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Lexine Stapinski

Lexine Stapinski

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Psychology

D-Index
34
Citations
3992
World Ranking
10290
National Ranking
585

Overview

Lexine Stapinski is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and has a research profile spanning psychology, medicine, and health professions. Their work focuses on clinical psychology, general health professions, epidemiology, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The primary topics addressed in their research include substance abuse treatment and outcomes, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, prenatal substance exposure effects, health policy implementation science, homelessness and social issues, and various mental health research topics.

Frequent co-authors in Lexine Stapinski's publications include Nicola C. Newton, Maree Teesson, Katrina E. Champion, Cath Chapman, and Emma Barrett.

Their work has been disseminated extensively through several publication venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Health Promotion Journal of Australia
  • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • Preventive Medicine Reports
  • BMJ Open

Some recent papers associated with Lexine Stapinski's research activity include:

  • Association of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure With Psychological, Behavioral, and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • New Australian guidelines for the treatment of alcohol problems: an overview of recommendations, 2021, The Medical Journal of Australia
  • Associations of childhood emotional and physical neglect with mental health and substance use in young adults, 2021, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • The 7-Year Effectiveness of School-Based Alcohol Use Prevention From Adolescence to Early Adulthood: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Universal, Selective, and Combined Interventions, 2021, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Psychometric properties of the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale-12 in generalized anxiety disorder: Assessment of factor structure, measurement properties and clinical utility, 2020, Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Best Publications

  • Seeking safety on the internet: relationship between social anxiety and problematic internet use.

    Bianca W. Lee;Lexine A. Stapinski

  • PEER VICTIMIZATION DURING ADOLESCENCE AND RISK FOR ANXIETY DISORDERS IN ADULTHOOD: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY

    Lexine A Stapinski;Lucy Bowes;Dieter Wolke;Rebecca M Pearson

  • Peer victimization during adolescence: Concurrent and prospective impact on symptoms of depression and anxiety.

    Lexine A Stapinski;Ricardo Araya;Ricardo Araya;Jon E Heron;Alan A Montgomery

  • Suicidality, internalizing problems and externalizing problems among adolescent bullies, victims and bully-victims

    Erin V. Kelly;Nicola C. Newton;Lexine A. Stapinski;Tim Slade

  • Association of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure With Psychological, Behavioral, and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study

    Briana Lees;Louise Mewton;Joanna Jacobus;Emilio A. Valadez

  • Exposure to socioeconomic adversity in early life and risk of depression at 18 years: The mediating role of locus of control

    Iryna Culpin;Lexine Stapinski;Ömür Budanur Miles;Ricardo Araya

  • Evaluating the cognitive avoidance model of generalised anxiety disorder: Impact of worry on threat appraisal, perceived control and anxious arousal

    Lexine A. Stapinski;Maree J. Abbott;Ronald M. Rapee

  • A systematic review of combined student- and parent-based programs to prevent alcohol and other drug use among adolescents.

    Nicola C. Newton;Katrina E. Champion;Tim Slade;Cath Chapman

  • The long-term effectiveness of a selective, personality-targeted prevention program in reducing alcohol use and related harms: a cluster randomized controlled trial

    Nicola C. Newton;Patricia J. Conrod;Patricia J. Conrod;Tim Slade;Natacha Carragher;Natacha Carragher

  • Neurobiological and Cognitive Profile of Young Binge Drinkers: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Briana Lees;Louise Mewton;Lexine A. Stapinski;Lindsay M. Squeglia

  • New Australian guidelines for the treatment of alcohol problems: an overview of recommendations

    Paul S Haber;Benjamin C Riordan;Daniel T Winter;Liz Barrett

  • Drinking to cope: a latent class analysis of coping motives for alcohol use in a large cohort of adolescents

    Lexine A. Stapinski;Alexis C. Edwards;Matthew Hickman;Ricardo Araya

  • Combined universal and selective prevention for adolescent alcohol use: a cluster randomized controlled trial.

    M. Teesson;N. C. Newton;T. Slade;N. Carragher

  • Associations of childhood emotional and physical neglect with mental health and substance use in young adults

    Lucinda Rachel Grummitt;Erin Veronica Kelly;Emma Louise Barrett;Siobhan Lawler

  • The 7-Year Effectiveness of School-Based Alcohol Use Prevention From Adolescence to Early Adulthood: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Universal, Selective, and Combined Interventions.

    Nicola C. Newton;Lexine A. Stapinski;Tim Slade;Matthew Sunderland

  • Psychometric properties of the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale-12 in generalized anxiety disorder: Assessment of factor structure, measurement properties and clinical utility.

    Emily J. Wilson;Lexine Stapinski;David M. Dueber;Ronald M. Rapee

  • Effectiveness of a universal internet-based prevention program for ecstasy and new psychoactive substances: a cluster randomized controlled trial.

    Katrina E. Champion;Nicola C. Newton;Lexine A. Stapinski;Maree Teesson

  • Stigma, discrimination and crystal methamphetamine (‘ice’): Current attitudes in Australia

    Hannah Deen;Steph Kershaw;Nicola Newton;Lexine Stapinski

  • The validity of the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS) among Australian adolescents.

    Nicola C. Newton;Emma L. Barrett;Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Erin Kelly

  • Fear of negative evaluation biases social evaluation inference: evidence from a probabilistic learning task.

    Katherine S Button;Daphne-Zacharenia Kounali;Lexine Stapinski;Ronald M Rapee

  • Concurrent and prospective associations between bullying victimization and substance use among Australian adolescents

    Erin V. Kelly;Nicola C. Newton;Lexine A. Stapinski;Tim Slade

  • A cross-validation trial of an internet-based prevention program for alcohol and cannabis: preliminary results from a cluster randomised controlled trial

    Katrina E Champion;Nicola C Newton;Lexine Stapinski;Tim Slade

  • Some new directions for research on psychological interventions for comorbid anxiety and substance use disorders

    Andrew J. Baillie;Lexine Stapinski;Erica Crome;Kirsten Morley

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Baillie
Andrew Baillie University of Sydney
Patricia J. Conrod
Patricia J. Conrod University of Montreal
Ronald M. Rapee
Ronald M. Rapee Macquarie University
Frances Kay-Lambkin
Frances Kay-Lambkin University of Newcastle Australia
Maree J. Abbott
Maree J. Abbott University of Sydney
Matthew Sunderland
Matthew Sunderland University of Sydney
Lindsay M. Squeglia
Lindsay M. Squeglia Medical University of South Carolina
Natalie Castellanos-Ryan
Natalie Castellanos-Ryan University of Montreal
Carol Joinson
Carol Joinson University of Bristol
Joanna Jacobus
Joanna Jacobus University of California, San Diego

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