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Identifying and Responding to Child Neglect: Exploring the Professional Experiences of Primary School Teachers and Family Support Workers (2019)
Journal Article
Bullock, L., Stanyon, M., Glaser, D., & Chou, S. (2019). Identifying and Responding to Child Neglect: Exploring the Professional Experiences of Primary School Teachers and Family Support Workers. Child Abuse Review, 28(3), 209-224. https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2558

© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This study aimed to explore primary school teachers' and family support workers' experiences of working with families and children with suspected or confirmed child neglect. Two in-depth, semi-structured focus groups... Read More about Identifying and Responding to Child Neglect: Exploring the Professional Experiences of Primary School Teachers and Family Support Workers.

Repeat missing child reports in Wales (2018)
Journal Article
Hutchings, E., Browne, K. D., Chou, S., & Wade, K. (2019). Repeat missing child reports in Wales. Child Abuse and Neglect, 88, 107-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.11.004

Background: There were approximately 306,000 reports of missing persons in the UK from 2012 to 2013, 64% involved children. Repeat missing incidents account for approximately 38% of reported missing incidences. Within their research Biehal et al. (20... Read More about Repeat missing child reports in Wales.

A critique of the revised Conflict Tactics Scales-2 (CTS-2) (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, R. T., Browne, K., & Chou, S. (2017). A critique of the revised Conflict Tactics Scales-2 (CTS-2). Aggression and Violent Behavior, 37, 83-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2017.08.005

The purpose of this review is to critically evaluate the Conflict Tactics Scales-2, a measure used worldwide for research and clinical practices. The reliability, validity and normative samples of the CTS-2 are considered and compared with similar ps... Read More about A critique of the revised Conflict Tactics Scales-2 (CTS-2).

The Relationship Between Childhood Maltreatment and Violence to Others in Individuals With Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Green, K., Browne, K., & Chou, S. (2019). The Relationship Between Childhood Maltreatment and Violence to Others in Individuals With Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 20(3), 358-373. https://doi.org/10.1177/1524838017708786

Background: There is a growing body of literature identifying a relationship between experiences of child abuse and symptoms of psychosis in adults. However, the impact of this relationship on risk of violence has not been systematically explored. A... Read More about The Relationship Between Childhood Maltreatment and Violence to Others in Individuals With Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

A systematic review on factors affecting the likelihood of change blindness (2016)
Journal Article
Gibbs, R., Davies, G., & Chou, S. (in press). A systematic review on factors affecting the likelihood of change blindness. Crime Psychology Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/23744006.2016.1228799

Background: The phenomenon of Change Blindness (CB) has been invoked in a number of fields of psychology, particularly eyewitness misidentification, but also hazard perception in driving behaviour. An extensive review of the existing literature sugge... Read More about A systematic review on factors affecting the likelihood of change blindness.

A systematic review on the relationship between self-esteem and interrogative suggestibility (2016)
Journal Article
Hooper, V., Chou, S., & Browne, K. D. (in press). A systematic review on the relationship between self-esteem and interrogative suggestibility. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2016.1201844

Some factors, such as age, learning disability and mental health difficulties, have been identified as making police suspects more vulnerable to suggestibility and false confessions during interview. However, there has been no systematic review on th... Read More about A systematic review on the relationship between self-esteem and interrogative suggestibility.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the characteristics of multiple perpetrator sexual offences (2016)
Journal Article
Bamford, J., Chou, S., & Browne, K. D. (2016). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the characteristics of multiple perpetrator sexual offences. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 28, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2016.04.001

This systematic review examined the demographic and offence variables in group sexual offending. Eight bibliographic databases and three thesis portals were searched. The reference lists of five papers and one textbook were hand searched. Nine expert... Read More about A systematic review and meta-analysis of the characteristics of multiple perpetrator sexual offences.

A systematic review on the effect of political imprisonment on mental health (2015)
Journal Article
Willis, S., Chou, S., & Hunt, N. (2015). A systematic review on the effect of political imprisonment on mental health. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 25A, 173-183. doi:10.1016/j.avb.2015.08.001

Accounts of political imprisonment indicate that political prisoners are likely to be exposed to a range of traumatic events, including maltreatment, psychological, and physical torture. The objective of this review is to evaluate the effects of poli... Read More about A systematic review on the effect of political imprisonment on mental health.

The relationship over time between international adoption and institutional care in Romania and Lithuania (2015)
Journal Article
Chou, S., & Browne, K. (2016). The relationship over time between international adoption and institutional care in Romania and Lithuania. Child Abuse Review, 25(6), 444-453. https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2395

International adoption is seen by some as a solution to the large number of children in institutional care. However, our previous findings did not support the notion that international adoption contributes to the deinstitutionalisation of children (B... Read More about The relationship over time between international adoption and institutional care in Romania and Lithuania.