A5057965207- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Infant Health and Development
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Language Development and Disorders
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
The University of Sydney
2018-2024
Macquarie University
2017-2024
Western Sydney University
2021-2024
Translational Research Institute
2021-2022
Half of all lifetime mental health disorders emerge in childhood, so intervening the childhood years is critical to prevent chronic trajectories disorders. The prevalence child not decreasing despite increased availability evidence-based interventions. One key reason for high and low treatment uptake may be levels literacy general community. Mental refers knowledge beliefs about that aid their recognition, prevention management. There emerging evidence poor recognition problems community...
ObjectiveGiven the increasing research and practice interest in father engagement, this article aimed to develop a clinical narrative integrating extant literature distil key recommendations for enhancing engagement parenting interventions child wellbeing.MethodA review of on wellbeing was conducted, identify evidence‐based policies practices enhance practitioners organisations.ResultsSix broad policy are provided that pertain to: engaging team, avoiding deficit model, awareness...
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been associated with a range of physical and mental health problems, it is now understood that the developmental timing ACEs may be critically important. Despite this, there distinct lack methods for efficient assessment such in research clinical settings. We report on development validation new measure, Life Experiences Scale (ALES), indexes within format incorporating caregivers' reports their own lives those children. Participants were nationally...
Fathers are underrepresented in interventions focussing on child well-being, yet research suggests their involvement may be critical to enhancing intervention effectiveness. This study aimed provide the first Australian benchmark of rates father attendance across several mental health services. Retrospective casefile reviews were conducted obtain data and mother at 10 A total 2128 records retrospectively examined extract family-level data. The main outcome measures sessions involving...
Parents can be essential change-agents in their children’s lives. To support parents parenting role, a range of programs have been developed and evaluated. In this paper, we provide an overview the evidence for effectiveness interventions children across outcomes, including child adolescent mental physical health, competencies academic parental skills competencies, wellbeing prevention maltreatment family violence. Although there is extensive research showing evidence-based programs, these...
This study investigated the relationship between children’s proneness to endorse moral disengagement mechanisms and their anticipated antisocial lie telling. Participants were 107 predominantly white Australian children in Grade 1 (27 boys, 27 girls; Mage = 6.69 years) 4 (24 29 9.69 years). Children completed a lie-telling scale two vignettes. In first vignette, child character witnessed transgression was coached say that they did not see occur (lie type: false denial). second witness saw...
Maternal-infant bonding is important for children's positive development. Poor maternal-infant a risk factor negative mother and infant outcomes. Although researchers have examined individual predictors of bonding, studies typically do not examine several concurrent longitudinal within the same model. This study aimed to evaluate unique combined predictive power cross-sectional bonding. Participants were 372 pregnant women recruited from an Australian hospital. Data collected mothers at...
Children with a behaviorally inhibited temperament during early childhood have been shown to an increased risk for developing anxiety disorders. This study evaluated the efficacy of prevention program aimed at reducing in preschool children.Participants were 86 children aged 41-57 months and their mothers. selected if mothers reported high levels child behavioral inhibition on screening measure. Participants randomly allocated nine-session intervention or waitlist control condition. Mothers...
From birth, the human propensity to selectively attend and respond critical super-stimuli forms basis of future socio-emotional development health. In particular, first preferentially engage elicit responses in healthy newborn are physical touch, voice face/eyes caregivers. this grows selective attention responsiveness emotional expression, scaffolding empathy, social cognition, other higher capacities. paper, protocol for a longitudinal, prospective birth-cohort study is presented. The...
Abstract Cognitive behavioural therapy is the first line of treatment for social anxiety disorder; however, children with disorder do not respond as well to generic cognitive programs, compared other disorders. The aim study was provide a preliminary examination efficacy and applicability new specific intervention disorder. Five aged 7–13 years, primary or secondary DSM-5 diagnosis were provided an adapted version Cool Kids program. Three out five in remission from at end 3-month follow-up....
Abstract Research investigating social anxiety and the impacts on romantic relationships remains scarce. An online questionnaire examining relationship status, depression symptomology, satisfaction, several processes was completed by 444 adults. Individuals with higher were less likely to be in relationships. For 188 adults our sample current relationships, satisfaction not influenced when controlling for depression. Although it proposed that self-disclosure, support, trust, conflict...
Abstract There is tentative evidence that infants can learn preferences through evaluative conditioning to socioemotional stimuli. However, the early development of and factors may explain infants’ capacity are not well understood. Infants ( N = 319; 50.2% boys) participated in a longitudinal study where an paradigm using stimuli was conducted on two occasions (when were 7 14 months old, average). We tested whether repeatedly pairing neutral (triangular square shapes) with affective (angry...
Introduction The Westmead Centre for Adolescent and Young Adult Health is a purpose-built facility supporting integrated care young patients with variety of long-term health conditions transitioning from paediatric services at the Children’s Hospital to adult Hospital, Australia. Methods analysis This protocol outlines prospective, within-subjects, repeated-measures longitudinal cohort study measure self-reported experiences outcomes (12–25 years) carers accessing transition Health....
The Face-to-Face Still-Face (FF-SF) procedure has been a popular paradigm to understand infant behavior. current study examines the validity of mothers' behavior during phase FF-SF, especially quality her neutral face and its impact on arousal (N = 358 ethnically-diverse mother-infant dyads, Mean age 223 days, SD 27 days). Results showed that more than half mothers in sample breached one or instructions; however, breaches instructions were unrelated (Skin Conductance Responses) FF-SF....
Prior research has demonstrated the relationship between children's early processing and learning abilities with their language cognitive skills later in life. However, extent to which non-native ability can predict linguistic performance remains unclear. Thus, this longitudinal study examined whether associative word first year after birth was predictive of performance. Fifty-one typically developing Australian English-learning first-year infants participated an task associate tones novel...
Abstract Contemporary theories of early development and emerging child psychopathology all posit a major, if not central role for physiological responsiveness. To understand infants’ potential risk emergent psychopathology, consideration is needed to both autonomic reactivity environmental contexts (e.g., parent–child interactions). The current study maps arousal during the face-to-face still-face paradigm using skin conductance ( n = 255 ethnically-diverse mother–infant dyads; 52.5% girls,...
Abstract An attentional bias toward threat has been theorized to be a normative aspect of infants' and safety learning, an indicator risk for internalizing psychopathology in older populations. To date, only four studies have examined this using the dot‐probe task infancy findings are mixed. We extended literature by examining patterns attention culturally linguistically diverse sample infants aged 5–11 months old ( N = 151) all measures previously employed infant literature. Given that is...
The ability to learn and apply rules lies at the heart of cognition. In a seminal study, Marcus, Vijayan, Rao, Vishton (1999) reported that seven-month-old infants learned abstract over syllable sequences were able generalize those novel sequences. Dozens studies have since extended on research using different rules, modalities, stimuli, participants (human adults non-human animals) experimental procedures. Yet questions remain about robustness Marcus et al.’s core findings, as presence...