Social contributors to violence

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Housing and homelessness

  1. Tay AK; Rees S; Tam N; Kareth M; Silove D, 2019, 'Defining a combined constellation of complicated bereavement and PTSD and the psychosocial correlates associated with the pattern amongst refugees from West Papua', Psychological Medicine, 49, pp. 1481 - 1489, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291718002027
  2. Tay AK; Rees S; Chen J; Kareth M; Lahe S; Kitau R; David K; Sonoling J; Silove D, 2015, ‘Associations of Conflict-Related Trauma and Ongoing Stressors with the Mental Health and Functioning of West Papuan Refugees in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG)’, PloS one, 10(4), pp. e0125178, https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125178
  3. Rees S; Thorpe R; Tol W; Fonseca M; Silove D, 2015, ‘Testing a cycle of family violence model in conflict-affected, low-income countries: a qualitative study from Timor-Leste’, Social science & medicine, 130, pp. 284–291, https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.02.013
  4. Silove D; Liddell B; Rees S; Chey T; Nickerson A; Tam N; Zwi A; Brooks R; Sila L; Steel Z, 2014, ‘Effects of recurrent violence on post-traumatic stress disorder and severe distress in conflict-affected Timor-Leste: a 6-year longitudinal study’, The Lancet. Global health, 2(5), pp. e293–300, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70196-2

Financial security

  1. O’Connor M; Rawstorne P; Iniakwala D; Razee H, 2019, ‘Fijian Adolescent Emotional Well-Being and Sexual and Reproductive Health-Seeking Behaviours’, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 16, pp. 373–384 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-018-0360-y
  2. Rees S; Thorpe R; Tol W; Fonseca M; Silove D, 2015, ‘Testing a cycle of family violence model in conflict-affected, low-income countries: a qualitative study from Timor-Leste’, Social science & medicine, 130, pp. 284–291, https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.02.013
  3. Silove D; Liddell B; Rees S; Chey T; Nickerson A; Tam N; Zwi A; Brooks R; Sila L; Steel Z, 2014, ‘Effects of recurrent violence on post-traumatic stress disorder and severe distress in conflict-affected Timor-Leste: a 6-year longitudinal study’, The Lancet. Global health, 2(5), pp. e293–300, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(14)70196-2
  4. Rees S, 2004, ’Human rights and the significance of psychosocial and cultural issues in domestic violence policy and intervention for refugee women’, Australian Journal of Human Rights, 10(1), pp. 97-118, https://dx.doi.org/[10.1080/1323238X.2004.11910772](https://doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2004.11910772)

Disasters and pandemics

  1. Baffsky R, Beek K, Wayland S, Shanthosh J, Henry A, Cullen P. “The real pandemic’s been there forever”: Qualitative perspectives of domestic and family violence workforce in Australia during COVID-19. BMC Health Services Research 2022; 22: 337
  2. Henry A; Yang J; Grattan S; Roberts L; Lainchbury A; Shanthosh J; Cullen P; Everitt L, 2022, ‘Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Telehealth on Antenatal Screening and Services, Including for Mental Health and Domestic Violence: An Australian Mixed-Methods Study’, Frontiers in global women's health, 3, pp. 819953, https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.819953
  3. Rees S; Wells R, 2020, 'Bushfires, COVID-19 and the urgent need for an Australian Task Force on gender, mental health and disaster', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 54, pp. 1135 - 1136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004867420954276
  4. Cullen P; Baffsky R; Beek K; Wayland S, 2020, ‘How frontline domestic and family violence workforce in Australia kept connected to their clients and each other through the pandemic’, https://www.humanrights.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/inline-files/COVID DFV Report_V2.pdf
  5. Beek K; McFadden A; Dawson A, 2019, 'The role and scope of practice of midwives in humanitarian settings: A systematic review and content analysis', Human Resources for Health, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-018-0341-5
  6. Rees S; Pittaway E; Bartolomei L, 2005, ‘Waves of violence: women in post-tsunami Sri Lanka’,  Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, (2), pp. 1-6, https://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/2005-2/rees.htm