| Children with lesbian parents: a community study. S Golombok, B Perry, A Burston, C Murray, J Mooney-Somers, M Stevens, ... Developmental psychology 39 (1), 20, 2003 | 566 | 2003 |
| Costs and longer-term savings of parenting programmes for the prevention of persistent conduct disorder: a modelling study EM Bonin, M Stevens, J Beecham, S Byford, M Parsonage BMC public health 11 (1), 1-10, 2011 | 156 | 2011 |
| Prenatal stress and gender role behavior in girls and boys: a longitudinal, population study M Hines, KJ Johnston, S Golombok, J Rust, M Stevens, J Golding, ... Hormones and Behavior 42 (2), 126-134, 2002 | 80 | 2002 |
| Does father absence influence children's gender development? Findings from a general population study of preschool children M Stevens, S Golombok, M Beveridge, The ALSPAC Study Team Parenting 2 (1), 47-60, 2002 | 58 | 2002 |
| Using research in practice: A research information service for social care practitioners M Stevens, K Liabo, S Frost, H Roberts Child & Family Social Work 10 (1), 67-75, 2005 | 55 | 2005 |
| Children's play narratives: what they tell us about lesbian‐mother families B Perry, A Burston, M Stevens, J Golding, H Steele, S Golombok American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 74 (4), 467-479, 2004 | 47 | 2004 |
| Openness in lesbian-mother families regarding mother's sexual orientation and child's conception by donor insemination M Stevens, B Perry, A Burston, S Golombok, J Golding Journal of reproductive and infant psychology 21 (4), 347-362, 2003 | 46 | 2003 |
| The cost‐effectiveness of UK parenting programmes for preventing children's behaviour problems–a review of the evidence M Stevens Child & Family Social Work 19 (1), 109-118, 2014 | 41 | 2014 |
| Mobilising social support to improve mental health for children and adolescents: A systematic review using principles of realist synthesis A Bauer, M Stevens, D Purtscheller, M Knapp, P Fonagy, S Evans-Lacko, ... PLoS One 16 (5), e0251750, 2021 | 40 | 2021 |
| The high cost of unpaid care by young people: health and economic impacts of providing unpaid care N Brimblecombe, M Knapp, D King, M Stevens, J Cartagena Farias BMC Public Health 20 (1), 1-11, 2020 | 38 | 2020 |
| What do practitioners want from research, what do funders fund and what needs to be done to know more about what works in the new world of children’s services? M Stevens, K Liabo, S Witherspoon, H Roberts Evidence & Policy 5 (3), 281-294, 2009 | 24 | 2009 |
| Selected qualitative methods M Stevens Interactive textbook on clinical symptom research, 1-11, 2003 | 24 | 2003 |
| Group-based parenting programmes can reduce behaviour problems of children aged 3–12 years J Gibbs, A Underdown, M Stevens, J Newbery, K Liabo What Works for Children group Evidence Nugget April, 2003 | 23 | 2003 |
| The state of research into children with cancer across Europe: new policies for a new decade K Pritchard-Jones, G Lewison, S Camporesi, G Vassal, R Ladenstein, ... ecancermedicalscience 5, 2011 | 21 | 2011 |
| Research review: Economic evidence for interventions in children's social care: revisiting the what works for children project M Stevens, H Roberts, A Shiell Child & Family Social Work 15 (2), 145-154, 2010 | 19 | 2010 |
| Preventing at-risk children from developing antisocial and criminal behaviour: a longitudinal study examining the role of parenting, community and societal factors in middle … M Stevens BMC psychology 6 (1), 1-12, 2018 | 17 | 2018 |
| A review of the research priorities of practitioners working with children in social care M Stevens, K Liabo, H Roberts Child & Family Social Work 12 (4), 295-305, 2007 | 17 | 2007 |
| College and career readiness group interventions for early high school students CS Bhat, MM Stevens The Journal for Specialists in Group Work 46 (1), 20-31, 2021 | 16 | 2021 |
| Parenting interventions for the prevention of persistent conduct disorders EM Bonin, M Stevens, J Beecham, S Byford, M Parsonage Department of Health, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
| School‐based support for children with conduct disorders; a qualitative longitudinal study of high‐need families M Stevens British Educational Research Journal 44 (5), 781-801, 2018 | 10 | 2018 |
