Ruth McGovern

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Senior Lecturer in Public Health Research

Newcastle University

United Kingdom

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Ruth McGovern is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health Research at Newcastle University, UK. Her research focuses on mental health, domestic violence, family dynamics, and the impacts of childhood adversity. Recent articles include studies on supporting mothers at risk of care proceedings, the influence of family adversity on adolescent behavior, and co-producing interventions to prevent mental health problems in children and young people.

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SAFEguarding children in Substance exPosed fAmilies by supporting the non-using CaregivEr: Safe Space

Open Date: 2020-12-01

Close Date: 2022-05-30

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Exploring innovations in Transition to adulthood (EXIT Study)

Open Date: 2019-12-01

Close Date: 2023-11-30

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ATTUNE: Understanding Pathways to Stimulant Use: a mixed-methods examination of the individual, social and cultural factors shaping illicit stimulant use across Europe

Open Date: 2016-09-01

Close Date: 2020-04-30

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SOLID (Supporting Looked after children In Decreasing Drugs, and alcohol): A multi-centre external pilot randomised controlled trial to decrease risky substance use (drugs and alcohol) and improve mental health and well-being of Looked After Children aged 12 -20 years

Open Date: 2016-03-01

Close Date: 2019-02-28

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Brief interventions to reduce hazardous and harmful drinking in parents of children referred to children's social care: a pilot feasibility study

Open Date: 2015-01-01

Close Date: 2020-04-30

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James Joseph Newham

Northumbria University

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Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of mothers at risk of repeat care proceedings and preventing care entry: a realist evaluation

Impact of family childhood adversity on risk of violence and involvement with police in adolescence: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

A Qualitative Exploration of the Implications of a Differential Multi–Agency Understanding and Interpretation of Domestic Abuse

Implementing family safeguarding in the context of domestic violence and abuse: A case study of a local authority in England

“They had clothes on their back and they had food in their stomach, but they didn't have me”: The contribution of parental mental health problems, substance use, and domestic violence and abuse on young people and parents

Impact of poverty and adversity on perceived family support in adolescence: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Promoting Alcohol Reduction in Non-Treatment Seeking parents (PAReNTS): a pilot feasibility cluster randomized controlled trial of brief alcohol interventions with parents in contact with child safeguarding services

Developing care experienced young peoples’ participation as peer researchers in an inter-disciplinary study: applying the ‘Ability-Motivation-Opportunity’ framework

British South Asian and Muslim Community’s Perceptions and Experiences of Addiction and Traditional Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services

What are the Factors Influencing Service Provider Response to Working with Families Affected by Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse? A Qualitative Systematic Review of the Literature

The Adoption of a “Diseased Identity” in Traditional 12-Step Groups: Exploring the Implications of These Processes for Individuals and Practitioners in Health and Social Care Services

Co-producing an intervention to prevent mental health problems in children and young people in contact with child welfare services

How to extend pilot innovation in public services: A case of children's social care innovation

A realist approach to understanding alliancing within Local Government public health and social care service provision

The association between maternal and paternal substance use and child substance use, internalizing and externalizing problems: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

Impact of Parental Mental Health and Poverty on the Health of the Next Generation: A Multi-Trajectory Analysis Using the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of face‐to‐face and electronic brief interventions versus screening alone to reduce alcohol consumption among high‐risk adolescents presenting to emergency departments: three‐arm pragmatic randomized trial (SIPS Junior high risk trial)

A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies Exploring Lived Experiences, Perceived Impact, and Coping Strategies of Children and Young People Whose Parents Use Substances

The effectiveness of psychosocial interventions at reducing the frequency of alcohol and drug use in parents: findings of a Cochrane Review and meta‐analyses

Preferences for Delivering Brief Alcohol Intervention to Risky Drinking Parents in Children’s Social Care: A Discrete Choice Experiment

An Innovative Approach to Delivering a Family-Based Intervention to Address Parental Alcohol Misuse: Qualitative Findings from a Pilot Project

Substance Use, Health, and Adverse Life Events amongst Amphetamine-Type Stimulant Users in North East England: A Cross-Sectional Study

The Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in Young People in the High School Setting: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial (SIPS JR-HIGH)

Impact of poverty and family adversity on adolescent health: a multi-trajectory analysis using the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Collaborators (20)

James Joseph Newham

Robert Patton

Eileen Kaner

Sophie Kedzior

Tom Phillips

william McGovern

Lizzy Winstone

Paolo Deluca

David Taylor-Robinson

Sam Redgate

Judith Rankin

Rhys Pockett

Daniela Schlüter

Emily Munro

Monique Lhussier

Michelle Addison

Amy O'Donnell

laura Ternent

Ingrid Wolfe

Jennifer Ferguson

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