Jennifer McIntosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 6779989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer McIntosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | McIntosh |
| SIGNATURE | MCINTOSH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Family Transitions, Carlton North, Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8140-9304 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Healthcare providers' perspectives on implementing a primary care–based initiative to increase equitable bowel cancer screening participation in Australia
Bowel cancer is the fifth most common cancer in Australia and the second leading cause of cancer-related death. Although the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program mails test kits to eligible Australians, uptake remains suboptimal, particularly among underserved populations. The Alternative Access Model (AAM) is a primary care–based strategy through which healthcare providers (HCPs) distribute kits directly to eligible patients, enabling practit…
Population Perspectives on Nurturing Relational Health from Early Life
Opportunities to Improve the Implementation of Relational Health Interventions for Children and Families
Despite the availability of universally delivered evidence-based relational health interventions, their wide-scale translation into practice is slow and unsustained. Measuring implementation outcomes within intervention trials is critical to understand their effectiveness and inform future scaling. This study aimed to determine the extent to which universally delivered relational health interventions measured and reported on implementation outcom…
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…
Family-Inclusive and Relational Approaches to Trauma Recovery
Close interpersonal relationships represent both a key context for the genesis of complex trauma and a positive modifiable factor in recovery following trauma exposure. Furthermore, symptoms of individual trauma affect the family system and partners, supporting the need for systemic approaches in trauma recovery. This review sought to systematically identify and synthesise current approaches to involving the family or relational partners in traum…
Life course predictors of child emotional distress during the Covid ‐19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: We examine precursors of child emotional distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in a prospective intergenerational Australian cohort study. METHODS: Parents (N = 549, 60% mothers) of 934 1-9-year-old children completed a COVID-19 specific module in 2020 and/or 2021. Decades prior, a broad range of individual, relational and contextual factors were assessed during parents' own childhood, adolescence and young adulthood (7-8 to 27-28 yea…
Miscarriage Australia
Background: Past research has shown that Australians affected by miscarriage want a website specific to both miscarriage and their local region that is accessible, comprehensive, evidence-based and informed by experts. The aim of this study was to design, develop and evaluate the Miscarriage Australia website using human centered design. Methods: the design by testing with end users. Across the four stages, various types of data and data analysis…
Impact of Sars-CoV-2 Pandemic and Strategies for Resumption of Activities During the Second Wave of the Pandemic
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic impacted the organization of paediatric hospitals. This study aimed to evaluate the preparedness for the pandemic among a European network of children's hospitals and to explore the strategies to restart health care services. A cross-sectional, web-based survey was distributed in May 2020 to the 13 children's tertiary care hospitals belonging to the European Children's…
Long‐term consumer involvement in cancer research
BACKGROUND: Meaningful consumer involvement in health research is important. There are limited data on how to maintain long-term consumer involvement. OBJECTIVE: To identify barriers and facilitators to meaningful long-term consumer involvement in research. DESIGN: Six semi-structured interviews were conducted with members of the Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group (PC4) Community Advisory Group (CAG) and included the review o…
Retention strategies in longitudinal cohort studies
Cautionary notes on the shared care of children in conflicted parental separation
The Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Act 2006 has brought into sharp focus the issue of shared physical care of children, post separation. In this paper, we explore new data suggesting accumulative risks for children whose care is divided between parents who lack the core relational infrastructure to support a healthy environment for shared care. Developmental background is provided, giving context to the complex dynamics at …
Assessing Attachment Needs and Potential in High-Risk Infants 1
This paper outlines a clinical response to these pressures through the development of rigorous, evidence-based approaches to the early assessment of the young child in out-of-home care, with a primary focus on the potential of a caregiver to parent that child in line with his or her developmental needs. The approach described aims for “depth” understanding of the traumatised attachment relationship, its historical underpinnings, and its psycholog…
Current Findings on Australian Children in Postseparation Disputes
This paper sets out descriptive baseline data on the first 111 Australian families participating in a current study of the efficacy of child-focused and child-inclusive Family Law Mediation. The families come from the first of two treatment groups in that comparative study. While outcome data are not yet available on this group, the baseline data, gathered prior to intervention, are of interest and value. The paper describes the nature of parents…
Child-Focused and Child-Inclusive Mediation
n\t\t\t\t\tChildren have largely been absent from or on the periphery of mediation processes in postseparation parenting disputes. An accompanying paper canvasses a number of reasons why this may be the case. The present paper goes on to describe a current prospective study of outcomes for families utilising these two different forms.of mediation: child focused and child inclusive. The study follows the pathways of individual adjustment and paren…
Practice Notes
Child-inclusive divorce mediation is growing rapidly throughout Australia, and its practice now affords a critical mass of experience upon which to reflect. The notes in this section outline some current concerns, together with advances in the clinical application of child inclusive mediation processes that are emerging through the second author’s extensive experiences in training and supervision. A recent case conducted by the first author in th…
Practice Notes
A common phenomenon observed in children residing in foster care is explained. The children tend to call foster carers 'mum' or 'mummy'. Concerns are raised for the appropriateness of this. There needs to be a willingness to look beneath layers of adult-oriented practice, to see the weight of the developmental load carried by the fostered child
Child-Responsive Practices in Australian Family Law
This paper considers key systemic issues that have to date constrained the hearing of children’s voices in both litigation and mediation processes in Australian family law. It is proposed that the time is now right for child-focused and child-inclusive approaches, described in this and previous publications, to become the default position in mediated disputes over children following separation. The application of child-inclusive practice to non-a…
Group Interventions for Separated Parents in Entrenched Conflict
This paper explores the nature of enduring postseparation conflict between parents; it looks to a growing body of research around group interventions designed to help parents move on from entrenched dispute, toward a more constructive coparenting relationship, in the interests of their children. Interventions range from traditional education approaches to therapeutic and treatment oriented models. Evidence regarding the impact of specific interve…
Enduring Conflict in Parental Separation
There are established research truths about parental conflict and its impact on children which are increasingly respected in practice: divorce does not have to be harmful; parental conflict is a more potent predictor of child adjustment than is divorce; conflict resolution is important to children’s coping with divorce. This synopsis of recent research moves beyond these truths, to a review of emerging “news” from the literature, with a focus on …
Children Living With Domestic Violence
The impact of violence between parents or caregivers on a child’s inner world is complex. Over recent years, researchers have gained vital knowledge about the workings of trauma in children induced by family violence. Of particular power has been definitive evidence about the potential for interspousal trauma to disrupt neurological and biochemical pathways in the developing child. From their respective vantage points, clinicians and researchers …
Marrying Casework and Research
This article is a reflective account of a three-year evaluation project completed in 1989 at Alys Key Family Care, a Melbourne-based family support and development agency. While there has been a pause in formal research activity within the agency, new studies are about to commence. Staff are currently looking back on the evaluation framework set in place during the service's Demonstration project and considering many issues and questions which wi…
Royal Sanitary Institute Health congress
Enduring Conflict in Parental Separation
There are established research truths about parental conflict and its impact on children which are increasingly respected in practice: divorce does not have to be harmful; parental conflict is a more potent predictor of child adjustment than is divorce; conflict resolution is important to children’s coping with divorce. This synopsis of recent research moves beyond these truths, to a review of emerging “news” from the literature, with a focus on …
Cautionary notes on the shared care of children in conflicted parental separation
The Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Act 2006 has brought into sharp focus the issue of shared physical care of children, post separation. In this paper, we explore new data suggesting accumulative risks for children whose care is divided between parents who lack the core relational infrastructure to support a healthy environment for shared care. Developmental background is provided, giving context to the complex dynamics at …
Child-Responsive Practices in Australian Family Law
This paper considers key systemic issues that have to date constrained the hearing of children’s voices in both litigation and mediation processes in Australian family law. It is proposed that the time is now right for child-focused and child-inclusive approaches, described in this and previous publications, to become the default position in mediated disputes over children following separation. The application of child-inclusive practice to non-a…
Group Interventions for Separated Parents in Entrenched Conflict
This paper explores the nature of enduring postseparation conflict between parents; it looks to a growing body of research around group interventions designed to help parents move on from entrenched dispute, toward a more constructive coparenting relationship, in the interests of their children. Interventions range from traditional education approaches to therapeutic and treatment oriented models. Evidence regarding the impact of specific interve…
Current Findings on Australian Children in Postseparation Disputes
This paper sets out descriptive baseline data on the first 111 Australian families participating in a current study of the efficacy of child-focused and child-inclusive Family Law Mediation. The families come from the first of two treatment groups in that comparative study. While outcome data are not yet available on this group, the baseline data, gathered prior to intervention, are of interest and value. The paper describes the nature of parents…
Children Living With Domestic Violence
The impact of violence between parents or caregivers on a child’s inner world is complex. Over recent years, researchers have gained vital knowledge about the workings of trauma in children induced by family violence. Of particular power has been definitive evidence about the potential for interspousal trauma to disrupt neurological and biochemical pathways in the developing child. From their respective vantage points, clinicians and researchers …
Child-Focused and Child-Inclusive Mediation
n\t\t\t\t\tChildren have largely been absent from or on the periphery of mediation processes in postseparation parenting disputes. An accompanying paper canvasses a number of reasons why this may be the case. The present paper goes on to describe a current prospective study of outcomes for families utilising these two different forms.of mediation: child focused and child inclusive. The study follows the pathways of individual adjustment and paren…
Practice Notes
A common phenomenon observed in children residing in foster care is explained. The children tend to call foster carers 'mum' or 'mummy'. Concerns are raised for the appropriateness of this. There needs to be a willingness to look beneath layers of adult-oriented practice, to see the weight of the developmental load carried by the fostered child
Assessing Attachment Needs and Potential in High-Risk Infants 1
This paper outlines a clinical response to these pressures through the development of rigorous, evidence-based approaches to the early assessment of the young child in out-of-home care, with a primary focus on the potential of a caregiver to parent that child in line with his or her developmental needs. The approach described aims for “depth” understanding of the traumatised attachment relationship, its historical underpinnings, and its psycholog…
Royal Sanitary Institute Health congress
Marrying Casework and Research
This article is a reflective account of a three-year evaluation project completed in 1989 at Alys Key Family Care, a Melbourne-based family support and development agency. While there has been a pause in formal research activity within the agency, new studies are about to commence. Staff are currently looking back on the evaluation framework set in place during the service's Demonstration project and considering many issues and questions which wi…
Group Interventions for Separated Parents in Entrenched Conflict
This paper explores the nature of enduring postseparation conflict between parents; it looks to a growing body of research around group interventions designed to help parents move on from entrenched dispute, toward a more constructive coparenting relationship, in the interests of their children. Interventions range from traditional education approaches to therapeutic and treatment oriented models. Evidence regarding the impact of specific interve…
Enduring Conflict in Parental Separation
There are established research truths about parental conflict and its impact on children which are increasingly respected in practice: divorce does not have to be harmful; parental conflict is a more potent predictor of child adjustment than is divorce; conflict resolution is important to children’s coping with divorce. This synopsis of recent research moves beyond these truths, to a review of emerging “news” from the literature, with a focus on …
Children Living With Domestic Violence
The impact of violence between parents or caregivers on a child’s inner world is complex. Over recent years, researchers have gained vital knowledge about the workings of trauma in children induced by family violence. Of particular power has been definitive evidence about the potential for interspousal trauma to disrupt neurological and biochemical pathways in the developing child. From their respective vantage points, clinicians and researchers …
Child-Focused and Child-Inclusive Mediation
n\t\t\t\t\tChildren have largely been absent from or on the periphery of mediation processes in postseparation parenting disputes. An accompanying paper canvasses a number of reasons why this may be the case. The present paper goes on to describe a current prospective study of outcomes for families utilising these two different forms.of mediation: child focused and child inclusive. The study follows the pathways of individual adjustment and paren…
Practice Notes
Child-inclusive divorce mediation is growing rapidly throughout Australia, and its practice now affords a critical mass of experience upon which to reflect. The notes in this section outline some current concerns, together with advances in the clinical application of child inclusive mediation processes that are emerging through the second author’s extensive experiences in training and supervision. A recent case conducted by the first author in th…
Practice Notes
A common phenomenon observed in children residing in foster care is explained. The children tend to call foster carers 'mum' or 'mummy'. Concerns are raised for the appropriateness of this. There needs to be a willingness to look beneath layers of adult-oriented practice, to see the weight of the developmental load carried by the fostered child
Child-Responsive Practices in Australian Family Law
This paper considers key systemic issues that have to date constrained the hearing of children’s voices in both litigation and mediation processes in Australian family law. It is proposed that the time is now right for child-focused and child-inclusive approaches, described in this and previous publications, to become the default position in mediated disputes over children following separation. The application of child-inclusive practice to non-a…
Current Findings on Australian Children in Postseparation Disputes
This paper sets out descriptive baseline data on the first 111 Australian families participating in a current study of the efficacy of child-focused and child-inclusive Family Law Mediation. The families come from the first of two treatment groups in that comparative study. While outcome data are not yet available on this group, the baseline data, gathered prior to intervention, are of interest and value. The paper describes the nature of parents…
Assessing Attachment Needs and Potential in High-Risk Infants 1
This paper outlines a clinical response to these pressures through the development of rigorous, evidence-based approaches to the early assessment of the young child in out-of-home care, with a primary focus on the potential of a caregiver to parent that child in line with his or her developmental needs. The approach described aims for “depth” understanding of the traumatised attachment relationship, its historical underpinnings, and its psycholog…
Cautionary notes on the shared care of children in conflicted parental separation
The Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Act 2006 has brought into sharp focus the issue of shared physical care of children, post separation. In this paper, we explore new data suggesting accumulative risks for children whose care is divided between parents who lack the core relational infrastructure to support a healthy environment for shared care. Developmental background is provided, giving context to the complex dynamics at …
Retention strategies in longitudinal cohort studies
Impact of Sars-CoV-2 Pandemic and Strategies for Resumption of Activities During the Second Wave of the Pandemic
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic impacted the organization of paediatric hospitals. This study aimed to evaluate the preparedness for the pandemic among a European network of children's hospitals and to explore the strategies to restart health care services. A cross-sectional, web-based survey was distributed in May 2020 to the 13 children's tertiary care hospitals belonging to the European Children's…
Long‐term consumer involvement in cancer research
BACKGROUND: Meaningful consumer involvement in health research is important. There are limited data on how to maintain long-term consumer involvement. OBJECTIVE: To identify barriers and facilitators to meaningful long-term consumer involvement in research. DESIGN: Six semi-structured interviews were conducted with members of the Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group (PC4) Community Advisory Group (CAG) and included the review o…
Miscarriage Australia
Background: Past research has shown that Australians affected by miscarriage want a website specific to both miscarriage and their local region that is accessible, comprehensive, evidence-based and informed by experts. The aim of this study was to design, develop and evaluate the Miscarriage Australia website using human centered design. Methods: the design by testing with end users. Across the four stages, various types of data and data analysis…
Life course predictors of child emotional distress during the Covid ‐19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: We examine precursors of child emotional distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in a prospective intergenerational Australian cohort study. METHODS: Parents (N = 549, 60% mothers) of 934 1-9-year-old children completed a COVID-19 specific module in 2020 and/or 2021. Decades prior, a broad range of individual, relational and contextual factors were assessed during parents' own childhood, adolescence and young adulthood (7-8 to 27-28 yea…
Healthcare providers' perspectives on implementing a primary care–based initiative to increase equitable bowel cancer screening participation in Australia
Bowel cancer is the fifth most common cancer in Australia and the second leading cause of cancer-related death. Although the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program mails test kits to eligible Australians, uptake remains suboptimal, particularly among underserved populations. The Alternative Access Model (AAM) is a primary care–based strategy through which healthcare providers (HCPs) distribute kits directly to eligible patients, enabling practit…
Population Perspectives on Nurturing Relational Health from Early Life
Opportunities to Improve the Implementation of Relational Health Interventions for Children and Families
Despite the availability of universally delivered evidence-based relational health interventions, their wide-scale translation into practice is slow and unsustained. Measuring implementation outcomes within intervention trials is critical to understand their effectiveness and inform future scaling. This study aimed to determine the extent to which universally delivered relational health interventions measured and reported on implementation outcom…
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…
Family-Inclusive and Relational Approaches to Trauma Recovery
Close interpersonal relationships represent both a key context for the genesis of complex trauma and a positive modifiable factor in recovery following trauma exposure. Furthermore, symptoms of individual trauma affect the family system and partners, supporting the need for systemic approaches in trauma recovery. This review sought to systematically identify and synthesise current approaches to involving the family or relational partners in traum…
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