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Allison M. Waters

Allison M. Waters

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Psychology

D-Index
54
Citations
9972
World Ranking
4638
National Ranking
257

Overview

Allison M. Waters is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia. Their research predominantly lies at the intersection of psychology and neuroscience, with a particular focus on clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Over their career, Waters has contributed extensively to the understanding of child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology (115 publications)
  • Neuroscience (52 publications)

Their work spans several subfields such as:

  • Clinical Psychology (68 publications)
  • Cognitive Neuroscience (38 publications)
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (27 publications)
  • Social Psychology (12 publications)
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health (12 publications)

Waters' research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (58 publications)
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (34 publications)
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (26 publications)
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms (24 publications)
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (18 publications)
  • Resilience and Mental Health (14 publications)
  • Youth Development and Social Support (14 publications)

The scientist has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Behaviour Research and Therapy (14 publications)
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development (10 publications)
  • Biological Psychiatry (5 publications)
  • Psychophysiology (4 publications)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature (4 publications)

Some of the recent papers by Allison M. Waters include:

  • "Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: A summary and overview of the literature" (2023) - Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • "Searching for the HERO in Youth: Does Psychological Capital (PsyCap) Predict Mental Health Symptoms and Subjective Wellbeing in Australian School-Aged Children and Adolescents?" (2020) - Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • "Inhibitory Control Deficits in Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder Compared to Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis" (2020) - Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • "Tackling Mental Health in Youth Sporting Programs: A Pilot Study of a Holistic Program" (2020) - Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • "Virtual Reality One-Session Treatment of Child-Specific Phobia of Dogs: A Controlled, Multiple Baseline Case Series" (2020) - Behavior Therapy

Frequent collaborators with whom Waters has co-authored publications include:

  • Lara J. Farrell (32 co-authored papers)
  • Kathryn L. Modecki (17 co-authored papers)
  • Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck (15 co-authored papers)
  • Caroline L. Donovan (13 co-authored papers)
  • Ottmar V. Lipp (10 co-authored papers)

Best Publications

  • A parent-report measure of children's anxiety: psychometric properties and comparison with child-report in a clinic and normal sample.

    Maaike H. Nauta;Agnes Scholing;Ronald M. Rapee;Maree Abbott

  • Neuroticism as a common dimension in the internalizing disorders

    James W. Griffith;Richard E. Zinbarg;Michelle G. Craske;Susan Mineka

  • D-Cycloserine Augmentation of Exposure-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Data.

    David Mataix-Cols;Lorena Fernández de la Cruz;Benedetta Monzani;David Rosenfield

  • Attentional Bias for Emotional Faces in Children With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Allison Maree Waters;Karen Mogg;Brendan P. Bradley;Daniel S. Pine

  • Attention Bias Modification (ABM): Review of effects of multisession ABM training on anxiety and threat-related attention in high-anxious individuals

    Karin Mogg;Allison M. Waters;Brendan P. Bradley

  • The Role of Neuroticism and Extraversion in the Stress-Anxiety and Stress-Depression Relationships

    Amanda A. Uliaszek;Richard E. Zinbarg;Susan Mineka;Michelle G. Craske

  • The use of virtual reality in acrophobia research and treatment.

    Carlos M. Coelho;Allison Maree Waters;Trevor John Hine;Guy Wallis

  • Attentional bias towards angry faces in childhood anxiety disorders

    Allison Maree Waters;Julie Ann Henry;Karin Mogg;Brendan P. Bradley

  • Is aversive learning a marker of risk for anxiety disorders in children

    Michelle G. Craske;Allison M. Waters;R. Lindsey Bergman;Bruce Naliboff

  • A review of cognitive biases in youth depression: attention, interpretation and memory

    Belinda Platt;Allison M. Waters;Gerd Schulte-Koerne;Lina Engelmann

  • Elevated responding to safe conditions as a specific risk factor for anxiety versus depressive disorders: evidence from a longitudinal investigation.

    Michelle G. Craske;Kate B. Wolitzky-Taylor;Susan Mineka;Richard Zinbarg

  • Relapse of Successfully Treated Anxiety and Fear: Theoretical Issues and Recommendations for Clinical Practice:

    Mark Justin Boschen;David Lester Neumann;Allison Maree Waters

  • Snakes and Cats in the Flower Bed: Fast Detection Is Not Specific to Pictures of Fear-Relevant Animals.

    Ottmar V. Lipp;Nazanin Derakshan;Allison Maree Waters;Sandra Logies

  • Attentional bias toward fear-related stimuli: an investigation with nonselected children and adults and children with anxiety disorders.

    Allison M. Waters;Ottmar V. Lipp;Susan H. Spence

  • Panic disorder, phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder.

    Michelle G. Craske;Allison Maree Waters

  • The use of an unpleasant sound as an unconditional stimulus in a human aversive Pavlovian conditioning procedure

    David Lester Neumann;Allison Maree Waters

  • Cognitive-behavioural therapy for young children with anxiety disorders: Comparison of a Child + Parent condition versus a Parent Only condition

    Allison M. Waters;Louise A. Ford;Trisha A. Wharton;Vanessa E. Cobham

  • Threat-based cognitive biases in anxious children: comparison with non-anxious children before and after cognitive behavioural treatment.

    Allison M. Waters;Trisha A. Wharton;Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck;Michelle G. Craske

  • Attention training towards positive stimuli in clinically anxious children

    Allison Maree Waters;Michelle Pittaway;Karin Mogg;Brendan P. Bradley

  • Biased attention to threat in paediatric anxiety disorders (generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, specific phobia, separation anxiety disorder) as a function of 'distress' versus 'fear' diagnostic categorization

    Allison Maree Waters;B. P. Bradley;K. Mogg

Frequent Co-Authors

Lara J. Farrell
Lara J. Farrell Griffith University
Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck
Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck Griffith University
Brendan P. Bradley
Brendan P. Bradley University of Southampton
David L. Neumann
David L. Neumann Griffith University
Karin Mogg
Karin Mogg University of Southampton
Susan Mineka
Susan Mineka Northwestern University
Richard E. Zinbarg
Richard E. Zinbarg Northwestern University
Ottmar V. Lipp
Ottmar V. Lipp Curtin University
Caroline L. Donovan
Caroline L. Donovan Griffith University

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