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  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Elana Newman is affiliated with the University of Tulsa in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on Clinical Psychology and related subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Health, Education, and Social Psychology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Disaster Response and Management

Frequent publication venues for Newman include:

  • Current Psychiatry Reports
  • Journal of Affective Disorders Reports
  • BMC Women s Health
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Journal of Online Trust and Safety

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Newman include:

  • Children's Reactions to Media Coverage of War, 2020, Current Psychiatry Reports
  • The association of mass trauma media contact with depression and anxiety: A meta-analytic review, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders Reports
  • A pilot study adapting and validating the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ) and PTSD checklist-5 (PCL-5) with Indian women from slums reporting gender-based violence, 2022, BMC Women s Health
  • A Critical Review of Effective Child Mass Trauma Interventions: What We Know and Do Not Know from the Evidence, 2021, Behavioral Sciences
  • Behavior Problems During Early Childhood in Children With Prenatal Methamphetamine Exposure, 2020, PEDIATRICS

Newman frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Betty Pfefferbaum
  • Pascal Nitiéma
  • Anushka Patel
  • Autumn Slaughter
  • Phebe Tucker

Throughout their career, Newman has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 2011.

Best Publications

  • Complex PTSD in Victims Exposed to Sexual and Physical Abuse: Results from the DSM-IV Field Trial for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Susan Roth;Elana Newman;David Pelcovitz;Bessel van der Kolk

  • The Risks and Benefits of Participating in Trauma-Focused Research Studies

    Elana Newman;Danny G. Kaloupek

  • Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children.

    Jennifer Meltzer Wolpaw;Julian D. Ford;Elana Newman;Joanne L. Davis

  • Report of the APSAC task force on attachment therapy, reactive attachment disorder, and attachment problems.

    Mark Chaffin;Rochelle Hanson;Benjamin E. Saunders;Todd Nichols

  • Health care costs associated with posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in women.

    Edward A. Walker;Wayne Katon;Joan Russo;Paul Ciechanowski

  • Complex PTSD in victims exposed to sexual and physical abuse: Results from the DSM‐IV field trial for posttraumatic stress disorder

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  • Validation of the PTSD checklist in an HMO sample of women.

    Edward A Walker;Elana Newman;Dorcas J Dobie;Paul Ciechanowski

  • Assessing the ethical costs and benefits of trauma-focused research

    Elana Newman;Edward A. Walker;Anne Gefland

  • Perceived Religious Discrimination and its Relationship to Anxiety and Paranoia Among Muslim Americans

    Alyssa E. Rippy;Elana Newman

  • Empirically supported ethical research practice: The costs and benefits of research from the participants’ view

    Elana Newman;Traci Willard;Robert Sinclair;Danny Kaloupek

  • Acute stress disorder symptoms in children and their parents after pediatric traffic injury.

    Flaura Koplin Winston;Nancy Kassam-Adams;Cara Vivarelli-O’Neill;Julian Ford

  • The relationship among cognitive schemas, job-related traumatic exposure, and posttraumatic stress disorder in journalists.

    Caroline M. Pyevich;Elana Newman;Eric Daleiden

  • Disaster media coverage and psychological outcomes: descriptive findings in the extant research.

    Betty Pfefferbaum;Elana Newman;Summer D. Nelson;Pascal Nitiéma

  • Does the study of victimization revictimize the victims

    Edward A. Walker;Elana Newman;Mary Koss;David Bernstein

  • Ethical Issues in Trauma-Related Research: A Review

    Elana Newman;Elizabeth Risch;Nancy Kassam-Adams

  • The Process of Coping with Sexual Trauma

    Susan Roth;Elana Newman

  • Trauma exposure and post‐traumatic stress disorder among photojournalists

    Elana Newman;Roger Simpson;David Handschuh

  • Assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder in clinical and research settings.

    Elana Newman;Danny G. Kaloupek;Terence M. Keane

  • Thematic resolution, PTSD, and complex PTSD: the relationship between meaning and trauma-related diagnoses.

    Elana Newman;David S. Riggs;Susan Roth

  • PTSD, Malevolent Environment, and Criminality among Criminally Involved Male Adolescents

    Brigette A. Erwin;Elana Newman;Robert A. McMACKIN;Carlo Morrissey

  • Fluoxetine in post-traumatic stress disorder†

    Jonathan Davidson;Susan Roth;Elana Newman

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry M. Lester
Barry M. Lester Brown University
Danny G. Kaloupek
Danny G. Kaloupek Boston University
Nancy Kassam-Adams
Nancy Kassam-Adams Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Joanne L. Davis
Joanne L. Davis University of Tulsa
Terence M. Keane
Terence M. Keane Boston University
Joan M. Cook
Joan M. Cook Yale University
Mary P. Koss
Mary P. Koss University of Arizona
John Briere
John Briere University of Southern California
Julian D. Ford
Julian D. Ford University of Connecticut
Joan Russo
Joan Russo University of Washington

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