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Overview

Heather A. Turner is affiliated with the University of New Hampshire in the United States. Their research primarily spans social sciences and psychology, with a significant focus on clinical psychology, gender studies, sociology and political science, health, and social psychology.

Their scholarly contributions concentrate on topics including child abuse and trauma, gender, feminism, and media, intimate partner and family violence, gun ownership and violence research, suicide and self-harm studies, sex work and related issues, and child welfare and adoption.

Turner has contributed to several frequent publication venues, most notably:

  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • JAMA Network Open
  • Violence and Victims
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Child Maltreatment

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Turner are:

  • Strengthening the predictive power of screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in younger and older children, 2020, Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Prevalence of Online Sexual Offenses Against Children in the US, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • Receipt of Behavioral Health Services Among US Children and Youth With Adverse Childhood Experiences or Mental Health Symptoms, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • The prevalence of child sexual abuse with online sexual abuse added, 2024, Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Which dynamics make online child sexual abuse and cyberstalking more emotionally impactful: Perpetrator identity and images?, 2023, Child Abuse & Neglect

Turner regularly collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • David Finkelhor
  • Deirdre Colburn
  • Kimberly J. Mitchell
  • Lisa M. Jones
  • Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan

Best Publications

  • Poly-victimization: A neglected component in child victimization

    David Finkelhor;Richard K. Ormrod;Heather A. Turner

  • The victimization of children and youth: a comprehensive, national survey

    David Finkelhor;Richard Ormrod;Heather A. Turner;Sherry L Hamby

  • Violence, abuse, and crime exposure in a national sample of children and youth.

    David Finkelhor;Heather A. Turner;Richard Ormrod;Sherry L Hamby

  • Prevalence of Childhood Exposure to Violence, Crime, and Abuse: Results From the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence

    David Finkelhor;Heather A. Turner;Anne Shattuck;Sherry L. Hamby

  • The effect of lifetime victimization on the mental health of children and adolescents.

    Heather A. Turner;David Finkelhor;Richard Ormrod

  • The Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire: reliability, validity, and national norms

    David Finkelhor;Sherry L Hamby;Richard Ormrod;Heather A. Turner

  • Violence, crime, and abuse exposure in a national sample of children and youth: an update

    David Finkelhor;Heather A. Turner;Anne M. Shattuck;Sherry L Hamby

  • Poly-victimization in a national sample of children and youth.

    Heather A. Turner;David Finkelhor;Richard Ormrod

  • Polyvictimization and trauma in a national longitudinal cohort.

    David Finkelhor;Richard K. Ormrod;Heather A. Turner

  • Lifetime assessment of poly-victimization in a national sample of children and youth.

    David Finkelhor;Richard K. Ormrod;Heather A. Turner

  • A revised inventory of Adverse Childhood Experiences

    David Finkelhor;Anne Shattuck;Heather Turner;Sherry Hamby

  • The Lifetime Prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse and Sexual Assault Assessed in Late Adolescence

    David Finkelhor;Anne M. Shattuck;Heather A. Turner;Sherry L Hamby

  • Re-victimization patterns in a national longitudinal sample of children and youth.

    David Finkelhor;Richard K. Ormrod;Heather A. Turner

  • Improving the adverse childhood experiences study scale

    David Finkelhor;Anne M. Shattuck;Heather A. Turner;Sherry L Hamby

  • Measuring poly-victimization using the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire.

    David Finkelhor;Richard K. Ormrod;Heather A. Turner;Sherry L. Hamby

  • The overlap of witnessing partner violence with child maltreatment and other victimizations in a nationally representative survey of youth.

    Sherry L Hamby;David Finkelhor;Heather A. Turner;Richard Ormrod

  • Children’s Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National Survey

    David Finkelhor;Heather Turner;Richard Ormrod;Sherry L Hamby

  • Polyvictimization: Children’s exposure to multiple types of violence, crime, and abuse

    David Finkelhor;Heather Turner;Sherry L Hamby;Richard Ormrod

  • Social support, AIDS-related symptoms, and depression among gay men.

    Robert B. Hays;Heather Turner;Thomas J. Coates

  • Prevalence of AIDS-related risk factors and condom use in the United States.

    Catania Ja;Coates Tj;Stall R;Turner H

Frequent Co-Authors

David Finkelhor
David Finkelhor University of New Hampshire
Sherry Hamby
Sherry Hamby Sewanee: The University of the South
Kimberly J. Mitchell
Kimberly J. Mitchell University of New Hampshire
Lisa M. Jones
Lisa M. Jones University of New Hampshire
Scott Schieman
Scott Schieman University of Toronto
Michele L. Ybarra
Michele L. Ybarra Johns Hopkins University
Leonard I. Pearlin
Leonard I. Pearlin University of Maryland, College Park
Melissa K. Holt
Melissa K. Holt Boston University
R. Jay Turner
R. Jay Turner Florida State University
Victoria L. Banyard
Victoria L. Banyard Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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