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Kenneth I. Pakenham

Kenneth I. Pakenham

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Psychology

D-Index
60
Citations
10772
World Ranking
3596
National Ranking
192

Overview

Kenneth I. Pakenham is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Psychology, Medicine, and Social Sciences. Within these areas, the subfields of Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology have been central to their scholarly output.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Family and Disability Support Research

Kenneth I. Pakenham has contributed to various peer-reviewed journals with a notable focus on:

  • Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Disability and Rehabilitation
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • PLoS ONE

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Pakenham include:

  • Giulia Landi
  • Silvana Grandi
  • Eliana Tossani
  • Ambra Mara Giovannetti
  • Alessandra Solari

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Pakenham include:

  • "The moderating roles of psychological flexibility and inflexibility on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in Italy," 2020, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
  • "Health Anxiety and Mental Health Outcome During COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy: The Mediating and Moderating Roles of Psychological Flexibility," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "The trajectories of anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic and the protective role of psychological flexibility: A four-wave longitudinal study," 2022, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "A resilience group training program for people with multiple sclerosis: Results of a pilot single-blind randomized controlled trial and nested qualitative study," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "The Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI): Discriminant validity of psychological flexibility with distress," 2021, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

Best Publications

  • Adjustment to multiple sclerosis: Application of a stress and coping model

    Kenneth I. Pakenham

  • Feasibility and effectiveness of psychosocial resilience training: A pilot study of the READY program

    Nicola W Burton;Ken I Pakenham;Wendy J Brown

  • Social support and postpartum depressive symptomatology: The mediating role of maternal self-efficacy.

    Divna M. Haslam;Kenneth I. Pakenham;Amanda Smith

  • Finding meaning in parenting a child with Asperger syndrome: correlates of sense making and benefit finding

    Kenneth I Pakenham;Kate Sofronoff;Christina Samios

  • Effects of a Telephone-Delivered Multiple Health Behavior Change Intervention (CanChange) on Health and Behavioral Outcomes in Survivors of Colorectal Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Anna L. Hawkes;Suzanne Kathleen Chambers;Kenneth I Pakenham;Tanya A. Patrao

  • Altered cognitive function in men treated for prostate cancer with luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone analogues and cyproterone acetate: a randomized controlled trial.

    Heather J Green;K. I. Pakenham;B. C. Headley;J. Yaxley

  • Adjustment in mothers of children with Asperger syndrome An application of the double ABCX model of family adjustment

    Kenneth I. Pakenham;Christina Samios;Kate Sofronoff

  • Relationships between adjustment to HIV and both social support and coping.

    Kenneth I. Pakenham;Mark R. Dadds;Deborah J. Terry

  • The psychosocial impact of caregiving on young people who have a parent with an illness or disability: Comparisons between young caregivers and noncaregivers.

    Kenneth I. Pakenham;Samantha Bursnall;Jessica Chiu;Toni Cannon

  • The role of illness, resources, appraisal, and coping strategies in adjustment to HIV/AIDS: The direct and buffering effects

    Kenneth I. Pakenham;Machelle Rinaldis

  • Benefit Finding in multiple sclerosis and associations with positive and negative outcomes

    Kenneth I. Pakenham

  • Relations between Social Support, Appraisal and Coping and Both Positive and Negative Outcomes in Young Carers

    Kenneth I. Pakenham;Jessica Chiu;Samantha Bursnall;Toni Cannon

  • The moderating roles of psychological flexibility and inflexibility on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in Italy

    Kenneth I. Pakenham;Giulia Landi;Giada Boccolini;Annalisa Furlani

  • The effectiveness of an ACT informed intervention for managing stress and improving therapist qualities in clinical psychology trainees.

    Johanna Stafford-Brown;Kenneth I. Pakenham

  • Application of a stress and coping model to caregiving in multiple sclerosis

    Kenneth I. Pakenham

  • Dimensions of quality of life and psychosocial variables most salient to colorectal cancer patients

    Jeff Dunn;Brigid Lynch;Machelle Rinaldis;Kenneth Pakenham

  • Stress in Clinical Psychology Trainees: Current Research Status and Future Directions

    Kenneth I Pakenham;Jeanie Stafford-Brown

  • Describing and predicting psychological distress after colorectal cancer.

    Brigid M. Lynch;Suzanne Kathleen Steginga;Suzanne Kathleen Steginga;Anna L. Hawkes;Anna L. Hawkes;Ken I. Pakenham

  • Quality of life compared during pharmacological treatments and clinical monitoring for non-localized prostate cancer: A randomized controlled trial

    Heather J Green;K. I. Pakenham;B. C. Headley;J. Yaxley

  • Couple coping and adjustment to multiple sclerosis in care receiver carer dyads

    Kenneth I. Pakenham

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeff Dunn
Jeff Dunn University of Southern Queensland
Kate Sofronoff
Kate Sofronoff University of Queensland
Suzanne K. Chambers
Suzanne K. Chambers University of Technology Sydney
Mark R. Dadds
Mark R. Dadds University of Sydney
Silvana Grandi
Silvana Grandi University of Bologna
Thomas Fydrich
Thomas Fydrich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Rhonda F. Brown
Rhonda F. Brown Australian National University
Einar B. Thorsteinsson
Einar B. Thorsteinsson University of New England
Deborah J. Terry
Deborah J. Terry University of Queensland
Elisabetta Crocetti
Elisabetta Crocetti University of Bologna

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