Recent Publications

Child and Adult Victimization: Seqeulae for Female Caregivers of High-Risk Children (Weisbart et al., 2008) - The study examined whether victimized women (compared to nonvictimized women) would endorse higher rates of depression, lower levels of social support, and poorer recent health. Read more…

LONGSCAN in the News

Dr. Desmond Runyan has headed the medical school's Department of Social Medicine and headed the state's system to evaluate abused and battered children. All the while, he treated the youngest patients shuttled into UNC-CH.

"It's such a privilege to be able to care for patients and their families," Runyan says. "Plus, I get to have stand-up comedians walk into my office. Kids have such charm and humor and spirit." Read more…

Dr. Jonathan Kotch, MD, MPH, MA, FAAP, professor of maternal and child health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been a vocal and determined proponent of strengthening legislation and policies to protect children, especially in North Carolina. Read more…

  

LONGSCAN Ecological-Developmental Framework

 The Consortium has incorporated the research recommendations of the National Research Council (1993) by relying on an ecological-developmental framework to define the theoretical domains, to determine the data collection schedule, and to construct the age-specific interview protocols. Both ecological theory and extant empirical research have suggested salient risk and protective factors to be examined at the child, parent, family, neighborhood, and cultural levels.

The longitudinal design of the project reflects the developmental changes in risk and protective factors that occur as children grow and change from early childhood through young adult years. Because factors and processes influencing resilience can be instrumental in intervention programs, LONGSCAN investigators are committed to the investigation of outcomes suggesting resilience as well as poorer outcomes. LONGSCAN's conceptualization of the ecological-developmental model guides data collection as the children experience changing relationships with their social ecology over time.


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