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Ernestine C. Briggs

Researcher at Duke University

Publications -  67
Citations -  3763

Ernestine C. Briggs is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Child abuse. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 63 publications receiving 3159 citations. Previous affiliations of Ernestine C. Briggs include Center for Child and Family Health & Durham University.

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Psychometric Properties of the UCLA PTSD Reaction Index: Part I

TL;DR: Psychometric characteristics of the UCLA PTSD Reaction Index for DSM IV (PTSD-RI) derived from a large sample of children and adolescents evaluated at National Child Traumatic Stress Network centers are presented.
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Complex trauma and mental health in children and adolescents placed in foster care: findings from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.

TL;DR: Compared to youth with other types of trauma, those with complex trauma histories had significantly higher rates of internalizing problems, posttraumatic stress, and clinical diagnoses, and differed on some demographic variables.
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Trauma histories among justice-involved youth: findings from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network

TL;DR: The results indicate that justice-involved youth report high rates of trauma exposure and that this trauma typically begins early in life, is often in multiple contexts, and persists over time.
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What's in a name? A comparison of methods for classifying predominant type of maltreatment.

TL;DR: A classification scheme that differentiates between type combinations and single maltreatment types may have the greatest predictive validity in developmental outcomes.
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Unseen wounds: The contribution of psychological maltreatment to child and adolescent mental health and risk outcomes.

TL;DR: For example, the authors evaluated the independent and additive predictive effects of psychological maltreatment on an array of behavioral problems, symptoms, and disorders in a large national sample of clinic-referred children and adolescents drawn from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Core Data Set (CDS).