Angela Narayan, PhD
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Robert E. Harris Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2016
• UCSF Psychiatry Trainee Research Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2016
• Outstanding Dissertation Award, APA Division 56: Trauma Psychology, 2015

Education & Training

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• Ph.D., Clinical Child Psychology Institute of Child Development University of Minnesota 2015
• M.A., Child Psychology Institute of Child Development University of Minnesota 2011
• B.A., Psychology Department of Psychology Cornell University 2007

Interests

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• Multicultural Influences on Development
• Early Adversity
• Resilience
• Developmental Psychopathology
• Pregnancy
• Parenting

Publications (39)

Top publication keywords:
Intimate Partner ViolenceProtective FactorsParent-Child RelationsCourtshipInterpersonal RelationsAdult Survivors of Child AbuseChild AbuseAdult Survivors of Child Adverse EventsChild of Impaired ParentsExposure to ViolenceDomestic ViolenceObject AttachmentMothersExpressed EmotionParenting

• A systematic review of positive childhood experiences and adult outcomes: Promotive and protective processes for resilience in the context of childhood adversity.
  Child abuse & neglect 2023 Han D, Dieujuste N, Doom JR, Narayan AJ
• A multisystem, dimensional interplay of assets versus adversities: Revised benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) in the context of childhood maltreatment, threat, and deprivation.
  Development and psychopathology 2023 Narayan AJ, Merrick JS, Lane AS, Larson MD
• Childhood Centeredness is a Broader Predictor of Young Adulthood Mental Health than Childhood Adversity, Attachment, and Other Positive Childhood Experiences.
  Adversity and resilience science 2023 Narayan AJ, Frederick DE, Merrick JS, Sayyah MD, Larson MD
• Risk and resilience factors for psychopathology during pregnancy: An application of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP).
  Development and psychopathology 2023 Clark HM, Hankin BL, Narayan AJ, Davis EP
• Adverse and Benevolent Childhood Experiences Predict Prenatal Sleep Quality.
  Adversity and resilience science 2022 Nevarez-Brewster M, Aran Ö, Narayan AJ, Harrall KK, Brown SM, Hankin BL, Davis EP

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• Parent-Child Relationship Quality in the Family of Origin and Later Romantic Relationship Functioning: A Systematic Review.
  Family process 2021 River LM, O'Reilly Treter M, Rhoades GK, Narayan AJ
• Adverse and Benevolent Childhood Experiences Predict Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Adversity and resilience science 2021 Doom JR, Seok D, Narayan AJ, Fox KR
• Intergenerational transmission and prevention of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
  Clinical psychology review 2021 Narayan AJ, Lieberman AF, Masten AS
• Pregnancy as a period of risk, adaptation, and resilience for mothers and infants.
  Development and psychopathology 2020 Davis EP, Narayan AJ
• 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
• In Search of Cognitive Promotive and Protective Factors for Word Reading.
  Scientific studies of reading : the official journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading 2020 Slomowitz RF, Narayan AJ, Pennington BF, Olson RK, DeFries JC, Willcutt EG, McGrath LM
• The Child Life Challenges Scale (CLCS): Associations of a Single-Item Rating of Global Child Adversity with Children's Total Life Stressors and Parent's Childhood Adversity.
  Children (Basel, Switzerland) 2020 Merrick JS, Labella MH, Narayan AJ, Desjardins CD, Barnes AJ, Masten AS
• Perinatal promotive and protective factors for women with histories of childhood abuse and neglect.
  Child abuse & neglect 2019 Atzl VM, Grande LA, Davis EP, Narayan AJ
• Benevolent Childhood Experiences (BCEs) in homeless parents: A validation and replication study.
  Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) 2019 Merrick JS, Narayan AJ, DePasquale CE, Masten AS
• 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
• Infant Attachment Insecurity and Baseline Physiological Activity and Physiological Reactivity to Interpersonal Stress: A Meta-Analytic Review.
  Child development 2019 Groh AM, Narayan AJ
• 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
• Risk and Adversity, Parenting Quality, and Children's Social-Emotional Adjustment in Families Experiencing Homelessness.
  Child development 2017 Labella MH, Narayan AJ, McCormick CM, Desjardins CD, Masten AS
• 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
• The legacy of early childhood violence exposure to adulthood intimate partner violence: Variable- and person-oriented evidence.
  Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) 2017 Narayan AJ, Labella MH, Englund MM, Carlson EA, Egeland B
• Executive function and parenting in the context of homelessness.
  Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) 2017 Monn AR, Narayan AJ, Kalstabakken AW, Schubert EC, Masten AS
• Attachment and Temperament in the Early Life Course: A Meta-Analytic Review.
  Child development 2016 Groh AM, Narayan AJ, Bakermans-Kranenburg MJ, Roisman GI, Vaughn BE, Fearon RMP, van IJzendoorn MH
• 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
• Intergenerational continuity of adverse childhood experiences in homeless families: Unpacking exposure to maltreatment versus family dysfunction.
  The American journal of orthopsychiatry 2016 Narayan AJ, Kalstabakken AW, Labella MH, Nerenberg LS, Monn AR, Masten AS
• 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
• Interparental violence and maternal mood disorders as predictors of adolescent physical aggression within the family.
  Aggressive behavior 2015 Narayan AJ, Chen M, Martinez PP, Gold PW, Klimes-Dougan B
• Interrelations of maternal expressed emotion, maltreatment, and separation/divorce and links to family conflict and children's externalizing behavior.
  Journal of abnormal child psychology 2015 Narayan A, Cicchetti D, Rogosch FA, Toth SL
• Personal, dyadic, and contextual resilience in parents experiencing homelessness.
  Clinical psychology review 2015 Narayan AJ
• Trauma, adversity, and parent-child relationships among young children experiencing homelessness.
  Journal of abnormal child psychology 2014 Herbers JE, Cutuli JJ, Monn AR, Narayan AJ, Masten AS
• Parenting and coregulation: Adaptive systems for competence in children experiencing homelessness.
  The American journal of orthopsychiatry 2014 Herbers JE, Cutuli JJ, Supkoff LM, Narayan AJ, Masten AS
• Risk, Vulnerability, and Protective Processes of Parental Expressed Emotion for Children's Peer Relationships in Contexts of Parental Violence.
  Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 2014 Narayan AJ, Sapienza JK, Monn AR, Lingras KA, Masten AS
• Adolescent conflict as a developmental process in the prospective pathway from exposure to interparental violence to dating violence.
  Journal of abnormal child psychology 2014 Narayan AJ, Englund MM, Carlson EA, Egeland B
• Developmental timing and continuity of exposure to interparental violence and externalizing behavior as prospective predictors of dating violence.
  Development and psychopathology 2013 Narayan AJ, Englund MM, Egeland B
• The development of thought problems: a longitudinal family risk study of offspring of bipolar, unipolar, and well parents.
  Development and psychopathology 2013 Klimes-Dougan B, Desjardins CD, James MG, Narayan AJ, Long JD, Cullen KR, Gold PW, Martinez PE
• Disturbances in reality testing as markers of risk in offspring of parents with bipolar disorder: a systematic review from a developmental psychopathology perspective.
  Bipolar disorders 2013 Narayan AJ, Allen TA, Cullen KR, Klimes-Dougan B
• The relations among maternal depressive disorder, maternal expressed emotion, and toddler behavior problems and attachment.
  Journal of abnormal child psychology 2012 Gravener JA, Rogosch FA, Oshri A, Narayan AJ, Cicchetti D, Toth SL
• Expressed emotion in homeless families: a methodological study of the five-minute speech sample.
  Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) 2012 Narayan AJ, Herbers JE, Plowman EJ, Gewirtz AH, Masten AS
• Child development in the context of disaster, war, and terrorism: pathways of risk and resilience.
  Annual review of psychology 2011 Masten AS, Narayan AJ