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  • Wamser-Nanney, R. (in press). Sexual Behavior Problems and Premature Termination from Pediatric Trauma-Focused Treatment Among Sexually Abused Children. Journal of Traumatic Stress.
  • Wamser-Nanney, R., & Sager, J. C.* (in press). PTSD and Beliefs Regarding Parenthood and Children’s Development. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation.
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. & Campbell, C.* (in press). Factors Associated with Caregiver-Child Symptom Concordance Among Trauma-Exposed Children. Child Maltreatment.Wamser-Nanney, R. (in press). Caregiver-Child Symptom Concordance: Links to
  • Premature Termination from Trauma-Focused Therapy. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
  • Wamser-Nanney, R., Nanney, J. T., & Walker, H.* (in press). Sexual Assault, Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, and Indices of Aggression among Women. Journal of Traumatic Stress.
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. (in press). Predictors of Attrition Among Young Children Receiving Trauma-Focused Therapy. Journal of Traumatic Stress.
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. & Campbell, C.* (2020). Predictors of Parenting Attitudes in at At-Risk Sample: Results from the LONGSCAN Study. Child Abuse & Neglect, 99.
  • Wamser-Nanney, R., Sager, J. C.* & Campbell, C.* (2020). Does Maternal Support Mediate or Moderate the Relationship between Abuse Severity and Children's PTSDSymptoms? Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 29, 333-350.
  • Wamser-Nanney, R., & Cherry K. E.* (2020). Criterion A vs. Non-Criterion A Stressors: Relations to Parenting Beliefs and Behavior. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, & Trauma, 29, 498-515.
  • Wamser-Nanney, R., & Campbell, C.* (2020). Children’s Coping Following Sexual Abuse: The Roles of Abuse Characteristics, Abuse Stress, and Maternal Support. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29, 514-525.
  • Campbell, C. L.*, Wamser-Nanney, R., & Sager, J. C.* (2019). Children’s coping after sexual abuse: Links to trauma symptoms. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/0886260519863726
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. (2019). Trauma Exposure, PTSD, and Indices of Fertility. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/0167482X.2019.1619691 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. (2019). Risk Factors for Attrition from Pediatric Trauma-Focused Treatment. Child Maltreatment, 25, 172-181.
  • Wamser-Nanney, R., Nanney, J. T., & Constans, J. I. (2019). The Gun Behaviors and Beliefs Scale: Development of a New Measure of Gun Beliefs. Psychology of Violence, 10, 172-181.
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. & Campbell, C.* (2019). Children's Sexual Behavior Problems: An Ecological Model Using the LONGSCAN Data. Child Abuse & Neglect; 96, e104085. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104085 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R., Walker, H.*, & Nanney, J. T. (2019). Trauma Exposure, PTSD, and Aggression Among Civilian Females. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. doi: 10.1177/0886260519860894 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. (2019). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Expectations of Parenthood and Children. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 32, 277-286. doi:10.1002/jts.22398 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. (2019). Event Centrality: Factor Structure and Links to PTSD Symptom Clusters. Journal of Traumatic Stress. doi: 10.1002/jts.22413 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R., Nanney, J. T., & Constans, J. I. (2019). PTSD symptoms and Attitudes Towards Guns. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Advanced online publication. doi.org/10.1177/0886260519829766 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R., Nanney, J. T., Conrad, E., & Constans, J. I. (2019). Does childhood trauma beget gun violence? Childhood trauma exposure and risk factors for gun violence among victims of gun violence. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 11, 99-106. doi.org/10.1177/0886260519829766 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R., Sager, J. C.*, & Campbell, C.* (2019). Maternal Support as a Predictor of Children’s Sexualized Behaviors Following Childhood Sexual Abuse. Child Maltreatment, 24, 36-44. org/10.1177/1077559518786821 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R., & Sager, J. C.* (2018). Predictors of maternal support following children’s sexual abuse disclosures. Child Abuse & Neglect, 81, 39-47. 
  • Nanney, J. T., Wamser-Nanney, R., Linke, L*., Pyne, J., & Constans, J. I. (2018). Pre-traumatic Power and Control Beliefs as a Risk Factor for PTSD: A Prospective Study of OEF/OIF Soldiers. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 31, 427-436. doi.org/10.1002/jts.22294 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. & Cherry, K. E.* Campbell, C.*, & Trombetta, E.* (2018). Racial differences in children’s trauma-related symptoms following complex trauma exposure. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/0886260518760019 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. (2018). Maternal support following childhood sexual abuse: relationships to child-reported outcomes. Child Abuse & Neglect, 76, 372-380. 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. & Chesher, R. E.* (2018). Trauma characteristics and sleep impairment among trauma-exposed children. Child Abuse & Neglect, 76, 469-479. 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R., Cherry, K. E.*, (2018). Children’s trauma-related symptoms following complex trauma exposure: Evidence of gender differences. Child Abuse & Neglect, 77, 188-197. 
  • Kaplow, J. B., Layne, C. M., Oosterhoff, B., Goldenthal, H., Howell, K. H., Wamser-Nanney, R., Burnside, A., Calhoun, K., Marbury, D., Johnson-Hughes, L., Kriesel, M., Staine, M.B., Mankin, M., Porter-Howard, L., & Pynoos, R. (2018). Validation of the Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder (PCBD) Checklist: A developmentally-informed assessment tool for bereaved youth. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 31(2), 244-254. 
  • Nanney, J. T., Conrad, E. J., Reuther, E. T., Wamser-Nanney, R. A., McCloskey, M., & Constans, J. I. (2018). Motivational interviewing for victims of armed community violence: A nonexperimental pilot feasibility study. Psychology of Violence, 8(2), 259-268. doi: 10.1037/vio0000103 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. & Chesher, R.* (2018). Presence of sleep disturbances among child trauma survivors: Comparison of caregiver and child reports. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 11, 391-399. doi: 10.1007/s40653-017-0198-0
  •  Wamser-Nanney, R., Howell, K. H., Schwartz, L. E., & Hasselle, A. J. (2018). The Moderating Role of Trauma Type on the Relationship Between Event Centrality of the Traumatic Experience and Mental Health Outcomes. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 5, 499-505. doi: 10.1037/tra0000344 
  • Heaps-Woodruff, J., Joska, J., Cabeen, R., Baker, L. M., Salminen, L., Hoare, J., Laidlaw, D. H., Wamser-Nanney, R., Peng, C. Z., Englebrecht S., Seedat, S., Stein, D.J., & Paul, R.H. (2018). White matter fiber bundle lengths are shorter in HIV: An analysis of quantitative diffusion tractography in South Africa. Brain Imaging & Behavior, 12, 1229-1238. doi: 10.1007/s11682-017-9769-9 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. (2017). Maternal support following childhood sexual abuse: Links to parent-reported children’s outcomes. Child Abuse & Neglect, 67, 44-53. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.02.023 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. & Steinzor, C. (2017). Factors related to attrition from trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy. Child Abuse & Neglect, 66, 73-83. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.11.031 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. & Steinzor, C. (2016). Characteristics of attrition among children receiving trauma-focused treatment. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 8(6), 745-754. doi: 10.1037/tra0000143 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. (2016). An investigation of the empirical support for the definition of a complex trauma event using youth’s self-reports. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 9(4), 295-304. doi:10.1007/s40653-016-0098-8 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R., Scheeringa, M. S., & Weems. C. F. (2016). Predictors of early treatment response in youth receiving CBT for PTSD. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Special issue on Child Health and Trauma, 41, 128-137. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsu096 
  • Taylor, M. J., Nanney, J. T., Welch, D. Z., & Wamser-Nanney, R. A. (2016). Guilt by association: The impact of sports participation on gang involvement and delinquency among rural-dwelling high school girls. Journal of Sport Behavior, 39(3), 317-343. 
  • Howell, K.H., Barrett-Becker, E.P., Burnside, A.N., Wamser-Nanney, R., Layne, C.M., & Kaplow, J.B. (2016). Children facing parental cancer versus parental death: The buffering effects of positive parenting and emotional expression. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25, 152-164. doi: 10.1007/s10826-015-0198-3 
  • Wamser-Nanney, R. & Vandenberg, B. (2013). An empirical examination of the complex trauma definition in children and adolescents. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 26, 671-678. doi: 10.1002/jts.21857 
  • Taylor, M. J., Wamser, R. A., Welch, D. Z., & Nanney, J. T.  (2012). Multidimensional self-esteem as a mediator of the relationship between sports participation and victimization: A study of African American girls. Violence and Victims, 27(3), 434-452. 
  • Taylor, M. J., Wamser, R. A., Arellano, C. M., & Sanchez, M. E. (2012).  The impact of sports participation on violence and victimization among rural adolescent girls. Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, 19, 3-13. 
  • Wamser, R.A., Vandenberg, B., & Hibberd, R. (2011). Religious fundamentalism, religious coping, and preference for psychological and religious treatment. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 21, 228-236. doi: 1080/10508619.2011.581582 
  • Hibberd, R., Vandenberg, B., & Wamser, R.A. (2011). Assumptive worldviews and religious coping with bereavement and type 2 diabetes. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 21, 198-211. doi:1080/10508619.2011.581576 

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS & ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES 

  • Kliethermes, M. D., Drewry, K. & Wamser-Nanney, R. A. (2017). Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy. In M. Landolt, M. Cloitre, & U. Schnyder, (Eds.), Evidence Based Treatments for Trauma-Related Disorders in Children and Adolescents. New York, NY. 
  • Kliethermes, M. D., Wamser-Nanney, R. A., Mannarino, A., & Cohen, J.A. (2013). TF-CBT with children with externalizing behavior problems. In J. D. Ford & C. Courtois (Eds.), Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children: Scientific Foundations and Therapeutic Models (pp. 184- 202). New York, NY: Guilford Press. 
  • Kliethermes, M. D., & Wamser, R. A. (2012). Adolescents with complex trauma. In J. A., Cohen, A. P. Mannarino, & E. Deblinger (Eds.), Trauma-focused CBT for children and adolescents: Treatment applications (pp. 175- 196). New York, NY: Guilford Press. 
  • Wamser, R. A., Vandenberg, B., & Hibberd, R. (2011). Anna Freud. In S. Goldstein & J. Naglieri (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Part 1, (pp. 111-112). New York, Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_152  
  • Hibberd, R., Wamser, R. A., & Vandenberg, B. (2011). Anticipatory grief in children. In S. Goldstein & J. Naglieri (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Part 6, (pp. 667-669). New York, Springer.  doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_1167.