LIFESPAN PUBLICATIONS
Books & chapters
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Bifulco A (in press) Depressed mothers and their children. Oxford Textbook of women
and mental Health. (Ed Dora Kohen)
Bifulco A (in press) Early Adversity and depression. International encyclopedia of
depression (Ed Richard Ingram), Springer Publishing Company.
Schimmenti A & Bifulco A (2008) Quando I gentori maltrattano I figli: le radici
psicopathologiche dello svillupo affetivo ( When the parents maltreat their young: The
developmental roots of psychopathology.). Caretti, V., & Craparo, G. (eds.), (2007 or
2008). Trauma e Psicopatologia. Roma: Astrolabio.
Bifulco A (2008) Risk and resilience in young Londoners. In (Eds, D. Brom, R PatHorenczyk & J, Ford) Treating traumatised children: Risk, resilience and recovery.
Routledge
Mellor, RB, Bifulco A, Chick A. Goulton C, Fisher A & Mellor N (2008) Entrepreneurship
for Everyone: a student textbook. Sage publications
Bifulco A & Moran P (2007) Il Bambino Maltrattato. Le radici della depressione nel
trauma e nell’abuso infantile. Casa Editrice Astrolabia.
Bifulco, A (2007) (i) Loss Trauma (ii) Familial Patterns of Stress. In Encyclopedia of
Stress – 2nd Edition (Ed) George Fink. California, Academic Press.
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Bifulco A. (2006) Childhood experience and sexual offending – the use of the
Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse (CECA) interview in forensic psychology
research and practice. L’evaluation diagnostique des agresseurs sexuel. (Ed Thierry
Pham) Editions Mardaga, Belgium.
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Bifulco A (2004) Life events and psychosocial factors in the social causation of disease.
In (Ed J, Gabe, M.Bury & MA Elston : Key concepts in Medical Sociology). Sage.
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Bifulco, A (2000) Familial Patterns of Stress. In Encyclopedia of Stress (Ed) George
Fink. California, Academic Press.vol 2 pp 103-107
Bifulco A & Moran P. (1998) Wednesday's Child: Research into women's Experience of
neglect and abuse in childhood and adult depression. London, New York: Routledge.
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Peer reviewed journals (2002 onwards)
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Bifulco, A, Moran P Jacobs C & Bunn A (2009) Problem partners and parenting:
Exploring linkages with maternal insecure attachment style and her neglect/abuse of
children. Attachment & Human Development, 11, 69-85.
Bifulco, A, Ilan-Clarke, Y, Hannan L & Schimmenti A (2008) Condividere e condividere
allo stresso modo. Psychiatria dell’eta evolutica e dell’eta adulta, Noos, 3: 255-276
Bifulco A, Jacobs, C, Bunn, A, Thomas G & Irving K (2008) The Attachment Style
Interview (ASI) as an assessment of support capacity: exploring its use for adoptionfostering assessment. Adoption and Fostering, 32: 33-45.
Whiting, M., Scammell A & Bifulco A (2008) The Health Specialist Initiative.
Professionals view of partnership initiative between Health and social Care for
Safeguarding. Qualitative Social Work, 7: 99-117
Bunn, A, , Bifulco A Lorenc, A & Robinson N (2007) Solutions on Stress (SOS):
programmes, packages and products for helping teenagers. Young Consumer, vol 8
(1); 29-35
Moran, P, Jacobs C, Bunn A & Bifulco A (2007) Multi-agency working: Implications for
an early intervention social work team. Child & Family Social Work. Child and Family
Social work, 12 (2), 143-151.
Figueiredo B, Bifulco A, Pacheco A, Costa R, Magarinho R (2006)Teenage
pregnancy, Attachment Style and Depression: A comparison of teenage and adult
pregnant women in a Portuguese series. Attachment and Human Development, 8:
123-138
Bifulco A, J-H Kwon, Jacobs C, Moran PM & Bunn A.(2006) Adult attachment style as
mediator of childhood neglect/abuse and adult depression and anxiety. Social Psychiatry
and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 41: 796-805
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Davidson J, Bifulco A, Thomas G & Ramsay M (2006). Child victims of sexual abuse:
Children’s experience of the investigative process in the criminal justice system.
Journal of Practice,18¨247-263
Guedeney, N, Fermian J, Curt, F & Bifulco A (2006) Testing the Working Alliance
Inventory (WAI) in a French primary care setting: Predictive value and factor structure.
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol,
Kwon, J-H, Yuri, L, Lee M-S & Bifulco A (2006) Perceived Criticism, Marital
Interaction, and Relapse in Unipolar Depression – findings from a Korean sample.
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 13, 306-312
Cohen P, Kasen S, Bifulco A, Andrews H, Gordon K (2005) The accuracy of adult
narrative reports of developmental trajectories. International Journal of Behavioral
Development, 29 (5) 345-355
Bifulco, A, Bernazzani O, Moran PM & Jacobs C (2005) Childhood Experience of Care
and Abuse Questionnaire (CECA.Q) Validation in a community series. British Journal of
Clinical Psychology, 44: 563-581
Bernazzani O,Marks M, Bifulco A, Siddle K, Asten P, Conroy S (2005) Assessing
psychosocial risk in pregnant/postpartum women using the Contextual Assessment of
Maternity Experience (CAME). Soc Psychiatry Psychatr Epidemiol. 40: 497-508
Figuieredo, B, Bifulco A, Paivia C, Maia A, Fernandes, E & Matos, R (2004). History of
childhood abuse in a representative series of Portuguese parents. Child Abuse and
Neglect, 28: 671-684
Bifulco A, Figueiredo B, Guedeney N, Gorman L, Hayes S, Muzik M, Gatigny-Dally E,
Valoriani V, Kammerer M, Henshaw C & the TCS-PND group. (2004) Maternal
attachment style and depression associated with childbirth; preliminary results from
European/US cross-cultural study. British Journal of Psychiatry 184 (suppl 46), s31-s37
Bernazzani O, Conroy S, Marks, MN, Siddle K, Guedeney, N, Bifulco A, Asten P,
Figueiredo B, Gorman L, Bellini S, E. Glatigny-Dally, S. Hayes, Klier C, Kammerer M &
Henshaw C & the TCS-PND group (2004). Contextual Assessment of the Maternity
Experience (CAME). Development of an instrument for cross cultural research. British
Journal of Psychiatry, 184 (Suppl 46), s24-s30.
Yoshida K, Hayashi M & Bifulco A (2003). Ability to relate to close others in caregiving
adults of adolescents using the Attachment Style Interview (ASI) Reliability and Validity
of the Japanese Version. Archives of Psychiatric Diagnostics and Clinical Evaluation, 14
(1): 29-40
Bernazzani O & Bifulco A (2003). Motherhood as a vulnerability factor in major
depression: The role of negative pregnancy experiences. Social Science and Medicine,
56: 1249-1260.
Bifulco, A, Mahon J, Kwon J-H, Moran PM & Jacobs C (2003). The Vulnerable
Attachment Style Questionnaire: An interview-derived measure of relationship styles
predictive of depression. Psychological Medicine, 33, 1099-1110
Moran, PM, Bifulco A, Ball C, Jacobs C & Benaim K (2002) Exploring psychological
abuse in childhood. I: Developing a new interview scale. (Bulletin of Menninger Institute,
66: 213-240.
Bifulco, A, Moran PM, Baines, R, Bunn A & Stanford K (2002). Exploring psychological
abuse in childhood: II: Association with other abuse and adult clinical depression.
(Bulletin of Menninger Institute, 66: 241-258
Smith N, Lam D, Bifulco A & Checkley S (2002) Child Experience of Care and Abuse
Questionnaire (CECA.Q) Validation of a screening instrument for childhood adversity in
clinical populations. Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, 37: 572-579.
Bifulco A (2002) Attachment style measurement - A clinical and epidemiological
perspective.Attachment and Human Development, 4: 180-188
Bifulco A., Moran PM, Ball C, Jacobs C, Baines R, Bunn A & Cavagin J (2002).
Childhood adversity, parental vulnerability and disorder: Examining intergenerational
transmission of risk. Journal Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 43, 1075-1086]
Bifulco A, Moran P, Ball C & Bernazzani O (2002) Adult Attachment Style I: Its
relationship to clinical depression. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.
37: 50-59
Bifulco A, Moran P, Ball C & Lillie A (2002) Adult Attachment Style II. Its relationship
to psychosocial depressive-vulnerability. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric
Epidemiology 37: 60-67.
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Troop, N & Bifulco A. (2002) Childhood social arena and cognitive sets in eating
disorders: A preliminary investigation. British Journal of Clinical Psychology; 41: 20521.