David Curran
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3776534 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Curran |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Curran |
| FIRMA | CURRAN D |
| AFILIACIONES | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2836-5496 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
How do you know you know that you're doing ACT?” An experimental study of simulated therapy sessions to explore the measurement properties of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Fidelity Measure (AC…
The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-Fidelity Measure (ACT-FM) offers a user-friendly assessment of ACT delivery in clinical trials and clinical practice. However, the ACT-FM's measurement properties have not been adequately explored. This study tests whether it performs two key functions: 1) discriminates between therapy sessions delivered with different levels of fidelity to ACT principles; 2) enables reliable scoring. In total, 14 clinicians …
Applied knowledge of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Evaluation of the psychometric properties of trauma history measures
Overall, the TLEQ emerged as the most robust legacy measure of trauma history. Future studies should assess its psychometrics in comparison with the new generation of measures (i.e., Life Events Checklist, International Trauma Exposure Measure) to further the development of assessment tools in this area. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Understanding Deadly Force in United Nations Peacekeeping Since the ‘Robust Turn’
What do we know about the number of deaths and injuries caused due to the employment of deadly force by United Nations peacekeeping operations? This article addresses this question through an exploration of datasets on violent events in UN peacekeeping since 2010, focussing specifically on those instances where the mandated use of deadly force has led to death and injury, underpinned by a detailed review of UN policy and peacekeeping literature. …
Learning to Protect? Identifying Elicitive Approaches in Protection of Civilians Training for UN Peacekeepers
How are military peacekeepers trained to undertake the Protection of Civilians (PoC)?This article addresses this important question, focussing on how 'contact skills' are integrated into the UN's flagship PoC training progammes through learner-centred 'elicitive' forms of training.The article outlines theoretical and policy considerations which advocate more complex training in this domain, before exploring the programmes.It then critically analy…
Multidisciplinary Futures of UN Peace Operations
This book explores the interrelated dynamics of UN peace operations and peacebuilding practices, bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives
A systematic review of quality of life and health‐related quality of life as outcomes in substance and behavioural addictions
Empirically Derived Patterns of Posttraumatic Stress and Growth
The relationship between posttraumatic stress (PTS) and posttraumatic growth (PTG) has been extensively studied; however, the nature of the relationship remains unclear. Inconsistencies in the literature could be, in part, due to the use of variable level approaches. Person centered methods may further our understanding of this relationship, as they enable the identification of clinically meaningful subgroups based on PTS/PTG scores. This review …
Stabilization at the Expense of Peacebuilding in UN Peacekeeping Operations
The “uploading” of stabilization to UN peacekeeping presents conceptual, political, and practical challenges to the UN’s role in global governance and international conflict management. While scholarly research on stabilization has generally focused on militarization, its relationship to peacebuilding in the context of UN peacekeeping is underexplored. This article examines that relationship. A survey of UN policy frameworks highlights the simult…
Exploring the relationship between alienation appraisals, trauma, posttraumatic stress, and depression
Alienation was a salient predictor of posttraumatic distress. Clinical assessment of alienation appraisals is recommended to inform psychological interventions for trauma survivors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Alienation Appraisals Mediate the Relationships between Childhood Trauma and Multiple Markers of Posttraumatic Stress
Rates of posttraumatic stress are elevated in individuals who have experienced childhood and/or cumulative trauma, and trauma appraisals have been suggested as a possible mediator of this effect. This study tested the proposed mediating role of trauma appraisals between both childhood and cumulative trauma, and two markers of trauma-related distress; posttraumatic stress and depression. Mediation models were developed and tested with data collect…
More than Fighting for Peace
Comparing shame in clinical and nonclinical populations
DID emerged as having a different profile of shame processes compared to the other clinical groups, whereas the complex trauma and general mental health groups had comparable shame levels and variable relationships. These differential profiles of shame coping and state shame are discussed with reference to assessment and treatment. (PsycINFO Database Record
The United Kingdom and United Nations peace operations
This article analyses the United Kingdom’s (UK) approach to United Nations (UN) peace operations and whether Britain is prepared politically, bureaucratically, financially, and militarily to increase its contributions to them. The article begins with an overview of UK engagement with UN peacekeeping since 1956 before discussing the political issues that govern British decisions about peacekeeping. The third section then assesses several challenge…
Muddling on through? Cosmopolitan peacekeeping and the protection of civilians
This article analyses direct forms of the ‘protection of civilians’ (PoC) in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping, and how this links to aspirations outlined by cosmopolitan scholarship at the turn of the twentieth century. Its main contention is that cosmopolitan conceptions of peacekeeping, which advocate more active forms of civilian protection, have faced significant challenges in the UN peacekeeping system. These challenges (internal and externa…
Training for Peacekeeping
The purpose of this article is to outline developments in UN training programmes in negotiation, and civil military coordination. The article seeks to engage positively with critical assessments of peacekeeping and peacebuilding. It demonstrates that by making military peacekeepers aware of non-violent solutions to potentially violent situations (through negotiation skills for instance), and also of the peacekeeping/peacebuilding nexus (for examp…
The impact of trauma on therapeutic engagement within an addictions population
Cosmopolitan peacekeeping and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone
The article is organized into two main parts. First, it presents the termination of the conflict in Sierra Leone as a case-study to examine the degree to which cosmopolitan values connecting peacekeeping and peacebuilding are (or are not) evident. The case-study looks at the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) as a model of successful peacekeeping in the sense that everyday security was provided for the people of Sierra Leone through…
Stabilization at the Expense of Peacebuilding in UN Peacekeeping Operations
The “uploading” of stabilization to UN peacekeeping presents conceptual, political, and practical challenges to the UN’s role in global governance and international conflict management. While scholarly research on stabilization has generally focused on militarization, its relationship to peacebuilding in the context of UN peacekeeping is underexplored. This article examines that relationship. A survey of UN policy frameworks highlights the simult…
Muddling on through? Cosmopolitan peacekeeping and the protection of civilians
This article analyses direct forms of the ‘protection of civilians’ (PoC) in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping, and how this links to aspirations outlined by cosmopolitan scholarship at the turn of the twentieth century. Its main contention is that cosmopolitan conceptions of peacekeeping, which advocate more active forms of civilian protection, have faced significant challenges in the UN peacekeeping system. These challenges (internal and externa…
Training for Peacekeeping
The purpose of this article is to outline developments in UN training programmes in negotiation, and civil military coordination. The article seeks to engage positively with critical assessments of peacekeeping and peacebuilding. It demonstrates that by making military peacekeepers aware of non-violent solutions to potentially violent situations (through negotiation skills for instance), and also of the peacekeeping/peacebuilding nexus (for examp…
Cosmopolitan peacekeeping and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone
The article is organized into two main parts. First, it presents the termination of the conflict in Sierra Leone as a case-study to examine the degree to which cosmopolitan values connecting peacekeeping and peacebuilding are (or are not) evident. The case-study looks at the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) as a model of successful peacekeeping in the sense that everyday security was provided for the people of Sierra Leone through…
Learning to Protect? Identifying Elicitive Approaches in Protection of Civilians Training for UN Peacekeepers
How are military peacekeepers trained to undertake the Protection of Civilians (PoC)?This article addresses this important question, focussing on how 'contact skills' are integrated into the UN's flagship PoC training progammes through learner-centred 'elicitive' forms of training.The article outlines theoretical and policy considerations which advocate more complex training in this domain, before exploring the programmes.It then critically analy…
The United Kingdom and United Nations peace operations
This article analyses the United Kingdom’s (UK) approach to United Nations (UN) peace operations and whether Britain is prepared politically, bureaucratically, financially, and militarily to increase its contributions to them. The article begins with an overview of UK engagement with UN peacekeeping since 1956 before discussing the political issues that govern British decisions about peacekeeping. The third section then assesses several challenge…
Cosmopolitan peacekeeping and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone
The article is organized into two main parts. First, it presents the termination of the conflict in Sierra Leone as a case-study to examine the degree to which cosmopolitan values connecting peacekeeping and peacebuilding are (or are not) evident. The case-study looks at the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) as a model of successful peacekeeping in the sense that everyday security was provided for the people of Sierra Leone through…
The impact of trauma on therapeutic engagement within an addictions population
Training for Peacekeeping
The purpose of this article is to outline developments in UN training programmes in negotiation, and civil military coordination. The article seeks to engage positively with critical assessments of peacekeeping and peacebuilding. It demonstrates that by making military peacekeepers aware of non-violent solutions to potentially violent situations (through negotiation skills for instance), and also of the peacekeeping/peacebuilding nexus (for examp…
Comparing shame in clinical and nonclinical populations
DID emerged as having a different profile of shame processes compared to the other clinical groups, whereas the complex trauma and general mental health groups had comparable shame levels and variable relationships. These differential profiles of shame coping and state shame are discussed with reference to assessment and treatment. (PsycINFO Database Record
The United Kingdom and United Nations peace operations
This article analyses the United Kingdom’s (UK) approach to United Nations (UN) peace operations and whether Britain is prepared politically, bureaucratically, financially, and militarily to increase its contributions to them. The article begins with an overview of UK engagement with UN peacekeeping since 1956 before discussing the political issues that govern British decisions about peacekeeping. The third section then assesses several challenge…
Muddling on through? Cosmopolitan peacekeeping and the protection of civilians
This article analyses direct forms of the ‘protection of civilians’ (PoC) in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping, and how this links to aspirations outlined by cosmopolitan scholarship at the turn of the twentieth century. Its main contention is that cosmopolitan conceptions of peacekeeping, which advocate more active forms of civilian protection, have faced significant challenges in the UN peacekeeping system. These challenges (internal and externa…
More than Fighting for Peace
Alienation Appraisals Mediate the Relationships between Childhood Trauma and Multiple Markers of Posttraumatic Stress
Rates of posttraumatic stress are elevated in individuals who have experienced childhood and/or cumulative trauma, and trauma appraisals have been suggested as a possible mediator of this effect. This study tested the proposed mediating role of trauma appraisals between both childhood and cumulative trauma, and two markers of trauma-related distress; posttraumatic stress and depression. Mediation models were developed and tested with data collect…
Exploring the relationship between alienation appraisals, trauma, posttraumatic stress, and depression
Alienation was a salient predictor of posttraumatic distress. Clinical assessment of alienation appraisals is recommended to inform psychological interventions for trauma survivors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Stabilization at the Expense of Peacebuilding in UN Peacekeeping Operations
The “uploading” of stabilization to UN peacekeeping presents conceptual, political, and practical challenges to the UN’s role in global governance and international conflict management. While scholarly research on stabilization has generally focused on militarization, its relationship to peacebuilding in the context of UN peacekeeping is underexplored. This article examines that relationship. A survey of UN policy frameworks highlights the simult…
Multidisciplinary Futures of UN Peace Operations
This book explores the interrelated dynamics of UN peace operations and peacebuilding practices, bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives
A systematic review of quality of life and health‐related quality of life as outcomes in substance and behavioural addictions
Empirically Derived Patterns of Posttraumatic Stress and Growth
The relationship between posttraumatic stress (PTS) and posttraumatic growth (PTG) has been extensively studied; however, the nature of the relationship remains unclear. Inconsistencies in the literature could be, in part, due to the use of variable level approaches. Person centered methods may further our understanding of this relationship, as they enable the identification of clinically meaningful subgroups based on PTS/PTG scores. This review …
Learning to Protect? Identifying Elicitive Approaches in Protection of Civilians Training for UN Peacekeepers
How are military peacekeepers trained to undertake the Protection of Civilians (PoC)?This article addresses this important question, focussing on how 'contact skills' are integrated into the UN's flagship PoC training progammes through learner-centred 'elicitive' forms of training.The article outlines theoretical and policy considerations which advocate more complex training in this domain, before exploring the programmes.It then critically analy…
How do you know you know that you're doing ACT?” An experimental study of simulated therapy sessions to explore the measurement properties of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Fidelity Measure (AC…
The Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-Fidelity Measure (ACT-FM) offers a user-friendly assessment of ACT delivery in clinical trials and clinical practice. However, the ACT-FM's measurement properties have not been adequately explored. This study tests whether it performs two key functions: 1) discriminates between therapy sessions delivered with different levels of fidelity to ACT principles; 2) enables reliable scoring. In total, 14 clinicians …
Applied knowledge of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Evaluation of the psychometric properties of trauma history measures
Overall, the TLEQ emerged as the most robust legacy measure of trauma history. Future studies should assess its psychometrics in comparison with the new generation of measures (i.e., Life Events Checklist, International Trauma Exposure Measure) to further the development of assessment tools in this area. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Understanding Deadly Force in United Nations Peacekeeping Since the ‘Robust Turn’
What do we know about the number of deaths and injuries caused due to the employment of deadly force by United Nations peacekeeping operations? This article addresses this question through an exploration of datasets on violent events in UN peacekeeping since 2010, focussing specifically on those instances where the mandated use of deadly force has led to death and injury, underpinned by a detailed review of UN policy and peacekeeping literature. …
Peacebuilding and International Security (9 obras) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Peacekeeping (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Public Administration (7 obras) · Clinical Psychology (5 obras) · Psychiatry (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras)