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Vasiliki Totsika is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily intersects psychology, medicine, and social sciences, with substantial publication activity across these fields. The main subfields of focus include clinical psychology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, education, cognitive neuroscience, and general health professions.

The scientist's work centers around several key research topics. These include family and disability support research, infant development and preterm care, autism spectrum disorder research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, parental involvement in education, and down syndrome and intellectual disability research.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Vasiliki Totsika are:

  • Mental health problems in children with intellectual disability (2022), published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • Factors influencing access to early intervention for families of children with developmental disabilities: A narrative review (2020), published in Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
  • Types and correlates of school non-attendance in students with autism spectrum disorders (2020), published in Autism
  • COVID-19 impact on psychological outcomes of parents, siblings and children with intellectual disability: longitudinal before and during lockdown design (2021), published in Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
  • The impact of disability on employment and financial security following the outbreak of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in the UK (2020), published in Journal of Public Health

Vasiliki Totsika frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors in their research endeavors. Notable frequent collaborators include Richard P. Hastings, Eric Emerson, Kylie M. Gray, Angela Hassiotis, and Amanda Timmerman.

Their research has been disseminated extensively in several venues with repeat publications in:

  • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
  • BJPsych Open
  • Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Research in Developmental Disabilities

Best Publications

  • The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment Revisited

    Vasiliki Totsika;Kathy Sylva

  • A population-based investigation of behavioural and emotional problems and maternal mental health : associations with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability

    Vasiliki Totsika;Richard P. Hastings;Eric Emerson;Gillian A. Lancaster

  • Capturing Quality in Early Childhood through Environmental Rating Scales

    Kathy Sylva;Iram Siraj-Blatchford;Brenda Taggart;Pam Sammons

  • Child Behavior Problems and Parental Well-Being in Families of Children With Autism: The Mediating Role of Mindfulness and Acceptance

    Leah Jones;Richard Patrick Hastings;Vasiliki Totsika;Lisa Keane

  • Social support and coping as mediators or moderators of the impact of work stressors on burnout in intellectual disability support staff.

    Jason M. Devereux;Richard P. Hastings;Stephen J. Noone;Alison Firth

  • ‘I just don’t fit anywhere’: support experiences and future support needs of individuals with Asperger syndrome in middle adulthood:

    Gemma M Griffith;Vasiliki Totsika;Susie Nash;Richard P Hastings

  • Challenging behaviours in adults with an intellectual disability: A total population study and exploration of risk indices

    Darren L. Bowring;Vasiliki Totsika;Richard P. Hastings;Sandy Toogood

  • The influence of external and internal foci of attention on transfer to novel situations and skills.

    Vasiliki Totsika;Gabriele Wulf

  • Behavior Problems at 5 Years of Age and Maternal Mental Health in Autism and Intellectual Disability

    Vasiliki Totsika;Richard P. Hastings;Eric Emerson;Eric Emerson;Damon M. Berridge

  • Gender Differences When Parenting Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Multilevel Modeling Approach

    Leah Jones;Vasiliki Totsika;Richard P. Hastings;Michael A. Petalas

  • Behavior problems, psychiatric symptoms, and quality of life for older adults with intellectual disability with and without autism

    Vasiliki Totsika;David John Felce;Michael Patrick Kerr;Richard P. Hastings

  • Curricular Quality and Day-to-Day Learning Activities in Pre-School.

    Kathy Sylva;Brenda Taggart;Iram Siraj-Blatchford;Vasiliki Totsika

  • Persistence of challenging behaviours in adults with intellectual disability over a period of 11 years

    Vasiliki Totsika;S. Toogood;S. Toogood;Richard P. Hastings;S. Lewis

  • Training parents to help their children read: a randomized control trial.

    Kathy Sylva;Stephen Scott;Vasiliki Totsika;Katharina Ereky-Stevens

  • Mental health problems in children with intellectual disability.

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  • Prevalence of psychotropic medication use and association with challenging behaviour in adults with an intellectual disability. A total population study.

    Darren Bowring;Vasiliki Totsika;Richard Hastings;Sandy Toogood

  • Factors influencing access to early intervention for families of children with developmental disabilities: A narrative review

    Suzi J Sapiets;Vasiliki Totsika;Vasiliki Totsika;Vasiliki Totsika;Richard P Hastings;Richard P Hastings

  • Measurement tools for mental health problems and mental well-being in people with severe or profound intellectual disabilities: A systematic review

    Samantha Flynn;Leen Vereenooghe;Richard P. Hastings;Dawn Adams

  • Is There a Bidirectional Relationship Between Maternal Well‐Being and Child Behavior Problems in Autism Spectrum Disorders? Longitudinal Analysis of a Population‐Defined Sample of Young Children

    Vasiliki Totsika;Richard P. Hastings;Eric Emerson;Gillian A. Lancaster

  • Types and correlates of school non-attendance in students with autism spectrum disorders

    Vasiliki Totsika;Vasiliki Totsika;Vasiliki Totsika;Richard P Hastings;Richard P Hastings;Yoko Dutton;Alison Worsley

  • Prospective dynamic assessment of risk of sexual reoffending in individuals with an intellectual disability and a history of sexual offending behaviour.

    Rachael E. Lofthouse;William R. Lindsay;Vasiliki Totsika;Richard P. Hastings

  • COVID-19 impact on psychological outcomes of parents, siblings and children with intellectual disability: longitudinal before and during lockdown design.

    T Bailey;R P Hastings;R P Hastings;V Totsika;V Totsika;V Totsika

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard P. Hastings
Richard P. Hastings University of Birmingham
Eric Emerson
Eric Emerson Lancaster University
Geoff Lindsay
Geoff Lindsay University of Warwick
William R. Lindsay
William R. Lindsay Abertay University
Kathy Sylva
Kathy Sylva University of Oxford
Chris Hatton
Chris Hatton Manchester Metropolitan University
Kylie Megan Gray
Kylie Megan Gray University of Birmingham
Sally-Ann Cooper
Sally-Ann Cooper University of Glasgow
Glenn Alexander Melvin
Glenn Alexander Melvin Deakin University
Chris Oliver
Chris Oliver University of Birmingham

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