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Rachel Calam is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and health professions, with a notable emphasis on clinical psychology within these fields. Their work covers topics related to migration, health and trauma, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, family support in illness, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, family and disability support research, resilience and mental health, and obesity and health practices.

The scientist has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Acceptability, reliability, and validity of a brief measure of capabilities, opportunities, and motivations ("COM-B") (2020), British Journal of Health Psychology
  • Delivering Opportunistic Behavior Change Interventions: a Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews (2020), Prevention Science
  • Perceptions of receiving behaviour change interventions from GPs during routine consultations: A qualitative study (2020), PLoS ONE
  • Enhancing Teaching Recovery Techniques (TRT) with Parenting Skills: RCT of TRT + Parenting with Trauma-Affected Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Utilising Remote Training with Implications for Insecure Contexts and COVID-19 (2021), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Are primary/elementary school-based interventions effective in preventing/ameliorating excess weight gain? A systematic review of systematic reviews (2020), Obesity Reviews

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Aala El-Khani
  • Chris Keyworth
  • Tracy Epton
  • Joanna Goldthorpe
  • Christopher J. Armitage

Publications by Rachel Calam have appeared in a number of venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • BMJ Open
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology
  • The Lancet Psychiatry

Their work largely spans these subfields of study:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Best Publications

  • Self-Report Measures of Parental Self-Efficacy: A Systematic Review of the Current Literature

    Anja Wittkowski;Charlotte Garrett;Rachel Calam;Daniel P. Weisberg

  • Eating disorders and perceived relationships with parents

    Rachel Calam;Glenn Waller;Peter Slade;Tim Newton

  • Family Mediation Patterns and Television Viewing: Young Children's Use and Grasp of the Medium.

    Roger Jon Desmond;Jerome L. Singer;Dorothy G. Singer;Rachel Calam

  • A review of parenting programs in developing countries: opportunities and challenges for preventing emotional and behavioral difficulties in children.

    Anilena Mejia;Rachel Calam;Matthew R. Sanders;Matthew R. Sanders

  • Acceptability, reliability, and validity of a brief measure of capabilities, opportunities, and motivations ("COM-B")

    Chris Keyworth;Tracy Epton;Joanna Goldthorpe;Rachel Calam

  • The clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and acceptability of community-based interventions aimed at improving or maintaining quality of life in children of parents with serious mental illness: a systematic review

    Penny Bee;Peter Bower;Sarah Byford;Rachel Churchill

  • Sexual experience and eating problems in female undergraduates

    Rachel M. Calam;Peter D. Slade

  • Psychological disturbance and child sexual abuse: a follow-up study

    Rachel Calam;Louise Horne;David Glasgow;Antony Cox

  • Expressed emotion, attributions and depression in mothers of children with problem behaviour.

    Catherine Bolton;Rachel Calam;Christine Barrowclough;Sarah Peters

  • NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL CASE FORMULATION. EPIDEMIOLOGICAL, SYSTEMIC AND SOCIAL CONTEXT: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH

    Nicholas Tarrier;Rachel Calam

  • Does self-directed and web-based support for parents enhance the effects of viewing a reality television series based on the Triple P-Positive Parenting Programme?

    Matthew Sanders;Rachel Calam;Marianne Durand;Tom Liversidge

  • Maternal attributions and expressed emotion as predictors of attendance at parent management training

    Sarah Peters;Rachel Calam;Richard Harrington

  • Parenting interventions for childhood chronic illness: A review and recommendations for intervention design and delivery

    Alina Morawska;Rachel Calam;Jennifer Fraser

  • Are eating and psychosocial characteristics in early teenage years useful predictors of eating characteristics in early adulthood? A 7-year longitudinal study

    Rachel Calam;Glenn Waller

  • Childhood asthma, behavior problems, and family functioning.

    Rachel Calam;Lynsey Gregg;Bridget Simpson;Julie Morris

  • Who knows best? Family interaction and eating disorders.

    Glenn Waller;Peter Slade;Rachel Calam

  • Interventions for postnatal depression assessing the mother–infant relationship and child developmental outcomes: a systematic review

    Zoe-Lydia Tsivos;Rachel Calam;Matthew R Sanders;Anja Wittkowski

  • Can technology and the media help reduce dysfunctional parenting and increase engagement with preventative parenting interventions

    Rachel Calam;Matthew R. Sanders;Catherine Miller;Vaneeta Sadhnani

  • The Relationship Between Problem-Solving and Autobiographical Memory in Parasuicide Patients

    Gary L. Sidley;Kim Whitaker;Rachel M. Calam;Adrian Wells

  • Delivering Opportunistic Behavior Change Interventions: a Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews

    Chris Keyworth;Tracy Epton;Joanna Goldthorpe;Rachel Calam

  • Family adaptability and cohesion: Relation to eating attitudes and disorders

    Glenn Waller;Peter Slade;Rachel Calam

  • 'It's difficult, I think it's complicated': Health care professionals' barriers and enablers to providing opportunistic behaviour change interventions during routine medical consultations.

    Chris Keyworth;Tracy Epton;Joanna Goldthorpe;Rachel Calam

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew R. Sanders
Matthew R. Sanders University of Queensland
Anja Wittkowski
Anja Wittkowski University of Manchester
Christopher J. Armitage
Christopher J. Armitage University of Manchester
Paul Stallard
Paul Stallard University of Bath
Steven Jones
Steven Jones Lancaster University
Alina Morawska
Alina Morawska University of Queensland
Glenn Waller
Glenn Waller University of Sheffield
Peter D. Slade
Peter D. Slade University of Saskatchewan
Richard Emsley
Richard Emsley King's College London
Adrian Wells
Adrian Wells University of Manchester

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