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Paula M. Barrett is affiliated with Edith Cowan University in Australia, focusing on research within the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their scholarly work mainly addresses clinical psychology with additional emphasis on education, safety research, orthopedics and sports medicine, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

The primary topics covered in Barrett's research include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, resilience and mental health, early childhood education and development, youth development and social support, sports injuries and prevention, infant development and preterm care, and social skills and education.

Recent publications by Barrett feature studies such as "Building Emotional Resilience in Youth in Lebanon: a School-Based Randomized Controlled Trial of the FRIENDS Intervention" (2020) published in Prevention Science; "Promoting positive development: Coaches as trainers in sports-based resilience programs" (2020) in Australian Journal of Rural Health; "Evaluation of the Fun FRIENDS program with a sample of Mexican children" (2020) in Pensando Psicología; "An Ounce of Prevention: Building resilience and targeting anxiety in young children" (2022) in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry; and "A commentary on Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Complex Developmental Disorder" (2021) in Journal of Childhood & Developmental Disorders.

Frequent co-authors in Barrett's works include CHU-PAK LAU, Fadi T. Maalouf, Loay Alrojolah, Lilian Ghandour, and Rima Afifi. Barrett's research has been published in several journals including Prevention Science, Australian Journal of Rural Health, Pensando Psicología, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Journal of Childhood & Developmental Disorders.

Best Publications

  • Family Treatment of Childhood Anxiety: A Controlled Trial

    Paula M. Barrett;Mark R. Dadds;Ronald M. Rapee

  • Family enhancement of cognitive style in anxious and aggressive children.

    Paula M. Barrett;Ronald M. Rapee;Mark M. Dadds;Sharon M. Ryan

  • Psychometric properties of the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale with young adolescents

    Susan H. Spence;Paula Maria Barrett;Cynthia Michelle Turner

  • Prevention and Early Intervention for Anxiety disorders: A controlled trial

    Mark R. Dadds;Susan H. Spence;Denise E. Holland;Paula M. Barrett

  • Evaluation of cognitive-behavioral group treatments for childhood anxiety disorders

    Paula M. Barrett

  • Cognitive-behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders in children: long-term (6-year) follow-up

    Paula Maria Barrett;Amanda Louise Duffy;Mark Dadds;Ronald M. Rapee

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Family Treatment of Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Controlled Trial

    Paula Barrett;Lara Healy-Farrell;John S. March

  • Prevention of anxiety symptoms in primary school children: preliminary results from a universal school-based trial.

    Paula Maria Barrett;Cynthia Michelle Turner

  • Family process and child anxiety and aggression: an observational analysis

    Mark R. Dadds;Paula M. Barrett;Ronald M. Rapee;Sharon Ryan

  • Evaluating the FRIENDS program: a cognitive-behavioral group treatment for anxious children and their parents.

    Alison Louise Shortt;Paula Maria Barrett;Tara Lee Fox

  • Early intervention and prevention of anxiety disorders in children: results at 2-year follow-up.

    Mark R. Dadds;Denise E. Holland;Kristin R. Laurens;Miranda J. Mullins

  • A Universal Prevention Trial of Anxiety and Depressive Symptomatology in Childhood: Preliminary Data from an Australian Study

    Hayley M. Lowry-Webster;Paula M. Barrett;Mark R. Dadds

  • Long-term outcomes of an Australian universal prevention trial of anxiety and depression symptoms in children and youth: an evaluation of the friends program.

    Paula M. Barrett;Lara J. Farrell;Thomas H. Ollendick;Mark Dadds

  • Reliability of the DSM-III-R Childhood Anxiety Disorders Using Structured Interview: Interrater and Parent-Child Agreement

    Ronald M. Rapee;Paula M. Barrett;Mark R. Dadds;Larry Evans

  • EVIDENCE-BASED PSYCHOSOCIAL TREATMENTS FOR CHILD AND ADOLESCENT OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER

    Paula M Barrett;Lara Jean Farrell;Armando A. Pina;Tara S. Peris

  • A Universal Prevention Trial of Anxiety Symptomology during Childhood: Results at 1-Year Follow-up

    Hayley M. Lowry-Webster;Paula M. Barrett;Sally Lock

  • Cognitive-behavioral family treatment of childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder: long-term follow-up and predictors of outcome.

    Paula Barrett;Lara Farrell;Mark Dadds;Natalie Boulter

  • A Longitudinal Study of Developmental Differences in Universal Preventive Intervention for Child Anxiety

    Sally Lock;Paula M. Barrett

  • Types of parental involvement in CBT with anxious youth: A preliminary meta-analysis.

    Katharina Manassis;Trevor Changgun Lee;Kathryn Bennett;Xiu Yan Zhao

  • Developmental Differences in Universal Preventive Intervention for Child Anxiety

    Paula Maria Barrett;Sally Lock;Lara Jean Farrell

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark R. Dadds
Mark R. Dadds University of Sydney
Lara J. Farrell
Lara J. Farrell Griffith University
Ronald M. Rapee
Ronald M. Rapee Macquarie University
Wendy K. Silverman
Wendy K. Silverman Yale University
Susan H. Spence
Susan H. Spence Griffith University
John S. March
John S. March Duke University
Clayton R. Cook
Clayton R. Cook University of Minnesota
Jeffrey J. Wood
Jeffrey J. Wood University of California, Los Angeles
Jennifer L. Hudson
Jennifer L. Hudson University of New South Wales
Golda S. Ginsburg
Golda S. Ginsburg University of Connecticut

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