Barber, B. K., McNeely, C. M., El Sarraj, E., Daher, M., Giacaman, R., Arafat, C., Barnes, W., & Abu Mallouh, M. (2016). Identifying mental suffering in context: Feeling broken or destroyed. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0156216. (May 27, 2016).

Barber, B. K., McNeely, Allen, C., Giacaman, R., Daher, M., Arafat, C., Belli, R. F., El Sarraj, E., & Abu Mallouh, M. (2016). Whither the “Children of the Stone”: An entire life under occupation. Journal of Palestine Studies. 45 (2). 178, 77-108.

McNeely, C. M., Barber, B.K., Giacaman, R., Belli, R.F, & Daher, M. (2018). Long-term health consequences of movement restrictions during political conflict. American Journal of Public Health. 108, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): pp. 77-83.

Barber, B. K., Spellings, C., McNeely, C., Page, P. D., Giacaman, R., Arafat, C., Daher, M., El Sarraj, E., & Abu Mallouh, M. (2014). Politics drives human functioning, dignity, and quality of life. Social Science & Medicine. 122, 90-102.

Barber, B. K., Spellings, C., McNeely, C., Page, P. D., Giacaman, R., Arafat, C., Daher, M., El Sarraj, E., & Abu Mallouh, M. (2014). Politics drives human functioning, dignity, and quality of life. Social Science & Medicine. 122, 90-102.

McNeely, C. Barber, B. K., Spellings, C., Giacaman, R., Arafat, C., Daher, M., El Sarraj, E., & Abu Mallouh, M. (2014): Human insecurity, chronic economic constraints and health in the occupied Palestinian territory. Global Public Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice.

Spellings, C. R., Barber, B. K., Olsen, J. A. (2012). Political activism of Palestinian youth: Exploring individual, parental, and ecological factors. Journal of Marriage and Family, 74 (5), 1084 – 1100.

Barber, B. K., Xia, M., Olsen, J. A., McNeely, C., & Bose, K. (2012). Feeling disrespected by parents: Refining the measurement and understanding of psychological control. Journal of Adolescence, 35, 273-287.

Barber, B. K. (2008). Contrasting portraits of war: Youths’ varied experiences with political violence in Bosnia and Palestine. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 32 (4), 298–309.

Barber, B. K. (2001). Political violence, social integration, and youth functioning: Palestinian youth from the Intifada. Journal of Community Psychology, 29, 259-280.

Barber, B. K. (2000). What has become of the “Children of the Stone”? Palestine-Israel Journal, VI, 7-15.

Barber, B. K. (1999). Political violence, family relations, and Palestinian child functioning. Journal of Adolescent Research, 14, 206-230.

Barber, B. K. (1997). Palestinian children and adolescents during and after the Intifada. Palestine-Israel Journal 4 (1), 23-33.

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., & 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., & 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. (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. (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. (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.

Barber, B. K., McNeely, C.M., Allen, C., & Belli, R.F. (2017). Adult functioning in the occupied Palestinian territory: a survey and event history calendar assessment. The Lancet.

Barber, B.K., El Sarraj, E., McNeely, C.M, Daher, M, Giacaman, R., Arafat, C. Barnes, W., & Spellings, C.S. (2017) Contextualised suffering in the occupied Palestinian territory: a mixed methods study. The Lancet.

Barber, B. K., El Sarraj, E., McNeely, C., Daher, M., Giacaman, R., Arafat, C., Barnes, W., & Abu Mallouh, M. (2016). The Lancet.

Feeling broken or destroyed: A mixed-methods study of contextualized suffering in the oPt. The Lancet.

McNeely, C., Barber, B. K., Giacaman, R., El Sarraj, E., Daher, M., Arafat, C., Abu-Mallouh, M., & Belli, R. (2015). Long- term consequences of political imprisonment for men in the oPt: A retrospective cohort study. The Lancet,

Barber, B. K., McNeely, C., Olsen, J. A., Spellings, C., & Belli, R. F. (2014). Health of Palestinians and chronic humiliation – Authors’ reply. The Lancet, 383, Issue 9924, pp. 106-1207.

Barber, B. K. (2014). Abandoned Yet Central: Gaza and the Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, in Proceedings of 2014 MESA Panel on Gaza. Journal of Palestine Studies.

Barber, B. K., McNeely, C., Olsen, J. A., Spellings, C., & Belli, R. F. (2013). Effect of chronic exposure to humiliation on wellbeing in the occupied Palestinian territory: an event-history analysis. The Lancet, 382, Supplement 4(0), S7.

McNeely, C., Barber, B. K., Spellings, C., Giacaman, R., Arafat, C., El Sarraj, E., Abu Mallouh, M. (2013). Prediction of health with human insecurity and chronic economic constraints in the occupied Palestinian territory: a cross-sectional survey. The Lancet, 382, S25.

This project, (2009 – 2017), was funded by the Jacobs Foundation, Switzerland. It focused on the cohort of first Palestinian uprising youth, now in their 40s, and was designed to assess the current wellbeing of this cohort and if and how their experiences during that 6-year uprising have impacted them as adults. Group interviews were conducted with 68 males and females, and home interviews including a well-being survey and an event history calendar, with 1,880 males and females in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. To date, finding have included charting patterns of activism and harsh treatment over time, documenting the central role of politics in wellbeing, long-term effects of imprisonment and mobility restrictions, identification of a unique form of mental suffering linked to being under occupation.
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This study, (1998 – 2000), was funded by Brigham Young University and the Social Sciences Research Council. It included group interviews with scores of youth and surveys of approximately 1,000 youth in the Gaza Strip and Sarajevo, Bosnia. The data included thorough assessments of the large variety of types of activism and harsh treatment adolescents experienced during their respective multi-year periods of conflict. Findings showed higher overall functioning of Gazan youth compared to Bosnian youth.
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This project, (1994 – 1995), was funded by Brigham Young University and was designed to assess the wellbeing of Palestinian parents and youth one year after the end of the first Palestinian uprising of 1987-93. Extensive surveys were administered to a total of 7,000 families (mother, father, adolescent) in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Findings documented high participation in the uprising from youth and parents and showed high levels of competent functioning psychologically and socially.
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