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Overview

Pamela J. Taylor is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their main field of study is Psychology, with a particular focus on Clinical Psychology. Additional subfields of research include General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental, and Occupational Health.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to mental health and social issues. Notable topics include:

  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Homelessness and Social Issues

Several recent papers demonstrate their research contributions, including:

  • "Offspring outcomes when a parent experiences one or more major psychiatric disorder(s): a clinical review," 2020, published in Evidence-Based Mental Health
  • "Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and a Combination of Psychosis and Violence Among Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," 2022, published in Trauma Violence & Abuse
  • "A randomized controlled trial of a Group psychological intervention to increase locus of control for alcohol consumption among Alcohol-Misusing Short-term (male) Prisoners (GASP)," 2020, published in Addiction
  • "Change in the Relationship Between Drinking Alcohol and Risk of Violence Among Adolescents and Young Adults: A Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study," 2020, published in Alcohol and Alcoholism
  • "The Relationship Between the Big Five Personality Factors, Anger-hostility, and Alcohol and Violence in Men and Women: A Nationally Representative Cohort of 15,701 Young Adults," 2020, published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Pamela J. Taylor frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health
  • BJPsych Bulletin
  • Trauma Violence & Abuse
  • Evidence-Based Mental Health
  • Addiction

Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Natasha Kalebic
  • Sarah Argent
  • Zoe Bezeczky
  • Andrew Forrester
  • Jasmin Ranu

Best Publications

  • Mental disorders and violence in a total birth cohort: results from the Dunedin Study.

    Louise Arseneault;Terrie E. Moffitt;Avshalom Caspi;Pamela J. Taylor

  • Homicides by people with mental illness: myth and reality.

    Pamela J. Taylor;John Gunn

  • The Influence of Positive Affect on the Decision Rule in Risk Situations: Focus on Outcome (and Especially Avoidance of Loss) Rather Than Probability

    Thomas E. Nygren;Alice M. Isen;Pamela J. Taylor;Jessica Dulin

  • Motives for offending among violent and psychotic men

    Pamela Jane Taylor

  • Risk Factors for Homelessness: Evidence From a Population-Based Study

    Katherine Helen Shelton;Pamela Jane Taylor;A. Bonner;Marianne Bernadette van den Bree

  • Mental disorder and violence. A special (high security) hospital study.

    Pamela J. Taylor;Morven Leese;Deborah Williams;Martin Butwell

  • Violence and psychosis. I. Risk of violence among psychotic men.

    Pamela Jane Taylor;J Gunn

  • Acting on delusions. I: Prevalence.

    Simon Wessely;Alec Buchanan;Alison Reed;J. Cutting

  • Dangerous behaviour preceding first admissions for schizophrenia.

    M. S. Humphreys;E. C. Johnstone;J. F. MacMillan;Pamela Jane Taylor

  • Volumetric structural brain abnormalities in men with schizophrenia or antisocial personality disorder.

    Ian Barkataki;Veena Kumari;Mrigendra Das;Pamela Jane Taylor;Pamela Jane Taylor

  • Neurocognitive deficits in decision-making and planning of patients with DSM-III-R borderline personality disorder

    E. Bazanis;R. D. Rogers;J. H. Dowson;Pamela Jane Taylor

  • Acting on delusions. II: The phenomenological correlates of acting on delusions

    Alec Buchanan;Alison Reed;Simon Wessely;Philippa Garety

  • ECT FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA

    Pamela Jane Taylor;J.J. Fleminger

  • Mortality of shift and day workers 1956-68.

    Pamela J. Taylor;S. J. Pocock

  • Efficacy of mood stabilisers in the treatment of impulsive or repetitive aggression: systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Roland Morgan Jones;James William Arlidge;Rebecca Gillham;Shuja Mohd Reagu

  • Dysfunctional, but not functional, impulsivity is associated with a history of seriously violent behaviour and reduced orbitofrontal and hippocampal volumes in schizophrenia

    Veena Kumari;Ian Barkataki;Sangeeta Goswami;Satinder Flora

  • A longitudinal population-based study of factors in adolescence predicting homelessness in young adulthood

    Marianne Bernadette van den Bree;Katherine Helen Shelton;Adrian Bonner;Sebastian Moss

  • Examination of the screening properties of the personality diagnostic questionnaire 4+ (PDQ-4+) in a prison population

    Sophie Davison;Morven Leese;Pamela J. Taylor

  • A neuropsychological investigation into violence and mental illness

    Ian Barkataki;Veena Kumari;Mrigendra Das;Mary Hill

  • Neural dysfunction and violence in schizophrenia: An fMRI investigation

    Veena Kumari;Ingrid Aasen;Pamela Taylor;Dominic H. ffytche

  • Crime and Schizophrenia

    S Wessely;D Castle;P Taylor

  • Women as offenders

    Pamela J Taylor;Hanna Putkonen;Paul T d’Orbán;Anthony Maden

Frequent Co-Authors

Veena Kumari
Veena Kumari Brunel University London
Alexander Sumich
Alexander Sumich Nottingham Trent University
Mary McMurran
Mary McMurran University of Nottingham
Gisli H. Gudjonsson
Gisli H. Gudjonsson King's College London
Philippa Garety
Philippa Garety King's College London
Birgit Völlm
Birgit Völlm University of Rostock
Katherine Helen Shelton
Katherine Helen Shelton Cardiff University
Michael D. Kopelman
Michael D. Kopelman King's College London
Barbara J. Sahakian
Barbara J. Sahakian University of Cambridge
Terrie E. Moffitt
Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University

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