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Overview

Thomas S. Weisner is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, mainly focusing on medicine and social sciences.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Medicine
  • Social Sciences

Within these broad areas, their subfields of study encompass:

  • Emergency Medicine
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Psychology

Their research covers several key topics, such as:

  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Community Health and Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development

Thomas S. Weisner has published in various academic venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • Human Development
  • Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde
  • UNC Libraries
  • Anthropology & Education Quarterly

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "More Than 500 Kids Could Be Saved Each Year! Ten Consensus Actions to Improve Quality of Pediatric Resuscitation in DACH-Countries (Austria, Germany, and Switzerland)" (2020, Frontiers in Pediatrics)
  • "Still the Most Important Influence on Human Development: Culture, Context, and Methods Pluralism" (2020, Human Development)
  • "Mehr als 500 Kinder pro Jahr könnten gerettet werden! Zehn Thesen zur Verbesserung der Qualität pädiatrischer Reanimationen im deutschsprachigen Raum" (2022, Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde)
  • "ADHD in context: Young adults' reports of the impact of occupational environment on the manifestation of ADHD" (2020, UNC Libraries)
  • "Learning without lessons. Pedagogy in indigenous communities By David Lancy, New York: Oxford University Press. 2024. 280 pp. $90.00 (hardback). ISBN: 9780197645598" (2024, Anthropology & Education Quarterly)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Thomas S. Weisner include:

  • Philipp Jung
  • Sebastian Brenner
  • Iris Bachmann
  • Christian P. Both
  • Francesco Cardona

Best Publications

  • My Brother's Keeper: Child and Sibling Caretaking [and Comments and Reply]

    Thomas S. Weisner;Ronald Gallimore

  • Ecocultural Understanding of Children's Developmental Pathways

    Thomas S. Weisner

  • Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Developmental Science: Uses and Methodological Choices

    Hirokazu Yoshikawa;Thomas S. Weisner;Ariel Kalil;Niobe Way

  • The social construction of ecocultural niches: family accommodation of developmentally delayed children.

    R Gallimore;T S Weisner;S Z Kaufman;L P Bernheimer

  • The social construction and subjective reality of activity settings: Implications for community psychology

    Ronald Gallimore;Claude N. Goldenberg;Thomas S. Weisner

  • Family responses to young children with developmental delays: Accommodation activity in ecological and cultural context.

    Ronald Gallimore;Thomas S. Weisner;Lucinda P. Bernheimer;Donald Guthrie

  • Unpackaging Cultural Effects on Classroom Learning: Native Hawaiian Peer Assistance and Child‐Generated Activity

    Thomas S. Weisner;Ronald Gallimore;Cathie Jordan

  • Ecocultural theory as a context for the Individual Family Service Plan.

    Lucinda P. Bernheimer;Ronald Gallimore;Thomas S. Weisner

  • ‘You have to push it—who's gonna raise your kids?’: situating child care and child care subsidy use in the daily routines of lower income families

    Edward D Lowe;Thomas S Weisner

  • Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children

    Greg J. Duncan;Aletha C. Huston;Thomas S. Weisner

  • How Families View and Use the EITC: Advanced Payment versus Lump-sum Delivery

    Jennifer L. Romich;Thomas Weisner

  • Culture: The missing link in health research.

    M. Kagawa Singer;W. Dressler;S. George;Claudia R. Baquet

  • The Ecocultural Project of Human Development: Why Ethnography and Its Findings Matter

    Thomas S. Weisner

  • “Let Me Just Tell You What I Do All Day…”: The Family Story at the Center of Intervention Research and Practice

    Lucinda P. Bernheimer;Thomas S. Weisner

  • African families and the crisis of social change

    Thomas S. Weisner;Candice Bradley;Philip Leroy Kilbride

  • How Families View and Use the EITC: Advance Payment versus Lump Sum Delivery

    Jennifer L. Romich;Thomas Weisner

  • Sociocultural studies of families of children with intellectual disabilities

    Debra Skinner;Thomas S. Weisner

  • Impacts on children of a policy to promote employment and reduce poverty for low-income parents: new hope after 5 years.

    Aletha C. Huston;Greg J. Duncan;Vonnie C. McLoyd;Danielle A. Crosby

  • Outcome correlates of parent-child bedsharing: An eighteen-year longitudinal study

    Paul Okami;Thomas Weisner;Richard Olmstead

  • Meeting the Practical Challenges of Mixed Methods Research

    Eli Lieber;Thomas S. Weisner

  • New Hope for Families and Children: Five-Year Results of a Program To Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare.

    Aletha C. Huston;Cynthia. Miller;Lashawn. Richburg-Hayes;Greg J. Duncan

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald Gallimore
Ronald Gallimore University of California, Los Angeles
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Hirokazu Yoshikawa New York University
Stephen P. Hinshaw
Stephen P. Hinshaw University of California, Berkeley
L. Eugene Arnold
L. Eugene Arnold The Ohio State University
James M. Swanson
James M. Swanson University of California, Irvine
Aletha C. Huston
Aletha C. Huston The University of Texas at Austin
Patricia L. East
Patricia L. East University of California, San Diego
Donald Guthrie
Donald Guthrie University of California, Los Angeles
Karen C. Wells
Karen C. Wells Duke University
Ross A. Thompson
Ross A. Thompson University of California, Davis

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