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.

Hundreds of thousands of children are forced or legally recruited combatants in no fewer than 70 warring parties across the world. In addition to these child soldiers, thousands of youth voluntarily participate in politically related conflict. Why, how, and in what capacities are such large numbers of teenagers involved in war and how are they affected? 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.

Barber, B. K. (1996). Parental psychological control: Revisiting a neglected construct. Child Development, 67, 3296-3319.

Barber, B. K., Stolz, H. E., & Olsen, J. A. (2005). Parental support, psychological control, and behavioral control: Assessing relevance across time, method, and culture. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 70, No. 4.

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., McNeely, C. M. Doty, S. B., Belli, R. F., Shikaki, K., Hammad, O., & Ladeweh, W. (2016). Long-term exposure to political violence: The particular injury of persistent humiliation. Social Science & Medicine, 156, 154-166.

Barber, B. K., McNeely, C. M., El Sarraj, E., Daher, M., Giacaman, R., Arafat, C., Barnes, W., & Abu Mallouh, M. (2016). Mental suffering in protracted political conflict: Feeling broken or destroyed. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0156216.

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, 178, 77-108.

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. (2015). Political conflict and youth: Assessing the longer-term impact. Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (eds.) Robert Scott and Stephen Kosslyn, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-90077-2.

Hunter, S. B., Barber, B.K., & Stolz, H. E. (2015). Extending knowledge of parents’ role in adolescent development: The mediating effect of self-esteem. Journal of Child and Family Studies. 24(8). 2474-2484.

Barber, B. K. (2014). The politics of development. Human Development. 57. 319-321.

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. (2014). Youth and political conflict: Where are the Politics? Where are the Youth? Child Development Perspectives, 8(3). 125-130.

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.

Stolz, H. E., Olsen, J., Henke, T, & Barber, B. K. (2013). Adolescent religiosity and psychosocial functioning: Investigating the roles of religious tradition, national-ethnic group, and gender, Child Development Research. (2013).

Youniss, J., Barber, B. K., & Billen, R. M. (2013). Children in the garden of democracy: The meaning of civic engagement in today’s Egypt. Journal of Social Science Education. 12:1, 6-13.

Barber, B. K. (2013). Political conflict and youth. The Psychologist, 26. (May, 2013). 336-339.

Barber, B. K. (2013). Annual research review: The experience of youth with political conflict: Challenging notions of resilience and encouraging research refinement. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 54:4, 461-473.

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.

Henke, T. M, Stolz, H. E., & Barber, B. K. (2011). Adolescent religiosity and perceptions of parenting: Relationships with adolescent antisocial behavior and prosocial behavior. Family Science Review, 16, 44-58.

Hunter, S. B., Barber, B. K., Olsen, J. A., McNeely, C. A., & Bose, K. (2011). Adolescent self-disclosure to parents across cultures: Who discloses and why? (4), 447 - 478. Journal of Adolescent Research, 26.

Barber, B. K. (2010). The shifting complex of identity: Issues of individual and contextual change informing the narrative identities of conflict youth: Commentary on Hammack. Human Development, 53, 202-207.

Stolz, H.E., Olsen, J.A., Barber, B.K. & Clifford, L.M. (2010). Disentangling fathering and mothering: The role of youth personality. Fathering, 8(2), 163-180.

McNeely, C. M., & Barber, B.K. (2010). How do parents make adolescents feel loved? The perspective of adolescents from 12 cultures. Journal of Adolescent Research, 25, 601-631.

Barber, B. K., & Schluterman, J. M. (2008). Connectedness in the lives of children and adolescents: A call for greater conceptual clarity. Journal of Adolescent Health, 43, 209-216.

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.

Law, J. H., & Barber, B. K. (2006). Neighborhood conditions, parenting and adolescent functioning. Journal of Human Behavior and the Social Environment, 14, 91-118.

Bean, R. A., Barber, B. K., & Crane, R. D. (2006). Parental support, behavioral control, and psychological control among African American youth: The relationships to academic grades, delinquency, and depression. Journal of Family Issues, 27, 1335-1355.

Stolz, H. E., Barber, B. K., & Olsen, J. A. (2005). Disentangling fathering and mothering: An assessment of relative importance. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 67, 1076-1092.

Bradford, K. P., & Barber, B. K. (2005). Interparental Conflict as Intrusive Family Process. Journal of Emotional Abuse, 5, 145-170.

Krishnakumar, A., Buehler, C., & Barber, B. K. (2004). Cross-ethnic equivalence of socialization and interparental conflict measures in African American and European American families. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 66, 809-820.

Bradford, K. P., Barber, B. K., Olsen, J. A., Maughan, S. L., Erickson, L. D., & Ward, D. (2004). When parents fight: A cross- national study of interparental conflict, parenting, and adolescent functioning. Marriage and Family Review, 35, 107-138.

McClellan, C., Heaton, T. B., Forste, R., & Barber, B. K. (2004). Familial impacts on adolescent aggression and depression in Colombia. Marriage and Family Review, 36, 91-118.

Stolz, H. E., Barber, B. K., Olsen, J. A., Erickson, L. D., Bradford, K. P., Maughan, S. L., & Ward, D. (2004). Family and school socialization and adolescent academic achievement: A cross-national dominance analysis of achievement predictors. Marriage and Family Review, 36, 7-34.

Barber, B. K., & Olsen, J. A. (2004). Assessing the transitions to middle school and high school. Journal of Adolescent Research, 19, 3-30.

Krishnakumar, A., Buehler, C., & Barber, B. K. (2003). Youth perceptions of interparental conflict, ineffective parenting, and youth problem behaviors in European-American and African-American families. Journal of Personality and Social Relationships, 20, 239-260.

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., & Erickson, L. D. (2001). Adolescent social initiative: Antecedents in the ecology of social connections. Journal of Adolescent Research, 16, 326-354.

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.

Buehler, C., Krishnakumar, A., Stone, G., Anthony, C., Pemberton, S., Gerard, J., and Barber, B. K. (1998). Interparental conflict styles and youth problem behaviors: A two-sample replication study. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 60, 119- 132.

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

Barber, B. K. and Olsen, J. (1997). Socialization in context: Connection, regulation, and autonomy in the family, school, and neighborhood and with peers. Journal of Adolescent Research, 12 (2), 287-315.

Barber, B. K. (1997). Introduction: Adolescent socialization in context: Connection, regulation, and autonomy in multiple contexts. Journal of Adolescent Research, 12 (2), 173-177.

Barber, B. K. (1997). Introduction: Adolescent socialization in context - The role of connection, regulation, and autonomy in the family. Journal of Adolescent Research 12, (1), 5-11.

Barber, B. K. (1996). Parental psychological control: Revisiting a neglected construct. Child Development, 67, 3296-3319.

Barber, B. K., and Buehler, C. (1996). Family cohesion and enmeshment: Different constructs, different effects. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 58, 433-441.

Shagle, S. C., and Barber, B. K. (1995). A Social-Ecological Analysis of Adolescent Suicidal Ideation. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 65,114-124.

Barber, B. K. (1995). Cultural, family, and personal predictors of parent-adolescent conflict. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 56, 375-386. (1994). Reprinted in D. Demo & A. Ambert (Eds.), Parents and adolescents in changing families. Minneapolis, MN: National Council on Family Relations.

Barber, B. K. (1994). Cultural, family, and personal predictors of parent-adolescent conflict. Journal of Marriage and the Family 56, 375-386.

Barber, B. K., Olsen, J. E., and Shagle, S. C. (1994). Associations between parental psychological and behavioral control and youth internalized and externalized behavior. Child Development, 65, 1116-1132.

Shagle, S. C., & Barber, B. K. (1993). Effects of family, marital, and parent-child conflict on adolescent suicidal ideation. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 55 (4), 964-974.

Barber, B. K., & Shagle, S. C. (1992). Adolescent depression and delinquency: A social-ecological analysis. Family Perspective, 26(4), 493-515.

Barber, B. K. (1992). Family, personality, and adolescent problem behaviors. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 54, 69-79.

Barber, B. K., Chadwick, B. A., and Oerter, R. (1992). Parental behaviors and adolescent self-esteem in the United States and Germany. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 54, 128-141.

Barber, B. K., & Thomas, D. L. (1990). Parental support inventory. In J. Touliatos, J., Perlmutter, B.F., & Straus, M.A. (Eds.), Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Barber, B. K.  (1987). Marital quality, parental behaviors, and adolescent self-esteem. Family Perspective, 21(4), 301-319.

Barber, B. K., & Thomas, D. L. (1986). Dimensions of adolescent self-esteem and religious self-evaluation. Family Perspective, 20(2), 137-150.

Barber, B. K., & Thomas, D. L. (1986). Dimensions of fathers' and mothers' supportive behavior: The case for physical affection. Journal of Marriage and Family, 48(4), 783-794.

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.

Barber, B. K., McNeely, C., & Spellings, C. (2012). Role of political factors in wellbeing and quality of life during long- term constraints and conflict: an initial study. The Lancet, 380, Supplement 1(0), S17.