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Cannon, C. E. B., Ferreira, R., & Buttell, F. (2025). After Katrina: Disaster and intimate partner violence research. Traumatology. https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000564 

Cannon, C. E. B., Ferreira, R., & Buttell, F. (2025). Examining stress and multiple disaster exposure: An exploratory analysis of the role of sociodemographic characteristics and disaster preparedness. Traumatology, 31(2), 237–242. https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000501 

Cannon, C. E. B., Leahy, C., Buttell, F., & Ferreira, R. (2025). Assessing Primary Prevention Programs for Intimate Partner Violence: A Review of Contemporary Approaches. Partner Abuse, PA-2024-0051.R1. https://doi.org/10.1891/pa-2024-0051 

Cannon, C. E. B., Leahy, C., Buttell, F., & Ferreira, R. (2025). Evaluating risk assessments for intimate partner violence: A review of contemporary approaches. Partner Abuse, 16(2), Article PA-2024-0052.R1. https://doi.org/10.1891/PA-2024-0052 

Cannon, C. E. B., Leahy, C., Buttell, F., & Ferreira, R. (2025). Examining Intervention Programs for Perpetrators and Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: A Review of Contemporary Approaches. Partner Abuse, 16(2), PA-2024-0049.R1. https://doi.org/10.1891/pa-2024-0049 

Closson, K., Johns, N. E., & Raj, A. (2025). Are men’s gender equality beliefs associated with self-reported intimate partner violence perpetration? A state-level analysis of California men. PLoS ONE, 20(1), e0315293–e0315293. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0315293 

Dey, A. K., Closson, K., Bock, J. E., Brown, R. P., Nabukhonzo, P. K., Nyegenye, W., & Raj, A. (2025). Are traditional honour ideologies associated with fertility goals and contraceptive use? Findings from a cross-sectional study with a national sample of women and men in Uganda. African Journal of Reproductive Health, 29(4). https://www.ajrh.info/index.php/ajrh/article/view/5497/2232 

Javidi, H., Lederer, A. M., & Johnson, K. (2025). What Influences College Students’ Endorsement or Rejection of Affirmative Consent? Violence Against Women. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012251379428 

Pearson, E., Uysal, J., Boyce, S., Robinson, A., Piay‐Fernandez, N., Ramanarayanan, D., Barnes, S., & Silverman, J. G. (2025). Indicators for Reproductive Violence: A Systematized Review to Develop a Multilevel Measurement Framework. Studies in Family Planning. https://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.70021 

Wade, L. (2025). Paradoxes of displeasure: Understanding collegiate hookup culture’s resilience to negative emotional energy. Symbolic Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.696 

Boyce, S. C., Minnis, A. M., Deardorff, J., McCoy, S. I., Goin, D. E., Challa, S., Johns, N. E., Aliou, S., Brooks, M. I., Nouhou, A.-M., Baker, H., & Silverman, J. G. (2024). Mediating effects of inequitable gender norms on intimate partner violence and contraceptive use in a cluster randomized control trial in Niger. American Journal of Epidemiology, 194(5). https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae294 

Chatterji, S., Johns, N. E., Ghule, M., Begum, S., Averbach, S., Battala, M., & Raj, A. (2024). Assessing the impact of CHARM2, a family planning program on gender attitudes, intimate partner violence, reproductive coercion, and marital quality in India. PLOS Global Public Health, 4(5), e0003220–e0003220. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003220 

Collins, S. M., Chaparro, M. P., Fleckman, J. M., & Theall, K. P. (2024). Health Disparities in the Gulf South: Unpacking the Relationship Between Food Insecurity, Stress, and Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans. Current Developments in Nutrition, 8(2), 102398–102398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.102398 

Ferreira, R. J., & Ferreira, S. B. (2024). Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Populations Exposed to Climate Change. In C. Adamson, M. Alston, B. Bennett, J. Boddy, H. Boetto, L. Harms , & R. Tudor (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Disaster Practice.

Ferreira, R., Davidson, T., Buttell, F., Contillo, C. M., Leddie, C., Leahy, C., Nuñez-Dune, C., Lentz, B., Simkins, M., Jerolleman, A., Eide, C., Glaude, M. W., Thomas, J., Leiva, D., Awbrey, M. L., & Friedman, R. (2024). Barriers to equitable disaster recovery: A scoping literature review. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 110, 104628–104628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104628 

Ghule, M., Dixit, A., Johns, N. E., Madhusudana Battala, Begum, S., Averbach, S., Silverman, J. G., Niranjan Saggurti, & Raj, A. (2024). Examining the association between men’s gender equitable attitudes and contraceptive outcomes in rural Maharashtra, India. Dialogues in Health, 4, 100168–100168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dialog.2024.100168 

Glaude, M., Carpenter, M., Ferreira, R. J., & Figueroa, E. (2024). Social Work and Disaster Preparedness in Specialised Field Practicum Training. In C. Adamson, M. Alston, B. Bennett, J. Boddy, H. Boetto, L. Harms , & R. Tudor (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Disaster Practice.

Lai, J., Park, E., Jo’Al Amabile, C., Boyce, S. C., Fielding-Miller, R., Swendeman, D., Oaks, L., Marvel, D., Majnoonian, A., Silverman, J., & Wagman, J. (2024). “They Don’t See Us”: Asian Students’ Perceptions of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment on Three California Public University Campuses. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 39(15-16). https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605241235912 

Li, H., Dey, A. K., Singh, A., McDougal, L., Hay, K., & Raj, A. (2024). Are Households Affected by Intimate Partner Violence Less Likely to Enroll Children into Early Education in India: Findings from the Fifth National Family Health Survey, 2019 to 2021. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 40(13-14). https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605241308294 

McKinley, C. (2024). Dismantling the colonial mindset and becoming “Gender AWAke”: From gendered complicity to embodied praxis. Social Science & Medicine, 351, 116291–116291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116291 

Raj, A., Barr, E., & Griffith, D. M. (2024). Gender, power, and health: Modifiable factors and opportunities for intervention. Social Science & Medicine, 351, 116959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116959 

Raphaëlle Rafin, Nabamallika Dehingia, Juncal Plazaola-Castaño, & Raj, A. (2024). Rapid surveys on violence against women in crisis contexts: decision-making guidance based on the UN Women Rapid Gender Assessment surveys on violence against women during COVID-19. The Lancet Global Health, 12(11), e1899–e1904. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(24)00278-x 

Wallace, M. E., Stoecker, C., Sauter, S., & Vilda, D. (2024). States’ abortion laws associated with intimate partner violence–related homicide of women and girls in the US, 2014–2020. Health Affairs, 43(5), 682–690. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01098 

Cannon, C. E. B., & Buttell, F. (2023). A gender inclusive paradigm for domestic violence offenders. In Perceptions of female offenders (Vol. 2, pp. 111–121). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45685-5_7 

Cannon, C. E. B., Ferreira, R., Buttell, F., & O’Connor, A. (2023). Intimate partner violence survivorship, posttraumatic stress disorder and disaster: Implications for future disasters. Violence Against Women, 30(12–13), 3251–3271. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012231176205 

Ceroni, T. L., Ennis, C. R., Shapiro, M. O., Constans, J. I., Franklin, C. L., & Raines, A. M. (2023). Examining the unique and interactive associations of gender and race on PTSD symptom severity among military sexual trauma survivors. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 15(8), 1233–1237.

Dyer, L., Vilda, D., Harville, E. Theall, K.P., & Wallace, M. (2023). Income inequality and pregnancy-associated homicide in the US: a longitudinal, state-level analysis. Violence Against Women, 29(9), 1567-1581. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801222112044 

Fedina, L., Moss, L., Rousson, A. N., Smith, M. E., Bright, C., Herrenkohl, T. I., & DeVylder, J. (2023). Effects of neighborhood disconnection on psychological distress and suicide risk associated with interpersonal violence within racial groups. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 16, 681–697. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40653-023-00517-3 

Ferreira, R.J. & Buttell, F. (2023). A Global South perspective: the intersection of COVID-19 and intimate partner violence. American Journal of Public Health, 113(2), 136-137. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307144 

Leyton, A., Meekers, D., Hutchinson, P., Andrinopoulos, K., & Chen, X. (2023). A qualitative assessment of social norms related to seeking help for intimate partner violence in Honduras. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38(17–18), 10234–10258. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605231172485 

McKinley, C. E. (2023). Understanding Indigenous gender relations and violence: Becoming gender AWAke. Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18583-0 

Moss, L., & Fedina, L. (2023). Centering media literacy and cultural tailoring: A scoping review of interventions used to address Black adolescent intimate partner violence. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 24(4), 2181–2195. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380221090493 

Shapiro, M. O., Short, N. A., Raines, A. M., Franklin, C. L., True, G., & Constans, J. I. (2023). Pain and posttraumatic stress: Associations among women veterans with a history of military sexual trauma. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 15(8), 1307–1314. 

Cannon, C. E. B., Ferreira, R., Buttell, F., & O’Connor, A. (2022). Surviving intimate partner violence and disaster. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 15(3), 737. https://doi.org/10.1108/JACPR-03-2022-0702 

Hamel, J., Buttell, F., Ferreira, R., & Roy, V. (2022). IPV perpetrator groups: Client engagement, and the role of facilitators. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(19-20), NP17081-NP17108. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605211028012. 

Liddell, J. L., Sheffield, S. M., Johnson, K. M., & Lederer, A. M. (2022). College student perceptions of the root causes of sexual violence before and after a curricular intervention. Violence Against Women, 30(2), 551–574. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012221132300 

McKinley, C. E. (2022). “It just took something from me”: A mixed-methods examination of intimate partner violence victimization and perpetration among U.S. Indigenous peoples. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 14(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001082 

McKinley, C. E., & Knipp, H. (2022). “You can get away with anything here… no justice at all”—Sexual violence against U.S. Indigenous females and its consequences. Gender Issues, 39, 291–319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12147-021-09291-6 

McKinley, C. E., & Liddell, J. L. (2022). “Why I stayed in that relationship”: Barriers to Indigenous women’s ability to leave violent relationships. Violence Against Women, 28(14), 3352–3374. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012221104507 

McKinley, C. E., & Lilly, J. (2022). ‘Marriage is going to fix it’: Indigenous women’s experiences with early childbearing, early marriage, and intimate partner violence. The British Journal of Social Work, 52(5), 2475–2494. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcab193 

Moss, L., Ward, L. M., & Overstreet, N. M. (2022). Do objectification, gender beliefs, or racial stereotypes mediate associations between Black adults’ media use and acceptance of intimate partner violence? Psychology of Violence, 12(2), 63–73. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000412 

Raj, A., Singh, A., Silverman, J. G., Bhan, N., Barker, K. M., & McDougal, L. (2022). Freedom of movement and adolescent sexual violence in India. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(1–2), NP925–NP943. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520918583 

Upadhyay, A. K., Kumar, K., James, K. S., McDougal, L., Raj, A., & Singh, A. (2022). Association between intimate partner violence and contraceptive use discontinuation in India. Studies in Family Planning, 53(1), 5–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.12184 

Buttell, F., Cannon, C.E.B., Rose, K., & Ferreira, R.J. (2021). COVID-19 and intimate partner violence: Prevalence of resilience and perceived stress during a pandemic. Traumatology, 27(1), 20. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/trm0000296. 

Cannon, C.E.B., Ferreira, R., Buttell, F., & First, J. (2021). COVID-19, intimate partner violence, and communication ecologies. American Behavioral Scientist, 65(7), 992-1013. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764221992826. 

Felker-Kantor, E., Polanco, C., Perez, M., Donastorg, Y., Andrinopoulos, K., Kendall, C., Kerrigan, D., & Theall, K. P. (2021). Participatory geographic mapping and activity space diaries: Innovative data collection methods for understanding environmental risk exposures among female sex workers in a low-to middle-income country. International Journal of Health Geographics, 20(1), 25. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-021-00279-9 

Goemans, S. L., Singh, A., Yadav, A. K., McDougal, L., Raj, A., & Averbach, S. H. (2021). The association between intimate partner violence and recent self-managed abortion in India. AJOG Global Reports, 1(4), 100029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xagr.2021.100029 

Lederer, A. M., Liddell, J. L., Johnson, K. M., & Sheffield, S. (2024). “A profound effect on how I see myself and the world around me”: What students found meaningful about taking an academic course intended to reduce campus sexual violence. Health Education Research, 39(3), 197–211. https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyad048 

McKinley, C. E., Lilly, J. M., Knipp, H., & others. (2021). “A dad can get the money and the mom stays at home”: Patriarchal gender role attitudes, intimate partner violence, historical oppression, and resilience among Indigenous peoples. Sex Roles, 85, 499–514. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-021-01232-7 

Njie-Carr, V. P. S., Sabri, B., Messing, J. T., Ward-Lasher, A., Johnson-Agbakwu, C. E., McKinley, C., Campion, N., Childress, S., Arscott, J., & Campbell, J. (2021). Methodological and ethical considerations in research with immigrant and refugee survivors of intimate partner violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(19–20), NP10790–NP10808. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260519877951 

Wallace, M., Gillispie-Bell, V., Cruz, K., Davis, K., & Vilda, D. (2021). Homicide during pregnancy and the postpartum period in the United States, 2018–2019. Obstetrics & Gynecology, 138(5), 762–769. https://doi.org/10.1097/AOG.0000000000004567 

Buttell, F. & Ferreira, R.J. (2020). The Hidden Disaster of COVID-19: Intimate Partner Violence. Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/tra0000646. 

Cannon, C., Hamel, J., Buttell, F., & Ferreira, R.J. (2020). The pursuit of research-supported treatment in batterer intervention: The role of professional licensure and theoretical orientation for Duluth and CBT programs. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 17(4), 469-485. https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2020.1775744. 

Chen, G. L., Silverman, J. G., Dixit, A., Begum, S., Ghule, M., Battala, M., Johns, N. E., Raj, A., & Averbach, S. (2020). A cross-sectional analysis of intimate partner violence and family planning use in rural India. EClinicalMedicine, 21, 100318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100318 

Hamel, J., Cannon, C., Buttell, F., & Ferreira, R. (2020). A survey of IPV perpetrator treatment providers: Ready for evidence-based practice? Partner Abuse, 11(4), 387-414. https://connect.springerpub.com/content/sgrpa/11/4/387.abstract. 

Kajeepeta, S., Theall, K.P., Kondo, M.C., Branas, C.C. Wallace, M.E., Jacoby, S.F. & Morrison, C.N. (2020). The association between blighted property remediation and domestic crime by alcohol availability. Health & Place, 64, 102364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102364 

Kenney, S.J. (2020). Does Any Woman Have Just One Survivor Story? One Vagina’s Monologue. Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy, 105. https://rowman.com/isbn/9781793611130 

Silverman, J. G., Fonseka, R. W., Dehingia, N., Boyce, S. C., Chandurkar, D., Singh, K., Hay, K., Atmavilas, Y., & Raj, A. (2020). Associations between recent intimate partner violence and receipt and quality of perinatal health services in Uttar Pradesh. PLoS ONE, 15(5), e0232079. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232079 

Wallace, M. E., Crear-Perry, J., Mehta, P. K., & Theall, K. P. (2020). Homicide during pregnancy and the postpartum period in Louisiana, 2016–2017. JAMA Pediatrics, 174(4), 387–388. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.5853 

Wallace, M.E., Friar, N., Herwehe, J., & Theall, K.P. (2020). Violence as a direct cause of and indirect contributor to maternal death. Journal of Women’s Health, 29(8), 1032-1038. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2019.8072 

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