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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- A multifaceted risk analysis of fathers' self-reported physical violence toward their children (2017)
- Aggressive Behavior
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Family systems approach to attachment relations, war trauma, and mental health among Palestinian children and parents (2017)
- European Journal of Psychotraumatology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Peritraumatic dissociation predicts posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms via dysfunctional trauma-related memory among war-affected children (2017)
- European Journal of Psychotraumatology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Trauma and autobiographical memory: contents and determinants of earliest memories among war-affected Palestinian children (2017)
- Memory
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Negative Social Relationships Predict Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Among War-Affected Children Via Posttraumatic Cognitions (2016)
- Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Participation in siblings׳ birth at home from children׳s viewpoint (2016)
- Midwifery
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Psychosocial Group Intervention Among War-Affected Children: An Analysis of Changes in Posttraumatic Cognitions (2016)
- Journal of Traumatic Stress
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Psychosocial intervention and dreaming among war-affected palestinian children (2016)
- Dreaming
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Effectiveness of psychosocial intervention enhancing resilience among war-affected children and the moderating role of family factors (2015)
- Child Abuse and Neglect
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Narrative exposure therapy for immigrant children traumatized by war: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of effectiveness and mechanisms of change (2015)
- BMC Psychiatry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Trajectories of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) after major war among Palestinian children: Trauma, family- and child-related predictors (2015)
- Journal of Affective Disorders
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mothers' self-reported violence toward their children: a multifaceted risk analysis (2014)
- Child Abuse and Neglect
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Psychosocial interventions and emotion regulation among war-affected children: Randomized control trial effects (2014)
- Traumatology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Resilience among children in war: The role of multilevel social factors (2014)
- Traumatology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Evidence-based resilience-enhancing intervention methods for children affected by armed conflict (2013) Evidence-Based Resilience-Enhancing Intervention Methods for Children Affected by Armed Conflict Peltonen K., Palosaari E.
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Exposure to parental violence and outcomes of child psychosocial adjustment (2013)
- Violence and Victims
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Children and violence: Targeting interventions (2012) Handbook on the Psychology of Violence Peltonen K.
(D2 Article in a professional compilation book) - Effectiveness of School-Based Intervention in Enhancing Mental Health and Social Functioning Among War-Affected Children (2012)
- Traumatology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Military trauma and social development: The moderating and mediating roles of peer and sibling relations in mental health (2010)
- International Journal of Behavioral Development
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Parental violence and adolescent mental health (2010)
- European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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