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Overview

Louise McHugh is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology with a focus on various subfields including clinical psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The primary areas of research for McHugh encompass mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, mindfulness and compassion interventions, anxiety and depression, psychometrics, treatment and cognitive processes, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, advanced radiotherapy techniques, behavioral and psychological studies, as well as resilience and mental health.

Several notable publications illustrate McHugh's research trajectory, including:

  • Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health: An international study (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Coping with global uncertainty: Perceptions of COVID-19 psychological distress, relationship quality, and dyadic coping for romantic partners across 27 countries (2021, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships)
  • Report of the ACBS Task Force on the strategies and tactics of contextual behavioral science research (2021, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science)
  • The Dynamics of Fear at the Time of Covid-19: A Contextual Behavioral Science Perspective. (2020, PubMed)
  • Increased Psychological Distress during COVID-19 and Quarantine in Ireland: A National Survey (2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine)

Frequent collaboration with other researchers is evident through coauthorship with:

  • Maria Karekla (18 publications)
  • Alison Stapleton (16 publications)
  • Andrew T. Gloster (15 publications)
  • Angelos P. Kassianos (13 publications)
  • Marios Constantinou (12 publications)

McHugh's work is regularly published in specific journals, showing strong engagement with certain academic communities. Key publication venues include:

  • Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (21 publications)
  • Radiotherapy and Oncology (7 publications)
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine (4 publications)
  • Frontiers in Psychology (3 publications)
  • The Psychological Record (3 publications)

The academic output spans 133 publications predominantly in psychology, with a considerable number addressing clinical psychological topics.

Best Publications

  • Parenting Stress Reduces the Effectiveness of Early Teaching Interventions for Autistic Spectrum Disorders.

    Lisa A. Osborne;Louise McHugh;Jo Saunders;Phil Reed

  • Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health: An international study.

    Andrew T. Gloster;Demetris Lamnisos;Jelena Lubenko;Giovambattista Presti

  • Perspective-Taking as Relational Responding: A Developmental Profile

    Louise McHugh;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Advances and Applications with Children, Adolescents, and Families

    Lisa W. Coyne;Louise McHugh;Evan R. Martinez

  • Perspective-Taking and Theory of Mind: A Relational Frame Account.

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Louise McHugh;Dermot Barnes-Holmes

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Reduces Psychological Stress in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

    Brona Wynne;Louise McHugh;Wei Gao;Denise Keegan

  • Relational Frame Theory: Some Implications for Understanding and Treating Human Psychopathology

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Louise McHugh;Steven C. Hayes

  • Comparing thought suppression and acceptance as coping techniques for food cravings.

    Nic Hooper;Emily K. Sandoz;Jennifer Ashton;Amelia Clarke

  • The effect of parenting behaviors on subsequent child behavior problems in Autistic Spectrum Conditions

    Lisa A. Osborne;Louise McHugh;Jo Saunders;Phil Reed

  • Using Brief Cognitive Restructuring and Cognitive Defusion Techniques to Cope With Negative Thoughts

    Andreas Larsson;Andreas Larsson;Nic Hooper;Lisa A. Osborne;Paul Bennett

  • Acceptance and commitment therapy.

    Lisa W. Coyne;Kirstin B. Birtwell;Louise McHugh;Kelly G. Wilson

  • The dynamics of fear at the time of COVID-19: A contextual behavioral science perspective

    Giovambattista Presti;Louise McHugh;Andrew Gloster;Maria Karekla

  • Report of the ACBS Task Force on the strategies and tactics of contextual behavioral science research

    Steven C. Hayes;Rhonda M. Merwin;Louise McHugh;Emily K. Sandoz

  • Temporal Discounting of Hypothetical Monetary Rewards by Adolescents, Adults, and Older Adults

    Robert Whelan;Louise A. McHugh

  • To Help or Not to Help? Prosocial Behavior, Its Association With Well-Being, and Predictors of Prosocial Behavior During the Coronavirus Disease Pandemic

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  • Assessing Deictic Relational Responding in Social Anhedonia: A Functional Approach to the Development of Theory of Mind Impairments.

    Matthieu Villatte;Jean-Louis Monestes;Louise McHugh;Esteve Freixa i Baque

  • A Relational Frame Account of the Development of Complex Cognitive Phenomena: Perspective-taking, False Belief Understanding, and Deception

    Louise McHugh;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes

  • Assessing Perspective Taking in Schizophrenia Using Relational Frame Theory

    Matthieu Villatte;Jean-Louis Monestes;Louise McHugh;Esteve Freixa i Baque

  • Adopting the perspective of another in belief attribution: contribution of Relational Frame Theory to the understanding of impairments in schizophrenia.

    Matthieu Villatte;Jean-Louis Monestès;Louise McHugh;Esteve Freixa i Baqué

  • Perspective taking reduces the fundamental attribution error

    Nic Hooper;Ates Erdogan;Georgia Keen;Katharine Lawton

  • The derived generalization of thought suppression

    Nic Hooper;Jo Saunders;Louise McHugh

  • Relational Frame Theory: Some Implications for Understanding and Treating

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Louise McHugh;Steven C. Hayes

Frequent Co-Authors

Phil Reed
Phil Reed Swansea University
Dermot Barnes-Holmes
Dermot Barnes-Holmes University of Ulster
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes Ireland Consulting Psychologists Ltd
Robert Whelan
Robert Whelan Trinity College Dublin
Maria Karekla
Maria Karekla University of Cyprus
Raimo Lappalainen
Raimo Lappalainen University of Jyväskylä
Andrew T. Gloster
Andrew T. Gloster University of Lucerne
Steven C. Hayes
Steven C. Hayes University of Nevada Reno
Alan Carr
Alan Carr University College Dublin
Mark Shevlin
Mark Shevlin University of Ulster

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