Adolescents

Description: Lecturer in socio-linguistics, health communication and adolescents, vague language in healthcare contexts, taboo and language censoring, medical dilemmas in teenage email messages. Comedy, jokes, and puns.

Description: Assessment of violent and sexual offenders, the development and assessment of risk for agression, anti-social and criminal behaviour in children, teenagers and adults. The potential for violence by parents and caregivers and individuals high risk for child abuse and neglect. Assessments on parenting in general and evaluation of parent-child interaction and relationships from an attachment theory perspective. Consequences and developmental effects of children growing up in a violent family and witnessing spouse or elder abuse or experiencing physical, emotional or sexual abuse. Expert witness in family court on child care proceedings and in criminal court proceedings involving physical and sexual violence.

The University of Nottingham

University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 5765
email: news@nottingham.ac.uk