Karen M T Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 6093499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen M T Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen M T |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER K M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2750-5012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Evaluating the Positive Early Childhood Education (Pece) Program in Canada
Several programs have been developed to address challenges with children’s behavior in early childhood education settings. This study used a cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of the Positive Early Childhood Education Program (PECE) on educator skills, self-efficacy and job satisfaction, and on child behavior. Participants in this study were 96 educators from 12 childcare centers in Alberta, Canada. Outcomes were assessed…
Parental Factors Associated with Social Media Use in Adolescence
INTRODUCTION: Contemporary parenting involves technology-related challenges such as establishing guidelines for how 10-19-year-old adolescents use social media. Previous research has shown inconsistent findings on strategies that parents adopt in helping their adolescents navigate the use of social media. It is unclear how parenting practices contribute to shaping adolescents' digital literacy. Thus, the current review aimed to explore the relati…
Effectiveness of the Group Triple P (Positive Parenting Program) in an Orphanage Context in Lahore, Pakistan
An inadequate caregiving environment in an orphanage can negatively impact children’s well-being, while a lack of specialized training can induce work-related stress and lower self-efficacy among caregivers. This study examined the effectiveness of the Group Triple P (positive parenting program) with caregivers of children in Pakistani orphanages. Fourteen caregivers across three orphanages completed self-report questionnaires and took part in Gr…
Connecting families, schools, and communities
The achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demands an increased focus on investing in young children as a pivotal solution. Many of the SDGs' targeted solutions directly or indirectly address facets of children's living conditions, aiming to foster their social and emotional well‐being. However, the current approach, while successful in delivering some impacts, are often disjointed. In this article, we contend that…
Exploring Indigenous Community Conceptions of Parent Wellbeing
Using non-Indigenous perspectives of parental social and emotional wellbeing in the design and application of parent support programs can undermine program effectiveness as it may not account for Indigenous family structures and community values. With a clearer understanding of Indigenous parent wellbeing and its determinants, parenting interventions can be more appropriately designed and tailored to provide support for Indigenous families. This …
Caregivers' perspectives on the impact of the Group Triple P‐Positive Parenting Program in Pakistani orphanages
Children living in the orphanages of low‐ and middle‐income countries often face maltreatment and inadequate caregiving, and caregivers are unprepared and lack training for their role. This study involved a qualitative design with a thematic analysis approach, consisting of focus group discussions with 14 caregivers working in Pakistani orphanages who had participated in Group Triple P. Four main themes emerged: caregiving skills enhancement, beh…
Jandu Yani U (for all families)
Objectives Although evidence-based parenting programs are widely available, they remain inaccessible to many families of children with social, emotional and behavioural problems, particularly in remote settings. In partnership with Aboriginal communities in the remote Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia, we introduced and evaluated the Indigenous Triple P – Positive Parenting Program, with additional Stepping Stones Triple P strategies (for childre…
Empowering the voices and agency of Indigenous Australian youth and their wellbeing in higher education✰
Scaling Up Parenting Interventions is Critical for Attaining the Sustainable Development Goals
Of all the potentially modifiable influences affecting children's development and mental health across the life course, none is more important than the quality of parenting and family life. In this position paper, we argue that parenting is fundamentally linked to the development of life skills that children need in order to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We discuss key principles that should inform the development of a…
The ‘social worlds’ concept
Intervening in heavy drinking cultures within groups below the level of the population has been under-utilized as a means of reducing alcohol-associated harms. We argue that the concept of ‘social worlds’ is useful for the identification and investigation of heavy drinking cultures in collectivities at this level. The concept may also support investigations into other practices with health implications, such as other substance use or gambling. So…
Model of Engaging Communities Collaboratively
The Model of Engaging Communities Collaboratively was developed with the integration of literature reviews in cultural adaptation approaches, engagement and implementation approaches; and international Indigenous feedback to inform the processes of implementing evidence-based practices (EBP) with Indigenous populations. This model synthesises the collective strengths of these approaches and feedback and provides checklists for practicality of use…
Sustained Implementation of Evidence‐based Programs in Disadvantaged Communities
This paper presents a review of the empirical literature for studies evaluating factors that facilitate and create barriers to sustained program implementation in disadvantaged communities. It outlines study methodology and sustainment outcomes and proposes a conceptual model that involves implementation sustainment support for providers delivering evidence‐based health and family services in disadvantaged communities. Sustained program implement…
Comparison communities in a cluster randomised trial innovate in response to ‘being controlled
Issues in Professional Training to Implement Evidence‐based Parenting Programs
Indigenous children have elevated risk for poor health, behavioural, emotional, and social outcomes. Significant evidence exists that parenting programs can reduce family risk factors and improve outcomes for children and families; however, mainstream programs have had slower uptake in Indigenous communities than other communities. Culturally sensitive delivery of evidence‐based programs can enhance engagement of parents, yet the development of a…
Oral presentation as a form of summative assessment in a master’s level PGCE module
This paper examines the student perception of oral examination on a pre-service teacher education course at the Institute of Education, University of London. Students are required to carry out a school-based project and to present their findings at master’s level to a group of peers and examiners. Initial student evaluations showed the experience to be overwhelmingly positive, yet the qualitative comments suggested there were negative emotions un…
The Role of Practitioner Self-Efficacy, Training, Program and Workplace Factors on the Implementation of an Evidence-Based Parenting Intervention in Primary Care
An evaluation of a brief motivational interviewing training course for HIV/Aids counsellors in Western Cape Province, South Africa
HIV/AIDS counselling in South Africa covers a range of areas of prevention and treatment with a commonly used model of lay counsellors trained by non-governmental organisations and working alongside professionals in public health settings. This study presents a single group evaluation of a six-session (12-hour) course of Motivational Interviewing (MI) delivered to 17 HIV/AIDS lay counsellors working in peri-urban settings in Western Cape Province…
Reducing Preschoolers’ Disruptive Behavior in Public with a Brief Parent Discussion Group
Provision of Psychopharmacological Services in Nursing Homes
We examined the psychopharmacological services provided within 3 months of nursing home (NH) admission to a whole population of newly admitted Florida NH residents 65 years and older (N = 947) for a 1-year period via secondary analyses of selected variables from Medicaid and the Online Survey and Certification and Reporting System. Within 3 months of admission, 12% received nonpsychopharmacological mental health care. However, 71% of new resident…
Consuming bodies
In popular, academic and policy discourses it is taken for granted that consumption plays a vital role in the obesity epidemic. Mass consumption, associated changes to ‘lifestyle’ and the emergence of ‘obesogenic’ environments are viewed as underpinning the dramatic rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity. As a result, excess body weight has transitioned from risk factor to ‘disease’ status, with overconsumption identified as the princip…
Bodies, mothers and identities
Despite the intense level of attention directed towards obesity, there has been limited success in addressing the rising rates of this public health phenomenon. This paper argues that current approaches to obesity fail to consider concepts of embodiment, and in particular, that gendered and class-based experiences of embodiment are ignored in health promotion practices and policies. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept ofhabitus, this ethnographic study…
The Space Between Shared Understandings of the Teaching of Grammar in English and French to Year 7 Learners
In this article, we describe a small scale research project in which an English and a French student teacher on our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course work collaboratively to develop their personal knowledge and understanding of grammar and its role in teaching both subjects to 11 year old learners in an English comprehensive school. The project begins with university-based discussions about the role of grammar in language learning as e…
The Limits of the State
As I construct this essay to honor one of my teachers, Charles Hucker, I think back to two little red books that graced my brick and board bookshelves in an Ann Arbor married student's apartment. The most important of the two red books in the long run was not Mao's handbook for creating good socialist citizens, but Charles Hucker's The Traditional Chinese State in Ming Times (1368–1644). I did not truly appreciate my teacher's talent for synthesi…
Bodies, mothers and identities
Despite the intense level of attention directed towards obesity, there has been limited success in addressing the rising rates of this public health phenomenon. This paper argues that current approaches to obesity fail to consider concepts of embodiment, and in particular, that gendered and class-based experiences of embodiment are ignored in health promotion practices and policies. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept ofhabitus, this ethnographic study…
Sustained Implementation of Evidence‐based Programs in Disadvantaged Communities
This paper presents a review of the empirical literature for studies evaluating factors that facilitate and create barriers to sustained program implementation in disadvantaged communities. It outlines study methodology and sustainment outcomes and proposes a conceptual model that involves implementation sustainment support for providers delivering evidence‐based health and family services in disadvantaged communities. Sustained program implement…
Model of Engaging Communities Collaboratively
The Model of Engaging Communities Collaboratively was developed with the integration of literature reviews in cultural adaptation approaches, engagement and implementation approaches; and international Indigenous feedback to inform the processes of implementing evidence-based practices (EBP) with Indigenous populations. This model synthesises the collective strengths of these approaches and feedback and provides checklists for practicality of use…
Consuming bodies
In popular, academic and policy discourses it is taken for granted that consumption plays a vital role in the obesity epidemic. Mass consumption, associated changes to ‘lifestyle’ and the emergence of ‘obesogenic’ environments are viewed as underpinning the dramatic rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity. As a result, excess body weight has transitioned from risk factor to ‘disease’ status, with overconsumption identified as the princip…
Connecting families, schools, and communities
The achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demands an increased focus on investing in young children as a pivotal solution. Many of the SDGs' targeted solutions directly or indirectly address facets of children's living conditions, aiming to foster their social and emotional well‐being. However, the current approach, while successful in delivering some impacts, are often disjointed. In this article, we contend that…
Issues in Professional Training to Implement Evidence‐based Parenting Programs
Indigenous children have elevated risk for poor health, behavioural, emotional, and social outcomes. Significant evidence exists that parenting programs can reduce family risk factors and improve outcomes for children and families; however, mainstream programs have had slower uptake in Indigenous communities than other communities. Culturally sensitive delivery of evidence‐based programs can enhance engagement of parents, yet the development of a…
Provision of Psychopharmacological Services in Nursing Homes
We examined the psychopharmacological services provided within 3 months of nursing home (NH) admission to a whole population of newly admitted Florida NH residents 65 years and older (N = 947) for a 1-year period via secondary analyses of selected variables from Medicaid and the Online Survey and Certification and Reporting System. Within 3 months of admission, 12% received nonpsychopharmacological mental health care. However, 71% of new resident…
The Limits of the State
As I construct this essay to honor one of my teachers, Charles Hucker, I think back to two little red books that graced my brick and board bookshelves in an Ann Arbor married student's apartment. The most important of the two red books in the long run was not Mao's handbook for creating good socialist citizens, but Charles Hucker's The Traditional Chinese State in Ming Times (1368–1644). I did not truly appreciate my teacher's talent for synthesi…
The Space Between Shared Understandings of the Teaching of Grammar in English and French to Year 7 Learners
In this article, we describe a small scale research project in which an English and a French student teacher on our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course work collaboratively to develop their personal knowledge and understanding of grammar and its role in teaching both subjects to 11 year old learners in an English comprehensive school. The project begins with university-based discussions about the role of grammar in language learning as e…
Consuming bodies
In popular, academic and policy discourses it is taken for granted that consumption plays a vital role in the obesity epidemic. Mass consumption, associated changes to ‘lifestyle’ and the emergence of ‘obesogenic’ environments are viewed as underpinning the dramatic rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity. As a result, excess body weight has transitioned from risk factor to ‘disease’ status, with overconsumption identified as the princip…
Bodies, mothers and identities
Despite the intense level of attention directed towards obesity, there has been limited success in addressing the rising rates of this public health phenomenon. This paper argues that current approaches to obesity fail to consider concepts of embodiment, and in particular, that gendered and class-based experiences of embodiment are ignored in health promotion practices and policies. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept ofhabitus, this ethnographic study…
An evaluation of a brief motivational interviewing training course for HIV/Aids counsellors in Western Cape Province, South Africa
HIV/AIDS counselling in South Africa covers a range of areas of prevention and treatment with a commonly used model of lay counsellors trained by non-governmental organisations and working alongside professionals in public health settings. This study presents a single group evaluation of a six-session (12-hour) course of Motivational Interviewing (MI) delivered to 17 HIV/AIDS lay counsellors working in peri-urban settings in Western Cape Province…
Reducing Preschoolers’ Disruptive Behavior in Public with a Brief Parent Discussion Group
Provision of Psychopharmacological Services in Nursing Homes
We examined the psychopharmacological services provided within 3 months of nursing home (NH) admission to a whole population of newly admitted Florida NH residents 65 years and older (N = 947) for a 1-year period via secondary analyses of selected variables from Medicaid and the Online Survey and Certification and Reporting System. Within 3 months of admission, 12% received nonpsychopharmacological mental health care. However, 71% of new resident…
The Role of Practitioner Self-Efficacy, Training, Program and Workplace Factors on the Implementation of an Evidence-Based Parenting Intervention in Primary Care
Oral presentation as a form of summative assessment in a master’s level PGCE module
This paper examines the student perception of oral examination on a pre-service teacher education course at the Institute of Education, University of London. Students are required to carry out a school-based project and to present their findings at master’s level to a group of peers and examiners. Initial student evaluations showed the experience to be overwhelmingly positive, yet the qualitative comments suggested there were negative emotions un…
Issues in Professional Training to Implement Evidence‐based Parenting Programs
Indigenous children have elevated risk for poor health, behavioural, emotional, and social outcomes. Significant evidence exists that parenting programs can reduce family risk factors and improve outcomes for children and families; however, mainstream programs have had slower uptake in Indigenous communities than other communities. Culturally sensitive delivery of evidence‐based programs can enhance engagement of parents, yet the development of a…
Comparison communities in a cluster randomised trial innovate in response to ‘being controlled
Sustained Implementation of Evidence‐based Programs in Disadvantaged Communities
This paper presents a review of the empirical literature for studies evaluating factors that facilitate and create barriers to sustained program implementation in disadvantaged communities. It outlines study methodology and sustainment outcomes and proposes a conceptual model that involves implementation sustainment support for providers delivering evidence‐based health and family services in disadvantaged communities. Sustained program implement…
The ‘social worlds’ concept
Intervening in heavy drinking cultures within groups below the level of the population has been under-utilized as a means of reducing alcohol-associated harms. We argue that the concept of ‘social worlds’ is useful for the identification and investigation of heavy drinking cultures in collectivities at this level. The concept may also support investigations into other practices with health implications, such as other substance use or gambling. So…
Model of Engaging Communities Collaboratively
The Model of Engaging Communities Collaboratively was developed with the integration of literature reviews in cultural adaptation approaches, engagement and implementation approaches; and international Indigenous feedback to inform the processes of implementing evidence-based practices (EBP) with Indigenous populations. This model synthesises the collective strengths of these approaches and feedback and provides checklists for practicality of use…
Empowering the voices and agency of Indigenous Australian youth and their wellbeing in higher education✰
Scaling Up Parenting Interventions is Critical for Attaining the Sustainable Development Goals
Of all the potentially modifiable influences affecting children's development and mental health across the life course, none is more important than the quality of parenting and family life. In this position paper, we argue that parenting is fundamentally linked to the development of life skills that children need in order to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We discuss key principles that should inform the development of a…
Exploring Indigenous Community Conceptions of Parent Wellbeing
Using non-Indigenous perspectives of parental social and emotional wellbeing in the design and application of parent support programs can undermine program effectiveness as it may not account for Indigenous family structures and community values. With a clearer understanding of Indigenous parent wellbeing and its determinants, parenting interventions can be more appropriately designed and tailored to provide support for Indigenous families. This …
Caregivers' perspectives on the impact of the Group Triple P‐Positive Parenting Program in Pakistani orphanages
Children living in the orphanages of low‐ and middle‐income countries often face maltreatment and inadequate caregiving, and caregivers are unprepared and lack training for their role. This study involved a qualitative design with a thematic analysis approach, consisting of focus group discussions with 14 caregivers working in Pakistani orphanages who had participated in Group Triple P. Four main themes emerged: caregiving skills enhancement, beh…
Jandu Yani U (for all families)
Objectives Although evidence-based parenting programs are widely available, they remain inaccessible to many families of children with social, emotional and behavioural problems, particularly in remote settings. In partnership with Aboriginal communities in the remote Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia, we introduced and evaluated the Indigenous Triple P – Positive Parenting Program, with additional Stepping Stones Triple P strategies (for childre…
Connecting families, schools, and communities
The achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demands an increased focus on investing in young children as a pivotal solution. Many of the SDGs' targeted solutions directly or indirectly address facets of children's living conditions, aiming to foster their social and emotional well‐being. However, the current approach, while successful in delivering some impacts, are often disjointed. In this article, we contend that…
Effectiveness of the Group Triple P (Positive Parenting Program) in an Orphanage Context in Lahore, Pakistan
An inadequate caregiving environment in an orphanage can negatively impact children’s well-being, while a lack of specialized training can induce work-related stress and lower self-efficacy among caregivers. This study examined the effectiveness of the Group Triple P (positive parenting program) with caregivers of children in Pakistani orphanages. Fourteen caregivers across three orphanages completed self-report questionnaires and took part in Gr…
Evaluating the Positive Early Childhood Education (Pece) Program in Canada
Several programs have been developed to address challenges with children’s behavior in early childhood education settings. This study used a cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of the Positive Early Childhood Education Program (PECE) on educator skills, self-efficacy and job satisfaction, and on child behavior. Participants in this study were 96 educators from 12 childcare centers in Alberta, Canada. Outcomes were assessed…
Parental Factors Associated with Social Media Use in Adolescence
INTRODUCTION: Contemporary parenting involves technology-related challenges such as establishing guidelines for how 10-19-year-old adolescents use social media. Previous research has shown inconsistent findings on strategies that parents adopt in helping their adolescents navigate the use of social media. It is unclear how parenting practices contribute to shaping adolescents' digital literacy. Thus, the current review aimed to explore the relati…
Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Community Health and Development (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Family medicine (5 works)