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Kathryn J. Lester is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans across the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a strong focus on Clinical Psychology and Education. Their scholarly output includes a significant number of publications in Clinical Psychology, Social Development, and related subfields.

The main areas of study for this researcher include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Recent scholarly publications by Kathryn J. Lester cover diverse topics related to mental health, education, and child development. Notable works include:

  • "Perfect storm: emotionally based school avoidance in the post-COVID-19 pandemic context" (2024), published in BMJ Mental Health
  • "'She didn't know how to go back': School attendance problems in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic-A multiple stakeholder qualitative study with parents and professionals" (2022), published in British Journal of Educational Psychology
  • "Adventurous Play as a Mechanism for Reducing Risk for Childhood Anxiety: A Conceptual Model" (2021), published in Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
  • "Parental eating disorders: A systematic review of parenting attitudes, behaviours, and parent-child interactions" (2021), published in Clinical Psychology Review
  • "Measuring fear: Association among different measures of fear learning." (2020), published in Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Kathryn J. Lester has frequently published research in several academic venues, including:

  • The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Clinical Psychology Review
  • Social Development
  • Journal of Eating Disorders

Collaborations are a marked feature of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Sam Cartwright-Hatton
  • Thalia C. Eley
  • Abigail Thomson
  • Abby Dunn
  • Chloë Elsby-Pearson

The research contributions of Kathryn J. Lester encompass clinical psychology topics related to anxiety, emotional development, and school attendance, while also addressing issues tied to parenting and maternal mental health. Their work integrates psychological theory with applied educational and public health concerns.

Best Publications

  • Collaborative meta-analysis finds no evidence of a strong interaction between stress and 5-HTTLPR genotype contributing to the development of depression

    R. C. Culverhouse;N. L. Saccone;A. C. Horton;Y. Ma

  • Environmental sensitivity in children: development of the highly sensitive child scale and identification of sensitivity groups

    Michael Pluess;Elham Assary;Francesca Lionetti;Kathryn J. Lester

  • Is There Room for ‘Development’ in Developmental Models of Information Processing Biases to Threat in Children and Adolescents?

    Andy P. Field;Kathryn J. Lester

  • Therapygenetics: the 5HTTLPR and response to psychological therapy

    Thalia C Eley;Jennifer L Hudson;Cathy Creswell;Maria Tropeano

  • Psychometric properties of reaction time based experimental paradigms measuring anxiety-related information-processing biases in children

    Hannah Brown;Thalia Eley;S Broeren;C Macleod

  • Clinical Predictors of Response to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders: The Genes for Treatment (GxT) Study

    Jennifer L. Hudson;Robert Keers;Susanna Roberts;Jonathan R.I. Coleman

  • Words matter: increasing the implementation of clinical guidelines

    S Michie;Kathryn Lester

  • A Genome-Wide Test of the Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis Reveals a Genetic Predictor of Differential Response to Psychological Treatments for Child Anxiety Disorders.

    Robert Keers;Robert Keers;Jonathan Coleman;Kathryn Jane Lester;Kathryn Jane Lester;Susanna Louise Roberts

  • Serotonin transporter [corrected] methylation and response to cognitive behaviour therapy in children with anxiety disorders.

    Susanna Roberts;Kathryn Lester;Jennifer L Hudson;R. M. Rapee

  • Genome-wide methylomic analysis of monozygotic twins discordant for adolescent depression

    Emma L. Dempster;Chloe C.Y. Wong;Kathryn J. Lester;Joe Burrage

  • Therapygenetics: Using genetic markers to predict response to psychological treatment for mood and anxiety disorders.

    Kathryn J Lester;Thalia C Eley

  • Do anxious parents interpretive biases towards threat extend into their child's environment?

    Kathryn Lester;Andy Field;Samantha Oliver;Samantha Cartwright-Hatton

  • Short-term serotonergic but not noradrenergic antidepressant administration reduces attentional vigilance to threat in healthy volunteers.

    Susannah E. Murphy;Jenny Yiend;Kathryn J. Lester;Philip J. Cowen

  • HPA AXIS RELATED GENES AND RESPONSE TO PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES: GENETICS AND EPIGENETICS

    Susanna Roberts;Robert Keers;Kathryn J Lester;Kathryn J Lester;Jonathan R. I. Coleman

  • Long term outcome of primary care depression.

    Jenny Yiend;Eugene Paykel;Rowena K. Merritt;Kathryn Lester

  • Predicting outcomes following cognitive behaviour therapy in child anxiety disorders: the influence of genetic, demographic and clinical information

    Jennifer Hudson;Kathryn J Lester;Cathryn M Lewis;Maria Tropeano

  • Gender differences in cocaine dependence

    Lisa M. Najavits;Kristin M. Lester

  • Adventurous Play as a Mechanism for Reducing Risk for Childhood Anxiety: A Conceptual Model

    Helen F. Dodd;Kathryn J. Lester

  • Replication of Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) loci for sleep in the British G1219 cohort

    Michael J. Parsons;Kathryn J. Lester;Nicola L. Barclay;Patrick M. Nolan

  • Learning of Information Processing Biases in Anxious Children and Adolescents

    Andy P. Field;Kathryn J. Lester

  • Modifying cognitive errors promotes cognitive well being: A new approach to bias modification

    Kathryn J. Lester;Andrew Mathews;Phil S. Davison;Jennifer L. Burgess

  • Collaborative meta-analysis finds no evidence of a strong interaction between stress and 5-HTTLPR genotype contributing to the development of depression

    Robert C. Culverhouse;Nancy L. Saccone;Amy C. Horton;Yinjiao Ma

Frequent Co-Authors

Thalia C. Eley
Thalia C. Eley King's College London
Robert Keers
Robert Keers Queen Mary University of London
Jennifer L. Hudson
Jennifer L. Hudson University of New South Wales
Peter J. Cooper
Peter J. Cooper University of Reading
Andy P. Field
Andy P. Field University of Sussex
Ronald M. Rapee
Ronald M. Rapee Macquarie University
Cathy Creswell
Cathy Creswell University of Oxford
Maaike H. Nauta
Maaike H. Nauta University of Groningen
Silvia Schneider
Silvia Schneider Ruhr University Bochum
Susan M. Bögels
Susan M. Bögels University of Amsterdam

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