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Overview

Karen Salmon is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a particular focus on subfields such as Developmental and Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The main topics that define Salmon's work include:

  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments
  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms

Salmon has contributed research to several frequent publication venues, demonstrating a consistent presence in:

  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • NIHR Open Research
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science

Among Salmon's recent papers are:

  • "Autobiographical memory and psychopathology: Is memory specificity as important as we make it seem?" (2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science)
  • "Delving into the detail: Greater episodic detail in narratives of a critical life event predicts an increase in adolescent depressive symptoms across one year" (2021, Behaviour Research and Therapy)
  • "The ecology of youth psychological wellbeing in the COVID-19 pandemic." (2021, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition)

Other publications where Salmon is not the primary author but related to their field include works published in JAMA and Mental Health & Prevention.

Frequent collaborators in Salmon's research include Elaine Reese, Paul E. Jose, Michael P. W. Grocott, Elizabeth R. Peterson, and Susan Morton, with the highest number of coauthored papers being nine with Elaine Reese.

Best Publications

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder in children. The influence of developmental factors.

    Karen Salmon;Richard A Bryant

  • Children's memory for pain: overview and implications for practice.

    Carl L. von Baeyer;Tammy A. Marche;Elizabete M. Rocha;Karen Salmon

  • Punishment insensitivity and parenting: temperament and learning as interacting risks for antisocial behavior.

    Mark R. Dadds;Karen Salmon

  • Development and validation of the Child Post‐Traumatic Cognitions Inventory (CPTCI)

    Richard Meiser-Stedman;Patrick Smith;Richard Bryant;Karen Salmon

  • The time to talk: the influence of the timing of adult-child talk on children's event memory.

    Fiona McGuigan;Karen Salmon

  • The Effects of Mother Training in Emotion-Rich, Elaborative Reminiscing on Children's Shared Recall and Emotion Knowledge

    Penny Van Bergen;Karen Salmon;Mark R. Dadds;Jennifer Allen

  • The Benefits of Reminiscing With Young Children

    Karen Salmon;Elaine Reese

  • Drawing and showing: helping children to report emotionally laden events

    Michaela Wesson;Karen Salmon

  • Mother-child reminiscing about everyday experiences: implications for psychological interventions in the preschool years.

    Penny Wareham;Karen Salmon

  • Remembering and reporting by children: The influence of cues and props

    Karen Salmon

  • Recalling an event one year later: the impact of props, drawing and a prior interview

    Karen Salmon;Margaret-Ellen Pipe

  • Giving Memory a Hand: Instructing Children to Gesture Enhances their Event Recall

    Elizabeth Stevanoni;Karen Salmon

  • A prospective study of appraisals in childhood posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Richard A. Bryant;Karen Salmon;Emma Sinclair;Patricia Davidson

  • Reasoning about the self in positive and negative ways: Relationship to psychological functioning in young adulthood

    Megan V. Banks;Karen Salmon

  • Predicting Children's Response to an Invasive Medical Investigation: The Influence of Effortful Control and Parent Behavior

    Karen Salmon;John Kieran Pereira

  • Props and children's event reports: the impact of a 1-year delay.

    Karen Salmon;Margaret-Ellen Pipe

  • Cognitive Biases in Childhood Anxiety, Depression, and Aggression: Are They Pervasive or Specific?

    Sophie C. Reid;Karen Salmon;Peter F. Lovibond

  • The Role of Language Skill in Child Psychopathology: Implications for Intervention in the Early Years

    Karen Salmon;Richard O’Kearney;Elaine Reese;Clare-Ann Fortune

  • Providing Props to Facilitate Children′s Event Reports: A Comparison of Toys and Real Items

    Karen Salmon;Sue Bidrose;Margaret-Ellen Pipe

  • The ethics of punishment: Correctional practice implications

    Tony Ward;Karen Salmon

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Bryant
Richard A. Bryant University of New South Wales
Margaret-Ellen Pipe
Margaret-Ellen Pipe City University of New York
Paul E. Jose
Paul E. Jose Victoria University of Wellington
Tim Dalgleish
Tim Dalgleish University of Cambridge
Patrick Smith
Patrick Smith University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elaine Reese
Elaine Reese University of Otago
Richard Meiser-Stedman
Richard Meiser-Stedman University of East Anglia
William Yule
William Yule King's College London
Mark R. Dadds
Mark R. Dadds University of Sydney
Skye McDonald
Skye McDonald University of New South Wales

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