On this Papers Podcast, Dr. Johnny Felt and Dr. Chad Shenk focus on their co-authored JCPP paper ‘Contamination bias within the estimation of kid maltreatment causal results on adolescent internalizing and externalizing conduct issues’ (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13990).
There’s an summary of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for follow.
Dialogue factors embrace:
- Definition of what’s meant by the time period ‘maltreatment’.
- What’s contamination and why is contamination a problem within the examine of kid maltreatment?
- Challenges and limitations of the examine.
- How contamination has been historically addressed in baby maltreatment research and the way this examine has tried to do issues in a different way.
- The implications of the findings.
- How contamination in baby maltreatment analysis ought to be addressed in future analysis.
On this sequence, we converse to authors of papers revealed in certainly one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Baby Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Baby and Adolescent Psychological Well being (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances.
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Johnny Felt, Ph.D. is a analysis assistant professor within the Middle for Wholesome Growing older at Penn State. His analysis pursuits contain the identification and utility of superior statistical strategies to raised perceive the short- and long-term penalties of stress. Extra particularly, he makes use of each Bayesian and frequentist approaches to investigate cross-sectional and longitudinal information, from observational and experimental designs, to analyze how publicity to emphasize and adolescence adversity can have an effect on each day stress processes and biobehavioral developmental and getting old processes.
Chad Shenk, PhD, ABPP, is a Professor within the Departments of Human Growth & Household Research and Pediatrics at Penn State. Dr. Shenk’s fundamental science analysis is centered on bettering strategies for causal estimation and goal identification in potential cohort research of kid trauma and hostile well being throughout the lifespan. This work identifies biomarkers and etiological mechanisms of assorted well being circumstances within the baby trauma inhabitants utilizing a a number of timescales (real-time, longitudinal) and a number of ranges of research (organic, behavioral, environmental) strategy. His medical trials analysis subsequently facilities on the optimization of behavioral interventions for baby trauma by partaking recognized targets and mechanisms extra successfully. As Principal and Co-Investigator, Dr. Shenk has secured over $30 million in federal grant awards from the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, Nationwide Science Basis, and different nationwide funders. He’s a Fellow of the American Psychological Affiliation (Divisions 37 and 53) and a board-certified medical psychologist actively seeing sufferers uncovered to baby trauma by means of Penn State’s Division of Pediatrics.
