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, 2026, 'Intergenerational patterns of child protection contact and offspring mental disorders from birth to age 18 years: A population-based study of Australian young people', Child Abuse and Neglect, 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108303
, 2026, 'Can universal school-based social and emotional learning programs reduce early antisocial behaviours? A systematic review and meta-analysis', International Journal of Behavioral Development, 50, pp. 792 - 805, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01650254251361872
, 2026, 'Middle childhood profiles of social-emotional competencies and difficulties differentiate risk of health service presentations with adolescent mental disorders', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 60, pp. 653 - 665, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00048674261426776
, 2026, 'Out-of-school suspension and police contact: Identifying early opportunities to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline', , http://dx.doi.org/10.52922/crg78175
, 2026, 'Out-of-school suspension from primary school and early contact with police', , http://dx.doi.org/10.52922/ti78182
, 2026, 'Intergenerational patterns of child protection system involvement in an Australian population cohort', Child Abuse & Neglect, 172, pp. 107844 - 107844, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107844
, 2026, 'Trajectories of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Subsequent Adolescent Suicidal Ideation and Self-Harm', Journal of Adolescent Health, 78, pp. 267 - 275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2025.09.014
, 2026, 'Adolescent Pregnancy Among Girls Known to Child Protection Services: An Australian Longitudinal Cohort Study Using Data Linkage', Medical Journal of Australia, 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja2.70130
, 2026, 'Educational Adversities Among Children With Distinct Multidimensional Profiles of Early Childhood Developmental Vulnerability', Australian Journal of Education, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00049441261483735
, 2026, 'Exclusionary School Discipline and Time to First Contact with Police as a Person of Interest for Criminal Incidents Among Boys and Girls', Journal of School Violence, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15388220.2026.2706587
, 2026, 'Mental Health Service Use Among Young People From Families With Different Intergenerational Patterns of Child Protection Contact', Child Maltreatment, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10775595261466984
, 2026, 'Universal School-Based Social-Emotional Learning and Early Adolescent Police Contact', Youth and Society, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118X261478948
, 2025, 'Criminal justice system contacts of young people who were placed in out-of-home care in childhood: A population-based descriptive study of over 79,000 young people in New South Wales, Australia', Journal of Criminology, 58, pp. 629 - 642, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/26338076251379336
, 2025, 'Geographic mapping of adverse childhood experiences and adolescent suicidal ideation/self-harm in New South Wales, Australia', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 59, pp. 1084 - 1094, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00048674251369628
, 2025, 'Middle childhood social-emotional competencies mediate the effects of school-entry literacy and numeracy skills on secondary school reading and numeracy attainment', Learning and Individual Differences, 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102778
, 2025, 'Psychiatric diagnoses prior to the first onset of non-affective and affective psychoses', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 59, pp. 859 - 862, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00048674251361768
, 2025, 'An exploratory evaluation of universal social-emotional learning programs delivered during elementary school to Australian students', Journal of School Psychology, 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2025.101447
, 2025, 'Promoting effective transitions: Primary school social–emotional competencies predict secondary school reading and numeracy achievement', British Journal of Educational Psychology, 95, pp. 496 - 512, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12735
, 2025, 'Examining mental health service use across intergenerational patterns of child protection system contact: A case for cross-sector supports', Child Abuse and Neglect, 163, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107426
, 2025, 'Latent trajectories of mental health service use in an Australian state population cohort of children', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 59, pp. 457 - 468, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00048674251324805
, 2025, 'The Overlaps between Intergenerational (Dis)Continuity of Child Protection Services Involvement and Mental Illness Diagnoses from Hospital Admissions', Journal of Family Violence, 40, pp. 489 - 501, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-023-00610-x
, 2025, 'Cumulative incidence of adolescent mental disorders following childhood maltreatment: An Australian longitudinal population cohort study', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 59, pp. 197 - 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00048674241307150
, 2025, 'Sex differences in the patterns of police contact during childhood and adolescence: A population-based study of 79,446 Australian young people', Journal of Criminology, 58, pp. 155 - 170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/26338076241269755
, 2025, 'Conditions of Birth and Early Childhood Developmental Risk for Mental Disorders', Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 56, pp. 201 - 213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-023-01549-2
, 2025, 'Research Letter: Cumulative incidence of psychotropic drug prescriptions among children and adolescents in an Australian population cohort', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 59, pp. 180 - 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00048674241307152
, 2024, 'Patterns of health service use for children with mental disorders in an Australian state population cohort', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 58, pp. 857 - 874, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00048674241258599
, 2024, 'Contact with child protection services and subsequent rates of first police contact as a person of interest, victim or witness in early life', Children and Youth Services Review, 163, pp. 107705, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107705
, 2024, 'Cohort Profile Update: The New South Wales Child Development Study (NSW-CDS) - Wave 3 (child age ∼18 years)', International Journal of Epidemiology, 53, pp. dyae069 - dyae069, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyae069
, 2024, 'Levels of Involvement with Child Protection Services Associated with Early Adolescent Police Contact as a Victim and Person of Interest', Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 39, pp. 2708 - 2732, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08862605231223468
, 2024, 'New directions in intergenerational child maltreatment research and responses: Knowledge gaps and recommendations', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 59, pp. 316 - 327, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.281
, 2024, 'Global Prevalence of Childhood Exposure to Physical Violence within Domestic and Family Relationships in the General Population: A Systematic Review and Proportional Meta-Analysis', Trauma Violence and Abuse, 25, pp. 1411 - 1430, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15248380231179133
, 2024, 'Intergenerational (Dis)continuity of Child Maltreatment: Variation by Parents’ Childhood Victimization Experiences and Sex', Child Maltreatment, 29, pp. 24 - 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10775595221138551
, 2023, 'Psychiatric illness and the risk of reoffending: recurrent event analysis for an Australian birth cohort', BMC Psychiatry, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04839-0
, 2023, 'Parental mental disorders and offspring schizotypy in middle childhood: an intergenerational record linkage study', Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 58, pp. 1637 - 1648, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-023-02455-7
, 2023, 'Childhood Schizotypy and Adolescent Mental Disorder.', Schizophrenia Bulletin, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbad132
, 2023, 'Measurement Invariance Across Sex and Language Background of a Self-Report Social-Emotional Learning Questionnaire for Middle Childhood', Child Indicators Research, 16, pp. 1233 - 1249, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-023-10015-3
, 2023, 'Out-of-home care characteristics associated with childhood educational underachievement, mental disorder, and police contacts in an Australian population sample', Child Abuse and Neglect, 139, pp. 106120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106120
, 2023, 'Cumulative Environmental Risk in Early Life: Associations With Schizotypy in Childhood', Schizophrenia bulletin, 49, pp. 244 - 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbac160
, 2023, 'Pathways from developmental vulnerabilities in early childhood to schizotypy in middle childhood', British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62, pp. 228 - 242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12405
, 2023, 'Relationships between parental mental illness and/or offending and offspring contact with the police in childhood: Findings from a longitudinal record-linkage study', Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 33, pp. 72 - 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2274
, 2023, 'Item Response Theory Analysis of Self-Reported Social–Emotional Learning Competencies in an Australian Population Cohort Aged 11 Years', School Psychology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/spq0000533
, 2023, 'Profiles of Resilience from Early to Middle Childhood among Children Known to Child Protection Services', Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 52, pp. 533 - 545, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2021.1969652
, 2023, 'Self-harm and suicidal ideation among young people is more often recorded by child protection than health services in an Australian population cohort', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00048674231179652
, 2023, 'Self-reported mental health of children known to child protection services: an Australian population-based record linkage study', European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 32, pp. 101 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-021-01841-3
, 2022, 'Regional mapping of early childhood risk for mental disorders in an Australian population sample', Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 16, pp. 1269 - 1277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eip.13281
, 2022, 'Developmental profiles of schizotypy in the general population: A record linkage study of Australian children aged 11–12 years', British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61, pp. 836 - 858, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12363
, 2022, 'Early developmental vulnerabilities following exposure to domestic violence and abuse: Findings from an Australian population cohort record linkage study', Journal of Psychiatric Research, 153, pp. 223 - 228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.07.012
, 2022, 'School-Based Mental Health Promotion and Early Intervention Programs in New South Wales, Australia: Mapping Practice to Policy and Evidence', School Mental Health, 14, pp. 582 - 597, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12310-021-09482-2
, 2021, 'Examining the overlap of young people’s early contact with the police as a person of interest and victim or witness', Journal of Criminology, 54, pp. 501 - 520, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/26338076211014594
, 2021, 'Early childhood predictors of elementary school suspension: An Australian record linkage study', Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 77, pp. 101343, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2021.101343