Dr Divna Haslam
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Biography
My research aims to ensure all children have access to safe, stable, violence-free childhoods. This spans from extensive work on evidence-based parenting programs (Triple P) to epidemiological work on child maltreatment and adverse childhood experiences. As both a clinical psychologist and a research academic, I use a prevention lens to target risk and protective factors to enhance child and family well-being with the goal of reducing the impact of early adversity. This includes a focus on parenting stress, family violence and maltreatment, and issues associated with balancing work and life. I also manage the Australian Child Maltreatment Study (ACMS) which has just generated the first nationally representative Australian data on the prevalence and mental health impact of the five types of child maltreatment in Australia.Through my work, I make significant contributions to policy and practice that ultimately benefit children and families. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade contracted me as a specialist to provide consultation to the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture in the area of parenting, and I have provided similar consultation to governments in the UK, EU, and Canada about the dissemination of prevention and early intervention parenting programs. The National Office of Child Safety has engaged me to conduct a scoping study on a wave two ACMS and I currently serve on the Child Death Review Board as a part of the Queensland Family and Child Commission.
I have >65 publications including outputs in leading D1 journals such as the Medical Journal of Australia and invited book chapters and have received >1.7 million in external funding. The Workplace Triple P Program I developed with Prof Matt Sanders AO has been disseminated by the QLD government and measures I have developed have been translated into >9 languages. The media frequently call on me for comment in the area of parenting and child behaviour and am a sort-after academic and clinical speaker.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Research Fellow
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law
Keywords
Parenting, Child Adversity, Child behaviour, Child mattreatment, Prevention, Child abuse and neglect, corporal punishment, Emotional abuse, parent-child relationship, epidemiology
Research field
Psychology, Public Health and Health Services
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Clinical Psychologist) Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Parenting and Family Support Centre Member Australian Psychological Society Master Trainer: Triple P Positive Parenting Program Research Affiliate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course Member, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, QUT Member, Childhood Adversity Research Program, QUT Member, Parenting and Family Research Alliance Member, Early Childhood Australia
Publications
- Haslam, D., Mejia, A., Thomson, D. & Betancourt, T. (2019). Self-regulation in low- and middle-income countries: Challenges and future directions. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 22(1), 104–117. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131288
- Haslam, D. & Mejia, A. (2018). Accommodating race and ethnicity in parenting interventions. In MR. Sanders & TG. Mazzucchelli (Eds.), The power of positive parenting: Transforming the lives of children, parents, and communities using the triple P system (pp. 332–344). Oxford University Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131286
- Haslam, D. & Penman, N. (2018). Parenting support in the workplace. In MR. Sanders & TG. Mazzucchelli (Eds.), The power of positive parenting: Transforming the lives of children, parents, and communities using the triple P system (pp. 262–271). Oxford University Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131283
- Burke, K., Haslam, D. & Butler, K. (2018). Policies and services affecting parenting. In MR. Sanders & A. Morawska (Eds.), Handbook of parenting and child development across the lifespan (pp. 551–564). Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131296
- Haslam, D. & Burke, K. (2018). Work, poverty, and financial stress. In MR. Sanders & A. Morawska (Eds.), Handbook of parenting and child development across the lifespan (pp. 495–510). Springer. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131287
- Haslam, D., Patrick, P. & Kirby, J. (2015). Giving voice to working mothers: A consumer informed study to program design for working mothers. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 24(8), 2463–2473. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131284
- Haslam, D., Filus, A., Morawska, A., Sanders, M. & Fletcher, R. (2015). The Work-Family Conflict Scale (WAFCS): Development and initial validation of a self-report measure of work-family conflict for use with parents. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 46(3), 346–357. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131290
- Haslam, D., Sanders, M. & Sofronoff, K. (2013). Reducing work and family conflict in teachers: A randomised controlled trial of workplace triple P. School Mental Health, 5(2), 70–82. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131282
- Sanders, M., Haslam, D., Calam, R., Southwell, C. & Stallman, H. (2011). Designing effective interventions for working parents: a web-based survey of parents in the UK workforce. Journal of Children's Services, 6(3), 186–200. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131274
- Morawska, A., Haslam, D., Milne, D. & Sanders, M. (2011). Evaluation of a brief parenting discussion group for parents of young children. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 32(2), 136–145. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/131277
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