Louise Newman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4790284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Newman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Newman |
| SIGNATURE | NEWMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4630-6908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mapping What Works to Strengthen the Relational Ecology of Early Child Development
The development of secure bonds between children and adult carers, particularly parents, is determined by a complex ecosystem of relationships that includes parents, care providers in other settings, and the values and institutions that care for those who care for children. Here we conduct a scoping review to map scientific progress in the development of evidence based interventions across all levels of relational ecology of early child developme…
A systematic narrative review of psychological interventions available in the antenatal period to prepare parents for parenting
Subjective experiences of participating in the Supporting Transitions, Attachment and Relationships (STAR Mums) program, a psychological group intervention for high-risk pregnant women
The Supporting Transitions and Relationships (STAR Mums) program is a five-session psychoanalytic and attachment-based group intervention for first-time parents with risk factors in the transition to parenthood. The primary aim of this study was to explore the subjective experiences and acceptability of participating in the STAR Mums program both for first-time expectant mothers with risk factors and the facilitators delivering the program. Sixte…
Understandings of Trauma
Responses to deeply traumatic events vary according to cultural context, yet we have little insight into why these discrepancies occur. In order to explore cultural variation in models of trauma, we draw on data from semi-structured interviews with Sudanese refugees (n = 12) and with Holocaust survivors (n = 13) in Melbourne, Australia. Using descriptive phenomenological analysis, we examine the similarities and differences between the two groups…
Male callers to an Australian perinatal depression and anxiety help line—Understanding issues and concerns
There is increasing recognition of the issues facing men in the perinatal period. Vulnerability factors and issues in the partner relationship contribute to mental health risk and can impact the quality of the father–infant relationship. Yet, there is limited understanding of fathers’ help‐seeking when they or their partner are experiencing mental health issues in the context of caring for a new baby. The present study examines fathers’ contacts …
Development and initial reliability and validity of a new measure of distorted maternal representations
Distorted maternal representations (DMRs)—mother's ideas, understanding, and feelings about the infant—shape early interaction and the emerging relationship. Distorted interactions reportedly affect infant attachment and socioemotional development and may be associated with maternal early adversity and trauma. Limited measures are available that could be used as screening tools of DMRs. The aims of this study were to (a) describe the development …
Evaluation of early relational disturbance in high‐risk populations
Despite the longstanding theoretical association in the attachment literature between maternal trauma history and disturbances in the mother–infant interaction, few studies have investigated mechanisms of transmission of traumatogenic relational patterns in high‐risk mother–infant dyads. This study investigated interrelationships among maternal trauma history, distorted maternal representations (DMRs, i.e. disturbed thoughts and feelings about th…
Perceived Invalidation in Adolescent Borderline Personality Disorder
Reconciling Incommensurate World Health Views and Explanatory Models of Mental Illness
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Contextualizing post-traumatic stress disorder within culturally diverse groups
Debate over the validity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in culturally and contextually diverse groups with histories of trauma needs to consider clinical response, and while not overlooking the presence of PTSD, sensitivity to contextual variation in response to trauma is important. We report on a study that examined PTSD within two culturally distinct populations living in Australia: Sudanese refugees and Holocaust survivors. Measures …
An exploration of the adaptation and development after persecution and trauma (Adapt) model with resettled refugee adolescents in Australia
Refugee adolescents endure high rates of traumatic exposure, as well as subsequent resettlement and adaptational stressors. Research on the effects of trauma in refugee populations has focussed on psychopathological outcomes, in particular posttraumatic stress disorder. However this approach does not address the psychosocial and adaptive dimensions of refugee experience. The ADAPT model proposes an alternate conceptualization of the refugee exper…
Parental Psychiatric Disorder
Parental Psychiatric Disorder presents an innovative approach to thinking about and working with families where a parent has a mental illness. With 30 new chapters from an internationally renowned author team, this new edition presents the current state of knowledge in this critically important field. Issues around prevalence, stigma and systems theory provide a foundation for the book, which offers new paradigms for understanding mental illness …
Modeling Relations among Coparenting Quality, Autism-Specific Parenting Self-Efficacy, and Parenting Stress in Mothers and Fathers of Children with ASD
SYNOPSISObjective. Coparenting quality has been linked to both parenting stress and parenting self-efficacy in families of typically developing children, but little is known about relations between these factors in families where there is a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study employed structural equation modeling to explore relations among coparenting quality, autism-specific parenting self-efficacy, and parenting stress in m…
Differential accounts of refugee and resettlement experiences in youth with high and low levels of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology
In recent years there has been increased debate and critique of the focus on psychopathology in general, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in particular, as a predominant consequence of the refugee experience. This study was conducted to broaden the conceptualization and examination of the outcomes of the refugee experience by jointly examining how adaptive processes, psychosocial factors, and psychopathology are implicated. A mixed-method…
The vision for a Southern Ocean Observing System
Interconnections
Journal Article Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History Get access Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History. Ed. by Carol Faulkner and Alison M. Parker. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2012. vi, 292 pp. $75.00.) Louise Newman Louise Newman University of FloridaGainesville, Florida [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volu…
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
This Web site, first launched in 1997 by two history professors at the State University of New York–Binghamton to house “document projects” that they and their students were compiling, initially functioned as an electronic anthology on women's involvement in social movements. Recently, the site was dramatically improved. There are now twelve main sections (including book reviews, a chronology, movements, and teaching tools) and better search engi…
The science and strategy of the Past Global Changes (Pages) project
Asylum, Detention, and Mental Health in Australia
Seeking asylum in the face of persecution is a fundamental human right. The system of arbitrary mandatory detention operating under Australian immigration law since 1992 has impacted on more than 15,000 adults and children, many with traumatic experiences in their country of origin. Restrictions on entry to the mainland, policies of “deterrence”, including prolonged detention in remote camps, and inadequate responses to trauma and mental health n…
Asylum, Detention, and Mental Health in Australia
Seeking asylum in the face of persecution is a fundamental human right. The system of arbitrary mandatory detention operating under Australian immigration law since 1992 has impacted on more than 15,000 adults and children, many with traumatic experiences in their country of origin. Restrictions on entry to the mainland, policies of “deterrence”, including prolonged detention in remote camps, and inadequate responses to trauma and mental health n…
Evaluation of early relational disturbance in high‐risk populations
Despite the longstanding theoretical association in the attachment literature between maternal trauma history and disturbances in the mother–infant interaction, few studies have investigated mechanisms of transmission of traumatogenic relational patterns in high‐risk mother–infant dyads. This study investigated interrelationships among maternal trauma history, distorted maternal representations (DMRs, i.e. disturbed thoughts and feelings about th…
Development and initial reliability and validity of a new measure of distorted maternal representations
Distorted maternal representations (DMRs)—mother's ideas, understanding, and feelings about the infant—shape early interaction and the emerging relationship. Distorted interactions reportedly affect infant attachment and socioemotional development and may be associated with maternal early adversity and trauma. Limited measures are available that could be used as screening tools of DMRs. The aims of this study were to (a) describe the development …
An exploration of the adaptation and development after persecution and trauma (Adapt) model with resettled refugee adolescents in Australia
Refugee adolescents endure high rates of traumatic exposure, as well as subsequent resettlement and adaptational stressors. Research on the effects of trauma in refugee populations has focussed on psychopathological outcomes, in particular posttraumatic stress disorder. However this approach does not address the psychosocial and adaptive dimensions of refugee experience. The ADAPT model proposes an alternate conceptualization of the refugee exper…
Modeling Relations among Coparenting Quality, Autism-Specific Parenting Self-Efficacy, and Parenting Stress in Mothers and Fathers of Children with ASD
SYNOPSISObjective. Coparenting quality has been linked to both parenting stress and parenting self-efficacy in families of typically developing children, but little is known about relations between these factors in families where there is a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study employed structural equation modeling to explore relations among coparenting quality, autism-specific parenting self-efficacy, and parenting stress in m…
Male callers to an Australian perinatal depression and anxiety help line—Understanding issues and concerns
There is increasing recognition of the issues facing men in the perinatal period. Vulnerability factors and issues in the partner relationship contribute to mental health risk and can impact the quality of the father–infant relationship. Yet, there is limited understanding of fathers’ help‐seeking when they or their partner are experiencing mental health issues in the context of caring for a new baby. The present study examines fathers’ contacts …
Asylum, Detention, and Mental Health in Australia
Seeking asylum in the face of persecution is a fundamental human right. The system of arbitrary mandatory detention operating under Australian immigration law since 1992 has impacted on more than 15,000 adults and children, many with traumatic experiences in their country of origin. Restrictions on entry to the mainland, policies of “deterrence”, including prolonged detention in remote camps, and inadequate responses to trauma and mental health n…
The science and strategy of the Past Global Changes (Pages) project
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
This Web site, first launched in 1997 by two history professors at the State University of New York–Binghamton to house “document projects” that they and their students were compiling, initially functioned as an electronic anthology on women's involvement in social movements. Recently, the site was dramatically improved. There are now twelve main sections (including book reviews, a chronology, movements, and teaching tools) and better search engi…
The vision for a Southern Ocean Observing System
Interconnections
Journal Article Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History Get access Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History. Ed. by Carol Faulkner and Alison M. Parker. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2012. vi, 292 pp. $75.00.) Louise Newman Louise Newman University of FloridaGainesville, Florida [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volu…
Parental Psychiatric Disorder
Parental Psychiatric Disorder presents an innovative approach to thinking about and working with families where a parent has a mental illness. With 30 new chapters from an internationally renowned author team, this new edition presents the current state of knowledge in this critically important field. Issues around prevalence, stigma and systems theory provide a foundation for the book, which offers new paradigms for understanding mental illness …
Modeling Relations among Coparenting Quality, Autism-Specific Parenting Self-Efficacy, and Parenting Stress in Mothers and Fathers of Children with ASD
SYNOPSISObjective. Coparenting quality has been linked to both parenting stress and parenting self-efficacy in families of typically developing children, but little is known about relations between these factors in families where there is a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study employed structural equation modeling to explore relations among coparenting quality, autism-specific parenting self-efficacy, and parenting stress in m…
Differential accounts of refugee and resettlement experiences in youth with high and low levels of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology
In recent years there has been increased debate and critique of the focus on psychopathology in general, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in particular, as a predominant consequence of the refugee experience. This study was conducted to broaden the conceptualization and examination of the outcomes of the refugee experience by jointly examining how adaptive processes, psychosocial factors, and psychopathology are implicated. A mixed-method…
An exploration of the adaptation and development after persecution and trauma (Adapt) model with resettled refugee adolescents in Australia
Refugee adolescents endure high rates of traumatic exposure, as well as subsequent resettlement and adaptational stressors. Research on the effects of trauma in refugee populations has focussed on psychopathological outcomes, in particular posttraumatic stress disorder. However this approach does not address the psychosocial and adaptive dimensions of refugee experience. The ADAPT model proposes an alternate conceptualization of the refugee exper…
Contextualizing post-traumatic stress disorder within culturally diverse groups
Debate over the validity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in culturally and contextually diverse groups with histories of trauma needs to consider clinical response, and while not overlooking the presence of PTSD, sensitivity to contextual variation in response to trauma is important. We report on a study that examined PTSD within two culturally distinct populations living in Australia: Sudanese refugees and Holocaust survivors. Measures …
Perceived Invalidation in Adolescent Borderline Personality Disorder
Reconciling Incommensurate World Health Views and Explanatory Models of Mental Illness
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Understandings of Trauma
Responses to deeply traumatic events vary according to cultural context, yet we have little insight into why these discrepancies occur. In order to explore cultural variation in models of trauma, we draw on data from semi-structured interviews with Sudanese refugees (n = 12) and with Holocaust survivors (n = 13) in Melbourne, Australia. Using descriptive phenomenological analysis, we examine the similarities and differences between the two groups…
Male callers to an Australian perinatal depression and anxiety help line—Understanding issues and concerns
There is increasing recognition of the issues facing men in the perinatal period. Vulnerability factors and issues in the partner relationship contribute to mental health risk and can impact the quality of the father–infant relationship. Yet, there is limited understanding of fathers’ help‐seeking when they or their partner are experiencing mental health issues in the context of caring for a new baby. The present study examines fathers’ contacts …
Development and initial reliability and validity of a new measure of distorted maternal representations
Distorted maternal representations (DMRs)—mother's ideas, understanding, and feelings about the infant—shape early interaction and the emerging relationship. Distorted interactions reportedly affect infant attachment and socioemotional development and may be associated with maternal early adversity and trauma. Limited measures are available that could be used as screening tools of DMRs. The aims of this study were to (a) describe the development …
Evaluation of early relational disturbance in high‐risk populations
Despite the longstanding theoretical association in the attachment literature between maternal trauma history and disturbances in the mother–infant interaction, few studies have investigated mechanisms of transmission of traumatogenic relational patterns in high‐risk mother–infant dyads. This study investigated interrelationships among maternal trauma history, distorted maternal representations (DMRs, i.e. disturbed thoughts and feelings about th…
Subjective experiences of participating in the Supporting Transitions, Attachment and Relationships (STAR Mums) program, a psychological group intervention for high-risk pregnant women
The Supporting Transitions and Relationships (STAR Mums) program is a five-session psychoanalytic and attachment-based group intervention for first-time parents with risk factors in the transition to parenthood. The primary aim of this study was to explore the subjective experiences and acceptability of participating in the STAR Mums program both for first-time expectant mothers with risk factors and the facilitators delivering the program. Sixte…
A systematic narrative review of psychological interventions available in the antenatal period to prepare parents for parenting
Mapping What Works to Strengthen the Relational Ecology of Early Child Development
The development of secure bonds between children and adult carers, particularly parents, is determined by a complex ecosystem of relationships that includes parents, care providers in other settings, and the values and institutions that care for those who care for children. Here we conduct a scoping review to map scientific progress in the development of evidence based interventions across all levels of relational ecology of early child developme…
Psychology (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (5 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (5 works) · Refugee (5 works)