Kirsi Peltonen
PhD
INVEST kirsi.peltonen@utu.fi Office: 498 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/orcid.org/0000-0002-5112-3823 |
Areas of expertise
child mental health; intervention effectiveness; RCT; immigrants; psychological trauma
child mental health; intervention effectiveness; RCT; immigrants; psychological trauma
Research community or research topic
Professor of Psychology at INVEST Research Flagship Centre, University of Turku.
Professor of Psychology at INVEST Research Flagship Centre, University of Turku.
Biography
Research
My research has focused on the impact of war and violence on child and adolescent development. My main interest is on the effectiveness of interventions supporting mental health and treating trauma symptoms. Implementing research into society has also been an important part of my work.
Teaching
I am one of the three lead instructors in the Specialist Training Program for Child and Adolescent Psychologists (Lasten ja Nuorten erikosipsykologkoulutus, LaNu)
I teach at INVEST Master and Doctoral programs about prevention and intervention, migration and ethnicity etc. I also supervise master- and doctoral thesis in the field of child mental health, trauma and cognitions.
Publications 
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- Adverse childhood experiences and emotion dynamics in daily life: a two sample study* (2025)
- Cognition and Emotion
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Clients' experiences of psychotherapeutic interventions addressing trauma (2025)
- Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and PracticeEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatology
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Combining mental health and climate-smart agricultural interventions to improve food security in humanitarian settings: study protocol for the THRIVE cluster-randomized controlled trial with mothers in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda (2025)
- TrialsMilitary Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effectiveness and treatment moderators of parenting interventions in Finnish perinatal primary care (2025)
- Infant Mental Health JournalJournal of Social Service Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Latent Profile Analysis of Mental Health Among Children and Young Adults With Refugee Backgrounds (2025)
- JAACAP Open
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Patterns of mental health problems and resilience among immigrant and refugee adolescents: a latent profile analysisChildren and war - vulnerability and resilience (2025)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Returning home from a full-scale armed conflict: A rapid review of short post-deployment psychological practices (2025)
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Service Providers' Perspectives on Barriers and Facilitators in Early Implementation of a Psychoeducational Intervention for Immigrant Parents in Social ServicesEfficacy and moderators of efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapies with a trauma focus in children and adolescents : an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomised trials (2025)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Temporal Dynamics Between State Attachment Security, Avoidance, and Anxiety: Insights into Everyday Attachment System FunctioningEveryday State Attachment: Dynamic Features and Role of Trait Attachment (2025)
- Personality and Social Psychology BulletinJournal of Personality
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - “Being a Parent in Finland” - psycho-educative intervention: development and acceptability of a group programme aimed at increasing trust among migrant parents (2024)
- Nordic Social Work Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2024)
- European Journal of Developmental Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Cognitive, social, and mental health functions of refugee children - screening and supportive actions at school : a study protocol (2024)
- BMC Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 2024
- The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
- (2024
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Examining heterogeneity : A systematic review of quantitative person-centered studies on adversity, mental health, and resilience in children and young adults with refugee backgrounds (2024)
- Comprehensive Psychiatry
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Growing Up Amidst Active Warfare: Understanding the Experiences of Ukrainian Adolescents Through Chat Data (2024)
- Youth and Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Migrant students’ self-reported executive function skills in relation to mental health, postmigration stress, and positive appraisals of self and the social context (2024)
- European Journal of Psychotraumatology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Psychometric properties of the Children's Revised Impact of Event Scale (CRIES-8) among refugee adolescents from Afghanistan, Syria, and Somalia (2024)
- European Journal of Psychotraumatology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sotakokemukset, lapsen haavoittuvuus ja resilienssi (2024)
- Terveydenhoitaja
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - The effect of teacher multicultural attitudes on self-efficacy and wellbeing at work (2024)
- Social Psychology of Education
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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