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Charlotte Waddell

Charlotte Waddell

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Psychology

D-Index
38
Citations
5074
World Ranking
8941
National Ranking
602

Overview

Charlotte Waddell is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada. Their research primarily centers on psychology and medicine, with a focus on clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, general health professions, psychiatry and mental health, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

They have contributed to the understanding of several main topics including:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care

Charlotte Waddell's recent publications reflect these themes and include:

  • "Prevalence of childhood mental disorders in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis to inform policymaking" (2021) published in Evidence-Based Mental Health
  • "Co-occurring trajectories of anxiety and insistence on sameness behaviour in autism spectrum disorder" (2020) published in The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Trajectories of Symptom Severity in Children with Autism: Variability and Turning Points through the Transition to School" (2021) published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • "Public Health Nurses' Professional Practices to Prevent, Recognize, and Respond to Suspected Child Maltreatment in Home Visiting: An Interpretive Descriptive Study" (2021) published in Global Qualitative Nursing Research
  • "Retaining participants in community-based health research: a case example on standardized planning and reporting" (2020) published in Trials

Frequent coauthors of Waddell include:

  • Isabel M. Smith
  • Stelios Georgiades
  • Eric Duku
  • Wendy J. Ungar
  • Péter Szatmári

Their work is often published in notable venues such as:

  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Research in Developmental Disabilities
  • The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

This profile summarizes Charlotte Waddell's research contributions to the study of developmental and mental health issues in children, exploring both clinical and social dimensions through interdisciplinary approaches.

Best Publications

  • Developmental Trajectories of Symptom Severity and Adaptive Functioning in an Inception Cohort of Preschool Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Peter Szatmari;Stelios Georgiades;Eric Duku;Teresa A. Bennett

  • Investigating Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Factor Mixture Modeling Approach.

    Stelios Georgiades;Peter Szatmari;Michael Boyle;Steven Hanna

  • Examination of bidirectional relationships between parent stress and two types of problem behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder.

    Anat Zaidman-Zait;Anat Zaidman-Zait;Pat Mirenda;Eric Duku;Peter Szatmari;Peter Szatmari

  • Impact of personal and social resources on parenting stress in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder

    Anat Zaidman-Zait;Pat Mirenda;Eric Duku;Tracy Vaillancourt

  • Comparing early language development in monolingual- and bilingual- exposed young children with autism spectrum disorders

    J. Kaori Ohashi;Pat Mirenda;Stefka Marinova-Todd;Catherine Hambly

  • Validating the Repetitive Behavior Scale-Revised in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Pat Mirenda;Isabel M. Smith;Tracy Vaillancourt;Stelios Georgiades

  • A Public Health Strategy to Improve the Mental Health of Canadian Children

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  • Prevalence of childhood mental disorders in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis to inform policymaking.

    Jenny Lou Barican;Donna Yung;Christine Schwartz;Yufei Zheng

  • Child Psychiatric Epidemiology and Canadian Public Policy-Making: The State of the Science and the Art of the Possible

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  • Preventing mental disorders in children: a systematic review to inform policy-making.

    Charlotte Waddell;Josephine M. Hua;Orion M. Garland;Ray DeV. Peters

  • Using the preschool language scale, fourth edition to characterize language in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders.

    Joanne Volden;Isabel M. Smith;Peter Szatmari;Susan Bryson

  • Creativity and Mental Illness: Is There a Link?

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  • Repetitive Behavior Severity as an Early Indicator of Risk for Elevated Anxiety Symptoms in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

    Danielle A. Baribeau;Simone Vigod;Eleanor Pullenayegum;Connor M. Kerns

  • Behavioral Pediatrics Feeding Assessment Scale in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Psychometrics and Associations With Child and Parent Variables

    Stephanie L. Allen;Isabel M. Smith;Eric Duku;Tracy Vaillancourt

  • Factor analysis of the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form with parents of young children with autism spectrum disorders.

    Anat Zaidman-Zait;Pat Mirenda;Bruno D. Zumbo;Stelios Georgiades

  • Phenotypic Overlap Between Core Diagnostic Features and Emotional/Behavioral Problems in Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Stelios Georgiades;Peter Szatmari;Eric Duku;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum

  • Joint trajectories of internalizing and externalizing problems in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder.

    Tracy Vaillancourt;John D. Haltigan;Isabel Smith;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum

  • Predictors of longer‐term development of expressive language in two independent longitudinal cohorts of language‐delayed preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Vanessa H. Bal;Megan Fok;Catherine Lord;Isabel M. Smith

  • Bringing children's mental health “out of the shadows”

    Kimberley McEwan;Charlotte Waddell;Jayne Barker

  • Preventing mental disorders in children: a public health priority.

    Charlotte Waddell;Kimberley McEwan;Ray DeV Peters;Josephine M Hua

  • A Qualitative Study of Autism Policy in Canada: Seeking Consensus on Children's Services.

    Cody A. Shepherd;Charlotte Waddell

  • Assuming ability of youth with autism: Synthesis of methods capturing the first-person perspectives of children and youth with disabilities.

    Rackeb Tesfaye;Valerie Courchesne;Afiqah Yusuf;Tal Savion-Lemieux

  • Investigating the measurement properties of the Social Responsiveness Scale in preschool children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Eric Duku;Tracy Vaillancourt;Peter Szatmari;Stelios Georgiades

  • Stability and Change in the Cognitive and Adaptive Behaviour Scores of Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Helen E. Flanagan;Isabel M. Smith;Isabel M. Smith;Tracy Vaillancourt;Eric Duku

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Szatmari
Peter Szatmari University of Toronto
Tracy Vaillancourt
Tracy Vaillancourt University of Ottawa
Eric Duku
Eric Duku McMaster University
Pat Mirenda
Pat Mirenda University of British Columbia
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum University of Alberta
Isabel M. Smith
Isabel M. Smith Dalhousie University
Joanne Volden
Joanne Volden University of Alberta
Susan E. Bryson
Susan E. Bryson Dalhousie University
Mayada Elsabbagh
Mayada Elsabbagh McGill University
Eric Fombonne
Eric Fombonne Oregon Health & Science University

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