BLESSED Publications
Publications: *denotes senior author; +denotes mentee
i. Original Papers in Refereed Journals (35 total; 15 first author; 3 senior author)
1. Chavez F, +Farrise Beauvoir K, +Agbeli A, +Coffey S, Aron E, *Coates EE. Bridging the gap: A cross-cultural examination of PCIT training experiences across Black, White, Asian, and Multiracial clinicians. Front Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2025 Sept. In Press.
2. Philipp DA, Mazzoni S, Hedenbro M, Tissot H, Darwiche J, Keren M, Collins R, Salman-Engin S, Coates EE, Marchesi M, Corboz-Warnery A, Fivaz-Depeursinge E, McHale J. Enhancing coparenting using video feedback: Consensus guidelines for preschool families. Family Relations. 2025 July. In Press.
3. Coates EE, +de Heer R, Porter SC, +Watson A, +Curtis L, +McLeod A, Dunbar A. Pandemic-related stressors and Black mothers’ mental health. J Black Psych. 2025 June;51(3): 316-358. https://doi.org/10.1177/00957984241311773
4. Tissot H, Darwiche J, McHale JP, Coates EE, Corboz-Warnery A, Fivaz-Depeursinge E, Collins R, Mazzoni S, Hedenbro M, Keren M, Mensi M, Marchesi M, Salman Engin S, & Philipp DA. Beyond the mother-child dyad: An example of integrating co-parenting into psychological care for young children. Psychothérapies. 2025 Jan;44(4): 264‑281. doi: 10.3917/psys.244.0264
5. Coates EE, +Brumley C, +McLeod A, Barclay Hoffman S, +Tall JN, Charlot-Swilley D, +Farrise Beauvoir K. “My anxiety has been heightened”: Black mothers’ concerns regarding children’s return to in-person learning following COVID-19 related remote learning. J Black Stud. 2024 Nov;0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00219347241293799
6. Coates EE, +Coffey S, +Farrise Beauvoir K, Aron E, +Hayes KR, Chavez FT. Black clinicians’ perceptions of the cultural relevance of parent-child interaction therapy for Black families. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Oct;21(10):1327. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21101327
7. Coates EE, +Moore C, +de Heer R, +Brumley C, +Prudhomme A, +Edwards L, +Curtis L. Black mothers’ ethnic-racial socialization one year after highly publicized anti-Black murders during the pandemic. J Res Adolesc. 2024 Sep;34(3):831-844. doi: 10.1111/jora.12948. Epub 2024 Apr 24. PMID: 38655815; PMCID: PMC11349461.
8. Coates EE, +de Heer R, +McLeod A., +Farrise Beauvoir K. Black parents’ rationales for using specific ethnic-racial socialization strategies with young children. J Black Psychology. 2024 Aug;0(0) https://doi.org/10.1177/00957984241273304
9. Coates EE, +McLeod A, +de Heer R. Black Americans’ racism-based traumatic stress reactions following the January 6 capitol insurrection. J Black Psychology. 2024 Aug;0(0) https://doi.org/10.1177/00957984241269986
10. Coates EE, +Watson A, +McLeod A, +de Heer R, +Edwards L, +Smith B. Preparation for bias decisions and conversations with young children following the murder of George Floyd. J Child Fam Stud. 2024 Jun;33(6):1726-1740. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02849-4
11. +Moore C, *Coates EE, +Watson A, +de Heer R, +McLeod A, +Prudhomme A. “It’s important to work with people that look like me”: Black patients’ preferences for patient-provider race concordance. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2023 Oct;10(5):2552-2564. doi: 10.1007/s40615-022-01435-y. Epub 2022 Nov 7. PMID: 36344747; PMCID: PMC9640880.
12. McHale J, Tissot H, Mazzoni S, Hedenbro M, Salman-Engin S, Philipp DA, Dawrwiche J, Keren M, Collins R, Coates EE, Mensi M, Corboz-Warnery A, Fivaz-Depeursinge E. Framing the work: A coparenting model for guiding infant mental health engagement with families. Infant Ment Health J. 2023 Sep;44(5):638-650. doi: 10.1002/imhj.22083. Epub 2023 Aug 22. PMID: 37608513.
13. Murry VM, Gonzalez CM, Debreaux ML, Coates EE, Berkel C. Implications of built and social environments on academic success among African American youth: Testing Strong African American Families intervention effects on parental academic racial socialization. Front Psychol. 2023 Aug;14(0):956804. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.956804. PMID: 37655195; PMCID: PMC10467428.
14. Coates EE, +Hayes KR, +de Heer R, +McLeod A, +Curtis L, Domitrovich CE, Biel MG. “It was just good to have an outlet for other parents to talk to”: Feasibility and acceptability of integrating mental health and wellness services into predominantly Black early childhood education centers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2023 Jul 3. doi: 10.1007/s10578-023-01563-4. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37395925.
15. Robertson HA, Biel MG, Hayes KR, Snowden S, Curtis L, Charlot-Swilley D, Clauson ES, Gavins A, Sisk CM, Bravo N, Coates EE, Domitrovich CE. Leveraging the expertise of the community: A case for expansion of a peer workforce in child, adolescent, and family mental health. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 May 23;20(11):5921. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20115921. PMID: 37297524; PMCID: PMC10252488.
16. Coates EE, +de Heer R, +McLeod A, Porter SC, Barclay Hoffman S. “Shouldn’t nobody make a woman do what they don’t want to do with their body”: Black women’s reactions to the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2024 Apr;11(2):968-979. doi: 10.1007/s40615-023-01577-7. Epub 2023 Mar 28. PMID: 36976512.
17. +Gallego Clemmons N, *Coates EE, McLeod A. Understanding the benefits of child-parent psychotherapy delivered via telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Child Health Care. 2024;53(1):41-59. Feb 23:1-19. doi: 10.1080/02739615.2023.2179489. Epub 2023 Feb 23.
18. Long M, Coates EE, Price OA, Barclay Hoffman S. Mitigating the impact of coronavirus disease-2019 on child and family behavioral health: Suggested policy approaches. J Pediatr. 2022 Jun;245:15-21. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.02.009. Epub 2022 Feb 10. PMID: 35151683; PMCID: PMC8828438.
19. Murry VM, Gonzalez CM, Hanebutt RA, Bulgin D, Coates EE, Inniss-Thompson MN, Debreaux ML, Wilson WE, Abel D, Cortez MB. Longitudinal study of the cascading effects of racial discrimination on parenting and adjustment among African American youth. Attach Hum Dev. 2022 Jun;24(3):322-338. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2021.1976926. Epub 2021 Oct 26. PMID: 34697999.
20. Lane A Jr, Gavins A, Watson A, Domitrovich CE, Oruh CM, Morris C, Boogaard C, Sherwood C, Sharp DN, Charlot-Swilley D, Coates EE, Mathis E, Avent G, Robertson H, Le HN, Williams JC, Hawkins J, Patterson J, Ouyang JX, Hartz KA, Beers LS, Cole L, Biel MG, Bodrick NI, Bravo N, Baylor RS, Arbit R, Zuskov SF, Hoffman SB, McPherson SKL, Singh S, Greer SE, Banks-Mackey SN, Caleb S, Thomas S, Brent T, Spencer T. Advancing antiracism in community-based research practices in early childhood and family mental health. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2022 Jan;61(1):15-22. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2021.06.018. Epub 2021 Jul 22. PMID: 34303784.
21. Dunbar AS, Ahn LH, Coates EE, Smith-Bynum MA. Observed dyadic racial socialization disrupts the association between frequent discriminatory experiences and emotional reactivity among Black adolescents. Child Dev. 2022 Jan;93(1):39-57. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13680. Epub 2021 Sep 29. PMID: 34585381; PMCID: PMC8865630.
22. Ahn LH, Dunbar AS, Coates EE, Smith-Bynum MA. Cultural and universal parenting, ethnic identity, and internalizing symptoms among African American adolescents. J Black Psychology. 2021 July;47(8):695-717. doi:10.1177/00957984211034290
23. Hart JR, Coates EE, Smith-Bynum MA. Parenting style and parent-adolescent relationship quality in African American mother-adolescent dyads. Parenting. 2019 Oct; 19(4): 318-340. doi: 10.1080/15295192.2019.1642085
24. Coates EE, +Tran Q, Le Y, Phares V. Parenting, coparenting, and adolescent adjustment in African American single-mother families: An actor-partner interdependence mediation model. J Fam Psychol. 2019 Sep;33(6):649-660. doi: 10.1037/fam0000552. Epub 2019 Jul 8. PMID: 31282693.
25. Coates EE, Phares V. Pathways linking nonresident father involvement and child outcomes. J Child Fam Stud. 2019 Mar;28(6):1681-1694. doi: 10.1007/s10826-019-01389-6. PubMed PMID: 2019-16580-001.
26. Coates EE, McHale JP. Triangular interactions of unmarried African American mothers and fathers with their 3-month-old infants. J Child Fam Stud. 2018 Oct;27(10):3096-3106. doi: 10.1007/s10826-018-1082-8. PubMed PMID: 2018-13798-001.
27. Tan SY, Steding LH, Coates EE, Agazzi H. Parent-child interaction therapy and ADHD: A case study with a hearing child of a deaf father and a hearing mother. Child Fam Behav Ther. 2018 Jan;40(1):65-83. doi: 10.1080/07317107.2018.1428071. PubMed PMID: 2018-09786-004.
28. Clay D, Coates EE, Tran Q, Phares V. Fathers’ and mothers’ emotional accessibility and youth’s developmental outcomes. Am J Fam Ther. 2017 Mar;45(2):111-22. doi: 10.1080/01926187.2017.1303651. PubMed PMID: 2017-17298-003.
29. Stover CS, Coates EE. The relationship of reflective functioning to parent child interactions in a sample of fathers with concurrent intimate partner violence perpetration and substance abuse problems. J Fam Violence. 2016 May;31(4):433-42. doi: 10.1007/s10896-015-9775-x. PubMed PMID: 2015-42037-001.
30. Thurston IB, Phares V, Coates EE, Bogart LM. Child problem recognition and help-seeking intentions among Black and White parents. J Clin Child and Adolesc Psychol. 2015 Jul;44(4):604-15. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2014.883929. PubMed PMID: 2015-21362-008.
31. Landers MD, Mitchell O, Coates EE. Teenage fatherhood as a potential turning point in the lives of delinquent youth. J Child Fam Stud. 2015 Jun;24(6):1685-96. doi: 10.1007/s10826-014-9971-y. PubMed PMID: 2014-19644-001.
32. McHale JP, Coates EE. Observed coparenting and triadic dynamics in African American fragile families at 3 months’ postpartum. Infant Ment Health J. 2014 Sep;35(5):435-51. doi: 10.1002/imhj.21473. PubMed PMID: 2014-35373-001.
33. Coates EE, Phares V. Predictors of paternal involvement among nonresidential, Black fathers from low-income neighborhoods. Psychol Men Masculinity. 2014 Apr;15(2):138-51. doi: 10.1037/a0032790. PubMed PMID: 2013-24384-001.
34. Coates EE, Phares V, Dedrick RF. Psychometric properties of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale 10 among low-income, African American men. Psychol Assess. 2013 Dec;25(4):1349-54. doi: 10.1037/a0033434. PubMed PMID: 2013-23398-001.
35. Coates EE, Dinger T, +Donovan M, Phares V. Adult psychological distress and self-worth following child verbal abuse. J Aggression Maltreat Trauma. 2013 Apr;22(4):394-407. doi: 10.1080/10926771.2013.775981. PubMed PMID: 2013-15279-005.
ii. Reviews or Editorials in Refereed Journals
1. Williams JC., Andreou A, Lemelle T, Coates EE, Bostic, J. Editorial: Racial battle fatigue: The toll of policing Black students. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2022 Aug;61(8):977-979. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2022.04.006. Epub 2022 Apr 27. PMID: 35534316.
2. Biel MG, Coates EE. Editorial: Sharpening our focus on early adversity, development, and resilience through cross-national research. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2021 Feb;60(2):219-221. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2020.08.013. Epub 2020 Sep 2. PMID: 32890668.
3. Coates EE, Chen JI, Storch EA. A case of schizencephaly associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Ann Clin Psychiatry. 2013 May;25(2):151-2. PMID: 23638447.
iii. Refereed Chapters in Books
1. Chavez F, Onovbiona H, Coates EE, Farrise Beauvoir K, Aron E, (2025). Seeking new inroads for PCIT adaptation in supporting African American families: Unpacking and decentering PCIT’s Eurocentric origins as a call to arms for a collaborative social justice model of empowerment and racial trauma healing. In Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (Issues in Clinical Child Psychology) 3rd ed. 2024 Edition by Scudder, A.T., McNeil, C.B, Hembree-Kigin, T.L. Springer: New York.
2. Chavez F, Aron E, Onovbiona H, Coates EE, Schewitz S, Stypa NJ, Travis R, Farrise Beauvoir K. (2025). “Takin it to the streets … because if Mohamed won’t go to the PCIT mountain, then the PCIT mountain will have to go to Mohammed”: Community based initiatives in working with AA families in PCIT and TCIT. In Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (Issues in Clinical Child Psychology) 3rd ed. 2024 Edition by Scudder, A.T., McNeil, C.B, Hembree-Kigin, T.L. Springer: New York.
3. McHale JP, Coates EE, Collins R, Phares V. (2024). Coparenting Theory, Research, and Practice: Toward a Universal Infant–Family Mental Health Paradigm. In: Osofsky, J.D., Fitzgerald, H.E., Keren, M., Puura, K. (eds) WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48627-2_20
4. Coates EE, Ahn LH, Greene D, Dunbar A, Porter S, Small K, & Smith-Bynum MA. (2020). Risk and resilience in poor African American families: A process-oriented approach. In A. James (Ed.), Black Families: A Systems Approach. San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Press.
iv. Other Publications
1. Coates EE, Dorris CS, +McLeod A, +Farrise Beauvoir K. Ethnic-racial socialization in early childhood: Scoping review protocol. Protocols.io. October 2023. dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.q26g7pmq8gwz/v1