Publications by Larissa G. Duncan

• Fairchild, L. & Duncan, L. G. (2025). “I now see my toddler as a helper, not just somebody in need of help”: Raising Helpful Toddlers training. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 70 (1st Quarter 2025), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecre...
• Kerr, M. L., Botto, I., Byer, K., & Duncan, L. G. (2025). Critical socialization in white families: Lessons learned from an antiracist parenting program. Family Relations, 74(4), 1654-1676. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.13153
• Laurent, H. K., Haigler, K. L., Sbrilli, M. D., Suzuki, K., & Duncan, L.G. (2025). The relational dimension in mindfulness intervention effects: Results of a randomized controlled trial of Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting. BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth, 25, 560. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-025-07676-z
• Huynh, T., Kerr, M. L., Kim, C., Fourianalistyawati, E., Chang, V., & Duncan, L. G. (2024). Parental reflective capacities: A scoping review of mindful parenting and parental reflective functioning. Mindfulness, 15(7), 1531-1602. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-024-02379-6 PMCID: PMC11426413
  
• Kamsickas, L., Stephens, J. E., Jackson, K., Heard-Garris, N., Bussolari, C. J., Vo, D. X., Moskowitz, J. T., & Duncan, L. G. (2024). Coping and Emotional Development for Adolescents to Reduce Stress (CEDARS): Pilot test of a school-based positive psychological intervention for adolescents. Discover Education, 3, 270. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44217-024-00370-w
• Duncan, L. G., Zhang, N., Santana, T., Cook, J. G., Castro-Smyth, L., Hutchison, M., S., Huynh, T., Mallareddy, D., Jurkiewicz, L., & Bardacke, N. (2023). Enhancing prenatal group medical visits with mindfulness skills: A pragmatic trial with Latina and BIPOC pregnant women experiencing multiple forms of structural inequity. Mindfulness, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-023-02227-z NIHMS ID: NIHMS2021677
  
• Zhang, D., Tsang, K.W.K., Duncan, L.G. et al. (2023). Effects of the Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) Program Among Pregnant Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Mindfulness, 14, 50–65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-02046-8
• Corthorn, C., Duncan, L. G., Manzi, J., & Pedrero, V. (2022). Psychometric Properties of the Spanish-language Version of the Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting (IM-P) Scale among Mothers of Preschool Children in Chile. CES Psicología, 15(2), 44-60. https://dx.doi.org/10.21615/cesp.5820
• Duncan, L. G., & Huynh, T. (2021). 32.4 A Scoping Review of Mindful Parenting Research. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 60(10), S48-S49.
• Lippold, M.A., Jensen, T.M., Duncan, L.G. et al. (2021). Mindful Parenting, Parenting Cognitions, and Parent-Youth Communication: Bidirectional Linkages and Mediational Processes. Mindfulness, 12, 381–391. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-019-01119-5
• Park, Y.R., Nix, R.L., Duncan, L.G., Coatsworth, J.D., & Greenberg, M.T. (2020). Unfolding Relations among Mindful Parenting, Recurrent Conflict, and Adolescents’ Externalizing and Internalizing Problems. Family Process, 59(4), 1690-1705. doi:10.1111/famp.12498.
• Sbrilli, M. D., Duncan, L. G., & Laurent, H. K. (2020). Effects of prenatal mindfulness-based childbirth education on child-bearers’ trajectories of distress: a randomized control trial. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 20, 623. doi:10.1186/s12884-020-03318-8
• Selman, S. B., Dilworth-Bart, J., Selman, S., Cook, J. G., Duncan, L. G. (2020). Skin-to-skin contact and infant emotional and cognitive development in chronic perinatal distress. Early Human Development, 151, 105182. doi:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2020.105182
• Weng, H. Y., Ikeda, M. P., Lewis-Peacock, J. A., Chao, M. T., Fullwiley, D., Goldman, V., Skinner, S., Duncan, L. G., Gazzaley, A., & Hecht, F. M. (2020). Toward a Compassionate Intersectional Neuroscience: Increasing Diversity and Equity in Contemplative Neuroscience. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 573134. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.573134 PMCID: PMC7711109
• Weng, H. Y., Lewis-Peacock, J. A., Hecht, F. M., Uncapher, M. R., Ziegler, D. A., Farb, N. A. S., Goldman, V., Skinner, S., Duncan, L. G., Chao, M. T., Gazzaley, A. (2020). Focus on the Breath: Brain Decoding Reveals Internal States of Attention During Meditation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14(336). doi:10.3389/fnhum.2020.00336
• Duncan, L. G., & Bardacke, N. (2019). Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting [E-book]. Handbook of Mindfulness-Based Programmes: Mindfulness Interventions from Education to Health and Therapy. Routledge.
• Kim, E., Krägeloh, C. U., Medvedev, O. N., Duncan, L. G., & Singh, N. N. (2019). Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting scale: Testing the psychometric properties of a Korean version. Mindfulness, 10(3), 516-528. doi:10.1007/s12671-018-0993-1
• Lippold, M. A., Jensen, T. M., Duncan, L. G., Nix, R. L., Coatsworth, J. D., & Greenberg, M. T. (2019). Mindful parenting, parenting cognitions, and parent-youth communication: Bidirectional linkages and mediational processes. Mindfulness, 1-11. doi:10.1007/s12671-019-01119-5
• Sacristan-Martin, O., Santed, M. A., Garcia-Campayo, J., Duncan, L. G., Bardacke, N., Fernandez-Alonso, C., ... Montero-Marin, J. (2019) A mindfulness and compassion-based programme applied to pregnant women and their partners to decrease depression symptoms during pregnancy and postpartum: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 20, 654. doi:10.1186/s13063-019-3739-z PMCID: PMC6956498
• Brophy-Herb, H. E., Williamson, A. C., Cook, G. A., Torquati, J., Decker, K. B., Vu, J., Vallotton, C. D., Duncan, L. G., & The Collaborative for Understanding the Pedagogy of Infant/Toddler Development. (2018). Preservice students’ dispositional mindfulness and developmentally supportive practices with infants and toddlers. Mindfulness, 10(4), 759–68.
• Coatsworth, J. D., Timpe, Z., Nix, R. L., Duncan, L. G., & Greenberg, M. T. (2018). Changes in mindful parenting: Associations with changes in parenting, parent-youth relationship quality, and youth behavior. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 9(4), 511-529. doi:10.1086/701148
• Hecht, F. M., Moskowitz, J. T., Moran, P., Epel, E. S., Bacchetti, P., Acree, M., Kemeny, M. E., Mendes, W. B., Duncan, L. G., Weng, H., Levy, J. A., Deeks, S. G., & Folkman, S. (2018). A randomized, controlled trial of mindfulness-based stress reduction in HIV infection. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 73, 331-339. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2018.05.017
• Hoskins, D., Duncan, L. G., Moskowitz, J. T., & Ordóñez, A. E. (2017) Positive Adaptations for Trauma and Healing (PATH), a pilot study of group therapy with Latino youth. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy. doi:10.1037/tra0000285
• Lo, H. H. M., Yeung, J. W. K., Duncan, L. G., Ma, Y., Siu, A. F. Y., Chan, S. K. C., Choi, C. W., Szeto, M. P., Chow, K. K. W, & Ng, S. M. (2018). Validating of the interpersonal mindfulness in parenting scale in Hong Kong Chinese. Mindfulness, 9(5), 1390-1401.
• Vieten, C., Laraia, B. A., Kristeller, J., Adler, N., Coleman-Phox, K., Bush, N. R., Wahbeh, H., Duncan, L. G. & Epel, E. (2018). The mindful moms training: Development of a mindfulness-based intervention to reduce stress and overeating during pregnancy. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 18(1). doi:10.1186/s12884-018-1757-6
• Duncan, L. G., Cohn, M. A., Chao, M. T., Cook, J. G., Riccobono, J., & Bardacke, N. (2017). Benefits of preparing for childbirth with mindfulness training: A randomized controlled trial with active comparison. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 17(1), 140.  doi: 10.1186/s12884-017-1319-3
• Henje Blom, E., Tymofiyeva, O., Chesney, M. A., Ho, T. C., Moran, P., Connolly, C. G., Duncan, L. G., Baldini, L., Weng, H. Y., Acree, M., Goldman, V., Hecht, F. M., & Yang, T. T. (2017). Feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a novel RDoc-based treatment program for adolescent depression: “Training for Awareness Resilience and Action”(Tara)—a pilot study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 7, 208. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00208
• Laurent, H. K., Duncan, L. G., Lightcap, A., & Khan, F. (2017). Mindful parenting predicts mothers' and infants' hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity during a dyadic stressor. Developmental Psychology, 53(3), 417. doi:10.1037/dev0000258
• Liu, R., Chao, M. T., Jostad-Laswell, A., & Duncan, L. G. (2017). Does CenteringPregnancy Group prenatal care affect the birth experience of underserved Women? A mixed methods analysis. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 1-8. doi:10.1007/s10903-016-0371-9
• Moskowitz, J. T., Carrico, A. W., Duncan, L. G., Cohn, M. A., Cheung, E. O., Batchelder, A., Martinez, L., Segawa, E., Acree, M. & Folkman, S. (2017). Randomized controlled trial of a positive affect intervention for people newly diagnosed with HIV. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 85(5), 409. doi:10.1037/ccp0000188
• Nancy Bardacke, C. N. M., & Duncan, L. G. (2016). Part A: CenteringPregnancy with mindfulness skills: Enhancing the thread of presence. The CenteringPregnancy Model: The Power of Group Health Care, 190.
• Shaddix, C., & Duncan, L. G. (2016). Mindful parenting begins at the beginning. In Ivtzan, I. & Lomas, T. (Eds.), Mindfulness in Positive Psychology: The Science of Meditation and Wellbeing. London: Routledge.
• Veringa, I. K., de Bruin, E. I., Bardacke, N., Duncan, L. G., van Steensel, F. J., Dirksen, C. D., & Bögels, S. M. (2016). ‘I’ve Changed My Mind’, Mindfulness-Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) for pregnant women with a high level of fear of childbirth. BMC Psychiatry, 16(1), 377. doi:10.1186/s12888-016-1070-8 
• Chao, M. T., Abercrombie, P. D., Santana, T., & Duncan, L. G. (2015). Applying the RE-AIM framework to evaluate integrative medicine group visits among diverse women with chronic pelvic pain. Pain Management Nursing, 16(6), 920-929. doi:10.1016/j.pmn.2015.07.007
• Coatsworth, J. D., Duncan, L. G., Nix, R. L., Greenberg, M. T., Gayles, J. G., Bamberger, K. T., Berrena, E., & Demi, M. A. (2015). Integrating mindfulness with parent training: Effects of the mindfulness-enhanced strengthening families program. Developmental Psychology, 51(1), 26. doi:10.1037/a0038212
• Duncan, L. G., & Shaddix, C. (2015). Mindfulness-based childbirth and parenting (MBCP): Innovation in birth preparation to support healthy, happy families. International Journal of Birth and Parent Education, 2(2), 30. PMCID: PMC5645068
• Duncan, L. G., Coatsworth, J. D., Gayles, J. G., Geier, M. H., & Greenberg, M. T. (2015). Can mindful parenting be observed? Relations between observational ratings of mother–youth interactions and mothers’ self-report of mindful parenting. Journal of Family Psychology, 29(2), 276. doi:10.1037/a0038857
• Lippold, M. A., Duncan, L. G., Coatsworth, J. D., Nix, R. L., & Greenberg, M. T. (2015). Understanding how mindful parenting may be linked to mother–adolescent communication. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 44(9), 1663-1673. doi:10.1007/s10964-015-0325-x  PMCID: PMC4563867 
• Moskowitz, J. T., Duncan, L. G., Moran, P. J., Acree, M., Espel, E. S., Kemeny, M. E., Hecht, F. M., & Folkman, S. (2015). Dispositional mindfulness in people with HIV: Associations with psychological and physical health. Personality and Individual Differences, 86, 88-93. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.05.039
• Bardacke, N., & Duncan, L. G. (2014). Mindfulness-based childbirth and parenting: Cultivating inner resources for the transition to parenthood and beyond. In Baer, R. A. (Eds.) Mindfulness-based treatment approaches (2nd ed.) (213-237). Amsterdam: Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-416031-6.00010-4
• Chao, M. T., Abercrombie, P. D., Duncan, L. G., Santana, T., & Chang, A. M. (2014). Feasibility and preliminary effects of centering for chronic pelvic pain: Integrative group visits for medically underserved women. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 20(5), A70-A71. doi:10.1089/acm.2014.5184.abstract
• Coatsworth, J. D., Duncan, L. G., Berrena, E., Bamberger, K. T., Loeschinger, D., Greenberg, M. T., & Nix, R. L. (2014). The Mindfulness‐Enhanced Strengthening Families Program: Integrating brief mindfulness activities and parent training within an evidence‐based prevention program. New Directions for Student Leadership, 2014(142), 45-58. doi:10.1002/yd.20096
• de Bruin, E. I., Zijlstra, B. J., Geurtzen, N., van Zundert, R. M., van de Weijer-Bergsma, E., Hartman, E. E., Nieuwesteeg, Duncan, L. G., & Bögels, S. M. (2014). Mindful parenting assessed further: Psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting Scale (IM-P). Mindfulness, 5(2), 200-212. doi:10.1007/s12671-012-0168-4 PMCID: PMC4130420
• Duncan, L., Cohn, M., Chao, M., Cook, J., Riccobono, J., & Bardacke, N. (2014). Mind in labor: Effects of mind/body training on childbirth appraisals and pain medication use during labor. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 20(5), A17-A17. doi:10.1089/acm.2014.5040.abstract
• Henje Blom, E., Duncan, L. G., Ho, T. C., Connolly, C. G., LeWinn, K. Z., Chesney, M., Hecht, F. M, & Yang, T. T. (2014). The development of an RDoC-based treatment program for adolescent depression: “Training for Awareness, Resilience, and Action”(TARA). Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 630. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00630 PMCID: PMC4137278 
• Ho, T. C., Yang, G., Wu, J., Cassey, P., Brown, S. D., Hoang, N., Chan, M., Connolly, C. G., Henje-Blom, E., Duncan, L. G., Chesney, M. A., Paulus, M. P., Max, J., Patel, R., Simmons, A. N., & Yang, T. T. (2014). Functional connectivity of negative emotional processing in adolescent depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 155, 65-74. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2013.10.025 PMCID: PMC4961511
• Moskowitz J. T., Carrico A. W., Cohn M. A., Duncan L. G., Bussolari C., Layous K., Hult J. R., Brousset A., Cotten P., Maurer S., Pietrucha M. E., Acree M., Wrubel J., Johnson M. O., Hecht F. M., Folkman S. (2014). Randomized controlled trial of a positive affect intervention to reduce stress in people newly diagnosed with HIV; protocol and design for the IRISS study. Open Access Journal of Clinical Trials, 6, 85-100. doi:10.2147/OAJCT.S6464
  
• Moskowitz, J., Carrico, A., Cohn, M., Duncan, L. G., Bussolari, C., Layous, K., Hult, J., Brousset, A., Cotten, P., Maurer, S., Pietrucha, M., Acree, M., Wrubel, J., Johnson, M., Hecht, F., & Folkman, S. (2014). Randomized controlled trial of a positive affect intervention to reduce stress in people newly diagnosed with HIV; protocol and design for the IRISS study. Open Access Journal of Clinical Trials, 6, 85-100. https://doi.org/10.2147/OAJCT....
• Chao, M. T., Abercrombie, P. D., & Duncan, L. G. (2012). Centering as a model for group visits among women with chronic pelvic pain. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 41(5), 703-710. doi:10.1111/j.1552-6909.2012.01406.x
• Duncan, L. G., Moskowitz, J. T., Neilands, T. B., Dilworth, S. E., Hecht, F. M., & Johnson, M. O. (2012). Mindfulness-based stress reduction for HIV treatment side effects: A randomized, wait-list controlled trial. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 43(2), 161-171. doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2011.04.007
• Bränström, R., Duncan, L. G., & Moskowitz, J. T. (2011). The association between dispositional mindfulness, psychological well‐being, and perceived health in a Swedish population‐based sample. British Journal of Health Psychology, 16(2), 300-316. doi:10.1348/135910710X501683
• Moskowitz, J. T., Hult, J. R., Duncan, L. G., Cohn, M. A., Maurer, S., Bussolari, C., & Acree, M. (2011). A positive affect intervention for people experiencing health-related stress: Development and non-randomized pilot test. Journal of Health Psychology, 17(5), 676-692. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105311425275
• Coatsworth, J. D., Duncan, L. G., Greenberg, M. T., & Nix, R. L. (2010). Changing parent’s mindfulness, child management skills and relationship quality with their youth: Results from a randomized pilot intervention trial. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 19(2), 203-217. doi:10.1007/s10826-009-9304-8
• Duncan, L. G., & Bardacke, N. (2010). Mindfulness-based childbirth and parenting education: Promoting family mindfulness during the perinatal period. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 19(2), 190-202. doi:10.1007/s10826-009-9313-7
• Duncan, L. G., Coatsworth, J. D., & Greenberg, M. T. (2009). Pilot study to gauge acceptability of a mindfulness-based, family-focused preventive intervention. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 30(5), 605-618. doi:10.1007/s10935-009-0185-9
• Duncan, L. G., Coatsworth, J. D., & Greenberg, M. T. (2009). A model of mindful parenting: Implications for parent–child relationships and prevention research. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 12(3), 255-270. doi:10.1007/s10567-009-0046-3
• Hughes, A., Williams, M., Bardacke, N., Duncan, L. G., Dimidjian, S., & Goodman, S. H. (2009). Mindfulness approaches to childbirth and parenting. British Journal of Midwifery, 17(10), 630-635. PMCID: PMC3846392
• Dariotis, J. K., Bumbarger, B. K., Duncan, L. G., & Greenberg, M. T. (2008). How do implementation efforts relate to program adherence? Examining the role of organizational, implementer, and program factors. Journal of Community Psychology, 36(6), 744-760. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.20255