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Terri N. Sullivan is affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences and psychology, focusing on topics related to violence, youth development, and psychosocial factors.

The primary fields of study for Sullivan include Social Sciences with 55 publications and Psychology with 47 publications. Within these, their subfields are primarily Clinical Psychology, Health, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Safety Research.

Sullivan's research topics cover a diverse range of areas, including:

  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions

The researcher has contributed to several frequent publication venues such as:

  • Journal of Community Psychology
  • American Journal of Public Health
  • Psychology of Violence
  • Youth & Society
  • Prevention Science

Among the recent papers credited to Terri N. Sullivan are:

  • "Social and Structural Determinants of Health and Youth Violence: Shifting the Paradigm of Youth Violence Prevention" (2021), published in American Journal of Public Health
  • "Evaluation of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program in US Urban Middle Schools Using a Multiple Baseline Experimental Design" (2021), published in Prevention Science
  • "A community-specific framework of risk factors for youth violence: A qualitative comparison of community stakeholder perspectives in a low-income, urban community" (2021), published in Journal of Community Psychology
  • "Bidirectional Relations between Witnessing Violence, Victimization, Life Events, and Physical Aggression among Adolescents in Urban Schools" (2020), published in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • "Individual- and Peer-Level Risk and Protective Factors for Gun Carriage Among Adolescents Living in Low-Income Urban Communities" (2022), published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sullivan include:

  • Katherine M. Ross
  • Colleen S. Walsh
  • Kelly O'Connor
  • Albert D. Farrell
  • Carine E. Leslie

Best Publications

  • Peer victimization in early adolescence: association between physical and relational victimization and drug use, aggression, and delinquent behaviors among urban middle school students.

    Terri N. Sullivan;Albert D. Farrell;Wendy Kliewer

  • Associations between Sadness and Anger Regulation Coping, Emotional Expression, and Physical and Relational Aggression among Urban Adolescents

    Terri N. Sullivan;Sarah W. Helms;Wendy Kliewer;Kimberly L. Goodman

  • Relation Between Witnessing Violence and Drug Use Initiation Among Rural Adolescents: Parental Monitoring and Family Support as Protective Factors

    Terri N. Sullivan;Eva M. Kung;Albert D. Farrell

  • Development and evaluation of school-based violence prevention programs.

    Albert D. Farrell;Aleta L. Meyer;Eva M. Kung;Terri N. Sullivan

  • A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of the Structure of Aggression, Drug Use, and Delinquent Behaviors and Their Interrelations Over Time in Urban and Rural Adolescents

    Albert D. Farrell;Terri N. Sullivan;Layla E. Esposito;Aleta L. Meyer

  • Substance use in borderline personality disorder.

    R A Dulit;M R Fyer;G L Haas;T Sullivan

  • Parent and peer predictors of physical dating violence perpetration in early adolescence: tests of moderation and gender differences.

    Shari Miller;Deborah Gorman-Smith;Terri Sullivan;Pamela Orpinas

  • Evaluation of the Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways (RIPP) Seventh Grade Violence Prevention Curriculum

    Albert D. Farrell;Aleta L. Meyer;Terri N. Sullivan;Eva M. Kung

  • Impact of witnessing violence on growth curves for problem behaviors among early adolescents in urban and rural settings

    Albert D. Farrell;Terri N. Sullivan

  • Physical Dating Violence Norms and Behavior Among Sixth-Grade Students From Four U.S. Sites

    Thomas R. Simon;Shari Miller;Deborah Gorman-Smith;Pamela Orpinas

  • A Longitudinal Path Analysis of Peer Victimization, Threat Appraisals to the Self, and Aggression, Anxiety, and Depression Among Urban African American Adolescents

    Katherine A. Taylor;Terri N. Sullivan;Wendy Kliewer

  • A School-Based Expressive Writing Intervention for At-Risk Urban Adolescents' Aggressive Behavior and Emotional Lability

    Wendy Kliewer;Stephen J. Lepore;Albert D. Farrell;Kevin W. Allison

  • Longitudinal Relations Between Adolescent and Parental Behaviors, Parental Knowledge, and Internalizing Behaviors Among Urban Adolescents

    Rachel Cheree Garthe;Terri Sullivan;Wendy Kliewer

  • Identification and impact of risk and protective factors for drug use among urban African American adolescents.

    Terri N. Sullivan;Albert D. Farrell

  • A meta-analytic review of peer risk factors and adolescent dating violence.

    Rachel C. Garthe;Terri N. Sullivan;Michael A. McDaniel

  • Stability and change in patterns of peer victimization and aggression during adolescence.

    Amie Bettencourt;Albert Farrell;Weiwei Liu;Terri Sullivan

  • Assessment of adolescents' victimization, aggression, and problem behaviors: evaluation of the Problem Behavior Frequency Scale

    Albert D. Farrell;Terri N. Sullivan;Elizabeth A. Goncy;Anh-Thuy H. Le

  • Evaluating the impact of interventions in the Multisite Violence Prevention Study: samples, procedures, and measures.

    Shari Miller-Johnson;Terri N Sullivan;Thomas R Simon

  • Individual factors influencing effective nonviolent behavior and fighting in peer situations: a qualitative study with urban African American adolescents.

    Albert D. Farrell;Elizabeth H. Erwin;Amie Bettencourt;Sally Mays

  • Problematic Situations in the Lives of Urban African American Middle School Students: A Qualitative Study.

    Albert D. Farrell;Elizabeth H. Erwin;Kevin W. Allison;Aleta Meyer

  • The ecological effects of universal and selective violence prevention programs for middle school students: A randomized trial.

    Thomas R. Simon;Robin M. Ikeda;Emilie Phillips Smith;Le'Roy E. Reese

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert D. Farrell
Albert D. Farrell Virginia Commonwealth University
Wendy Kliewer
Wendy Kliewer Virginia Commonwealth University
Kevin S. Sutherland
Kevin S. Sutherland Virginia Commonwealth University
Deborah Gorman-Smith
Deborah Gorman-Smith University of Chicago
Emilie Phillips Smith
Emilie Phillips Smith University of Georgia
David L. Rabiner
David L. Rabiner Duke University
Don E. Davis
Don E. Davis Georgia State University
Everett L. Worthington
Everett L. Worthington Virginia Commonwealth University
Robert F. Valois
Robert F. Valois University of South Carolina
Steven R. Asher
Steven R. Asher Duke University

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