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Fall 2021 CMAS graduates!
Dec 16, 2021Congrats and best of luck for the fall grads! Mia Melchior, Alissa Palermo, Hannah Thurston, Samantha Treff
Child maltreatment severity and sleep variability predict mother–infant RSA coregulation
Dec 15, 2021This publication examines how adverse caregiving environments, characterized by maltreatment and sleep variability, are linked to mother-infant respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) coregulation.
Traumatic Head Injury and the Diagnosis of Abuse: A Cluster Analysis
Dec 15, 2021Data guiding abusive head trauma (AHT) diagnosis rest on case-control studies that have been criticized for circularity.
Investigating child sexual abuse cases before and after Jerry Sandusky
Dec 3, 2021A comprehensive look back at Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse history 10 years later while visualizing and contextualizing the impact it had on Happy Valley, his survivors and the framework of higher education as a whole
Leveraging Systems to Improve and Expand Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
Dec 1, 2021This symposium will involve leveraging large public systems to extend child sexual abuse prevention efforts and reach both universal and high risk audiences
Cortisol Trajectories Measured Prospectively across Thirty Years of Female Development following Exposure to Childhood Sexual Abuse: Moderation by Epigenetic Age Acceleration at Midlife
Dec 1, 2021This paper investigates longitudinal trajectories of cortisol following child maltreatment using Bayesian methods
The Centrality of Child Maltreatment to Criminology
Nov 8, 2021Despite sufficient evidence to conclude that maltreatment exposure affects the risk of crime and delinquency, we conclude that the magnitude and specificity of effects of child maltreatment on crime and delinquency and the mechanisms through which those effects operate remain poorly identified.
A perinatal coparenting intervention is associated with better parent health outcomes eight years later
Nov 8, 2021The transition to parenthood is a common yet stressful experience faced by many young and midlife adults when the risk of many chronic diseases also begins to rise.
An observational study of Internet behaviours for adolescent females following sexual abuse
Nov 8, 2021Females who experienced CSA did not use more pornography than comparisons but were at increased odds of being cyberbullied.
Childhood Sexual Abuse and Exposure to Peer Bullying Victimization
Nov 8, 2021Females exposed to child sexual abuse (CSA) are at an increased risk of experiencing further victimization in adolescence. The findings indicate that bullying prevention needs to include trauma-focused components to target these uniquely vulnerable females.