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Nancy Kassam-Adams is affiliated with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a particular focus on Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Emergency Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Research Data Management Practices

Kassam-Adams has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "COVID-19 Exposure and Family Impact Scales: Factor Structure and Initial Psychometrics" (2021) published in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology
  • "Screening for consequences of trauma - an update on the global collaboration on traumatic stress" (2020) published in European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • "Development of an international data repository and research resource: the Prospective studies of Acute Child Trauma and Recovery (PACT/R) Data Archive" (2020) published in European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • "Embracing data preservation, sharing, and re-use in traumatic stress research" (2020) published in European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • "Opportunities for improving data sharing and FAIR data practices to advance global mental health" (2023) published in Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health

Their publications often appear in the following venues:

  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Journal of Pediatric Psychology
  • Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health
  • Journal of Traumatic Stress
  • Journal of Emergency Nursing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kassam-Adams include:

  • Julia Price
  • Anne E. Kazak
  • Meghan L. Marsac
  • Yaara Sadeh
  • Lonneke I. M. Lenferink

Best Publications

  • Creating trauma-informed systems: Child welfare, education, first responders, health care, juvenile justice.

    Susan J. Ko;Julian D. Ford;Nancy Kassam-Adams;Steven J. Berkowitz

  • An Integrative Model of Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress

    Anne E. Kazak;Nancy Kassam-Adams;Stephanie Schneider;Nataliya Zelikovsky

  • The risks of treating sexual trauma: Stress and secondary trauma in psychotherapists.

    Nancy Kassam-Adams

  • Traumatic stress in parents of children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit.

    Andrew Balluffi;Nancy Kassam-Adams;Anne Kazak;Michelle Tucker

  • Looking beyond the physical injury: posttraumatic stress disorder in children and parents after pediatric traffic injury.

    A P de Vries;Nancy Kassam-Adams;Avital Cnaan;Avital Cnaan;E Sherman-Slate

  • Systematic Review: A Reevaluation and Update of the Integrative (Trajectory) Model of Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress

    Julia Price;Nancy Kassam-Adams;Melissa A. Alderfer;Jennifer Christofferson

  • Predicting Child PTSD: The Relationship Between Acute Stress Disorder and PTSD in Injured Children

    Nancy Kassam-Adams;Flaura Koplin Winston

  • Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach in Pediatric Health Care Networks.

    Meghan L. Marsac;Nancy Kassam-Adams;Aimee K. Hildenbrand;Elizabeth Nicholls;Elizabeth Nicholls

  • Screening for risk of persistent posttraumatic stress in injured children and their parents.

    Flaura Koplin Winston;Nancy Kassam-Adams;Felipe Garcia-Espana;Richard Ittenbach

  • Acute stress disorder symptoms in children and their parents after pediatric traffic injury.

    Flaura Koplin Winston;Nancy Kassam-Adams;Cara Vivarelli-O’Neill;Julian Ford

  • Ethical Issues in Trauma-Related Research: A Review

    Elana Newman;Elizabeth Risch;Nancy Kassam-Adams

  • Barriers to booster seat use and strategies to increase their use.

    Edith M Simpson;Elisa K Moll;Nancy Kassam-Adams;Gwenyth J Miller

  • Acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in parents of injured children.

    Nancy Kassam-Adams;Courtney Landau Fleisher;Flaura Koplin Winston

  • Parent-child agreement regarding children's acute stress: the role of parent acute stress reactions

    Nancy Kassam-Adams;J. Felipe Garcia-Espana;Victoria A. Miller;Flaura Koplin Winston

  • Heart Rate and Posttraumatic Stress in Injured Children

    Nancy Kassam-Adams;J. Felipe Garcia-España;Joel A. Fein;Flaura Koplin Winston

  • Posttraumatic Stress Following Pediatric Injury: Update on Diagnosis, Risk Factors, and Intervention

    Nancy Kassam-Adams;Nancy Kassam-Adams;Meghan L. Marsac;Aimee Hildenbrand;Flaura Koplin Winston;Flaura Koplin Winston

  • Prevention and public health approaches to trauma and traumatic stress: a rationale and a call to action

    Kathryn M. Magruder;Nancy Kassam-Adams;Siri Thoresen;Miranda Olff

  • Child Stress Disorders Checklist: A Measure of ASD and PTSD in Children

    Glenn Saxe;Neharika Chawla;Frederick Stoddard;Nancy Kassam-Adams

  • Trauma Providers' Knowledge, Views, and Practice of Trauma-Informed Care.

    Marta M Bruce;Nancy Kassam-Adams;Mary Rogers;Karen M Anderson

  • COVID-19 Exposure and Family Impact Scales: Factor Structure and Initial Psychometrics.

    Anne E Kazak;Anne E Kazak;Melissa Alderfer;Melissa Alderfer;Paul T Enlow;Paul T Enlow;Amanda M Lewis

  • The reactions to research participation questionnaires for children and for parents (RRPQ-C and RRPQ-P)

    Nancy Kassam-Adams;Elana Newman

  • Child and parent reactions to participation in clinical research.

    Nancy Kassam-Adams;Elana Newman

Frequent Co-Authors

Lamia P. Barakat
Lamia P. Barakat Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Markus A. Landolt
Markus A. Landolt University of Zurich
Anne E. Kazak
Anne E. Kazak Nemours Children's Health System
Justin Kenardy
Justin Kenardy University of Queensland
Melissa A. Alderfer
Melissa A. Alderfer Thomas Jefferson University
Elana Newman
Elana Newman University of Tulsa
Richard Meiser-Stedman
Richard Meiser-Stedman University of East Anglia
Douglas L. Delahanty
Douglas L. Delahanty Kent State University
Tim Dalgleish
Tim Dalgleish University of Cambridge
Sonja March
Sonja March University of Southern Queensland

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