All Outputs (11)

Identifying and Responding to Child Neglect: Exploring the Professional Experiences of Primary School Teachers and Family Support Workers (2019)
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© 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)
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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)
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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)
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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 randomized controlled trial exploring the effects of brief anger management on community based offenders in Malta (2016)
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A systematic review on factors affecting the likelihood of change blindness (2016)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

The Effectiveness of Psychological Treatment for Reducing Recidivism in Child Molesters: A Systematic Review of Randomized and Nonrandomized Studies (2014)
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