Kirsi Peltonen
PhD
INVEST kirsi.peltonen@utu.fi : 498 |
child mental health; intervention effectiveness; RCT; immigrants; psychological trauma
Professor of Psychology at INVEST Research Flagship Centre, University of Turku.
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.
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.
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- The role of maternal trauma and discipline types in emotional processing among Syrian refugee children (2022)
- European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Ukrainan kriisi - miten tukea sotaa paenneiden mielenterveyttä? (2022)
- Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti
- Yhteenkuuluvuus ja mielenterveys maahanmuuttajataustaisilla ja Suomessa syntyneillä nuorilla (2022)
- Psykologia
- A network analysis of posttraumatic stress symptoms among help-seeking refugees in Kenya (2021)
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders
- Lapseen kohdistuva lähisuhdeväkivalta – keskiössä lasten traumaperäisten oireiden ehkäisy ja hoito (2021)
- Kasvun tuki -aikakauslehti
- Narrative-based intervention and emotional intelligence in female children (2021)
- East European Journal of Psycholinguistics
- 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
- Emotional intelligence and cognitive skills protecting mental health from stress and violence among Ghanaian youth (2020)
- Heliyon
- How stressful life events and violence are related to mental health: the protective role of social relations in African context (2020)
- Heliyon
- 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
- Trauma and violent offending among adolescents: a birth cohort study (2020)
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Can functional emotion regulation protect children's mental health from war trauma? A Palestinian study (2019)
- International Journal of Psychology
- 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
- Development and implementation of a group based mental health intervention for unaccompanied minors (2019)
- Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
- Development and Implementation of a Group-Based Mental Health Intervention for Unaccompanied Minors (2019)
- European Journal of Psychotraumatology
- Network structure of posttraumatic stress symptoms among 2,792 severely traumatized refugees in Kenya (2019)
- European Journal of Psychotraumatology
- Treating children and adolescents with multiple traumas: a randomized clinical trial of narrative exposure therapy (2019)
- European Journal of Psychotraumatology
- Focused psychosocial interventions for children in low-resource humanitarian settings: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis (2018)
- Lancet Global Health
- A multifaceted risk analysis of fathers' self-reported physical violence toward their children (2017)
- Aggressive Behavior
- Family systems approach to attachment relations, war trauma, and mental health among Palestinian children and parents (2017)
- European Journal of Psychotraumatology
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