Alicia Lieberman, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion Training UCSF 03/2021

Websites

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• Profile at healthpsych.ucsf.edu (healthpsych.ucsf.edu)

Grants and Projects

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• The Early Trauma Treatment Network, NIH, 2012-2016
• Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Technology at Stanford, NIH, 1995-2015
• Early Trauma Treatment Network, NIH, 2001-2012
• Child-parent Intervention with Marital Violence Sequelae, NIH, 2000-2004
• Preventive Intervention with Anxiously Attached Infants, NIH, 1985-1988

Publications (61)

Top publication keywords:
Parent-Child RelationsExposure to ViolenceObject AttachmentChild AbuseParentsPsychotherapyMother-Child RelationsStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticMental HealthAdult Survivors of Child AbuseDissociative DisordersFamily TherapyMothersDomestic ViolenceLife Change Events

• Posttraumatic stress in infancy: The roles of cumulative trauma and caregiving context.
  Infant mental health journal 2025 Chu AT, Bond MH, Rogowski B, Leba NV, Ghosh Ippen C, Cirolia A, Lieberman AF
• California Stress, Trauma, and Resilience Study (CalSTARS) protocol: A multiomics-based cross-sectional investigation and randomized controlled trial to elucidate the biology of ACEs and test a precision intervention for reducing stress and enhancing resilience.
  Stress (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024 Kim LY, Schüssler-Fiorenza Rose SM, Mengelkoch S, Moriarity DP, Gassen J, Alley JC, Roos LG, Jiang T, Alavi A, Thota DD, Zhang X, Perelman D, Kodish T, Krupnick JL, May M, Bowman K, Hua J, Liao YJ, …
• Parent-child border separation and the road to repair: addressing a global refugee phenomenon.
  Attachment & human development 2024 Jones-Mason K, Reyes V, Noriega M, Lieberman AF
• Intervening After Trauma: Child-Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration.
  Psychological science 2024 Sullivan ADW, Merrill SM, Konwar C, Coccia M, Rivera L, MacIsaac JL, Lieberman AF, Kobor MS, Bush NR
• Engaging the child-parent relationship to treat early trauma: The challenge and promise of scaling with fidelity.
  Journal of traumatic stress 2024 Lieberman AF, Ghosh Ippen C

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• An invited commentary on mentoring in infant mental health: A symposium commemorating Robert N. Emde.
  Infant mental health journal 2024 Oppenheim D, Bernard K, Dozier M, Lieberman AF, Mays M, West J
• Primary Care as a Protective Factor: A Vision to Transform Health Care Delivery and Overcome Disparities in Health.
  The Permanente journal 2024 Machtinger EL, Lieberman AF, Bethell CD, Lightfoot M
• Childhood and adulthood trauma exposure: Associations with perinatal mental health and psychotherapy response.
  Journal of traumatic stress 2023 Ponting C, Bond M, Rogowski B, Chu A, Lieberman AF
• Development of a Brief Version of the Dissociative Symptoms Scale and the Reliability and Validity of DSS-B Scores in Diverse Clinical and Community Samples.
  Assessment 2022 Macia KS, Carlson EB, Palmieri PA, Smith SR, Anglin DM, Ghosh Ippen C, Lieberman AF, Wong EC, Schell TL, Waelde LC
• Longitudinal hair cortisol in low-income young children: A useful biomarker of behavioral symptom change?
  Psychoneuroendocrinology 2021 Hagan M, Coccia M, Rivera L, Epel E, Aschbacher K, Laudenslager M, Lieberman A, Bush NR
• Research, Practice, and Policy Implications of Adverse Childhood Events.
  JAMA pediatrics 2021 Machtinger EL, Lieberman A, Lightfoot M
• An immunogenomic phenotype predicting behavioral treatment response: Toward precision psychiatry for mothers and children with trauma exposure.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2021 Aschbacher K, Cole S, Hagan M, Rivera L, Baccarella A, Wolkowitz OM, Lieberman AF, Bush NR
• Adversity in early life and pregnancy are immunologically distinct from total life adversity: macrophage-associated phenotypes in women exposed to interpersonal violence.
  Translational psychiatry 2021 Aschbacher K, Hagan M, Steine IM, Rivera L, Cole S, Baccarella A, Epel ES, Lieberman A, Bush NR
• The COVID-19 pandemic and maternal mental health in a fragile and conflict-affected setting in Tumaco, Colombia: a cohort study.
  The Lancet. Global health 2021 Moya A, Serneels P, Desrosiers A, Reyes V, Torres MJ, Lieberman A
• Intergenerational transmission and prevention of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
  Clinical psychology review 2021 Narayan AJ, Lieberman AF, Masten AS
• It's All About the Relationship: The Role of Attachment in Child-Parent Psychotherapy.
  Research on child and adolescent psychopathology 2021 Chu AT, Ippen CG, Lieberman AF
• Maternal Pregnancy Wantedness and Perceptions of Paternal Pregnancy Wantedness: Associations with Perinatal Mental Health and Relationship Dynamics.
  Maternal and child health journal 2020 Atzl VM, Narayan AJ, Ballinger A, Harris WW, Lieberman AF
• Child and caregiver executive function in trauma-exposed families: Relations with children's behavioral and cognitive functioning.
  Journal of experimental child psychology 2020 Chen SH, Cohodes E, Bush NR, Lieberman AF
• Examination of the associations between young children's trauma exposure, trauma-symptomatology, and executive function.
  Child abuse & neglect 2020 Cohodes EM, Chen SH, Lieberman AF, Bush NR
• Associations between prenatal substance exposure, prenatal violence victimization, unintended pregnancy, and trauma exposure in childhood in a clinical setting.
  Infant mental health journal 2019 Cohodes EM, Gee DG, Lieberman AF
• TIME'S UP Healthcare: The Role of Mental Health.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2019 Gold JA, Bernstein CA, Cyrus KD, Fitelson E, Lieberman A, Mangurian C
• Adverse childhood experiences and prenatal mental health: Type of ACEs and age of maltreatment onset.
  Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) 2019 Atzl VM, Narayan AJ, Rivera LM, Lieberman AF
• Protective factors that buffer against the intergenerational transmission of trauma from mothers to young children: A replication study of angels in the nursery.
  Development and psychopathology 2019 Narayan AJ, Ippen CG, Harris WW, Lieberman AF
• Reflections on the theoretical contributions and clinical applications of parental insightfulness.
  Attachment & human development 2018 Lieberman AF
• PTSD with and without dissociation in young children exposed to interpersonal trauma.
  Journal of affective disorders 2017 Hagan MJ, Gentry M, Ippen CG, Lieberman AF
• Parent and Child Trauma Symptoms During Child-Parent Psychotherapy: A Prospective Cohort Study of Dyadic Change.
  Journal of traumatic stress 2017 Hagan MJ, Browne DT, Sulik M, Ippen CG, Bush N, Lieberman AF
• Positive childhood experiences predict less psychopathology and stress in pregnant women with childhood adversity: A pilot study of the benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) scale.
  Child abuse & neglect 2017 Narayan AJ, Rivera LM, Bernstein RE, Harris WW, Lieberman AF
• ASSESSING ANGELS IN THE NURSERY: A PILOT STUDY OF CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF BENEVOLENT CAREGIVING AS PROTECTIVE INFLUENCES.
  Infant mental health journal 2017 Narayan AJ, Ippen CG, Harris WW, Lieberman AF
• DEFINING RELATIONAL PATHOLOGY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: THE DIAGNOSTIC CLASSIFICATION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS OF INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD DC:0-5 APPROACH.
  Infant mental health journal 2016 Zeanah CH, Lieberman A
• DIAGNOSTIC CLASSIFICATION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS OF INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD DC:0-5: SELECTIVE REVIEWS FROM A NEW NOSOLOGY FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD PSYCHOPATHOLOGY.
  Infant mental health journal 2016 Zeanah CH, Carter AS, Cohen J, Egger H, Gleason MM, Keren M, Lieberman A, Mulrooney K, Oser C
• Traumatic Life Events and Psychopathology in a High Risk, Ethnically Diverse Sample of Young Children: A Person-Centered Approach.
  Journal of abnormal child psychology 2016 Hagan MJ, Sulik MJ, Lieberman AF
• Early Childhood Victimization and Physical Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy: A Developmental and Person-Oriented Approach.
  Journal of interpersonal violence 2016 Narayan AJ, Hagan MJ, Cohodes E, Rivera LM, Lieberman AF
• Improvements in the Child-Rearing Attitudes of Latina Mothers Exposed to Interpersonal Trauma Predict Greater Maternal Sensitivity Toward Their 6-Month-Old Infants.
  Journal of traumatic stress 2015 Waters SF, Hagan MJ, Rivera L, Lieberman AF
• Matched trauma: The role of parents' and children's shared history of childhood domestic violence exposure in parents' report of children's trauma-related symptomatology.
  Journal of trauma & dissociation : the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD) 2015 Cohodes E, Hagan M, Narayan A, Lieberman A
• Symptoms of Dissociation in a High-Risk Sample of Young Children Exposed to Interpersonal Trauma: Prevalence, Correlates, and Contributors.
  Journal of traumatic stress 2015 Hagan MJ, Hulette AC, Lieberman AF
• Infants and young children in military families: a conceptual model for intervention.
  Clinical child and family psychology review 2013 Lieberman AF, Van Horn P
• Maternal symptomatology and parent-child relationship functioning in a diverse sample of young children exposed to trauma.
  Journal of traumatic stress 2013 Thakar D, Coffino B, Lieberman AF
• DSM-V diagnostic criteria for bereavement-related disorders in children and adolescents: developmental considerations.
  Psychiatry 2012 Kaplow JB, Layne CM, Pynoos RS, Cohen JA, Lieberman A
• Traumatic and stressful events in early childhood: can treatment help those at highest risk?
  Child abuse & neglect 2011 Ghosh Ippen C, Harris WW, Van Horn P, Lieberman AF
• Infants remember: war exposure, trauma, and attachment in young children and their mothers.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2011 Lieberman AF
• Trauma in early childhood: empirical evidence and clinical implications.
  Development and psychopathology 2011 Lieberman AF, Chu A, Van Horn P, Harris WW
• A call for integrating a mental health perspective into systems of care for abused and neglected infants and young children.
  The American psychologist 2011 Osofsky JD, Lieberman AF
• Mothers' Adult Attachment Interview ratings predict preschool children's IQ following domestic violence exposure.
  Attachment & human development 2010 Busch AL, Lieberman AF
• Clinical implications of traumatic stress from birth to age five.
  Annual review of clinical psychology 2010 Chu AT, Lieberman AF
• Giving voice to the unsayable: repairing the effects of trauma in infancy and early childhood.
  Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America 2009 Lieberman AF, Van Horn P
• Psychopharmacological treatment for very young children: contexts and guidelines.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2007 Gleason MM, Egger HL, Emslie GJ, Greenhill LL, Kowatch RA, Lieberman AF, Luby JL, Owens J, Scahill LD, Scheeringa MS, Stafford B, Wise B, Zeanah CH
• Ghosts and angels: Intergenerational patterns in the transmission and treatment of the traumatic sequelae of domestic violence.
  Infant mental health journal 2007 Lieberman AF
• The impact of trauma: a developmental framework for infancy and early childhood.
  Pediatric annals 2007 Lieberman AF, Knorr K
• In the best interests of society.
  Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines 2007 Harris WW, Lieberman AF, Marans S
• Still searching for the best interests of the child: trauma treatment in infancy and early childhood.
  The Psychoanalytic study of the child 2007 Lieberman AF, Harris WW
• Child-parent psychotherapy: 6-month follow-up of a randomized controlled trial.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2006 Lieberman AF, Ghosh Ippen C, VAN Horn P
• The long-term consequences of early childhood trauma: a case study and discussion.
  Psychiatry 2006 Kaplow JB, Saxe GN, Putnam FW, Pynoos RS, Lieberman AF
• Toward evidence-based treatment: child-parent psychotherapy with preschoolers exposed to marital violence.
  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2005 Lieberman AF, Van Horn P, Ippen CG
• Angels in the nursery: The intergenerational transmission of benevolent parental influences.
  Infant mental health journal 2005 Lieberman AF, Padrón E, Van Horn P, Harris WW
• Preschooler witnesses of marital violence: predictors and mediators of child behavior problems.
  Development and psychopathology 2005 Lieberman AF, Van Horn P, Ozer EJ
• The effects of father visitation on preschool-aged witnesses of domestic violence.
  Journal of interpersonal violence 2003 Stover CS, Van Horn P, Turner R, Cooper B, Lieberman AF
• The treatment of attachment disorder in infancy and early childhood: reflections from clinical intervention with later-adopted foster care children.
  Attachment & human development 2003 Lieberman AF
• Attachment, trauma, and domestic violence. Implications for child custody.
  Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America 1998 Lieberman AF, Van Horn P
• Preventive intervention and outcome with anxiously attached dyads.
  Child development 1991 Lieberman AF, Weston DR, Pawl JH
• Quality of mother-infant attachment and pediatric health care use.
  Pediatrics 1989 Harris ES, Weston DR, Lieberman AF
• Searching for the best interests of the child. Intervention with an abusive mother and her toddler.
  The Psychoanalytic study of the child 1984 Lieberman AF, Pawl JH