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Adjunct rank detailsPasco Fearon, PhD
Professor Adjunct in the Child Study CenterAbout
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Professor Adjunct in the Child Study Center
Appointments
Child Study Center
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Education & Training
- PhD
- University College (1999)
- PhD
- University of Wales (1994)
- BA
- University of Cambridge (1993)
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Frequent collaborators of Pasco Fearon's published research.
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Essi Viding, PhD
Peter Fonagy, PhD, FBA
Eamon McCrory, PhD, BA
Ruth Feldman, PhD
Michael Bloch, MD, MS
170Publications
7,690Citations
Publications
2025
Protocol for the Start for Life National Evaluation: What works, for whom, under what circumstances?
Barlow J, Sleed M, Day L, Davey C, Conti G, Deighton J, J E, G W, Reynolds S, Cann H, Crossan L, Fearon P. Protocol for the Start for Life National Evaluation: What works, for whom, under what circumstances? NIHR Open Research 2025, 5: 123. DOI: 10.3310/nihropenres.14019.1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLocal authoritiesChild outcomesNational evaluationLevels of deprivationLongitudinal qualitative dataQualitative dataQuantitative process dataDifference-in-differences methodSystem-level factorsJoint DepartmentLife servicesDepartment of HealthSocial careUsual careOutcome evaluationTriangulation designEvaluation findingsEconomic evaluationIndividual levelAged 2ProgrammeCareParentsServicesFundingClinical effectiveness of the Circle of Security-Parenting group intervention for birthing parents in perinatal mental health services in England (COSI): a pragmatic, multicentre, assessor-masked, randomised controlled trial
Rosan C, Dijk K, Cornelius V, Waddingham E, Darwin Z, Babalis D, Richards L, Hopson H, Pilling S, Fearon P, Deighton J, Pizzo E, Fonagy P. Clinical effectiveness of the Circle of Security-Parenting group intervention for birthing parents in perinatal mental health services in England (COSI): a pragmatic, multicentre, assessor-masked, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Psychiatry 2025, 12: 817-829. PMID: 41072461, PMCID: PMC12521337, DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00263-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsPerinatal mental health servicesMental health servicesPerinatal mental health difficultiesRandomised controlled trialsTreatment-as-usualMental health difficultiesHealth servicesHealth difficultiesControlled TrialsNational Health Service (NHS) TrustsAssessor-maskedCOS-PHealth Service sitesAdverse child outcomesCORE-OM scoresMonths post-baselineIntention-to-treat principleInternational Standard Randomised Controlled TrialGroup interventionFollow-up timepointsParent-infant interventionEvidence gapsGroup-basedInternal pilotPost-baselinePsychosocial Interventions for Edge of Care Families in the Early Years: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Oliveira P, Vaillancourt K, Giné Rabadán A, Akay N, Fearon P, Barlow J. Psychosocial Interventions for Edge of Care Families in the Early Years: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Trauma Violence & Abuse 2025, 15248380251366259. PMID: 41031423, DOI: 10.1177/15248380251366259.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChildren aged 0 to 5Randomized Controlled TrialsAged 0 to 5Psychosocial interventionsStandardized mean differenceRisk of harmEffectiveness of psychosocial interventionsOdds ratioSystematic reviewCochrane risk-of-bias toolMeta-analysesRevised Cochrane risk-of-bias toolRisk-of-bias toolChild protective servicesMeta-analysisStandardized outcome measuresRisk of biasRandom-effects modelNarrative synthesisParental functioningCare systemOutcome measuresEvidence baseCare familiesSystematic searchCo-producing an interdisciplinary, preventative mental health intervention: development of the building resilience through socioemotional training (ReSET) programme
Lloyd A, Law R, Midgley N, Lucas L, Wu T, Viding E, Fearon P. Co-producing an interdisciplinary, preventative mental health intervention: development of the building resilience through socioemotional training (ReSET) programme. Advances In Mental Health 2025, ahead-of-print: 1-17. DOI: 10.1080/18387357.2025.2545208.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricConceptsMental health problemsCognitive neuroscienceRates of psychopathologyPreventive mental health interventionsDiscipline of psychotherapySchool mental health practitionersMental health practitionersMental health interventionsTransdiagnostic mechanismTransdiagnostic interventionHealth problemsEffective preventive interventionsDevelopmental periodAdolescentsPsychopathologyPsychotherapyFull-scale randomised controlled trialsPreventive interventionsNeuroscienceRandomised controlled trialsHealth practitionersInterventionProgramme acceptabilityHealth interventionsPilot studyEvocative effects of children's education‐associated genetics on maternal parenting: results from the Norwegian mother, father and child cohort study
Austerberry C, Zayats T, Ronald A, Corfield E, Smajlagic D, Havdahl A, Andreassen O, Magnus P, Njølstad P, Bekkhus M, Fearon P. Evocative effects of children's education‐associated genetics on maternal parenting: results from the Norwegian mother, father and child cohort study. Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry 2025 PMID: 40757461, DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.70025.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConceptsNorwegian MotherSelf-ReportPopulation-based pregnancy cohortMaternal reportChild Cohort StudyEvocative effectsMaternal self-reportParent-offspring triosEducation polygenic scoreGene-environment correlationGenetic effectsPolygenic scoresChild geneticsPregnancy cohortCohort studyAssociated with parentsLiteracy-focusedEducational outcomesEducational performancePositive parentingChild languageEarly languageChildren's LanguageMaternal parentParental differencesDoes intimate partner violence mediate the association between adverse childhood experiences and internalizing symptomatology in women? A mediation meta-analysis
Martini J, Deneault A, Zhu J, Racine N, Fearon P, Madigan S, Jenkins J. Does intimate partner violence mediate the association between adverse childhood experiences and internalizing symptomatology in women? A mediation meta-analysis. Journal Of Affective Disorders 2025, 389: 119742. PMID: 40550278, DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2025.119742.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConceptsAdverse childhood experiencesInternalizing symptomatologyIntimate partner violenceTest moderationAssociated with internalizing symptomatologyChildhood experiencesAdverse childhood experience itemsPartner violenceMeta-analyticallySymptomatologyStructural equation modeling approachMethodological factorsIndirect pathwaysEffect sizePath modelFemale participantsStructural equationModeratelyPsychopathologySociodemographic factorsViolenceAssociationMASEMItemsAge of female participantsA feasibility study of a preventative, transdiagnostic intervention for mental health problems in adolescence: building resilience through socioemotional training (ReSET)
Lloyd A, Law R, Midgley N, Wu T, Lucas L, Atkinson E, Steinbeis N, Martin P, Veenstra R, Smith J, Ly L, Bird G, Murphy J, Plans D, Munafò M, Penton-Voak I, Deighton J, Richards K, Richards M, Fearon P, Viding E. A feasibility study of a preventative, transdiagnostic intervention for mental health problems in adolescence: building resilience through socioemotional training (ReSET). Child And Adolescent Psychiatry And Mental Health 2025, 19: 29. PMID: 40121508, PMCID: PMC11929178, DOI: 10.1186/s13034-025-00870-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConceptsMental health problemsEmotional processingSchool-based interventionsGroup-based psychotherapyResearch measuresSocial relationshipsInterpersonal psychotherapyTransdiagnostic interventionEmotion regulationEmotion perceptionPost-intervention assessmentSchool-based settingsHealth problemsMethodsThe feasibility studyDevelopmental periodMental healthEmotionsPsychotherapyCohesion interventionSchool settingsAdolescentsIntervention participantsParticipantsRetention of participantsRandomised controlled trialsProtocol for the economic evaluation of group interpersonal therapy for postnatal depression compared with high-quality standard care in Kenya and Lebanon (SUMMIT trial)
Jaoude G, Madeghe B, Maradian S, Posbic P, Machoka J, Ndamaiyu G, Simes E, O’Donnell C, Wallace-Hanlon S, Evans R, Fearon P, Allison E, Pilling S, Verdeli L, Cheng B, Fouad F, Ngunu C, Chammay R, Kumar M, Fonagy P, Skordis J. Protocol for the economic evaluation of group interpersonal therapy for postnatal depression compared with high-quality standard care in Kenya and Lebanon (SUMMIT trial). NIHR Open Research 2025, 5: 17. DOI: 10.3310/nihropenres.13838.1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricConceptsInterpersonal therapyIncremental cost-effectiveness ratioChildren's cognitive developmentCognitive developmentPostnatal depressionEconomic evaluationUniversity College London Research Ethics CommitteeStandard careEstimate incremental cost-effectiveness ratiosLong-term depressionTrial outcomesPoor developmental outcomesPrimary trial outcomeDepression outcomesSecondary trial outcomesMaternal depressionPeer-reviewed journal publicationsControlled superiority trialImprove children's cognitive developmentResearch Ethics CommitteeKenyatta National HospitalQuality of lifeCost-effectiveness ratioIntention-to-treat analysisTrial follow-upTransition to motherhood: stability and change in attachment representations from pregnancy to 5 years
Steele M, Perez A, Segal F, Fearon P, Fonagy P, Steele H. Transition to motherhood: stability and change in attachment representations from pregnancy to 5 years. Attachment & Human Development 2025, 27: 330-347. PMID: 40227141, DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2025.2484923.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsMeSH Keywords and ConceptsIntranasal oxytocin increases breast milk oxytocin, but has a reduced effect in depressed mothers: A randomized controlled trialcon
Lindley Baron-Cohen K, Fearon P, Feldman R, Hardiman P, Zagoory-Sharon O, Meins E, Fonagy P. Intranasal oxytocin increases breast milk oxytocin, but has a reduced effect in depressed mothers: A randomized controlled trialcon. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2025, 174: 107374. PMID: 39891981, DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2025.107374.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsEdinburgh Postnatal Depression ScaleBreast milkPostnatal depressionSymptoms of postnatal depressionAdministration of exogenous OTOT concentrationsCut-off pointRandomized Controlled TrialsPostnatal Depression ScalePostnatal depressive symptomsDouble-blindNasal sprayMother-infant bondingPotential biological mechanismsMaternal postnatal depressionOT contentBreast milk samplesMental health vulnerabilitiesOT pathwaysExogenous OTOT administrationControl mothersBreastDepressed mothersOxytocin