- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Sex work and related issues
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
University of Denver
2019-2025
University of Alabama at Birmingham
2018
Caregivers involved in child maltreatment investigations depend on the protection system to safeguard their from harm. Given this dependence, Institutional Betrayal (IB) may be a useful framework characterize caregivers' experiences with protection. However, research has yet examine IB system. The current study sought understand whether caregiver report that are consistent key characteristics of identified other systems, such as sexual assault investigations. children (n = 32) were asked...
Although a cycle of harsh and abusive parenting has been recognized for decades, this is not inevitable. Indeed, the mechanisms underlying such patterns, resources parents may access to disrupt cycle, require further study. Research investigating those processes either relied on cross-sectional designs or largely assessed mediators moderators at one time point. The current investigation parent–child aggression (PCA) risk utilized longitudinal design consider possible across three points....