Family Medicine & Medical Science Research
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Eija Paavilainen

Biography

Eija Paavilainen is working as a professor in Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences at Seinäjoki Finland

Research Interest

Her main research and expertise areas concern family research: families with children, families as clients in health care and families in challenging life situations. Since 1994, her largest research projects concern family violence: child maltreatment, and family risks, especially from intervention and outcome research perspective. Family Violence Research Group has 17 members, both post-doctoral, doctoral and masters level researchers, doing research on different perspectives e.g. intimate partner violence, children and adolescents experiencing family violence, disabled children and violence, multi professional practices dealing with family violence, and public health nursing practices dealing with family violence.

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