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44
Citations
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4062
National Ranking
1936

Overview

Daniel J. Whitaker is affiliated with Georgia State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans fields such as Psychology, Social Sciences, and Health Professions, with a notable focus on Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research concerns various key topics including:

  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees

Significant publication venues where Daniel J. Whitaker has contributed multiple works include:

  • Child Maltreatment
  • Journal of Children s Services
  • Trials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Child Protection and Practice

Frequent collaborators of Whitaker include Shannon Self-Brown, Erin A. Weeks, Mary Helen O'Connor, Nikita Rao, and Cathleen E. Willging.

Examples of recent publications authored or co-authored by Whitaker are:

  • Effect of the SafeCare© intervention on parenting outcomes among parents in child welfare systems: A cluster randomized trial (2020), published in Preventive Medicine
  • The Impact of COVID-19 on the Delivery of an Evidence-Based Child Maltreatment Prevention Program: Understanding the Perspectives of SafeCare® Providers (2020), Journal of Family Violence
  • Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Prevention Among Youth: A Community Guide Systematic Review (2021), American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of changes in quality of life following initiation of buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (2022), Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Behavior change across implementations of the SafeCare model in real world settings (2020), Children and Youth Services Review

Best Publications

  • Population-based prevention of child maltreatment: the U.S. Triple p system population trial.

    Ronald J. Prinz;Matthew R. Sanders;Cheri J. Shapiro;Daniel J. Whitaker

  • Differences in Frequency of Violence and Reported Injury Between Relationships With Reciprocal and Nonreciprocal Intimate Partner Violence

    Daniel J. Whitaker;Tadesse Haileyesus;Monica H. Swahn;Linda S. Saltzman

  • Parent-Adolescent Discussions about Sex and Condoms Impact on Peer Influences of Sexual Risk Behavior

    Daniel J. Whitaker;Kim S. Miller

  • Teenage partners' communication about sexual risk and condom use: the importance of parent-teenager discussions.

    Daniel J. Whitaker;Kim S. Miller;David C. May;Martin L. Levin

  • The effectiveness of intervention programs for perpetrators and victims of intimate partner violence.

    Christopher I. Eckhardt;Christopher M. Murphy;Daniel J. Whitaker;Joel Sprunger

  • Patterns of condom use among adolescents: the impact of mother-adolescent communication.

    Kim S. Miller;Martin L. Levin;Daniel J. Whitaker;Xiaohe Xu

  • Dynamic adaptation process to implement an evidence-based child maltreatment intervention

    Gregory A Aarons;Gregory A Aarons;Amy E Green;Amy E Green;Lawrence A Palinkas;Lawrence A Palinkas;Shannon Self-Brown

  • Risk factors for the perpetration of child sexual abuse: A review and meta-analysis

    Daniel J. Whitaker;Brenda Le;R. Karl Hanson;Charlene K. Baker

  • Behavioral Interventions to Reduce Incidence of HIV, STD, and Pregnancy Among Adolescents: A Decade in Review

    Leah Robin;Patricia Dittus;Daniel Whitaker;Richard Crosby

  • A critical review of interventions for the primary prevention of perpetration of partner violence

    Daniel J. Whitaker;Shannon Morrison;Christine Lindquist;Stephanie R. Hawkins

  • Master of One’s Psychological Domain? Not Likely if One’s Self-Esteem is Unstable

    Michael H. Kernis;Andrew W. Paradise;Daniel J. Whitaker;Shannon R. Wheatman

  • Reconceptualizing adolescent sexual behavior: beyond did they or didn't they?

    Daniel J. Whitaker;Kim S. Miller;Leslie F. Clark

  • Primary Prevention of Child Physical Abuse and Neglect: Gaps and Promising Directions

    Joanne Klevens;Daniel J. Whitaker

  • Organizational theory for dissemination and implementation research

    Sarah A. Birken;Alicia C. Bunger;Byron J. Powell;Kea Turner

  • The Association Between Reflective Functioning and Parent–Child Relationship Quality

    Whitney L. Rostad;Daniel J. Whitaker

  • Pleasure and pain in doing well, together: an investigation of performance-related affect in close relationships.

    Steven R. H. Beach;Abraham Tesser;Frank D. Fincham;Deborah J. Jones

  • Child Maltreatment Prevention Priorities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Daniel J. Whitaker;John R. Lutzker;Gene A. Shelley

  • Predictors of mother-adolescent discussions about condoms: implications for providers who serve youth.

    Kim S. Miller;Daniel J. Whitaker

  • Efficacy of a parent-based sexual-risk prevention program for African American preadolescents: a randomized controlled trial.

    Rex Forehand;Lisa Armistead;Nicholas Long;Sarah C. Wyckoff

  • Effectiveness of primary prevention efforts for intimate partner violence.

    Daniel J. Whitaker;Christopher M. Murphy;Christopher I. Eckhardt;Amanda E. Hodges

  • The Role of Self-Schema in Linking Intentions with Behavior:

    Deborah Kendzierski;Daniel J. Whitaker

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Lutzker
John R. Lutzker Georgia State University
Monica H. Swahn
Monica H. Swahn Kennesaw State University
Steven R. H. Beach
Steven R. H. Beach University of Georgia
Matthew R. Sanders
Matthew R. Sanders University of Queensland
Ann L. Coker
Ann L. Coker University of Kentucky
Ronald J. Prinz
Ronald J. Prinz University of South Carolina
David J. Kolko
David J. Kolko University of Pittsburgh
Rex Forehand
Rex Forehand University of Vermont
Lucy Berliner
Lucy Berliner University of Washington
Lisa Armistead
Lisa Armistead Georgia State University

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