Emma Howarth

About

Emma Howarth

Ph.D., The University of East London, United Kingdom and author of “Preventing and Responding to Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence”, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development. Emma Howarth is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology, University of East London. Her primary research focus is on domestic abuse and responses to children who experience it.

She is the author of the article “Preventing and Responding to Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence” published in the Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development, the leading resource of the best and most up-to-date knowledge available on the development of young children (0-5). She is currently leading a feasibility trial (FReDA: Family Recovery After Domestic Abuse) to evaluate a group-based psycho-educational program for children and their female caregivers, and to consider whether this type of intervention would be helpful for victimized male caregivers. As an honorary member of the Children and Families and Research Policy Unit, hosted by UCL, she is leading a study to explore outcome measurement in the context of evaluation of targeted psycho-social interventions for children and families experiencing domestic abuse and/or child maltreatment. She is also a co-investigator on the Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network led by colleagues at King’s College London, UK.