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10736
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Overview

Julia C. Babcock is affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States and conducts research primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology. Their work focuses extensively on intimate partner and family violence, attachment and relationship dynamics, child abuse and trauma, as well as sexual assault and victimization studies.

Their recent publications include:

  • "Which battering interventions work? An updated Meta-analytic review of intimate partner violence treatment outcome research" (2024), published in Clinical Psychology Review
  • "Effects of Angry Rumination and Distraction in Intimate Partner Violent Men" (2020), published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Julia C. Babcock has also contributed to other significant works related to related fields, coauthoring with researchers such as Donald A. Godfrey, Caitlin M. Kehoe, Victoria E. Bennett, Adriana Bastardas-Albero, and Deanna L. Pollard.

Their research has appeared in several recurring publication venues, most notably:

  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Journal of Family Violence
  • Psychology of Violence
  • International Journal of Urban Sciences
  • Clinical Psychology Review

Julia C. Babcock's work spans various subfields including health, clinical psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, and general health professions. The primary topics explored in their research include:

  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Their papers have attracted attention in relevant academic communities, with citations notably accrued by works such as "Smart city as a social transition towards inclusive development through technology: a tale of four smart cities" (2022), published in the International Journal of Urban Sciences, and other research intersecting psychology and social sciences.

Best Publications

  • Does batterers' treatment work? A meta-analytic review of domestic violence treatment.

    Julia C Babcock;Charles E Green;Chet Robie

  • Power and violence: the relation between communication patterns, power discrepancies, and domestic violence.

    Julia C. Babcock;Jennifer Waltz;Neil S. Jacobson;John M. Gottman

  • Affect, verbal content, and psychophysiology in the arguments of couples with a violent husband.

    Neil S. Jacobson;John M. Gottman;Jennifer Waltz;Regina Rushe

  • Attachment, Emotional Regulation, and the Function of Marital Violence: Differences Between Secure, Preoccupied, and Dismissing Violent and Nonviolent Husbands

    Julia C. Babcock;Neil S. Jacobson;John M. Gottman;Timothy P. Yerington

  • Toward a Typology of Abusive Women: Differences between Partner-Only and Generally Violent Women in the Use of Violence.

    Julia C. Babcock;Sarah A. Miller;Cheryl Siard

  • Testing a typology of batterers.

    Jennifer Waltz;Julia C. Babcock;Neil S. Jacobson;John M. Gottman

  • The Relationship Between Treatment, Incarceration, and Recidivism of Battering: A Program Evaluation of Seattle's Coordinated Community Response to Domestic Violence

    Julia Caroline Babcock;Ramalina Steiner

  • Proactive and Reactive Violence among Intimate Partner Violent Men Diagnosed with Antisocial and Borderline Personality Disorder

    Jody M. Ross;Julia C. Babcock

  • What situations induce intimate partner violence? A reliability and validity study of the Proximal Antecedents to Violent Episodes (PAVE) scale.

    Julia C. Babcock;Daniela M. Costa;Charles E. Green;Christopher I. Eckhardt;Christopher I. Eckhardt;Christopher I. Eckhardt

  • Domestic violence perpetrator programs: A proposal for evidence-based standards in the United States.

    Julia Caroline Babcock;Nicholas Armenti;Clare Cannon;Katie Lauve-Moon

  • The Effects of Hormonal Gender Affirmation Treatment on Mental Health in Female-to-Male Transsexuals

    Stacey L. Colton Meier Ma;Kara M. Fitzgerald Ma;Seth T. Pardo Ma;Julia Babcock

  • Partner Assaultive Men and the Stages and Processes of Change

    Christopher I. Eckhardt;Julia Babcock;Susan Homack

  • Psychophysiological profiles of batterers: autonomic emotional reactivity as it predicts the antisocial spectrum of behavior among intimate partner abusers.

    Julia C. Babcock;Charles E. Green;Sarah A. Webb;Timothy P. Yerington

  • Testosterone treatment and MMPI-2 improvement in transgender men: a prospective controlled study.

    Colton L Keo-Meier;Levi I Herman;Sari L Reisner;Seth T Pardo

  • Measures of Clinical Health among Female-to-Male Transgender Persons as a Function of Sexual Orientation

    S. Colton Meier;Seth T. Pardo;Christine Labuski;Julia Babcock

  • Intimate Partner Abuse and PTSD Symptomatology: Examining Mediators and Moderators of the Abuse-Trauma Link

    Julia C. Babcock;Ashley Roseman;Charles E. Green;Jody M. Ross

  • Battering and the Male Rejection of Influence from Women

    James Coan;John M. Gottman;Julia Babcock;Neil Jacobson

  • Romantic Relationships of Female-to-Male Trans Men: A Descriptive Study

    S. Colton Meier;Carla Sharp;Jared Michonski;Julia C. Babcock

  • Attachment as a Moderator Between Intimate Partner Violence and PTSD Symptoms.

    Shelby Scott;Julia C. Babcock

  • A second failure to replicate the Gottman et al. (1995) typology of men who abuse intimate partners...and possible reasons why.

    Julia C. Babcock;Charles E. Green;Sarah A. Webb;Katherine H. Graham

  • Testing a typology of batterers

    Julia C. Babcock;J. Waltz;Neil S. Jacobson;John M. Gottman

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Gottman
John M. Gottman University of Washington
Neil S. Jacobson
Neil S. Jacobson University of Washington
Carla Sharp
Carla Sharp University of Houston
Christopher I. Eckhardt
Christopher I. Eckhardt Purdue University West Lafayette
Jeffrey Temple
Jeffrey Temple The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Amy Holtzworth-Munroe
Amy Holtzworth-Munroe Indiana University
Christopher M. Murphy
Christopher M. Murphy University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Matthew S. Stanford
Matthew S. Stanford Baylor University
Ernest N. Jouriles
Ernest N. Jouriles Southern Methodist University
Sari L. Reisner
Sari L. Reisner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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