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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

James Garbarino is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has a research focus primarily in psychology and social sciences. Their work spans across clinical psychology, safety research, and health-related subfields, with significant contributions to the study of suicide and self-harm, child abuse and trauma, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Garbarino has published extensively on topics that intersect mental health and social challenges, particularly involving vulnerable youth and the effects of violence. Their main areas of research include:

  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health and Conflict Studies
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Child Welfare and Adoption

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • The War-Zone Mentality - Mental Health Effects of Gun Violence in U.S. Children and Adolescents (2022), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • Vulnerable children: Protection and social reintegration of child soldiers and youth members of gangs (2020), published in Child Abuse & Neglect
  • 16-Questions to Find Mass-Murderers, Spree-Shooters, Domestic-Terrorists, and a Study-1 of 232-School-Shooters with Controls and a Study-2 of 6-Teen-Shooters With 11-Homicidal and 12-Control Youth Rated with Ask Standard Predictor (ASP) of Violence Potential-Youth Version and the MMPI-A: Implications: Use Computer-Tests and Machine-Learning-Equations to Lower Insurance-Premiums and Prevent Church-Bankruptcy from Violent Offenses (2022), published in Review of European Studies

Garbarino's frequent co-authors include:

  • Robert John Zagar
  • Joseph K. Kovach
  • Michael J. Benko
  • Steve Tippins
  • Kenneth G. Busch

Publication venues where James Garbarino has frequently contributed include:

  • Review of European Studies
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Violence and Gender
  • The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development

Garbarino's scholarly output primarily contributes to understanding psychological and social phenomena related to trauma, violence, and adolescent development. Their research also spans interdisciplinary fields linking health, safety, and social sciences.

Recognition for their work includes being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Lost boys: Why our sons turn violent and how we can save them

    James Garbarino

  • The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design: by Urie Bronfenbrenner Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979, 330 + p.

    James Garbarino

  • Children in Danger: Coping with the Consequences of Community Violence

    James Garbarino;Nancy Dubrow;Kathleen Kostelny;Carole Pardo

  • Children and families in the social environment

    James Garbarino;Robert H. Abramowitz

  • Raising Children in a Socially Toxic Environment

    James Garbarino

  • High-risk neighborhoods and high-risk families: the human ecology of child maltreatment.

    James Garbarino;Deborah Sherman

  • The human ecology of child maltreatment: A conceptual model for research.

    James Garbarino

  • The psychologically battered child

    Mary W. Lindahl;James Garbarino;Edna Guttmann;Janis Wilson Seeley

  • What children can tell us about living in danger.

    James Garbarino;Kathleen Kostelny;Nancy Dubrow

  • Child maltreatment as a community problem.

    James Garbarino;Kathleen Kostelny

  • No Place to Be a Child: Growing Up in a War Zone

    James Garbarino;Kathleen Kostelny;Nancy Dubrow

  • A preliminary study of some ecological correlates of child abuse: the impact of socioeconomic stress on mothers

    James Garbarino

  • Defining the comminity context for parent-child relations: the correlates of child maltreatment.

    James Garbarino;Ann Crouter

  • The Effects of Political Violence on Palestinian Children's Behavior Problems: A Risk Accumulation Model

    James Garbarino;Kathleen Kostelny

  • Social support networks : informal helping in the human services

    James K. Whittaker;James Garbarino

  • What children can tell us: Eliciting, interpreting, and evaluating information from children.

    James Garbarino;Frances M. Stott

  • Understanding Abusive Families

    David G. Gil;James Garbarino;Gwen Gilliam

  • An ecological perspective on the effects of violence on children

    James Garbarino

  • Living in the war zone: mothers and young children in a public housing development.

    Nancy F. Dubrow;James Garbarino

  • Risk and Protective Factors for Homophobic Bullying in Schools: An Application of the Social–Ecological Framework

    Jun Sung Hong;James Garbarino

Frequent Co-Authors

Ann C. Crouter
Ann C. Crouter Pennsylvania State University
Catherine P. Bradshaw
Catherine P. Bradshaw University of Virginia
John Eckenrode
John Eckenrode Cornell University
Nancy L. Galambos
Nancy L. Galambos University of Alberta
Jun Sung Hong
Jun Sung Hong Wayne State University
Maryse H. Richards
Maryse H. Richards Loyola University Chicago
Alan Stein
Alan Stein University of Oxford
William M. Grove
William M. Grove University of Minnesota
Maureen M. Black
Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences

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