Dr. Anat Zaidman-Zait completed her PhD in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology and Special Education at the University of British Columbia. Over the last years, her research focused on parental stress and coping processes among parents of children with disabilities, the interplay between parental stress and children’s development, and applied measurement as it relates to constructs and issues in parenting. In addition, she is interested in the interrelations between parenting, children’s biobehavioral regulation (e.g., temperament, stress reactivity, sleep), and their combined contribution to children's development and mental health outcomes.

Publications

• A community-based study of sleep and behaviour problems in 12- to 36-month-old children

  • 2012 Child: Care, Health and Development
  • Hall W. A. , Scher A. , Zaidman-Zait A. , Espezel H. , Warnock F.

• Cortisol levels in relation to maternal interaction and child internalizing behavior in preterm and full-term children at 18 months corrected age

  • 2011 Developmental Psychobiology
  • Brummelte S. , Grunau R. E. , Zaidman-Zait A. , Weinberg J. , Nordstokke D. , Cepeda I. L.

• Promoting children’s prosocial behaviors in school: Impact of the “Roots of Empathy” program on the social and emotional competence of school-aged children

  • 2011 School Mental Health
  • Schonert-Reichl K. , Smith V. , Zaidman-Zait A. , Hertzman C.

• Family support needs as perceived by parents of preadolescents and adolescents who are deaf or hard of hearing

  • 2011 Deafness and Education International
  • Jamieson J. R. , Zaidman-Zait A. , Poon B.

• Cortisol levels in relation to maternal interaction and child internalizing behavior in preterm and full-term children at 18 months corrected age

  • 2011 Developmental Psychobiology
  • Brummelte S. , Grunau R. E. , Zaidman-Zait A. , Weinberg J. , Nordstokke D. , Cepeda I. L.

• An item response theory analysis of the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form with parents of children with autism spectrum disorders

  • 2010 Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
  • Zaidman-Zait A. , Mirenda P. , Zumbo B. , Wellington S. , Dua V. , Kalynchuk K.

• Sleep quality, cortisol levels, and behavioral regulation in toddlers

  • 2010 Developmental Psychobiology
  • Scher A. , Hall W. A. , Zaidman-Zait A. , Weinberg J.