Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development

…, H MacMillan, M Hanson, TD Wachs, H Yao… - The lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a historic opportunity to implement interventions,
at scale, to promote early childhood development. Although the evidence base for the …

Resilience following child maltreatment: A review of protective factors

TO Afifi, HL MacMillan - The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: Child maltreatment is linked with numerous adverse outcomes that can continue
throughout the lifespan. However, variability of impairment has been noted following child …

Interventions for violence against women: scientific review

CN Wathen, HL MacMillan - Jama, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
Context Intimate partner violence is prevalent and is associated with significant impairment,
yet it remains unclear which interventions, if any, reduce rates of abuse and reabuse. …

Childhood abuse and lifetime psychopathology in a community sample

HL MacMillan, JE Fleming, DL Streiner… - American Journal of …, 2001 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: The authors assessed lifetime psychopathology in a general population sample
and compared the rates of five psychiatric disorder categories between those who reported …

Interventions to prevent child maltreatment and associated impairment

HL MacMillan, CN Wathen, J Barlow, DM Fergusson… - The lancet, 2009 - thelancet.com
Although a broad range of programmes for prevention of child maltreatment exist, the effectiveness
of most of the programmes is unknown. Two specific home-visiting programmes—the …

Recognising and responding to child maltreatment

…, P Sidebotham, L Radford, D Glaser, HL MacMillan - The lancet, 2009 - thelancet.com
Professionals in child health, primary care, mental health, schools, social services, and law-enforcement
services all contribute to the recognition of and response to child maltreatment. …

Prevalence of child physical and sexual abuse in the community: results from the Ontario Health Supplement

HL MacMillan, JE Fleming, N Trocmé, MH Boyle… - Jama, 1997 - jamanetwork.com
Context. —Although child maltreatment is considered common, few community surveys
have examined the prevalence of more than 1 type of maltreatment among both males and …

Screening for intimate partner violence in health care settings: a randomized trial

HL MacMillan, CN Wathen, E Jamieson, MH Boyle… - Jama, 2009 - jamanetwork.com
Context Whether intimate partner violence (IPV) screening reduces violence or improves
health outcomes for women is unknown. Objective To determine the effectiveness of IPV …

Child abuse and mental disorders in Canada

TO Afifi, HL MacMillan, M Boyle, T Taillieu, K Cheung… - Cmaj, 2014 - Can Med Assoc
… Harriet MacMillan and Michael Boyle assisted with the development of the research
questions, interpreted the findings and wrote sections of the manuscript. Tamara Taillieu and …

The relationship between parental substance abuse and child maltreatment: findings from the Ontario Health Supplement

C Walsh, HL MacMillan, E Jamieson - Child abuse & neglect, 2003 - Elsevier
Objective: This study examined the relationship between reported exposure to child abuse
and a history of parental substance abuse (alcohol and drugs) in a community sample in …