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Matthew R. Sanders

Matthew R. Sanders

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Psychology

D-Index
102
Citations
39267
World Ranking
573
National Ranking
30

Overview

Matthew R. Sanders is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research spans across multiple disciplines including Psychology, Medicine, and Social Sciences, with a notable focus on Clinical Psychology, Education, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions, and Social Psychology.

Key topics addressed in their work include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, family and disability support research, early childhood education and development, infant development and preterm care, parental involvement in education, youth development and social support, and maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum.

Their recent publications cover a range of subjects within these fields. Selected works include:

  • Scaling Up Parenting Interventions is Critical for Attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (2021), published in Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • Policies are Needed to Increase the Reach and Impact of Evidence-Based Parenting Supports: A Call for a Population-Based Approach to Supporting Parents, Children, and Families (2022), published in Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • The Triple P System of Evidence-Based Parenting Support: Past, Present, and Future Directions (2023), published in Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Matthew R. Sanders include Tianyi Ma, Julie Hodges, Cassandra L. Tellegen, Karen Turner, and Vanessa E. Cobham.

Their research is disseminated through several publication venues, most notably:

  • Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • Children and Youth Services Review
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review

Best Publications

  • Triple P-Positive Parenting Program: towards an empirically validated multilevel parenting and family support strategy for the prevention of behavior and emotional problems in children.

    Matthew R. Sanders

  • Population-based prevention of child maltreatment: the U.S. Triple p system population trial.

    Ronald J. Prinz;Matthew R. Sanders;Cheri J. Shapiro;Daniel J. Whitaker

  • The triple P-positive parenting program: a comparison of enhanced, standard, and self-directed behavioral family intervention for parents of children with early onset conduct problems.

    Matthew R. Sanders;Carol Markie-Dadds;Lucy A. Tully;William Bor

  • The Triple P-Positive Parenting Program: A systematic review and meta-analysis of a multi-level system of parenting support

    Matthew R. Sanders;James N. Kirby;Cassandra L. Tellegen;Jamin J. Day

  • Triple P-Positive Parenting Program as a Public Health Approach to Strengthening Parenting

    Matthew R. Sanders

  • Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions

    Lynn A. Karoly;Peter W. Greenwood;Susan M. Sohler Everingham;Jill Hoube

  • The relationship between maternal self‐efficacy and parenting practices: implications for parent training

    M. R. Sanders;M. L. Woolley

  • Development, Evaluation, and Multinational Dissemination of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program

    Matthew R. Sanders

  • Triple P-Positive Parenting Program: A Population Approach to Promoting Competent Parenting.

    Matthew R. Sanders

  • The effects of the Triple P-positive Parenting Program on preschool children with co-occurring disruptive behavior and attentional/hyperactive difficulties.

    William Bor;Matthew R. Sanders;Carol Markie-Dadds

  • Theoretical, Scientific and Clinical Foundations of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program: A Population Approach to the Promotion of Parenting Competence

    Matthew R. Sanders;Carol Markie-Dadds;Karen M. T. Turner

  • Predictors of care‐giver stress in families of preschool‐aged children with developmental disabilities

    Karen M. Plant;Matthew R. Sanders

  • The development and dissemination of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program: a multilevel, evidence-based system of parenting and family support.

    Matthew R. Sanders;Karen M. T. Turner;Carol Markie-Dadds

  • The treatment of recurrent abdominal pain in children: A controlled comparison of cognitive-behavioral family intervention and standard pediatric care.

    Matthew R. Sanders;Ross W. Shepherd;Geoffrey Cleghorn;Hugh Woolford

  • Marital discord and treatment outcome in behavioral treatment of child conduct disorders.

    Mark R. Dadds;Steven Schwartz;Matthew R. Sanders

  • An outcome evaluation of the implementation of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program in Hong Kong.

    Cynthia Leung;Matthew R Sanders;Shirley Leung;Rose Mak

  • Stepping Stones Triple P: An RCT of a Parenting Program with Parents of a Child Diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Koa Whittingham;Kate Sofronoff;Jeanie Sheffield;Matthew R. Sanders

  • Can skills training prevent relationship problems in at-risk couples? Four-year effects of a behavioral relationship education program.

    W. Kim Halford;Matthew R. Sanders;Brett C. Behrens

  • Does parental attributional retraining and anger management enhance the effects of the triple P-Positive Parenting Program with parents at risk of child maltreatment?

    Matthew R. Sanders;Aileen M. Pidgeon;Fred Gravestock;Mark D. Connors

  • Treatment of depressed mothers with disruptive children: A controlled evaluation of cognitive behavioral family intervention

    Matthew R. Sanders;Margaret McFarland

Frequent Co-Authors

Alina Morawska
Alina Morawska University of Queensland
Rachel Calam
Rachel Calam University of Manchester
Ronald J. Prinz
Ronald J. Prinz University of South Carolina
Kate Sofronoff
Kate Sofronoff University of Queensland
Mark R. Dadds
Mark R. Dadds University of Sydney
W. Kim Halford
W. Kim Halford University of Queensland
Jan M. Nicholson
Jan M. Nicholson La Trobe University
Kylie Megan Gray
Kylie Megan Gray University of Birmingham
Bruce J Tonge
Bruce J Tonge Monash University
Kurt Hahlweg
Kurt Hahlweg Technische Universität Braunschweig

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