We know that parents are incredibly important for children’s recovery from a traumatic event. Social support is one of the strongest predictors of trauma recovery. On the other hand, parental distress after trauma is related to children’s posttraumatic stress later on.
But how do parents exactly influence children’s trajectory after something bad has happened? Continue reading
Despite significant movement towards Open Science, many clinicians, policymakers, and citizens can still not access the latest research evidence on e.g. therapy effectiveness. Many research articles are still ‘hidden’ behind paywalls.
With the Global Young Academy we have just launched the More Open Access pledge. Researchers can sign up to this pledge; they promise to submit at least 1 manuscript to an outlet that is Open Access by the end of the year.
While the pledge is not yet well known, we want to reach out to Heads of Departments (the leaders of university departments) to ask them to consider the pledge and to encourage their staff to do the same.
To identify the right people (i.e. Heads of Department in practice/policy-oriented disciplines), we are looking for conscientious, friendly freelances who have an affinity with education and research, as well as excellent English language skills.
We have a list of 400 universities and need our freelancers to identify specific departments and then the last name and email address of the head of department. We expect this to be about 3000 email addresses in total but we do not know exactly. We will pay per 300 email addresses sourced (150 dollar).
As part of your application, we would like you to provide us with 1 set of email addresses, for Duke University in the USA. Please find the instructions below.
We look forward to seeing your application!
For each department we are looking for the personal contact details of the Head of Department (HoD is the leader of a university department, usually a full professor).
Our focus is on departments with major relevance for practice / policy making:
A few points for consideration:
Format:
| Department | Last name of the Head of Dept | Email address |
| Public/Global Health
Psychology Pediatrics Emergency Medicine Psychiatry Sociology Environmental Science |
It’s called the collective action problem: we’d rather rely on others to do the hard work.
In a cohesive community however, it is more likely that people will volunteer to become active. The reason? The enforceable trust that comes with the cohesion.
This is important for how you organise your daily working life (make sure your team is cohesive) 🙂 but may also explain why some communities have less trouble than others to overcome disaster experiences. Continue reading
We have a short – but great 🙂 – postdoctoral research position coming up.
It’s for 6 months, open to Australian and international applicants (please spread the word!), with an expected start mid-January 2014.
The job will have two main parts:
1. Participation in a study on parent-child communication in daily life in a community sample of families with 3 to 16 year old children. This study makes use of the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) methodology to audiorecord snippets of families’ interactions at home. The fellow will be involved in data collection, transcription/coding, data-analysis, and manuscript writing.
2. Development of new projects and grant applications. Ideally, the fellow has experience and expertise complementary to the lab’s so we can develop interesting new ideas together. Examples of topics we’re currently interested in (bold new ideas are very welcome too!):
- family interactions and social support after trauma
- global child mental health
- psychological first aid for children
- experiences of emergency professionals working with children
- child refugee mental health
- neuropsychological/biological aspects of mental health
- the implementation of evidence based mental health care
We’re looking for someone with a PhD in a relevant area, e.g. child development, biological psychology, family studies, (global) mental health or implementation science.
Applications can be submitted through the Monash Jobs website. This is the full Position Description: Postdoctoral Research Fellow Trauma Recovery Lab.
Dr. Katie McLaughlin is a clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. She received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology and in Epidemiology and Public Health from Yale University in 2008. Her research seeks to identify psychological and neurobiological mechanisms linking child trauma exposure to the onset of psychopathology in children and adolescents.
Today, Katie writes about what population-based data can tell us about trauma in U.S. children and adolescents.
The media is filled with stories about traumatized children and adolescents, such as the school shootings at Sandy Hook and Columbine. However, a range of more common traumatic events, such as accidents and caregiver maltreatment, receive less attention. We sought to understand how common traumatic experiences are in the lives of U.S. youths by conducting a study examining trauma exposure and PTSD in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A), a nationally-representative sample of 6,483 adolescents aged 13-17. This study is the largest population-based study examining trauma exposure and PTSD in U.S. youths, and the findings reveal trauma and PTSD are significant public health problems in this population.
A majority of U.S. youths have experienced a traumatic event by the time they reach adolescence. Sixty-two percent of teenagers have experienced at least one traumatic event in their lifetime, including interpersonal violence, serious injuries, natural disasters and death of a loved one, and 19 percent have experienced three or more such events. The prevalence of trauma exposure among children and adolescents is nearly as high as the prevalence in adults based on similar population-based studies.
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