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Sherry Hamby is affiliated with Sewanee: The University of the South in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a strong focus on clinical psychology as a subfield. They have made contributions to areas including health, sociology and political science, general health professions, and social psychology.

The main topics of Hamby's work cover resilience and mental health, child abuse and trauma, migration, health and trauma, intimate partner and family violence, posttraumatic stress disorder research, bullying, victimization and aggression, as well as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Hamby are:

  • Recognizing the cumulative burden of childhood adversities transforms science and practice for trauma and resilience, 2021, American Psychologist
  • Poly-victimization, Trauma, and Resilience: Exploring Strengths That Promote Thriving After Adversity, 2020, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation

Hamby has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Notable co-authors include Victoria L. Banyard, Elizabeth Taylor, Kimberly J. Mitchell, Lisa M. Jones, and Heather L. Storer.

Their research has been published repeatedly in several venues such as Children and Youth Services Review, Violence and Victims, Child Abuse & Neglect, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy, and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Hamby has also contributed to book publications, including a work published by the American Psychological Association titled Strengths-based prevention: Reducing violence and other public health problems in 2021.

Best Publications

  • The Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2): Development and Preliminary Psychometric Data

    Murray A. Straus;Sherry L. Hamby;S. U. E. Boney-McCoy;David B. Sugarman

  • Identification of child maltreatment with the Parent–Child Conflict Tactics Scales: Development and psychometric data for a national sample of American parents.

    Murray A Straus;Sherry L Hamby;David Finkelhor;David W Moore

  • The victimization of children and youth: a comprehensive, national survey

    David Finkelhor;Richard Ormrod;Heather A. Turner;Sherry L Hamby

  • Violence, abuse, and crime exposure in a national sample of children and youth.

    David Finkelhor;Heather A. Turner;Richard Ormrod;Sherry L Hamby

  • Prevalence of Childhood Exposure to Violence, Crime, and Abuse: Results From the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence

    David Finkelhor;Heather A. Turner;Anne Shattuck;Sherry L. Hamby

  • The Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire: reliability, validity, and national norms

    David Finkelhor;Sherry L Hamby;Richard Ormrod;Heather A. Turner

  • Violence, crime, and abuse exposure in a national sample of children and youth: an update

    David Finkelhor;Heather A. Turner;Anne M. Shattuck;Sherry L Hamby

  • A revised inventory of Adverse Childhood Experiences

    David Finkelhor;Anne Shattuck;Heather Turner;Sherry Hamby

  • The Lifetime Prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse and Sexual Assault Assessed in Late Adolescence

    David Finkelhor;Anne M. Shattuck;Heather A. Turner;Sherry L Hamby

  • Improving the adverse childhood experiences study scale

    David Finkelhor;Anne M. Shattuck;Heather A. Turner;Sherry L Hamby

  • Measuring poly-victimization using the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire.

    David Finkelhor;Richard K. Ormrod;Heather A. Turner;Sherry L. Hamby

  • The overlap of witnessing partner violence with child maltreatment and other victimizations in a nationally representative survey of youth.

    Sherry L Hamby;David Finkelhor;Heather A. Turner;Richard Ormrod

  • Children’s Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National Survey

    David Finkelhor;Heather Turner;Richard Ormrod;Sherry L Hamby

  • Polyvictimization: Children’s exposure to multiple types of violence, crime, and abuse

    David Finkelhor;Heather Turner;Sherry L Hamby;Richard Ormrod

  • Measuring Physical & Psychological Maltreatment of Children with the Conflict Tactics Scales.

    Murray A. Straus;Sherry L. Hamby

  • The Web of Violence: Exploring Connections Among Different Forms of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse

    Sherry L. Hamby;John H. Grych

  • Trends in Childhood Violence and Abuse Exposure: Evidence From 2 National Surveys

    David Finkelhor;Heather A. Turner;Richard Ormrod;Sherry L Hamby

  • The resilience portfolio model: Understanding healthy adaptation in victims of violence.

    John Grych;Sherry Hamby;Victoria Banyard

  • Resilience portfolios and poly-strengths: Identifying protective factors associated with thriving after adversity.

    Sherry L. Hamby;John H. Grych;Victoria Banyard

  • Effects of Poly-Victimization on Adolescent Social Support, Self-Concept, and Psychological Distress

    Heather A. Turner;Anne Shattuck;David Finkelhor;Sherry Hamby

  • ADMINISTRATION AND SCORING MANUAL

    Sherry L. Hamby;David Finkelhor

Frequent Co-Authors

Heather A. Turner
Heather A. Turner University of New Hampshire
David Finkelhor
David Finkelhor University of New Hampshire
John H. Grych
John H. Grych Marquette University
Victoria L. Banyard
Victoria L. Banyard Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Kimberly J. Mitchell
Kimberly J. Mitchell University of New Hampshire
Lisa M. Jones
Lisa M. Jones University of New Hampshire
Murray A. Straus
Murray A. Straus University of New Hampshire
Renee McDonald
Renee McDonald Southern Methodist University
Sandra Graham
Sandra Graham University of California, Los Angeles
Gabriel P. Kuperminc
Gabriel P. Kuperminc Georgia State University

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