., &  Jacobvitz , D. (2019, July). Parents’ joint attachment representations predict triadic family interaction quality across the transition to parenthood.  Paper presented in the symposia, Parent-Child Separation at the Border: Lessons from Attachment Theory. International Attachment Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

*Tian, Z., Hazen, N., &  Jacobvitz , D. (2019, July). Understanding the experiences of young children separated at the United States-Mexico border.  Paper presented in the symposia, Parent-Child Separation at the Border: Lessons from Attachment Theory. International Attachment Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

Aviles, A., Jacobvitz, D., & Hazen, N.  (2019, March).  Maternal Experiences of Childhood Emotional Abuse: Relations with Toddler Emotion Dysregulation.  Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD:  

*Barton, J., Nicholson, & Jacobvitz, D. (2019). Parents’ Intentions to Improve Child Dietary Intake and Physical Activity: The Role of Stress and Nutrition Knowledge.   Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.

Jacobvitz, D. (2019, July). Trauma at the border: Psychological impact of parent-child separation. In symposia, Parent-Child Separation at the Border: Lessons from Attachment Theory.  International Attachment Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

Jacobvitz, D., *Reisz, S., Aviles, A., & Hazen, N. (2019, March). Maternal frightening behavior over the first two years predicts children’s later emotional and behavior problems. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.

*Panisch, D., Hazen, N. & Jacobvitz., D. (2019, March).  Exploring Longitudinal Relations Between Mother’s Adult Attachment Security, Dissociation, and Children’s Depressive Symptoms.  Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.

*Reisz, S., Hazen, N. & Jacobvitz, D. (2019, March). Stability of Adult Attachment Across the Transition to Motherhood. Paper to be presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.

*Reisz, S., Aviles, A., *Messina, S., Duschinksky, R. Jacobvitz, D. & Hazen, N. (2019, February). More soup for you? Fathers' attachment representations and infant feeding practices.  Texas Council on Family Relations. Austin, TX.

Jacobvitz, D. (2019, July). Trauma at the border: Psychological impact of parent-child separation. In invited symposia, Parent-Child Separation at the Border: Lessons from Attachment Theory. International Attachment Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

Jacobvitz, D. (2017, June). Prediction of Behavior Problems in Middle Childhood: The role of mothers’ Frightening/Anomalous behavior over the first two years.  Paper presented in the invited symposia: “Disorganized Attachment: New Findings and Theoretical Developments”. The 8^th International Attachment Conference, London. 

Jacobvitz, D. (2017, February).  The Mechanism of transmission of Attachment Disorganization across Generations.  18^th Annual Bridging the Gap Conference: Clinical Application of Attachment Theory and Research. The Children’s Center, Salt Lake City Utah. 

Jacobvitz, D. (2017, January). Attachment Disorganization: Pathways and predisposing factors. Duchinsky, R. (Organizer).Disorganized Infant Attachment Conference, Berkeley, California.

 *Barton, J.M., Nichols, J.S., Burke-LeFever, J., & Jacobvitz, D. (2017, November). Assessing the stability of nutrition biomarkers in two at-risk samples National Council on Family Relations. Florida.

Jacobvitz, D. (2017, April). The Role of Attachment on Children’s Social Cognitive Processes and Social Behaviors. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

Gallegos, M.I., Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N. (2017, April).  Mother- and father-infant attachment as predictors of child anxiety disorder symptoms. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

Jacobvitz, D. (2017, June). Prediction of Behavior Problems in Middle Childhood: The role of mothers’ Frightening/Anomalous behavior over the first two years.  Paper presented in the invited symposia: “Disorganized Attachment: New Findings and Theoretical Developments”. The 8^th International Attachment Conference, London.

Jacobvitz, D. (2017, February).  The Mechanism of transmission of Attachment Disorganization across Generations.  18^th Annual Bridging the Gap Conference: Clinical Application of Attachment Theory and Research. The Children’s Center, Salt Lake City Utah.

Jacobvitz, D. (2017, January). Attachment Disorganization: Pathways and predisposing factors. Duchinsky, R. (Organizer). Disorganized Infant Attachment Conference, Berkeley, California. 

Messina, S., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2017, April).  Do all the roads lead to Rome? Investigating pathways leading to children’s development of anxious depression and ADHD symptoms.
 Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

Murphy, S., Gallegos, M.I., Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N. (2017, April). 
Marital, parent-child, and whole-family predictors of toddler’s adaptive emotion regulation, underregulation, and overregulation. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

Reisz, S., Hazen, N., & Jacobvitz, D. (2017, April). Stability and change of unresolved loss and trauma across the transition to parenthood. In Carol George (Chair) Attachment and caregiving dysregulation: Associations with the parent and child outcomes. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

Poulsen, H.,  Jacobvitz, D., Hazen, N. (2017, April). Parents' Joint Attachment Representations & Caregiving: The Mediating Role of Marital Quality. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

Teaching:

Undergraduate           Development and Psychopathology from Infancy to Adolescenc

                                    Infant and Toddler Development

                                    Theories of Child and Family Development

Graduate:                    Attachment Across the Life Cycle

                                    Child & Adolescent Development

                                    Attachment and Psychopathology

                                    Intergenerational Parenting

                                    Family Interaction and Development

                                    Teaching in the 21^st Century

Dr. Jacobvitz is accepting new Ph.D. students for Fall 2024. Application deadline is December 1, 2023 for the Human Development and Family Sciences Ph.D. program at the University of Texas at Austin. Please inquire directly with Dr. Jacobvitz at debj@austin.utexas.edu.