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Helen Minnis is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and has a research profile specializing in psychology and medicine, with a strong emphasis on clinical psychology. Their work extensively covers topics related to child abuse and trauma, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and child welfare and adoption. Additional areas of focus include autism spectrum disorder research, child and adolescent health, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, and family and disability support research.

Their research has been published in a variety of academic venues, notably including:

  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • PLoS ONE
  • Developmental Child Welfare
  • JCPP Advances
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Frequently collaborating with other experts, Helen Minnis has worked with Christopher Gillberg, Philip Wilson, Ruchika Gajwani, Fiona Turner, and Lucy Thompson on multiple occasions.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on intimate partner violence and mental health: advancing mental health services, research, and policy" (2022), published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Child maltreatment and cardiovascular disease: quantifying mediation pathways using UK Biobank" (2020), published in BMC Medicine
  • "Double jeopardy: implications of neurodevelopmental conditions and adverse childhood experiences for child health" (2022), published in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • "Child maltreatment and incident mental disorders in middle and older ages: a retrospective UK Biobank cohort study" (2021), published in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • "Investigating the causal relationship between maltreatment and cognition in children: A systematic review" (2020), published in Child Abuse & Neglect

Helen Minnis' scholarly output covers significant subfields such as clinical psychology, safety research, general health professions, cognitive neuroscience, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. This multidisciplinary approach supports a nuanced understanding of how adverse childhood experiences intersect with developmental and health outcomes across the lifespan.

Best Publications

  • Practitioner Review: Twenty years of research with adverse childhood experience scores - Advantages, disadvantages and applications to practice.

    Rebecca E. Lacey;Helen Minnis

  • The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: a pilot study of a new computer version of the self-report scale.

    J Truman;K Robinson;A L Evans;D Smith

  • Children in foster care: mental health, service use and costs.

    Helen Minnis;Kimberley Everett;Anthony J. Pelosi;Judy Dunn

  • Dyslexia and psycho‐social functioning: an exploratory study of the role of self‐esteem and understanding

    Melody M. Terras;Lucy C. Thompson;Helen Minnis

  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on intimate partner violence and mental health: advancing mental health services, research, and policy

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  • Vitamin D and autism: clinical review.

    Eva Kočovská;Elisabeth Fernell;Eva Billstedt;Helen Minnis

  • Altered stress responses in children exposed to early adversity: a systematic review of salivary cortisol studies.

    Ann Louise Hunter;Helen Minnis;Philip Wilson

  • Facial emotion recognition in child psychiatry: a systematic review.

    Lisa Collin;Jasmeet Bindra;Monika Raju;Christopher Gillberg

  • Genetic, environmental and gender influences on attachment disorder behaviours

    Helen Minnis;Joanne Reekie;David Young;Tom O'Connor

  • An exploratory study of the association between reactive attachment disorder and attachment narratives in early school-age children

    Helen Minnis;Jonathan Green;Thomas G. O'Connor;Ashley Liew

  • Children’s perceptions of parental emotional neglect and control and psychopathology

    Robert Young;Susan Lennie;Helen Minnis

  • Disruptive behaviour disorders: a systematic review of environmental antenatal and early years risk factors

    K Latimer;P Wilson;J Kemp;L Thompson

  • Neurodevelopmental and psychosocial risk factors in serial killers and mass murderers

    Clare S. Allely;Helen Minnis;Lucy Thompson;Philip Wilson

  • Prevalence of reactive attachment disorder in a deprived population

    Helen Minnis;Susan Macmillan;Rachel Pritchett;David Young

  • Psychosocial correlates of adolescent obesity, [`]slimming down' and [`]becoming obese'

    Helen Sweeting;Charlotte Wright;Helen Minnis

  • Maltreatment‐associated neurodevelopmental disorders: a co‐twin control analysis

    Lisa Dinkler;Sebastian Lundström;Ruchika Gajwani;Paul Lichtenstein

  • Annotation: Transracial Family Placements

    Alan Rushton;Helen Minnis

  • Reactive attachment disorder - a theoretical model beyond attachment

    Helen Minnis;Helen M. Marwick;Julie Arthur;Alexis McLaughlin

  • Mental health and foster carer training

    H. Minnis;A. Pelosi;Martin Knapp;J. Dunn

  • Adverse childhood experiences, epigenetics and telomere length variation in childhood and beyond: a systematic review of the literature.

    Jason Lang;Judith McKie;Helen Smith;Angela McLaughlin

  • Development of a brief, clinically relevant, scale for measuring attachment disorders.

    Helen Minnis;Sophia Rabe-Hesketh;Stephen Wolkind

  • Reactive Attachment Disorder in Looked-After Children.

    R. Millward;E. Kennedy;K. Towlson;H. Minnis

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Bourgeron
Thomas Bourgeron Université Paris Cité
James Law
James Law Newcastle University
Jonathan Green
Jonathan Green University of Manchester
Thomas G. O'Connor
Thomas G. O'Connor University of Rochester
Angelica Ronald
Angelica Ronald Birkbeck, University of London
Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin King's College London
Sebastian Lundström
Sebastian Lundström University of Gothenburg
Eva Billstedt
Eva Billstedt University of Gothenburg
Elizabeth Kuipers
Elizabeth Kuipers King's College London
Katri Räikkönen
Katri Räikkönen University of Helsinki

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