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Development of a Parenting Support Program to Prevent Abuse of Adolescents in South Africa: Findings From a Pilot Pre-Post Study (2017)
Journal Article
Cluver, L. D., Lachman, J. M., Ward, C. L., Gardner, F., Peterson, T., Hutchings, J. M., …Redfern, A. A. (2017). Development of a Parenting Support Program to Prevent Abuse of Adolescents in South Africa: Findings From a Pilot Pre-Post Study. Research on Social Work Practice, 27(7), 758-766. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731516628647

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Purpose: Violence against children increases in adolescence, but there is a research and practice gap in research-supported child abuse prevention for the adolescent years. A pilot program for low-resource settings was d... Read More about Development of a Parenting Support Program to Prevent Abuse of Adolescents in South Africa: Findings From a Pilot Pre-Post Study.

Moving research beyond the spanking debate (2017)
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MacMillan, H. L., & Mikton, C. (2017). Moving research beyond the spanking debate. Child Abuse and Neglect, 71, 5-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.02.012

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Despite numerous studies identifying a broad range of harms associated with the use of spanking and other types of physical punishment, debate continues about its use as a form of discipline. In this commentary, we recommend four... Read More about Moving research beyond the spanking debate.

Elder abuse prevalence in community settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2017)
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Yon, Y., Mikton, C. R., Gassoumis, Z. D., & Wilber, K. H. (2017). Elder abuse prevalence in community settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Global Health, 5(2), e147-e156. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X%2817%2930006-2

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY license Background Elder abuse is recognised worldwide as a serious problem, yet quantitative syntheses of prevalence studies are rare. We aimed to quanti... Read More about Elder abuse prevalence in community settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Global research priorities for interpersonal violence prevention: A modified Delphi study (2016)
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Mikton, C. R., Tanaka, M., Tomlinson, M., Streiner, D., Tonmyr, L., Lee, B., …MacMillan, H. (2017). Global research priorities for interpersonal violence prevention: A modified Delphi study. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 95(1), 36-48. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.16.172965

© 2017, World Health Organization. All rights reserved. Objective To establish global research priorities for interpersonal violence prevention using a systematic approach. Methods Research priorities were identified in a three-round process involvin... Read More about Global research priorities for interpersonal violence prevention: A modified Delphi study.

Global status report on violence prevention 2014 (2016)
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Mikton, C. R., Mikton, C., Butchart, A., Dahlberg, L. L., & Krug, E. G. (2016). Global status report on violence prevention 2014. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 50(5), 652-659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2015.10.007

© 2016 American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Introduction Interpersonal violence affects millions of people worldwide, often has lifelong consequences, and is gaining recognition as an important global public health problem. There has been no asse... Read More about Global status report on violence prevention 2014.

Methods for conducting systematic reviews of risk factors in low- and middle-income countries (2016)
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Shenderovich, Y., Eisner, M., Mikton, C., Gardner, F., Liu, J., & Murray, J. (2016). Methods for conducting systematic reviews of risk factors in low- and middle-income countries. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-016-0134-2

© 2016 Shenderovich et al. Background: Rates of youth violence are disproportionately high in many low- and middle-income countries [LMICs] but existing reviews of risk factors focus almost exclusively on high-income countries. Different search strat... Read More about Methods for conducting systematic reviews of risk factors in low- and middle-income countries.

The impact on staff of working with personality disordered offenders: A systematic review (2015)
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Mikton, C., Timmer, A., Freestone, M. C., Wilson, K., Jones, R., Mikton, C., …Campbell, C. (2015). The impact on staff of working with personality disordered offenders: A systematic review. PLoS ONE, 10(8), e0136378. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136378

© 2015 Freestone et al. Background: Personality disordered offenders (PDOs) are generally considered difficult to manage and to have a negative impact on staff working with them. Aims: This study aimed to provide an overview of studies examining the... Read More about The impact on staff of working with personality disordered offenders: A systematic review.