Randall Waechter
Biographic Data
| ID | 5810682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randall Waechter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randall |
| FAMILY NAME | Waechter |
| SIGNATURE | WAECHTER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3872-4245 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How Norms Depend on the Presence and Status of Observers
Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data from more than 25,000 individuals across 90 societies, we test several hypotheses linking normative constraints on everyday behaviors (like arguing, laughing, cursing, kissi…
Protecting global health partnerships in the era of destructive nationalism
"Article signat per xx autors/es: Maya Adam ,Desiree LaBeaud,Nokwanele Mbewu,Jennifer Gates,Randall Waechter,Mercy J. Borbor-Cordova,Lydiah Kibe,Sonia Alvarez,Annie Dori,Anil S. Bilimale,Meggie Mwoka,Jessica Deffler,Michele Spring,Avriel R. Diaz,Rachael Farquhar,Willy Dunbar,Comfort R. Phiri,Valerie A. Luzadis,Nicole Redvers,Cristina Alonso,Rosemary Rochford,Rachel Lowe,Kareem Coomansingh,Moses Laman,Rebeca Sultana,Sadie Ryan,Amaya L. Bustinduy,A…
Spare the rod, spoil the child
Childrearing practices in the Caribbean and other postcolonial states have long been associated with corporal punishment and are influenced by expectations of children for respectfulness and obedience. Evidence across settings shows that physical punishment of young children is both ineffective and detrimental. Saving Brains Grenada (SBG) implemented a pilot study of an intervention based on the Conscious Discipline curriculum that aimed to build…
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A Community-based Responsive Caregiving Program Improves Neurodevelopment in Two-year Old Children in a Middle-Income Country, Grenada, West Indies
Many young children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are at risk of developmental delays. Early child development (ECD) interventions have been shown to improve outcomes, but few interventions have targeted culturally normative violence such as corporal punishment (CP). We partnered with an existing community-based ECD organization in the LMIC of Grenada to implement a parallel controlled-trial single-blind responsive caregiving interv…
Mitigating medical student stress and anxiety
PURPOSE: Medical students are at increased risk of poor mental health and need to regularly engage in preventive programs to maintain well-being. However, many do not and it remains an open question whether these programs should be mandatory. We implemented a RCT to examine the effectiveness of assigning medical students to a wellness intervention on adherence to engagement in the assigned intervention and on psychological and academic outcomes. …
Prevention of Sexual Violence in America
Prevention of Sexual Violence in America: Where Do We Stand? Randall Waechter PhD Affiliation Randall Waechter is with the Department of Physiology, Neuroscience, and Behavioral Health, School of Medicine, and the School of Graduate Studies, St. George's University, Grenada, West Indies.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Randall Waechter, WINDREF, St. George's University, Grenada, West Indies (e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be ord…
Adolescence
Adolescence is a period of development characterized by risk-taking, sensation-seeking, emotionally-influenced and independence-seeking behaviours. There is a move away from family and towards the social influences of peer groups. Emotionally-driven behaviours may override adolescents’ higher cognitive functioning during this time. Especially vulnerable are youth who have been the victim of high-impact trauma or chronic abuse and neglect. Specifi…
Cannabis Use Among Aboriginal Youth in the Non-Aboriginal Child Protection Services System
The social, cultural and political contexts of vulnerability need to be considered in defining, understanding, and reducing substance abuse among maltreated youth with an Aboriginal background (MacNeil, 2008; Tatz, 1999). Aboriginal cultures tend to incorporate an ideology of collectivism that manifests in shared childrearing responsibilities within aboriginal families and communities (e.g., Dilworth-Anderson & Marshall, 1996). As such, Aborigina…
Child Protective Services and University-Based Partnerships
This paper presents one model for building and sustaining a research partnership between researchers and professional staff in child protection (CPS) agencies. The Maltreatment and Adolescent Pathways (MAP) study was designed to assess the health and well-being of the population of adolescents involved in the child welfare system of a major urban area. The study involved the collaboration between university based researchers and a range of child …
Gender Differences in Emotion-Mediated Pathways from Childhood Sexual Abuse to Problem Drinking in Adolescents in the Child Welfare System
Sexual Violence in America
We compared lifetime risk, annual incidence, and annual economic burden of sexual violence with other major public health issues in the United States: cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. With public funding data from 2013, we examined how much public funding is allocated to these public health issues as a proxy of the social priority of addressing each of them. Although sexual violence is as prevalent as and more costly than a…
The Impact of Emotional Abuse on Psychological Distress among Child Protective Services-Involved Adolescents with Borderline-to-Mild Intellectual Disability
The Relationship Between Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms and Substance Use Among Adolescents Involved with Child Welfare
Child Maltreatment, Adolescent Attachment Style, and Dating Violence
L'Alsace
Sexual Violence in America
We compared lifetime risk, annual incidence, and annual economic burden of sexual violence with other major public health issues in the United States: cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. With public funding data from 2013, we examined how much public funding is allocated to these public health issues as a proxy of the social priority of addressing each of them. Although sexual violence is as prevalent as and more costly than a…
L'Alsace
The Impact of Emotional Abuse on Psychological Distress among Child Protective Services-Involved Adolescents with Borderline-to-Mild Intellectual Disability
The Relationship Between Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms and Substance Use Among Adolescents Involved with Child Welfare
Child Maltreatment, Adolescent Attachment Style, and Dating Violence
Sexual Violence in America
We compared lifetime risk, annual incidence, and annual economic burden of sexual violence with other major public health issues in the United States: cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. With public funding data from 2013, we examined how much public funding is allocated to these public health issues as a proxy of the social priority of addressing each of them. Although sexual violence is as prevalent as and more costly than a…
Gender Differences in Emotion-Mediated Pathways from Childhood Sexual Abuse to Problem Drinking in Adolescents in the Child Welfare System
Adolescence
Adolescence is a period of development characterized by risk-taking, sensation-seeking, emotionally-influenced and independence-seeking behaviours. There is a move away from family and towards the social influences of peer groups. Emotionally-driven behaviours may override adolescents’ higher cognitive functioning during this time. Especially vulnerable are youth who have been the victim of high-impact trauma or chronic abuse and neglect. Specifi…
Cannabis Use Among Aboriginal Youth in the Non-Aboriginal Child Protection Services System
The social, cultural and political contexts of vulnerability need to be considered in defining, understanding, and reducing substance abuse among maltreated youth with an Aboriginal background (MacNeil, 2008; Tatz, 1999). Aboriginal cultures tend to incorporate an ideology of collectivism that manifests in shared childrearing responsibilities within aboriginal families and communities (e.g., Dilworth-Anderson & Marshall, 1996). As such, Aborigina…
Child Protective Services and University-Based Partnerships
This paper presents one model for building and sustaining a research partnership between researchers and professional staff in child protection (CPS) agencies. The Maltreatment and Adolescent Pathways (MAP) study was designed to assess the health and well-being of the population of adolescents involved in the child welfare system of a major urban area. The study involved the collaboration between university based researchers and a range of child …
Mitigating medical student stress and anxiety
PURPOSE: Medical students are at increased risk of poor mental health and need to regularly engage in preventive programs to maintain well-being. However, many do not and it remains an open question whether these programs should be mandatory. We implemented a RCT to examine the effectiveness of assigning medical students to a wellness intervention on adherence to engagement in the assigned intervention and on psychological and academic outcomes. …
Prevention of Sexual Violence in America
Prevention of Sexual Violence in America: Where Do We Stand? Randall Waechter PhD Affiliation Randall Waechter is with the Department of Physiology, Neuroscience, and Behavioral Health, School of Medicine, and the School of Graduate Studies, St. George's University, Grenada, West Indies.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Randall Waechter, WINDREF, St. George's University, Grenada, West Indies (e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be ord…
Re
A Community-based Responsive Caregiving Program Improves Neurodevelopment in Two-year Old Children in a Middle-Income Country, Grenada, West Indies
Many young children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are at risk of developmental delays. Early child development (ECD) interventions have been shown to improve outcomes, but few interventions have targeted culturally normative violence such as corporal punishment (CP). We partnered with an existing community-based ECD organization in the LMIC of Grenada to implement a parallel controlled-trial single-blind responsive caregiving interv…
Spare the rod, spoil the child
Childrearing practices in the Caribbean and other postcolonial states have long been associated with corporal punishment and are influenced by expectations of children for respectfulness and obedience. Evidence across settings shows that physical punishment of young children is both ineffective and detrimental. Saving Brains Grenada (SBG) implemented a pilot study of an intervention based on the Conscious Discipline curriculum that aimed to build…
Protecting global health partnerships in the era of destructive nationalism
"Article signat per xx autors/es: Maya Adam ,Desiree LaBeaud,Nokwanele Mbewu,Jennifer Gates,Randall Waechter,Mercy J. Borbor-Cordova,Lydiah Kibe,Sonia Alvarez,Annie Dori,Anil S. Bilimale,Meggie Mwoka,Jessica Deffler,Michele Spring,Avriel R. Diaz,Rachael Farquhar,Willy Dunbar,Comfort R. Phiri,Valerie A. Luzadis,Nicole Redvers,Cristina Alonso,Rosemary Rochford,Rachel Lowe,Kareem Coomansingh,Moses Laman,Rebeca Sultana,Sadie Ryan,Amaya L. Bustinduy,A…
How Norms Depend on the Presence and Status of Observers
Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data from more than 25,000 individuals across 90 societies, we test several hypotheses linking normative constraints on everyday behaviors (like arguing, laughing, cursing, kissi…
Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Poison control (6 works) · Suicide prevention (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works)