Olivia A. Merritt

ORCID: 0000-0002-1617-2515
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  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes
  • Fashion and Cultural Textiles
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Dental Erosion and Treatment
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Higher Education Practises and Engagement
  • Virology and Viral Diseases
  • Food Safety and Hygiene
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior
  • Dental materials and restorations
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies

University of Waterloo
2019-2023

McMaster University
2017-2019

Fear of receiving compassion from others, expressing to and being compassionate towards oneself have been identified as potentially important factors in the persistence depression, stress disorders, eating disorders. There is good reason expect that these fears may play a role anxiety related difficulties, but there little available information on extent which they are present associated with symptom severity.This study compared severity three (receiving, showing oneself) those principal...

10.1111/bjc.12250 article EN British Journal of Clinical Psychology 2020-05-04

This case study discusses the implementation of Healey, Flint, and Harrington's (2014) model student engagement through partnership with staff. Healey et al. identify issues associated “putting into practice” including inclusivity scale, power relations, reward recognition, transition sustainability, identity. Faculty, staff, students participating in a Students as Partners (SaP) Program at McMaster University’s MacPherson Institute encountered these during Scholarship Teaching Learning...

10.15173/ijsap.v1i2.3197 article EN cc-by International Journal for Students as Partners 2017-10-07

Fears of compassion are hypothesized to be associated with treatment attitudes, but this relationship has not yet been explored.Measures fear and expectations ambivalence were administered those above-average anxiety (N = 302) who met criteria for an or related disorder 40).In disorders, receiving self-compassion strongly correlated ambivalence. In both samples, higher was more negative treatment.Fear is may important target early in treatment.Fears There benefit targeting treatment.

10.1111/bjc.12313 article EN British Journal of Clinical Psychology 2021-06-12

10.5281/zenodo.7503229 article EN cc-by Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2023-01-04

10.1016/j.jocrd.2022.100753 article EN Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders 2022-09-09

Those close to people with mental health difficulties (e.g., family members, romantic partners and friends) are often involved in their care decisions. Research shows that criticism by others accommodation of symptoms associated symptom severity treatment response. Recent research has found those someone an anxiety disorder report a range concerns about loved one starting cognitive-behaviour therapy will cause the person change undesirable ways). The purpose this study was examine...

10.1111/bjc.12399 article EN British Journal of Clinical Psychology 2022-10-18

Many people with anxiety do not seek therapy due to negative views of treatment. Although close others (e.g. romantic partners, family members, friends) are highly involved in treatment decisions, the role specific relational behaviours ambivalence has yet be studied.This study examines relationship between social predictors (perceived criticism and accommodation symptoms by others) ambivalence.Community members who met diagnostic criteria for an anxiety-related disorder (N = 65) students...

10.1017/s1352465822000455 article EN cc-by-nc Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 2022-10-20

Achtergrond: veel mensen met angstklachten zoeken geen hulp vanwege negatieve ideeën over behandeling. Naasten (bijv. partner, familieleden, vrienden) zijn vaak nauw betrokken bij behandelbeslissingen, maar de rol van specifiek relationeel gedrag behandelambivalentie is nog niet eerder onderzocht. Doelstellingen: In deze studie wordt relatie onderzocht tussen sociale predictoren (accommodatie angstsymptomen en gepercipieerde kritiek door naasten) behandelambivalentie. Methode: Leden uit...

10.1007/s12440-023-00199-z article NL cc-by-nc Gezinstherapie Wereldwijd 2023-05-11
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