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Jana Kreppner is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology, social sciences, and medicine. Their research primarily focuses on clinical psychology, safety research, psychiatry and mental health, education, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their work covers a range of topics including child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child welfare and adoption, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), child abuse and trauma, autism spectrum disorder research, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, and maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum.

Jana Kreppner has authored several published papers in reputable venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • Early childhood deprivation is associated with alterations in adult brain structure despite subsequent environmental enrichment (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • The Effects of ADHD Teacher Training Programs on Teachers and Pupils: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2020, Journal of Attention Disorders)
  • Why does early childhood deprivation increase the risk for depression and anxiety in adulthood? A developmental cascade model (2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)
  • School staff perspectives on ADHD and training: understanding the needs and views of UK primary staff (2021, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties)
  • The feasibility of a strategy for the remote recruitment, consenting and assessment of recent referrals: a protocol for phase 1 of the On-Line Parent Training for the Initial Management of ADHD referrals (OPTIMA) (2022, Pilot and Feasibility Studies)

Their publications have appeared frequently in the following venues:

  • Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Adoption & Fostering
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scholar collaborates often with several coauthors, including Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Hanna Kovshoff, Mark Kennedy, Barbara Maughan, and Nicky Knights. The highest number of joint publications with a single coauthor is thirteen with Edmund Sonuga-Barke, followed by eleven with Hanna Kovshoff.

Best Publications

  • Quasi‐autistic Patterns Following Severe Early Global Privation

    Michael Rutter;Lucie Andersen-Wood;Celia Beckett;Diana Bredenkamp

  • Do the effects of early severe deprivation on cognition persist into early adolescence? Findings from the English and Romanian adoptees study.

    Celia Beckett;Barbara Maughan;Michael Rutter;Jenny Castle

  • Specificity and heterogeneity in children's responses to profound institutional privation

    Michael L. Rutter;Jana M. Kreppner;Thomas G. O'connor

  • Early adolescent outcomes for institutionally-deprived and non-deprived adoptees. I: disinhibited attachment.

    Michael Rutter;Emma Colvert;Jana Kreppner;Celia Beckett

  • The Effects of Global Severe Privation on Cognitive Competence: Extension and Longitudinal Follow-up

    Thomas G. O’Connor;Michael Rutter;Celia Beckett;Lisa Keaveney

  • Effects of profound early institutional deprivation: An overview of findings from a UK longitudinal study of Romanian adoptees

    Michael Rutter;Celia Beckett;Jenny Castle;Emma Colvert

  • Can inattention/overactivity be an institutional deprivation syndrome?

    Jana M. Kreppner;Thomas G. O'Connor;Michael Rutter

  • Child-to-adult neurodevelopmental and mental health trajectories after early life deprivation: the young adult follow-up of the longitudinal English and Romanian Adoptees study

    Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke;Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke;Mark Kennedy;Robert Kumsta;Nicky Knights

  • Inattention/Overactivity Following Early Severe Institutional Deprivation : Presentation and Associations in Early Adolescence

    Suzanne E. Stevens;Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke;Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke;Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke;Jana M. Kreppner;Celia Beckett

  • Do Theory of Mind and Executive Function Deficits Underlie the Adverse Outcomes Associated with Profound Early Deprivation?: Findings from the English and Romanian Adoptees Study.

    Emma Colvert Colvert;Michael Rutter;Jana Kreppner;Celia Beckett

  • Normality and impairment following profound early institutional deprivation: a longitudinal follow-up into early adolescence.

    Jana M. Kreppner;Michael Rutter;Celia Beckett;Jenny Castle

  • Emanuel Miller Lecture: Attachment insecurity, disinhibited attachment, and attachment disorders: where do research findings leave the concepts?

    Michael Rutter;Jana Kreppner;Edmund Sonuga-Barke

  • Emotional and behavioural difficulties in children and adolescents with hearing impairment: a systematic review and meta‑analysis

    Jim Stevenson;Jana Kreppner;Hannah Pimperton;Sarah Worsfold

  • Deprivation-Specific Psychological Patterns: Effects of Institutional Deprivation

    M. Rutter;E. Sonuga-Barke;C. Beckett;J. Castle

  • VI. Sensitive periods

    Charles H. Zeanah;Megan R. Gunnar;Robert B. McCall;Jana M. Kreppner

  • Early Adolescent Outcomes of Institutionally Deprived and Non-Deprived Adoptees. III. Quasi-Autism.

    Michael Rutter;Jana Kreppner;Carla Croft;Marianna Murin

  • Emotional difficulties in early adolescence following severe early deprivation: findings from the English and Romanian adoptees study.

    Emma Colvert;Michael Rutter;Celia Beckett;Jenny Castle

  • Early Adolescent Outcomes of Institutionally-Deprived and Non-Deprived Adoptees. II: Language as a Protective Factor and a Vulnerable Outcome.

    Carla Croft;Celia Beckett;Michael Rutter;Jenny Castle

  • 5HTT genotype moderates the influence of early institutional deprivation on emotional problems in adolescence: evidence from the English and Romanian Adoptee (ERA) study

    Robert Kumsta;Suzanne Stevens;Suzanne Stevens;Keeley Brookes;Wolff Schlotz

  • The impact of universal newborn hearing screening on long-term literacy outcomes: a prospective cohort study

    Hannah Pimperton;Hazel Blythe;Jana Kreppner;Merle Mahon

  • The Development of the Person: The Minnesota Study of Risk and Adaptation from Birth to Adulthood

    Julie Messer;Jana Kreppner;Andrés Martin

Frequent Co-Authors

Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke King's College London
Michael Rutter
Michael Rutter King's College London
Robert Kumsta
Robert Kumsta Ruhr University Bochum
Thomas G. O'Connor
Thomas G. O'Connor University of Rochester
Wolff Schlotz
Wolff Schlotz Max Planck Society
Barbara Maughan
Barbara Maughan King's College London
Jim Stevenson
Jim Stevenson University of Southampton
Megan R. Gunnar
Megan R. Gunnar University of Minnesota
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Charles H. Zeanah
Charles H. Zeanah Tulane University

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