Ashley Stewart-Tufescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5411889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashley Stewart-Tufescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashley |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart-Tufescu |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART-TUFESCU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2730-9764 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A pilot evaluation of the Alliance against Violence and Adversity (AVA) Triadic Mentorship Program
Background Both gender-based violence (GBV; violence enacted based on perceived or actual gender, predominantly affecting girls, women, and gender-diverse people) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs; household adversities before 18 years of age such as physical abuse) reduce quality of life. ACEs can also amplify the risk of later GBV. Despite extensive study, GBV and ACEs remain inadequately addressed, largely linked to the siloed approaches…
Evaluating the Alliance against Violence and Adversity Online Training Program
Background Gender-based violence (GBV) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are Canadian public health concerns and human rights violations that inequitably impact the health of children, women, and gender-diverse people. The Alliance against Violence and Adversity (AVA) developed an Online Training Platform (AVA Online) to facilitate learning about GBV, ACEs, implementation science, and equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility for stu…
Advancing family wellbeing through a Massive Online Open Intervention
While early childhood remains a formative period for healthy child development, it is simultaneously a time when parents experience increased mental health challenges. Such increased challenges (e.g., heightened parental stress, anxiety, depression, etc.) can lead to a variety of adverse child outcomes, including increased risk of externalizing and internalizing disorders. Despite the well-documented effects of parental mental health on child dev…
Building Capacity in Crisis
This research underscores the program's impact on improving healthcare access, enhancing women's empowerment, and promoting community resilience. By situating this initiative within the broader context of refugee health, education, and capacity-building, this research highlights the HAT program's potential as a replicable model in Bangladesh and in other humanitarian settings
Self-reported spanking history among adults in Canada
BACKGROUND: While the literature indicates that corporal punishment, and specifically spanking, is associated with several poor outcomes, little is known about the prevalence of spanking and attitudinal beliefs about spanking in Canada. The overall aims of the study were to (1) compute the prevalence of self-reported spanking history and attitudinal spanking beliefs; (2) determine if a spanking history varies according to gender, sexual identity,…
Parent and caregiver preferences for eHealth programs
This research provides an important first step toward creating more accessible online mental health and parent mental health programs by ensuring the voices of the parents who will use these services are heard in program development and adaptation. Future research should investigate how to address accessibility and inclusivity barriers to participating in parent mental health programs for diverse families based on their differential preferences
Sexual identity, child maltreatment, mental health, and substance use among emerging adults aged 18 to 23 years
Preventing child maltreatment among all children, including youth identifying as other than heterosexual, is a public health priority. Such efforts will work towards optimizing mental health and reducing substance use in early adulthood
Announcing the Alliance against Violence and Adversity (AVA)
Education-Related Covid-19 Difficulties and Stressors during the Covid-19 Pandemic among a Community Sample of Older Adolescents and Young Adults in Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic created significant disruptions to the provision of education, including restrictions to in-person and remote learning. Little is known about how older adolescents and young adults experienced these disruptions. To address this gap, data were drawn from the Well-Being and Experiences study (the WE Study), a longitudinal community-based sample collected in Manitoba, Canada, from 2017–2021 (n = 494). Prevalent difficulties or …
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Education Outcomes among Adolescents
It is well established that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with detrimental health outcomes in adulthood. Less is known about the relationships between ACEs and education outcomes and among adolescents. The aim of this study was to examine the associations between ACEs and adolescents' self-reported education outcomes and provincial education assessments among adolescents in Manitoba, Canada. Data were gathered from 1002 adol…
Child Maltreatment Reporting Practices by a Person Most Knowledgeable for Children and Youth
Child maltreatment is a global public health and child rights crisis made worse by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While understanding the breadth of the child maltreatment crisis is foundational to informing prevention and response efforts, determining accurate estimates of child maltreatment remains challenging. Alternative informants (parents, caregivers, a Person Most Knowledgeable-PMK) are often tasked with reporting on children's maltreatmen…
An Examination of Parents’ Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) History and Reported Spanking of Their Child
The current evidence indicates that spanking is harmful to children's health and development and should never be used by parents or other caregivers. However, the critical factors that inform effective spanking prevention strategies are still not well understood. The objective of the current study was to determine if a parent's own adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) history was associated with increased likelihood of reporting their child being…
Protective Factors for Decreasing Nicotine, Alcohol, and Cannabis Use Among Adolescents with a History of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Adolescents who have experienced adversity have an increased likelihood of using substances. This study examined if individual-, family-, school-, and community-level protective factors were associated with a decreased likelihood of substance use. Data from the Well-Being and Experiences Study (the WE Study) collected from 2017 to 2018 were used. The sample was adolescents aged 14 to 17 years ( N = 1002) from Manitoba, Canada. Statistical methods…
Adverse childhood experiences and other risk factors associated with adolescent and young adult vaping over time
The findings emphasize the need for early vaping prevention and identified several ACEs and other factors that were associated with adolescent and young adult vaping and course of vaping. These identified ACEs and risk factors can help inform programs, strategies, and potential groups to target for vaping interventions
Adolescent health outcomes
Experiencing both CM and PV substantially increases the odds of poor health outcomes among adolescents, and moderating relationships affect females and males differently. Continued research is needed to develop effective prevention strategies and to examine protective factors that may mitigate these adverse health outcomes, including potential sex differences
Associations between spanking beliefs and reported spanking among adolescents-parent/caregiver dyads in a Canadian sample
Adolescents' spanking beliefs are related to their parents' spanking beliefs, suggesting that they are transmitted across generations. Public education and law reform are needed to decrease the normalization and perceived necessity of spanking in child-rearing. Efforts should include improving the understanding that spanking is a form of violence against children. With only a few significant differences noted between sociodemographic variables an…
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), peer victimization, and substance use among adolescents
BACKGROUND: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are common and related to substance use problems in adulthood. Less is known about these relationships in adolescence and if experiencing ACEs in addition to peer victimization (or bullying) would have an interaction or cumulative effect on the odds of adolescent substance use. METHOD: Data were used from the Well-Being and Experiences Study (The WE Study), a cross-sectional survey of adolescents a…
Addressing punitive violence against children in Australia, Japan and the Philippines
Physical and emotional punishment of children is highly prevalent in the Asia-Pacific region. These actions predict a range of physical and emotional harms, prompting a worldwide effort to eliminate them. A key strategy in this effort is to change parental beliefs regarding the acceptability of physical and emotional punishment. The Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting (PDEP) program was designed to change those beliefs by teaching parents a…
The ripple effect
The Abecedarian Approach is an internationally recognised early childhood intervention program that has shown long-term positive outcomes for children living in low SES communities. However, there are few studies examining the broader influence of such interventions for young children on the lives of their parents. This article describes the findings of a qualitative study exploring the perceptions and experiences of parents whose children attend…
Exploring the Everyday Lives of Children in Winnipeg, Canada
Over the past decade there has been a call to action for researchers to explore children’s subjectivities in the context of well-being. How children understand and experience well-being in a Canadian context was examined in this study. Twenty-one children between 8 and 12 years of age participated in semi-structured interviews facilitated by the Life Story BoardTM. Three main themes emerged: (1) freedom and control, (2) child rights and social su…
The Life Story Board
What is “Discipline” in the Age of Children’s Rights
While the word “discipline” has come to connote control, punishment and obedience, its historic roots are in notions of learning, understanding and gaining knowledge. We trace concepts of discipline through time – from extreme violence to behaviourism to constructivism to relational neuroscience – and arrive at a reframing of discipline as a process of optimising children’s understanding and fostering their evolving capacities to actualise their …
The Life Story Board
Sexual identity, child maltreatment, mental health, and substance use among emerging adults aged 18 to 23 years
Preventing child maltreatment among all children, including youth identifying as other than heterosexual, is a public health priority. Such efforts will work towards optimizing mental health and reducing substance use in early adulthood
The ripple effect
The Abecedarian Approach is an internationally recognised early childhood intervention program that has shown long-term positive outcomes for children living in low SES communities. However, there are few studies examining the broader influence of such interventions for young children on the lives of their parents. This article describes the findings of a qualitative study exploring the perceptions and experiences of parents whose children attend…
What is “Discipline” in the Age of Children’s Rights
While the word “discipline” has come to connote control, punishment and obedience, its historic roots are in notions of learning, understanding and gaining knowledge. We trace concepts of discipline through time – from extreme violence to behaviourism to constructivism to relational neuroscience – and arrive at a reframing of discipline as a process of optimising children’s understanding and fostering their evolving capacities to actualise their …
What is “Discipline” in the Age of Children’s Rights
While the word “discipline” has come to connote control, punishment and obedience, its historic roots are in notions of learning, understanding and gaining knowledge. We trace concepts of discipline through time – from extreme violence to behaviourism to constructivism to relational neuroscience – and arrive at a reframing of discipline as a process of optimising children’s understanding and fostering their evolving capacities to actualise their …
The Life Story Board
Exploring the Everyday Lives of Children in Winnipeg, Canada
Over the past decade there has been a call to action for researchers to explore children’s subjectivities in the context of well-being. How children understand and experience well-being in a Canadian context was examined in this study. Twenty-one children between 8 and 12 years of age participated in semi-structured interviews facilitated by the Life Story BoardTM. Three main themes emerged: (1) freedom and control, (2) child rights and social su…
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), peer victimization, and substance use among adolescents
BACKGROUND: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are common and related to substance use problems in adulthood. Less is known about these relationships in adolescence and if experiencing ACEs in addition to peer victimization (or bullying) would have an interaction or cumulative effect on the odds of adolescent substance use. METHOD: Data were used from the Well-Being and Experiences Study (The WE Study), a cross-sectional survey of adolescents a…
Addressing punitive violence against children in Australia, Japan and the Philippines
Physical and emotional punishment of children is highly prevalent in the Asia-Pacific region. These actions predict a range of physical and emotional harms, prompting a worldwide effort to eliminate them. A key strategy in this effort is to change parental beliefs regarding the acceptability of physical and emotional punishment. The Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting (PDEP) program was designed to change those beliefs by teaching parents a…
The ripple effect
The Abecedarian Approach is an internationally recognised early childhood intervention program that has shown long-term positive outcomes for children living in low SES communities. However, there are few studies examining the broader influence of such interventions for young children on the lives of their parents. This article describes the findings of a qualitative study exploring the perceptions and experiences of parents whose children attend…
Education-Related Covid-19 Difficulties and Stressors during the Covid-19 Pandemic among a Community Sample of Older Adolescents and Young Adults in Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic created significant disruptions to the provision of education, including restrictions to in-person and remote learning. Little is known about how older adolescents and young adults experienced these disruptions. To address this gap, data were drawn from the Well-Being and Experiences study (the WE Study), a longitudinal community-based sample collected in Manitoba, Canada, from 2017–2021 (n = 494). Prevalent difficulties or …
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Education Outcomes among Adolescents
It is well established that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with detrimental health outcomes in adulthood. Less is known about the relationships between ACEs and education outcomes and among adolescents. The aim of this study was to examine the associations between ACEs and adolescents' self-reported education outcomes and provincial education assessments among adolescents in Manitoba, Canada. Data were gathered from 1002 adol…
Child Maltreatment Reporting Practices by a Person Most Knowledgeable for Children and Youth
Child maltreatment is a global public health and child rights crisis made worse by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While understanding the breadth of the child maltreatment crisis is foundational to informing prevention and response efforts, determining accurate estimates of child maltreatment remains challenging. Alternative informants (parents, caregivers, a Person Most Knowledgeable-PMK) are often tasked with reporting on children's maltreatmen…
An Examination of Parents’ Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) History and Reported Spanking of Their Child
The current evidence indicates that spanking is harmful to children's health and development and should never be used by parents or other caregivers. However, the critical factors that inform effective spanking prevention strategies are still not well understood. The objective of the current study was to determine if a parent's own adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) history was associated with increased likelihood of reporting their child being…
Protective Factors for Decreasing Nicotine, Alcohol, and Cannabis Use Among Adolescents with a History of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Adolescents who have experienced adversity have an increased likelihood of using substances. This study examined if individual-, family-, school-, and community-level protective factors were associated with a decreased likelihood of substance use. Data from the Well-Being and Experiences Study (the WE Study) collected from 2017 to 2018 were used. The sample was adolescents aged 14 to 17 years ( N = 1002) from Manitoba, Canada. Statistical methods…
Adverse childhood experiences and other risk factors associated with adolescent and young adult vaping over time
The findings emphasize the need for early vaping prevention and identified several ACEs and other factors that were associated with adolescent and young adult vaping and course of vaping. These identified ACEs and risk factors can help inform programs, strategies, and potential groups to target for vaping interventions
Adolescent health outcomes
Experiencing both CM and PV substantially increases the odds of poor health outcomes among adolescents, and moderating relationships affect females and males differently. Continued research is needed to develop effective prevention strategies and to examine protective factors that may mitigate these adverse health outcomes, including potential sex differences
Associations between spanking beliefs and reported spanking among adolescents-parent/caregiver dyads in a Canadian sample
Adolescents' spanking beliefs are related to their parents' spanking beliefs, suggesting that they are transmitted across generations. Public education and law reform are needed to decrease the normalization and perceived necessity of spanking in child-rearing. Efforts should include improving the understanding that spanking is a form of violence against children. With only a few significant differences noted between sociodemographic variables an…
Announcing the Alliance against Violence and Adversity (AVA)
Parent and caregiver preferences for eHealth programs
This research provides an important first step toward creating more accessible online mental health and parent mental health programs by ensuring the voices of the parents who will use these services are heard in program development and adaptation. Future research should investigate how to address accessibility and inclusivity barriers to participating in parent mental health programs for diverse families based on their differential preferences
Sexual identity, child maltreatment, mental health, and substance use among emerging adults aged 18 to 23 years
Preventing child maltreatment among all children, including youth identifying as other than heterosexual, is a public health priority. Such efforts will work towards optimizing mental health and reducing substance use in early adulthood
A pilot evaluation of the Alliance against Violence and Adversity (AVA) Triadic Mentorship Program
Background Both gender-based violence (GBV; violence enacted based on perceived or actual gender, predominantly affecting girls, women, and gender-diverse people) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs; household adversities before 18 years of age such as physical abuse) reduce quality of life. ACEs can also amplify the risk of later GBV. Despite extensive study, GBV and ACEs remain inadequately addressed, largely linked to the siloed approaches…
Evaluating the Alliance against Violence and Adversity Online Training Program
Background Gender-based violence (GBV) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are Canadian public health concerns and human rights violations that inequitably impact the health of children, women, and gender-diverse people. The Alliance against Violence and Adversity (AVA) developed an Online Training Platform (AVA Online) to facilitate learning about GBV, ACEs, implementation science, and equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility for stu…
Advancing family wellbeing through a Massive Online Open Intervention
While early childhood remains a formative period for healthy child development, it is simultaneously a time when parents experience increased mental health challenges. Such increased challenges (e.g., heightened parental stress, anxiety, depression, etc.) can lead to a variety of adverse child outcomes, including increased risk of externalizing and internalizing disorders. Despite the well-documented effects of parental mental health on child dev…
Building Capacity in Crisis
This research underscores the program's impact on improving healthcare access, enhancing women's empowerment, and promoting community resilience. By situating this initiative within the broader context of refugee health, education, and capacity-building, this research highlights the HAT program's potential as a replicable model in Bangladesh and in other humanitarian settings
Self-reported spanking history among adults in Canada
BACKGROUND: While the literature indicates that corporal punishment, and specifically spanking, is associated with several poor outcomes, little is known about the prevalence of spanking and attitudinal beliefs about spanking in Canada. The overall aims of the study were to (1) compute the prevalence of self-reported spanking history and attitudinal spanking beliefs; (2) determine if a spanking history varies according to gender, sexual identity,…
Child Abuse and Trauma (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Poison control (11 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Suicide prevention (9 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Injury prevention (8 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 works)