Books & Chapters

FORTHCOMING | No Way but Forward  is a narrative non-fiction telling the life stories of three families in the Gaza Strip that I’ve known for 25 years. The main protagonists are three men who were adolescents during the first intifada. The narrative traces their lives – and that of their families – through that movement and to the present as they have made life work in individual ways amidst the devastating decline of conditions in Gaza.

 

ADOLESCENTS AND WAR brings together world experts in an evidence-based volume to thoroughly understand and document the intricacies of youth who have had substantial involvement in political violence.

 

INTRUSIVE PARENTING: HOW PYSCHOLOGICAL CONTROL AFFECTS CHILDREN & ADOLESCENTS focuses on parental psychological control, or intrusive, inhibiting, and manipulative parental behaviors and interaction patterns that negatively affect healthy child development. Contributors comprehensively review new and original research and present new methodologies and findings that enhance the further study of this important component of the socialization of children.

 

PARENTAL SUPPORT, PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTROL, AND BEHAVIORAL CONTROL presents three central dimensions of parenting – support, behavioral control, and psychological control – have been consistently identified in research as relevant to adolescent functioning, but they have not often been studied jointly. This monograph reported on research that did so and tested unique effects of the dimensions in data from adolescents in 11 cultures across the world.

Barber, B. K., & Doty, S. B. (2013). Can a majority be resilient? The questionable utility of the construct of resilience for understanding youth in contexts of political conflict. In C. Fernando and M. Ferrari (Eds.), The handbook on resilience in children of war. NY: Springer.

Barber, B. K., & Xia, M. (2013). The centrality of control to parenting and its effects. In R. E. Larzelere, A. S. Morris, & A. W.Harrist (Eds.), New Directions for Authoritative Parenting. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press. 

Barber, B. K. (2009). Glimpsing the complexity of youth and political violence. In B. K. Barber (Ed.), Adolescents and war: How youth deal with political violence. pp. 3-32. NY: Oxford University Press. 

Barber, B. K. (2009). Making sense and no sense of war: Issues of identity and meaning in adolescents’ experience with political conflict. In B. K. Barber (Ed.), Adolescents and war: How youth deal with political violence. pp. 281-311. NY: Oxford University Press. 

Barber, B.K. (2009). Adolescents and political violence: Recommendations for continuing research. In B. K. Barber (Ed.), Adolescents and war: How youth deal with political violence. pp. 315-322. NY: Oxford University Press. 

Barber, B. K., & Olsen, J. A. (2009). Positive and negative psychosocial functioning after political conflict: Examining adolescents of the first Palestinian Intifada. In B. K. Barber (Ed.), Adolescents and war: How youth deal with political violence. pp. 207-237. NY: Oxford University Press. 

Barber, B. K., & Schluterman, J. M. (2009). Adolescents and political violence: A review of the empirical literature. In B. K. Barber (Ed.), Adolescents and war: How youth deal with political violence. pp. 35-61. NY: Oxford University Press. 

Barber B. K., & Olsen, J. A. (2006). Adolescents’ willingness to engage in political conflict: Lessons from the Gaza Strip. In J. Victoroff (Ed.), Tangled roots: Social and psychological factors in the genesis of terrorism. pp. 203-226. Amsterdam: IOS Press. 

Barber, B. K., Maughan, S. L., & Olsen, J. A. (2005). Patterns of parenting across adolescence. In J. G. Smetana (ed.), New Directions for Child Development: Changes in Parental Authority During Adolescence. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass. 

Barber, B. K. (2005). The Palestinian Intifada. In L. Sherrod, C. Flanagan, & R. Kassimir (Eds), Youth activism: An international encyclopedia. Volume 2. pp. 450-454. Westport: CT: Greenwood Publishing. 

Barber, B. K., Schluterman, J. M., Denny, E. S., & McCouch, R. M. (2005). Adolescents and political violence. In M. Fitzduff & C. Stout (Eds.), The psychology of resolving global conflicts: From war to peace. Volume 2: Group and social factors. Praeger Press: Westport, CT. 

Barber, B. K. (2005). Positive adolescent functioning: An assessment of measures across time and group. In K. A. Moore and L. Lippman (Eds.), What do children need to flourish? Conceptualizing and measuring indicators of positive development. Springer Science & Business Publishers. 

Bradford, K. P., Barber, B. K., Olsen, J. A., Maughan, S. L., Erickson, L. D., & Ward, D. (2005). When parents fight: A cross- national study of interparental conflict, parenting, and adolescent functioning. In G. W. Peterson, S. K. Steinmetz, & S. M. Wilson (Eds.). Parent-youth relations: Cultural and cross-cultural perspectives. pp. 99-127. New York, NY: Haworth Press. 

McClellan, C., Heaton, T. B., Forste, R., & Barber, B. K. (2005). Familial impacts on adolescent aggression and depression in Colombia. In G. W. Peterson, S. K. Steinmetz, & S. M. Wilson (Eds.). Parent-youth relations: Cultural and cross-cultural perspectives. pp. 261-286. New York, NY: Haworth Press. 

Stolz, H. E., Barber, B. K., Olsen, J. A., Erickson, L. D., Bradford, K. P., Maughan, S. L., & Ward, D. (2005). Family and school socialization and adolescent academic achievement: A cross-national dominance analysis of achievement predictors. In G. W. Peterson, S. K. Steinmetz, & S. M. Wilson (Eds.). Parent-youth relations: Cultural and cross-cultural perspectives. pp. 183-208. New York, NY: Haworth Press. 

Barber, B. K. (2002). Politics, politics, and more politics: Youth life experience in the Gaza Strip. In D. L. Bowen and E. Early (Eds.), Everyday life in the Muslim Middle East. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press. 

Barber, B. K. (2002). Re-introducing parental psychological. In B. K. Barber. (Ed.), Intrusive parenting: How psychological control affects children and adolescents. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press. 

Barber, B. K., & Harmon, E. (2002). Violating the self: Parental psychological control of children and adolescents. In B. K. Barber. (Ed.), Intrusive parenting: How psychological control affects children and adolescents. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press. 

Stone, G., Buehler, C., & Barber, B. K. (2002). Interparental conflict, parental psychological control, and youth problem behaviors. In B. K. Barber (Ed.), Intrusive parenting: How psychological control affects children and adolescents. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press. 

Barber, B. K., Bean, R. L., & Erickson, L. D. (2002). Expanding the study and understanding of psychological control. In B. K. Barber. (Ed.), Intrusive parenting: How psychological control affects children and adolescents. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press. 

Barber, B. K. (1999). Youth experience in the Palestinian intifada: Intensity, complexity, paradox, and competence. In M. Yates and J. Youniss (Eds.), Roots of Civic Identity: International perspectives on community service and activism in youth. (pp. 178-205) New York: Cambridge University Press.