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Overview

David Berle is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and has a research focus primarily within the field of Psychology, with a notable specialization in Clinical Psychology. Their scholarly work spans various related subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research interests cover a range of topics with particular emphasis on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Migration, Health and Trauma, and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development. Additional focal areas in their work include Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Mental Health Research Topics, and Child Abuse and Trauma.

David Berle has published research in several academic venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Psychiatric Quarterly
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
  • Psychiatry Research
  • Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment

Their recent publication record includes papers such as:

  • Recent Insights Into Cyberchondria (2020, Current Psychiatry Reports)
  • Cyberchondria in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies)
  • Compulsive Health-Related Internet Use and Cyberchondria (2020, European Addiction Research)
  • Trauma-focused psychotherapies for post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and network meta-analysis (2021, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica)
  • Unveiling the relationships between cyberchondria and psychopathological symptoms (2021, Journal of Psychiatric Research)

Their collaborations include frequent co-authors such as Vladan Starčević, Zachary Steel, Kirupamani Viswasam, Amalia Badawi, and Kris Rogers, reflecting ongoing partnerships in related research areas.

Best Publications

  • Cyberchondria: towards a better understanding of excessive health-related Internet use

    Vladan Starcevic;David Berle

  • The relationships between health anxiety, online health information seeking, and cyberchondria: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Ryan D. McMullan;David Berle;Sandra Arnáez;Vladan Starcevic

  • Recognizing problem video game use.

    Guy Porter;Vladan Starcevic;David Berle;Pauline Fenech

  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of the Unified Protocol as a transdiagnostic emotion regulation based intervention.

    Nathan Sakiris;David Berle;David Berle

  • Thought-action fusion: review of the literature and future directions.

    David Berle;Vladan Starcevic

  • Cognitive specificity of anxiety disorders: a review of selected key constructs

    Vladan Starcevic;David Berle

  • Recent Insights Into Cyberchondria.

    Vladan Starcevic;Vladan Starcevic;David Berle;David Berle;Sandra Arnáez

  • Disgust and obsessive-compulsive disorder: an update

    David Berle;Emily S. Phillips

  • Preliminary validation of an ultra-brief version of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire

    David Berle;Vladan Starcevic;Karen Moses;Anthony Hannan

  • Cyberchondria in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Vladan Starcevic;Adriano Schimmenti;Joël Billieux;David Berle;David Berle

  • Cyberchondria and its Relationships with Related Constructs: a Network Analysis.

    Vladan Starcevic;Vladan Starcevic;Stéphanie Baggio;Stéphanie Baggio;David Berle;David Berle;Yasser Khazaal

  • Functions of compulsions in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Vladan Starcevic;David Berle;Vlasios Brakoulias;Peter Sammut

  • The association between visa insecurity and mental health, disability and social engagement in refugees living in Australia

    Angela Nickerson;Yulisha Byrow;Meaghan O'Donnell;Vicki Mau

  • Pathological worry, anxiety disorders and the impact of co-occurrence with depressive and other anxiety disorders.

    Vladan Starcevic;David Berle;Denise Milicevic;Anthony Hannan

  • "Side effects' of ECT are mainly depressive phenomena and are independent of age.

    Henry Brodaty;David Berle;Ian Hickie;Ian Hickie;Catherine Mason

  • Problem Video Game Use and Dimensions of Psychopathology

    Vladan Starcevic;Vladan Starcevic;David Berle;Guy Porter;Pauline Fenech

  • Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder co-occurring with obsessive-compulsive disorder: Conceptual and clinical implications.

    Vladan Starcevic;David Berle;Vlasios Brakoulias;Peter Sammut

  • Compulsive Health-Related Internet Use and Cyberchondria.

    Yasser Khazaal;Anne Chatton;Lucien Rochat;Vincent Hede

  • Trauma-focused psychotherapies for post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.

    Brooke Jericho;Aileen Luo;David Berle;David Berle

  • The association between trauma experienced during incarceration and PTSD outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Alicia Piper;David Berle

  • The characteristics of unacceptable/taboo thoughts in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Vlasios Brakoulias;Vladan Starcevic;David Berle;Denise Milicevic

  • Disgust propensity in obsessive–compulsive disorder: Cross-sectional and prospective relationships

    David Berle;Vladan Starcevic;Vlasios Brakoulias;Peter Sammut

Frequent Co-Authors

Vladan Starcevic
Vladan Starcevic University of Sydney
Andrew J. Martin
Andrew J. Martin University of New South Wales
Michelle L. Moulds
Michelle L. Moulds University of New South Wales
Yasser Khazaal
Yasser Khazaal University of Lausanne
Meaghan O'Donnell
Meaghan O'Donnell University of Melbourne
Joël Billieux
Joël Billieux University of Lausanne
Ian B. Hickie
Ian B. Hickie University of Sydney
Naomi A. Fineberg
Naomi A. Fineberg University of Hertfordshire
Adriano Schimmenti
Adriano Schimmenti Università degli Studi di Enna Kore
Belinda J. Liddell
Belinda J. Liddell University of New South Wales

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