198:. He was also presented with the 2007 Blanche L. Ittleson Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Delivery of Children's Services and the Promotion of Children's Mental Health from the American Orthopsychiatric Association. His recent books include Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Why teens experiment and strategies to keep them safe (with P. Jaffe & C. Crooks; Yale University Press, 2006); Child abuse: Implications for child development and psychopathology, 2nd Edition (Sage, 1999); and Abnormal Child Psychology, 8th edition (with E. Mash; Wadsworth, 2021).
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A cluster randomized trial evaluation of "The Fourth R" program in
Ontario, Canada found that teaching youths about healthy relationships as part of their required health curriculum reduced physical dating violence and increased condom use 2.5 years later at a low per-student cost. These results were
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Wolfe is a founding member of the Center for
Research & Education on Violence Against Women and Children at the University of Western Ontario, where he and colleague Peter Jaffe coined the term "Children of Battered Women" and "Children Exposed to Domestic Violence", now used widely within the
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Society of Canada and Professor Emeritus at Western University in London, Canada. He is ranked 62 in Canada and 1188 worldwide in Psychology, with a D-index of 76. He held the inaugural Chair in Children's Mental Health at the Centre for Addiction and Mental
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Wolfe's interest in violence prevention has culminated into a comprehensive school-based initiative for reducing violence amongst adolescents and related risk behaviors, known as "The Fourth R: Skills for Youth
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Prevention Science from 2002-2016. He was Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Toronto from 2002-2016. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal from 2007-2013. He is a fellow of the
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mental health and justice systems. He recently published an updated book in this area (with P. Jaffe and M. Campbell - Growing Up with
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Wolfe, D. A., Crooks, C., Jaffe, P., Chiodo, D., Hughes, R., Ellis, W., et al. (2009). A School-Based
Program to Prevent Adolescent Dating Violence: A Cluster Randomized Trial. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 163(8),
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Wolfe, D.A.; Crooks, C; Lee, V; McIntyre-Smith, A; Jaffe, P. (2003). The effects of children's exposure to domestic violence: A meta-analysis and critique. Clinical Child and Family
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Medical Center, Wolfe moved to Canada to pursue his career focus on child abuse and domestic violence with an emphasis on prevention. He took postdoctoral training for Child Trauma research at the
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Temple, J. R., Baumler, E., Wood, L., Thiel, M., Peskin, M., & Torres, E. (2021). A dating violence prevention program for middle school youth: A cluster randomized trial. Pediatrics, 148(5).
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Wolfe is the son of a teacher and minister, born in
Greensburg, Pennsylvania and growing up in Missouri, Connecticut, and Florida. Wolfe earned a Bachelor of Arts from the
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