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Overview

Anita S. Mak is affiliated with the University of Canberra in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a notable emphasis on clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, epidemiology, and health. Their scholarly output includes seven publications in clinical psychology-related fields and four in medicine.

The main topics covered in Anita S. Mak's work include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research

Recent publications by Anita S. Mak highlight a focus on early maladaptive schemas in youth, their relationship with mental health, and self-injurious behaviors. These include:

  • The Relationships Between Early Maladaptive Schemas and Youth Mental Health: A Systematic Review, 2020, Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Early maladaptive schemas in young people who self-injure, 2021, Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • Emotion regulation as a mediator between early maladaptive schemas and non-suicidal self-injury in youth, 2022, Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy
  • The relationship between early maladaptive schemas and the functions of self-injurious behaviour in youth, 2022, Clinical Psychologist

Anita S. Mak has frequently collaborated with several researchers. The coauthors with whom they have worked extensively include:

  • A. R. Nicol
  • Kristen Murray
  • Phillip S. Kavanagh
  • Iain Walker
  • Dean Buckmaster

Their work has appeared in multiple publication venues that intersect both clinical and behavioral therapy, such as:

  • Cognitive Therapy and Research
  • Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • Clinical Psychologist
  • Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy

Best Publications

  • Good for the Soul: the relationship between work, wellbeing and psychological capital

    Kenneth Cole;Anne Daly;Anita Mak

  • Ethnic identification, self-esteem and immigrant psychological health

    Drew Nesdale;Anita S Mak

  • Immigrant acculturation attitudes and host country identification

    Drew Nesdale;Anita S Mak

  • Psychosocial safety climate moderating the effects of daily job demands and recovery on fatigue and work engagement

    Adam Garrick;Anita S. Mak;Stuart Cathcart;Peter C. Winwood

  • Personality and family influences on adolescent attitudes to school and self-rated academic performance

    Patrick C.L Heaven;Anita Mak;Jocelyn Barry;Joseph Ciarrochi

  • Optimising conditions for learning sociocultural competencies for success

    Anita S Mak;Marvin J Westwood;F.Ishu Ishiyama;Michelle C Barker

  • The impact of adolescent and parental characteristics on adolescent levels of delinquency and depression

    Patrick C.L Heaven;Kathryn Newbury;Anita Mak

  • Job insecurity, coping resources and personality dispositions in occupational strain

    Anita S. Mak;Jason Mueller

  • A Self‐Report Delinquency Scale for Australian Adolescents

    Anita S. Mak

  • Measuring social self-efficacy in a culturally diverse student population

    Cynthia Fan;Anita S. Mak

  • Contact and Attitudes Toward International Students in Australia Intergroup Anxiety and Intercultural Communication Emotions as Mediators

    Anita S. Mak;Patricia M. Brown;Danielle Wadey

  • Big five personality and cultural relocation factors in Vietnamese Australian students’ intercultural social self-efficacy

    Anita S. Mak;Catherine Tran

  • Does cross-cultural training in tertiary education enhance cross-cultural adjustment? A systematic review

    Alison Sit;Anita S. Mak;James T. Neill

  • Beyond communication courses: Are there benefits in adding skills-based ExcelL™ sociocultural training?

    Anita S. Mak;Kirsten Buckingham

  • Parental neglect and overprotection as risk factors in delinquency

    Anita S. Mak

  • Testing a Psychosocial Control Theory of Delinquency

    Anita S. Mak

  • Migrant distress: The role of perceived racial discrimination and coping resources.

    Anita S. Mak;Drew Nesdale

  • The Relationships Between Early Maladaptive Schemas and Youth Mental Health: A Systematic Review

    Annemarie Nicol;Anita S. Mak;Kristen Murray;Iain Walker

  • Gender and personality influences in adolescent threat and challenge appraisals and depressive symptoms

    Anita S Mak;Kelly Blewitt;Patrick C.L Heaven

  • Psychosocial Control Characteristics of Delinquents and Nondelinquents

    Anita S. Mak

  • Do adolescent delinquency and problem drinking share psychosocial risk factors? A literature review

    Angela L. Curcio;Anita S. Mak;Amanda M. George

  • Strategies used by nurses, academics and students to overcome intercultural communication challenges

    Saras Henderson;Michelle Barker;Anita Mak

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick C. L. Heaven
Patrick C. L. Heaven Australian Catholic University
Arnold B. Bakker
Arnold B. Bakker Erasmus University Rotterdam
Drew Nesdale
Drew Nesdale Griffith University
Ken Rigby
Ken Rigby University of South Australia
Phillip T. Slee
Phillip T. Slee Flinders University
Joseph Ciarrochi
Joseph Ciarrochi Australian Catholic University
Colleen Ward
Colleen Ward Victoria University of Wellington
Craig A. Olsson
Craig A. Olsson Deakin University
Iain Walker
Iain Walker University of Melbourne
Nicholas B. Allen
Nicholas B. Allen University of Oregon

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