Publications
Kors, S., Kurdziel-Adams, G., Towers, C., Fortner, K., & Macfie, J. (2021) Childhood sexual abuse as a risk factor for opioid misuse in pregnancy. Journal of Sexual Abuse, 31(5), 538-549.
Noose., S, Kors, S., Gorrondona, A., Kurdziel-Adams, G., Towers, C., Fortner, K., & Macfie, J. (2020). Pregnant women misusing opioids: Depression, anxiety, stress, and neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2(15), 100025.
Macfie, J., Towers, C.V., Fortner, K., Stuart, G., Baharathi, Z., Kurdziel-Adams, G., Kors, S., Noose, S., & Gorrondona, A. (2020). Medication-assisted treatment vs. detoxification for women who misuse opioids in pregnancy: Associations with dropout, relapse, neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS), and childhood sexual abuse. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 12, 100315.
Kors, S., Mahan, R., Kurdziel-Adams, G., & Macfie, J. (2020) Maternal borderline personality disorder, borderline features, and intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment between mothers and adolescents. Personality Disorders: Research, Theory, and Treatment, 11(5), 321-327. ​
Macfie, J., Zvara, B., Stuart, G., Kurdziel-Adams, G., Kors, S., Fortner, K,…Noose, S. (2020). Pregnant women’s history of child maltreatment and current opioid use severity: The mediating role of reflective functioning. Addictive Behaviors, 102, 106134.
Kors, S., Toor, S., & Macfie, J. (2019) Evidence for psychodynamic play therapy with parent consultation as a treatment for somatic complaints in childhood. Clinical Case Studies, 18(6), 415-431.
Kurdziel-Adams, G., Macfie, J., Kors, S., & Lydic, R. (2019). Hepatitis-C risk and opioid misuse in pregnant women with borderline personality disorder. Personality Disorders: Research, Theory, and Treatment, 11(3), 222-229.
Macfie, J., Kurdziel, G., Mahan, R. M., & Kors, S. (2017). A mother’s borderline personality disorder and her sensitivity, autonomy support, hostility, fearful/disoriented behavior, and role reversal, with her young child. Journal of Personality Disorders, 3(1), 66-71.
Mahan, R. M., Kors, S., *Simmons, M. L., & Macfie, J. (2017). Effects of maternal borderline personality disorder and psychological control on adolescent symptomatology. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 9(4), 297-304.
Kurdziel, G., Kors, S., & Macfie, J. (2017). Effect of maternal borderline personality disorder on adolescents’ experience of maltreatment and adolescent borderline features. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 9(4), 385-389.
Miller, B., Kors, S., & Macfie, J. (2016) No differences? Meta-analytic comparisons of psychological adjustment in children of gay fathers and heterosexual parents. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 4(1), 14-22.
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Kors, S., *Levinson, B., & Sacks, J. (2025) Overcoming bias in graduate student perceptions of psychodynamic therapy. Accepted to Psychoanalytic Psychology.