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Overview

Frank W. Putnam is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States and has a research focus spanning Medicine and Psychology. Their work involves significant contributions to fields of Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Philosophy, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

The primary areas of Putnam's research revolve around Child Abuse and Trauma, Birth, Development, and Health, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Mental Health and Psychiatry, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Early Childhood Education and Development, and Migration, Health and Trauma.

Recent notable publications by Putnam include:

  • "Synergistic adversities and behavioral problems in traumatized children and adolescents," 2020, published in Child Abuse & Neglect
  • "All adverse childhood experiences are not equal: The contribution of synergy to adverse childhood experience scores," 2021, American Psychologist (authored by Ernestine C. Briggs, but related to Putnam's research area)
  • "The economic burden of dissociative disorders: A qualitative systematic review of empirical studies," 2020, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy (authored by Willie Langeland, relevant in related fields)
  • "Cortisol trajectories measured prospectively across thirty years of female development following exposure to childhood sexual abuse: Moderation by epigenetic age acceleration at midlife," 2021, Psychoneuroendocrinology (authored by Chad E. Shenk)
  • "Pathological Dissociation in The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R): Prevalence, Morbidity, Comorbidity, and Childhood Maltreatment," 2022, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation (authored by Daphne Simeon)

Putnam frequently collaborates with several other researchers, among whom are:

  • Jennie G. Noll
  • Chad E. Shenk
  • Idan Shalev
  • Robert T. Ammerman
  • Judith B. Van Ginkel

Their work is frequently published in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
  • American Psychologist

Best Publications

  • Development, reliability, and validity of a dissociation scale.

    Eve M. Bernstein;Frank W. Putnam

  • An update on the Dissociative Experiences Scale.

    Eve Bernstein Carlson;Frank W. Putnam

  • Ten-year research update review: child sexual abuse.

    Frank W. Putnam

  • Types of dissociation and dissociative types: A taxometric analysis of dissociative experiences

    Niels G. Waller;Frank William Putnam;Eve B. Carlson

  • The clinical phenomenology of multiple personality disorder: review of 100 recent cases.

    Frank W. Putnam;Juliet J. Guroff;Edward K. Silberman;Lisa Barban

  • Measurement of dissociative states with the clinician-administered dissociative states scale (CADSS)

    J. Douglas Bremner;John H. Krystal;Frank W. Putnam;Steven M. Southwick

  • Effect of incest on self and social functioning: a developmental psychopathology perspective.

    Pamela M. Cole;Frank W. Putnam

  • The impact of sexual abuse on female development: lessons from a multigenerational, longitudinal research study.

    Penelope K. Trickett;Jennie G. Noll;Frank W. Putnam

  • Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Children and Adolescents Exposed to Traumatic Events

    Wendy K. Silverman;Claudio D. Ortiz;Chockalingham Viswesvaran;Barbara J. Burns

  • Dissociation in Children and Adolescents: A Developmental Perspective

    Frank W. Putnam

  • Validity of the dissociative experiences scale in screening for multiple personality disorder: A multicenter study

    Eve Bernstein Carlson;Frank W. Putnam;Colin A. Ross;Moshe Torem

  • New findings on alternative criteria for PTSD in preschool children.

    Michael S. Scheeringa;Charles H. Zeanah;Leann Myers;Frank W. Putnam

  • Development and validation of a measure of adolescent dissociation : The Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale

    Judith G. Armstrong;Frank William Putnam;Eve B. Carlson;Deborah Z. Libero

  • Attenuation of cortisol across development for victims of sexual abuse.

    Penelope K. Trickett;Jennie G. Noll;Elizabeth J. Susman;Chad E. Shenk

  • A prospective investigation of the impact of childhood sexual abuse on the development of sexuality.

    Jennie G. Noll;Penelope K. Trickett;Frank W. Putnam

  • Revictimization and Self-Harm in Females Who Experienced Childhood Sexual Abuse Results from a Prospective Study

    Jennie G. Noll;Lisa A. Horowitz;George A. Bonanno;Penelope K. Trickett

  • Obesity risk for female victims of childhood sexual abuse: a prospective study.

    Jennie G. Noll;Meg H. Zeller;Penelope K. Trickett;Frank W. Putnam;Frank W. Putnam

  • Development, reliability, and validity of a child dissociation scale

    Frank W. Putnam;Karin Helmers;Penelope K. Trickett

  • Urinary Catecholamine Excretion in Sexually Abused Girls

    Michael D. De Bellis;Lori Lefter;Penelope K. Trickett;Frank W. Putnam

  • Sexual and physical revictimization among victims of severe childhood sexual abuse.

    Jaclyn E. Barnes;Jennie G. Noll;Frank W. Putnam;Penelope K. Trickett

Frequent Co-Authors

Penelope K. Trickett
Penelope K. Trickett University of Southern California
Jennie G. Noll
Jennie G. Noll Pennsylvania State University
Eve B. Carlson
Eve B. Carlson VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Robert T. Ammerman
Robert T. Ammerman Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Richard J. Loewenstein
Richard J. Loewenstein University of Maryland, Baltimore
Bethany L. Brand
Bethany L. Brand Towson University
George A. Bonanno
George A. Bonanno Columbia University
Catherine C. Classen
Catherine C. Classen University of Toronto
Ruth A. Lanius
Ruth A. Lanius University of Western Ontario
Rachel Yehuda
Rachel Yehuda United States Department of Veterans Affairs

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