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Overview

David Lawrence is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia and has a significant publication record predominantly in psychology, medicine, and social sciences. Their research focuses primarily on clinical psychology, health, social psychology, general health professions, and sociology and political science.

The main topics explored in their work include:

  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse

David Lawrence has contributed to multiple publications in high-profile journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Medical Journal of Australia
  • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Child Maltreatment
  • Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences

Some of the recent papers featuring David Lawrence's work are:

  • "The prevalence of child maltreatment in Australia: findings from a national survey" (2023), The Medical Journal of Australia
  • "Adolescents' longitudinal trajectories of mental health and loneliness: The impact of COVID-19 school closures" (2022), Journal of Adolescence
  • "The association between child maltreatment and mental disorders in the Australian Child Maltreatment Study" (2023), The Medical Journal of Australia
  • "The prevalence and nature of multi-type child maltreatment in Australia" (2023), The Medical Journal of Australia
  • "The association between child maltreatment and health risk behaviours and conditions throughout life in the Australian Child Maltreatment Study" (2023), The Medical Journal of Australia

David Lawrence frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Notable co-authors include:

  • James G. Scott
  • Hannah J. Thomas
  • Holly E Erskine
  • Daryl Higgins
  • Divna Haslam

Their research portfolio illustrates a focus on child maltreatment and its impact on mental health and well-being over time. The combination of psychological, medical, and social science perspectives is reflected consistently throughout their work.

Best Publications

  • The gap in life expectancy from preventable physical illness in psychiatric patients in Western Australia: Retrospective analysis of population based registers

    David Lawrence;Kirsten J Hancock;Stephen Kisely;Stephen Kisely

  • Inequalities in healthcare provision for people with severe mental illness

    David Lawrence;Stephen Kisely

  • Smoking and mental illness: results from population surveys in Australia and the United States

    David Lawrence;David Lawrence;Francis Mitrou;Francis Mitrou;Stephen R Zubrick;Stephen R Zubrick

  • The Mental Health of Children and Adolescents: Report on the second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing

    David Lawrence;Sarah Johnson;Jennifer Hafekost;Katrina Boterhoven de Haan

  • Cancer-related mortality in people with mental illness

    Stephen Kisely;Elizabeth Crowe;David Lawrence

  • The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey: Measuring the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal children and young people

    Stephen Zubrick;S.R. Silburn;David Lawrence;F.G. Mitrou

  • Indigenous well-being in four countries: An application of the UNDP'S Human Development Index to Indigenous Peoples in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States

    Martin Cooke;Francis Mitrou;David Lawrence;Eric Guimond

  • The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey: The Health of Aboriginal Children and Young People

    Stephen Zubrick;David Lawrence;Sven Silburn;E Blair

  • Death rate from ischaemic heart disease in Western Australian psychiatric patients 1980–1998

    David M Lawrence;Cashel D'arcy J Holman;Assen V Jablensky;Michael S T Hobbs

  • The Epidemiology of Excess Mortality in People with Mental Illness

    David Lawrence;Stephen Randolph Kisely;Joanne Pais

  • Prevention of Child Behavior Problems Through Universal Implementation of a Group Behavioral Family Intervention

    Stephen R. Zubrick;Kristine A. Ward;Sven R. Silburn;David Lawrence

  • Key findings from the second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing.

    David Lawrence;Jennifer Hafekost;Sarah E Johnson;Suzy Saw

  • Smoking as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease: contrasting evidence from a systematic review of case-control and cohort studies

    Osvaldo P. Almeida;Gary K. Hulse;David Lawrence;Leon Flicker

  • Inequitable access for mentally ill patients to some medically necessary procedures

    Stephen Kisely;Mark Smith;David Lawrence;Martha Cox

  • Excess cancer mortality in Western Australian psychiatric patients due to higher case fatality rates

    D. Lawrence;C. D. J. Holman;A. V. Jablensky;T. J. Threlfall

  • Advanced dental disease in people with severe mental illness: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Stephen Randolph Kisely;Lake-Hui Quek;Joanne Pais;Ratilal Lalloo

  • Reliability and validity of a short version of the general functioning subscale of the McMaster Family Assessment Device.

    Katrina L. Boterhoven de Haan;Jennifer Hafekost;David Lawrence;Michael G. Sawyer

  • Western Australian Child Health Survey; Education, Health and Competence

    S.R. Zubrick;S.R. Silburn;L. Gurrin;H. Teoh

  • Preventable physical illness in people with mental illness

    David Lawrence;D'Arcy Holman;A. Jablensky

  • Adolescents' longitudinal trajectories of mental health and loneliness: The impact of COVID‐19 school closures

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  • National Mental Health Survey of Doctors and Medical Students

    F. Wu;M. Ireland;K. Hafekost;David Lawrence

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Houghton
Stephen Houghton University of Western Australia
Simon C. Hunter
Simon C. Hunter Glasgow Caledonian University
Peter Van Loo
Peter Van Loo The Francis Crick Institute
Jason P. Connor
Jason P. Connor University of Queensland
Greg Elgar
Greg Elgar Genomics England
Frank Oberklaid
Frank Oberklaid Royal Children's Hospital

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