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Harriet L. MacMillan

Harriet L. MacMillan

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Psychology

D-Index
82
Citations
27471
World Ranking
1320
National Ranking
71

Overview

Harriet L. MacMillan is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their research is primarily situated in the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a notable focus on Clinical Psychology as a subfield, alongside contributions to General Health Professions, Health, Sociology and Political Science, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Harriet L. MacMillan has contributed to various peer-reviewed publications, with frequent articles appearing in venues such as:

  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • BMC Public Health
  • BMJ Open
  • The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Their recent published papers include:

  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on intimate partner violence and mental health: advancing mental health services, research, and policy (2022, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), peer victimization, and substance use among adolescents (2020, Child Abuse & Neglect)
  • Confirmatory factor analysis of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among a community-based sample of parents and adolescents (2020, BMC Pediatrics)
  • Identifying children exposed to maltreatment: a systematic review update (2020, BMC Pediatrics)
  • Recognizing and Responding to Intimate Partner Violence: An Update (2020, The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Harriet L. MacMillan include:

  • Andrea González
  • Lil Tonmyr
  • Tracie O. Afifi
  • Melissa Kimber
  • Tamara Taillieu

Best Publications

  • Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development

    Pia R Britto;Stephen J Lye;Kerrie Proulx;Aisha K Yousafzai

  • Childhood abuse and lifetime psychopathology in a community sample.

    Harriet L. MacMillan;Jan E. Fleming;David L. Streiner;Elizabeth Lin

  • Recognising and responding to child maltreatment

    Ruth Gilbert;Alison Mary Kemp;June Thoburn;Peter Sidebotham

  • Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment and Associated Impairment

    Harriet L MacMillan;C Nadine Wathen;Jane Barlow;David M Fergusson

  • Resilience following child maltreatment: A review of protective factors

    Tracie O Afifi;Harriet L MacMillan

  • Prevalence of Child Physical and Sexual Abuse in the Community: Results From the Ontario Health Supplement

    Harriet L. MacMillan;Jan E. Fleming;Nico Trocmé;Michael H. Boyle

  • Interventions for Violence Against Women: Scientific Review

    C. Nadine Wathen;Harriet L. MacMillan

  • Child abuse and mental disorders in Canada

    Tracie O. Afifi;Harriet L. MacMillan;Michael Boyle;Tamara Taillieu

  • Screening for intimate partner violence in health care settings: a randomized trial.

    Harriet L. MacMillan;C. Nadine Wathen;Ellen Jamieson;Michael H. Boyle

  • Childhood adversity and personality disorders: results from a nationally representative population-based study.

    Tracie O. Afifi;Amber Mather;Jonathon Boman;William Fleisher

  • The relationship between parental substance abuse and child maltreatment: findings from the Ontario Health Supplement

    Christine Walsh;Harriet L MacMillan;Ellen Jamieson

  • Child maltreatment and HPA axis dysregulation: relationship to major depressive disorder and post traumatic stress disorder in females.

    Alison Shea;Christine Walsh;Harriet L. MacMillan;Meir Steiner

  • Mental Health Correlates of Intimate Partner Violence in Marital Relationships in a Nationally Representative Sample of Males and Females

    Tracie O. Afifi;Harriet L. MacMillan;Brian J. Cox;Gordon J.G. Asmundson

  • Approaches to screening for intimate partner violence in health care settings: a randomized trial.

    Harriet L. MacMillan;C. Nadine Wathen;Ellen Jamieson;Michael Boyle

  • Outcome, Prognosis, and Risk in a Longitudinal Follow-up Study

    David R. Offord;Michael H. Boyle;Yvonne A. Racine;Jan E. Fleming

  • The contribution of childhood emotional abuse to teen dating violence among child protective services-involved youth.

    Christine Wekerle;Eman Leung;Anne-Marie Wall;Harriet MacMillan

  • Cortisol response to stress in female youths exposed to childhood maltreatment: results of the youth mood project.

    Harriet L. MacMillan;Katholiki Georgiades;Eric K. Duku;Alison Shea

  • Factors influencing identification of and response to intimate partner violence: a survey of physicians and nurses

    Iris A. Gutmanis;Charlene Beynon;Leslie Tutty;C. Nadine Wathen

  • Physical Punishment and Mental Disorders: Results From a Nationally Representative US Sample

    Tracie O. Afifi;Natalie P. Mota;Patricia Dasiewicz;Harriet L. MacMillan

  • Measurement of victimization in adolescence: development and validation of the Childhood Experiences of Violence Questionnaire.

    Christine A. Walsh;Harriet L. MacMillan;Nico Trocmé;Ellen Jamieson

  • Approaches to Screening for Intimate Partner Violence in Health Care Settings

    Harriet L. MacMillan;C. Nadine Wathen;Ellen Jamieson;Michael Boyle

Frequent Co-Authors

Tracie O. Afifi
Tracie O. Afifi University of Manitoba
Louis A. Schmidt
Louis A. Schmidt McMaster University
Eric Duku
Eric Duku McMaster University
Mark A. Ferro
Mark A. Ferro University of Waterloo
Tamara Taillieu
Tamara Taillieu University of Manitoba
Charlotte Waddell
Charlotte Waddell Simon Fraser University
Christine Wekerle
Christine Wekerle McMaster University
Peter Szatmari
Peter Szatmari University of Toronto
Leslie Atkinson
Leslie Atkinson Toronto Metropolitan University
Tracy Vaillancourt
Tracy Vaillancourt University of Ottawa

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