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Barbara Maughan is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and specializes in the fields of social sciences and psychology. Their primary research focuses on clinical psychology, safety research, sociology and political science, general health professions, and education. The main academic interest lies in child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child welfare and adoption, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, child abuse and trauma, early childhood education and development, mental health research, and child and adolescent health.

Maughan has published extensively, with 30 publications in social sciences and 29 in psychology. Their work is frequently published in journals such as the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Adoption & Fostering, Psychological Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and BMC Public Health.

Significant recent papers include:

  • Early childhood deprivation is associated with alterations in adult brain structure despite subsequent environmental enrichment, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Association of childhood out-of-home care status with all-cause mortality up to 42-years later: Office of National Statistics Longitudinal Study, 2020, BMC Public Health
  • Why does early childhood deprivation increase the risk for depression and anxiety in adulthood? A developmental cascade model, 2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Depression, anxiety and PTSD symptoms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, 2022, Psychological Medicine
  • Promoting better functioning among children exposed to high levels of family adversity: the protective role of childcare attendance, 2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Their frequent collaborators include Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Edward D. Barker, Mark Kennedy, Jana Kreppner, and Nicky Knights. Collaboration with these researchers is focused on overlapping themes related to child psychology and welfare.

Barbara Maughan's work presents intersections between multiple disciplines by addressing clinical psychological impacts of childhood conditions and broader social and health dynamics. This multidisciplinary approach is reflected in their involvement in various specialized academic fields and topics related to psychosocial development, child welfare, and mental health research.

Best Publications

  • Financial cost of social exclusion: follow up study of antisocial children into adulthood.

    Stephen Scott;Martin Knapp;Juliet Henderson;Barbara Maughan

  • Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder in a national sample: developmental epidemiology

    Barbara Maughan;Richard Rowe;Julie Messer;Robert Goodman

  • Resilience to adult psychopathology following childhood maltreatment: Evidence from a community sample

    Stephan Collishaw;Andrew Pickles;Julie Messer;Michael Rutter

  • Time trends in adolescent mental health.

    Stephan Collishaw;Barbara Maughan;Robert Goodman;Andrew Pickles

  • Continuities and discontinuities in psychopathology between childhood and adult life.

    Michael Rutter;Julia Kim-Cohen;Barbara Maughan

  • Adult Health Outcomes of Childhood Bullying Victimization: Evidence From a Five-Decade Longitudinal British Birth Cohort

    Ryu Takizawa;Barbara Maughan;Louise Arseneault

  • Sex Differences in Developmental Reading Disability: New Findings From 4 Epidemiological Studies.

    Michael Rutter;Avshalom Caspi;David Fergusson;L. John Horwood

  • Families promote emotional and behavioural resilience to bullying: evidence of an environmental effect

    Lucy Bowes;Barbara Maughan;Avshalom Caspi;Avshalom Caspi;Terrie E. Moffitt;Terrie E. Moffitt

  • School, Neighborhood, and Family Factors Are Associated With Children's Bullying Involvement: A Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study

    Lucy Bowes;Louise Arseneault;Barbara Maughan;Alan Taylor

  • Integrating nature and nurture: Implications of person-environment correlations and interactions for developmental psychopathology

    Michael Rutter;Judy Dunn;Robert Plomin;Emily Simonoff

  • Personality disorder and the mental representation of early social experience

    Matthew Patrick;R. Peter Hobson;David Castle;Robert Howard

  • Literacy difficulties and psychiatric disorders: evidence for comorbidity.

    Julia M. Carroll;Barbara Maughan;Robert Goodman;Howard Meltzer

  • Do the effects of early severe deprivation on cognition persist into early adolescence? Findings from the English and Romanian adoptees study.

    Celia Beckett;Barbara Maughan;Michael Rutter;Jenny Castle

  • Outcomes of conduct problems in adolescence: 40 year follow-up of national cohort.

    Ian Colman;Joseph E. Murray;Rosemary A Abbott;Barbara Maughan

  • School Effectiveness Findings 1979–2002

    Michael Rutter;Barbara Maughan

  • Developmental pathways in oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder.

    Richard Rowe;E. Jane Costello;Adrian Angold;William E. Copeland

  • Joint development of bullying and victimization in adolescence: Relations to delinquency and self-harm.

    Edward D. Barker;Louise Arseneault;Mara Brendgen;Nathalie Fontaine

  • Revisiting the association between reading achievement and antisocial behavior: new evidence of an environmental explanation from a twin study.

    Kali H. Trzesniewski;Terrie E. Moffitt;Avshalom Caspi;Alan Taylor

  • The contribution of prenatal and postnatal maternal anxiety and depression to child maladjustment

    Edward D. Barker;Sara R. Jaffee;Rudolf Uher;Barbara Maughan

  • Partners, peers, and pathways: Assortative pairing and continuities in conduct disorder.

    David Quinton;Andrew Pickles;Barbara Maughan;Michael Rutter

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Collishaw
Stephan Collishaw Cardiff University
Michael Rutter
Michael Rutter King's College London
Andrew Pickles
Andrew Pickles King's College London
Richard Rowe
Richard Rowe University of Sheffield
Edward D. Barker
Edward D. Barker King's College London
Thalia C. Eley
Thalia C. Eley King's College London
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke King's College London
Lucy Riglin
Lucy Riglin Cardiff University
Louise Arseneault
Louise Arseneault King's College London
Argyris Stringaris
Argyris Stringaris National Institutes of Health

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