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Alvis, L., Zhang, N., Sandler, I., & Kaplow, J. (2022). Developmental Manifestations of Grief in Children and Adolescents: Caregivers as Key Grief Facilitators. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40653-021-00435-0

Zhang, N., Sandler, I., Tein, J., Wolchik, S. & Donohue, E. (2022). Caregivers’ self-compassion and bereaved children’s adjustment: Testing caregivers’ mental health and parenting as mediators. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-021-01807-1

Zhang, N., Sandler, I., Tein, J., & Wolchik, S. (2021). Reducing suicide risk in parentally bereaved youth through promoting effective parenting: Testing a developmental cascade model. Development and Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579421001474

Sandler, I., Tein, J., Zhang, N., Wolchik, S., & Thieleman, K. (2021). Grief as a predictor of long-term suicidality above and beyond PTSD symptoms and other risk factors in parentally bereaved children and adolescents. Journal of Traumatic Stress. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22759

Zhang, J., Zhang, N., Piehler, T. F., Gewirtz, A. H. (2021). Emotion regulation difficulties in military fathers magnify their benefit from a parenting program. Prevention Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-021-01287-8

Zhang, N., Hoch, J., Gewirtz, A. H., Barnes, A. & Snyder, J. (2021). Vagal suppression buffers against the negative effects of psychological inflexibility on parenting in combat deployed fathers. Parenting Science and Practice, 21, 55-78.https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2020.1804250

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Zhang, N., Hoch, J., & Gewirtz, A. H. (2020). The physiological regulation of emotion during social interactions: Vagal flexibility moderates the effects of a military parenting intervention on father involvement in a randomized trial. Prevention Science, 21, 691-701. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-020-01122-6

This article received the 2021 Barbara Thompson Excellence in Research on Military and Veteran Families Award.

Zhang, N., Lee, S., Zhang, J., Piehler, T. F., & Gewirtz, A. H. (2020). Growth trajectories of parental emotion socialization and child adjustment following a military parenting intervention: A randomized controlled trial. Developmental Psychology, 56, 652-663. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000837

Zhang, J., Palmer, A., Zhang, N., & Gewirtz, A. (2020). Coercive parenting mediates the relationship between fathers’ emotion regulation problems and children’s adjustment. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-020-00625-8

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This article was awarded Best Research Article on Men in Families by NCFR in 2020.

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Zamir, O., Gewirtz, A. H., Cheng, C. H., Zhang, N., & Lavee, Y. (2019). Psychological distress and communication quality in military couples after deployment to war. Journal of Family Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000589

Zhang, N., Zhang, J., & Gewirtz, A. H. (2019). Do less mindful mothers show better parenting via improvements in trait mindfulness following a military parent training program? Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 909. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00909

Zhang, N., Piehler, T. F., Gewirtz, A. H., Zamir, O., & Snyder, J. J. (2019). Trait mindfulness and anger in the family: A dyadic analysis of male service members and their female partners. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12384

This article was a finalist for the 2020 Barbara Thompson Award for Excellence in Research on Military and Veteran Families by Purdue University.

Watch the award ceremony recording here.

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Chesmore, A. A., He, Y., Zhang, N., & Gewirtz, A. H. (2018). Parent discrepancies in ratings of child behaviors following wartime deployment. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 31, 79-88. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22257

Zhang, N., Rudi, J., Zamir, O., & Gewirtz, A. (2018). Parent engagement in online mindfulness exercises within a parent training program for postdeployed military families. Mindfulness, 9, 725-736. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-017-0810-2

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