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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- Registered psychiatric service use, self-harm and suicides of children and young people aged 0–24 before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review (2022)
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Social Determinants of the Mental Health of Young Migrants (2022)
- European journal of health psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The role of maternal trauma and discipline types in emotional processing among Syrian refugee children (2022)
- European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ukrainan kriisi - miten tukea sotaa paenneiden mielenterveyttä? (2022)
- Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Yhteenkuuluvuus ja mielenterveys maahanmuuttajataustaisilla ja Suomessa syntyneillä nuorilla (2022)
- Psykologia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A network analysis of posttraumatic stress symptoms among help-seeking refugees in Kenya (2021)
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Lapseen kohdistuva lähisuhdeväkivalta – keskiössä lasten traumaperäisten oireiden ehkäisy ja hoito (2021)
- Kasvun tuki -aikakauslehti
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Narrative-based intervention and emotional intelligence in female children (2021)
- East European Journal of Psycholinguistics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Changes in Traumatic Memories and Posttraumatic Cognitions Associate with PTSD Symptom Improvement in Treatment of Multiply Traumatized Children and Adolescents (2020)
- Journal of child and adolescent trauma
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Emotional intelligence and cognitive skills protecting mental health from stress and violence among Ghanaian youth (2020)
- Heliyon
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - How stressful life events and violence are related to mental health: the protective role of social relations in African context (2020)
- Heliyon
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mediators of focused psychosocial support interventions for children in low-resource humanitarian settings: analysis from an Individual Participant Dataset with 3,143 participants (2020)
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Trauma and violent offending among adolescents: a birth cohort study (2020)
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Can functional emotion regulation protect children's mental health from war trauma? A Palestinian study (2019)
- International Journal of Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Current understanding of fear learning and memory in humans and animal models and the value of a linguistic approach for analyzing fear learning and memory in humans (2019)
- Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Development and implementation of a group based mental health intervention for unaccompanied minors (2019)
- Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Development and Implementation of a Group-Based Mental Health Intervention for Unaccompanied Minors (2019)
- European Journal of Psychotraumatology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Network structure of posttraumatic stress symptoms among 2,792 severely traumatized refugees in Kenya (2019)
- European Journal of Psychotraumatology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Treating children and adolescents with multiple traumas: a randomized clinical trial of narrative exposure therapy (2019)
- European Journal of Psychotraumatology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Focused psychosocial interventions for children in low-resource humanitarian settings: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis (2018)
- Lancet Global Health
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )
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