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Jean Mercer

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Jean Mercer's Degrees

PhD Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Jean Mercer is an American developmental psychologist and professor emerita of psychology at Stockton University. Founder of the advocacy group Advocates for Children in Therapy, she is known as an advocate for adopted children and those who come from the foster care system, and as an outspoken critic of attachment therapy.

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Jean Mercer's Published Works

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Understanding Attachment: Parenting, Child Care, and Emotional Development (2005) (81)
Physiological Correlates of Painful Stimulation in Preterm Infants (1993) (38)
Attachment Therapy on Trial: The Torture and Death of Candace Newmaker (2003) (36)
Deliverance, demonic possession, and mental illness: some considerations for mental health professionals (2013) (31)
Are intensive parental alienation treatments effective and safe for children and adolescents? (2019) (30)
Attachment theory and its vicissitudes: Toward an updated theory (2011) (30)
Examining DIR/Floortime™ as a Treatment for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders (2017) (28)
Examining Circle of Security™ (2015) (23)
Holding Therapy and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Are Not Supported and Acceptable Social Work Interventions: A Systematic Research Synthesis Revisited (2007) (19)
Child development : myths and misunderstandings (2013) (17)
Evidence of Potentially Harmful Psychological Treatments for Children and Adolescents (2017) (16)
Attachment therapy using deliberate restraint: an object lesson on the identification of unvalidated treatments. (2001) (15)
Examining Parental Alienation Treatments: Problems of Principles and Practices (2019) (14)
Snake oil, ethics, and the first amendment: what's a profession to do? (2002) (13)
Holding therapy: a harmful mental health intervention (2013) (13)
Infant Development: A Multidisciplinary Introduction (1997) (12)
Examining Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy as a Treatment for Adopted and Foster Children (2014) (12)
Martial arts research: weak evidence. (2011) (9)
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy is not ‘evidence-based’: comments in response to Becker-Weidman and Hughes (2010) (9)
The Effects of Physical Attractiveness and Disability on Client Ratings by Helping Professionals (1983) (8)
Conventional and Unconventional Perspectives on Attachment and Attachment Problems: Comparisons and Implications, 2006–2016 (2019) (8)
Revisiting an Article About Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy: The Life Cycle of a Woozle (2015) (8)
Child Psychotherapy Involving Physical Restraint: Techniques Used in Four Approaches (2002) (7)
International Concerns About Holding Therapy (2014) (7)
Coercive restraint therapies: a dangerous alternative mental health intervention. (2005) (7)
The concept of psychological regression: metaphors, mapping, Queen Square, and Tavistock Square. (2011) (5)
Holding therapy in Britain: historical background, recent events, and ethical concerns (2013) (5)
The report of the APSAC Task Force on Attachment Therapy, Reactive Attachment Disorder, and Attachment Problems. (2006) (3)
Responses to Kleinman (2021) and to Bernet, Rohner, and Reay (2021) (2021) (3)
Critiquing assumptions about parental alienation: Part 1. The analogy with family violence (2021) (2)
Warning: are you aware of "holding therapy"? (2001) (2)
Reply to Sudbery, Shardlow and Huntington: Holding Therapy (2012) (2)
Thinking Critically About Child Development: Examining Myths and Misunderstandings (2009) (2)
Critical Thinking about Psychotherapy (2019) (1)
The Baker strategies questionnaire and decisions about reunification (2021) (1)
Critiquing assumptions about parental alienation: Part 2. Causes of psychological harms (2021) (1)
Rejecting the idea of rejection as a measure of parental alienation: Comment on Bernet, Gregory, and Rohner, and Reay (2020) (2020) (1)
Author's Reply to the Letter Regarding “Coercive Restraint Therapies” (2005) (1)
Personality Development and the Principle of Reciprocal Interweaving (1979) (1)
Perinatal Mood Disorders (2020) (1)
Themes and variations in development: Can nanny-bots act like human caregivers? (2010) (1)
The Difficulties of Double Blinding (2002) (1)
Parenting: section deserves a scolding. (2014) (0)
Parental Alienation in Family Court: Attacking Expert Testimony Parental Alienation in Family Court: Attacking Expert Testimony (2022) (0)
Attachment Theory and Research: Why Citizens Need to Know (2006) (0)
Evidence of Potentially Harmful Psychological Treatments for Children and Adolescents (2016) (0)
Response to Comments on “Conventional and Unconventional Perspectives on Attachment and Attachment Problems: Comparisons and Implications, 2006–2016” (2019) (0)
Parental Experience during Treatment of Very Small Preterm Infants: Implications for Mourning and for Parent-Infant Relationships (1992) (0)
CHILD CUSTODY EVALUATIONS, ATTACHMENT THEORY, AND AN ATTACHMENT MEASURE: THE SCIENCE REMAINS LIMITED (2010) (0)
Warning: Are You Aware of “Holding Therapy”? (2001) (0)
13.2 PARENTAL ALIENATION RESEARCH: OLD PROBLEMS AND PROPOSED NEW DIRECTIONS (2021) (0)
Attachment in Children and Adolescents (2013) (0)
Given these data, the idea of mixing men and women in the same study seems unreasonable, as different sex proportions may skew the results of any study. (2010) (0)
Conventional and Unconventional Perspectives on Attachment and Attachment Problems: Comparisons and Implications, 2006–2016 (2017) (0)
Surrogate mothers. (1985) (0)
Parental alienation, science, and pseudoscience (2021) (0)
Reunification therapies for parental alienation: Tenets, empirical evidence, commonalities, and differences (2022) (0)
One Woman's Balancing Act (2007) (0)
Introduction to parental alienation concepts and practices (2021) (0)
“Nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so”: Commentary on “The association between early maladaptive schemas and adult attachment styles: A meta-analysis”. (2023) (0)
Minding Controls in Curriculum Study (2008) (0)
Examining Parental Alienation Treatments: Problems of Principles and Practices (2019) (0)
Improving end of life care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (2019) (0)
Letter to the Editor (2006) (0)
Attachment issues and reunification of parents and children (2021) (0)
Revisiting an Article About Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy: The Life Cycle of a Woozle (2015) (0)
Response to Comments on “Conventional and Unconventional Perspectives on Attachment and Attachment Problems: Comparisons and Implications, 2006–2016” (2019) (0)
Copyright and the Antitrust--A New Amended Judgment for ASCAP and BMI? CBS v. ASCAP Remanded. (1978) (0)
Trauma and Attachment (2018) (0)

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