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Australia
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
147
Citations
82275
World Ranking
85
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2018 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science

Overview

Richard A. Bryant is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a substantial body of work in clinical psychology and related subfields.

The main fields of study for Richard A. Bryant include:

  • Psychology

Their key subfields of study cover:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Sociology and Political Science

Prominent research topics addressed by their work encompass:

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research

Recent papers published by Richard A. Bryant include:

  • The 2020 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for mood disorders, 2020, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • Prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder after infectious disease pandemics in the twenty-first century, including COVID-19: a meta-analysis and systematic review, 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Guided self-help to reduce psychological distress in South Sudanese female refugees in Uganda: a cluster randomised trial, 2020, The Lancet Global Health
  • Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Emerging experience with selected new categories in the ICD-11: complex PTSD, prolonged grief disorder, gaming disorder, and compulsive sexual behaviour disorder, 2022, World Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard A. Bryant are:

  • Marit Sijbrandij
  • Meaghan O'Donnell
  • Aemal Akhtar
  • Katie Dawson
  • Gin S. Malhi

The scientist publishes regularly in venues such as:

  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Bipolar Disorders

Richard A. Bryant has authored books published by the American Psychological Association, including Treating PTSD in first responders: A guide for serving those who serve. (2021).

Awards received include the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Association of Torture and Other Potentially Traumatic Events With Mental Health Outcomes Among Populations Exposed to Mass Conflict and Displacement: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Zachary Steel;Tien Chey;Derrick Silove;Claire Marnane

  • Five Essential Elements of Immediate and Mid–Term Mass Trauma Intervention: Empirical Evidence

    Stevan E. Hobfoll;Patricia Watson;Carl C. Bell;Richard A. Bryant

  • The Psychiatric Sequelae of Traumatic Injury

    Richard A. Bryant;Meaghan L. O'Donnell;Mark Creamer;Alexander C. McFarlane

  • Considering PTSD for DSM-5

    Matthew J. Friedman;Matthew J. Friedman;Patricia A. Resick;Patricia A. Resick;Patricia A. Resick;Richard A. Bryant;Chris R. Brewin

  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for mood disorders

    Gin S Malhi;Darryl L Bassett;Philip Boyce;Richard Bryant

  • Diagnosis and classification of disorders specifically associated with stress: proposals for ICD-11.

    Andreas Maercker;Chris R Brewin;Richard A Bryant;Marylene Cloitre

  • 636,120 Ways to Have Posttraumatic Stress Disorder:

    Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy;Richard A. Bryant

  • Road to resilience: a systematic review and meta-analysis of resilience training programmes and interventions.

    Sadhbh Joyce;Fiona Shand;Joseph Tighe;Steven J Laurent

  • Evidence for proposed ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD: a latent profile analysis

    Marylène Cloitre;Donn W. Garvert;Chris R. Brewin;Richard A. Bryant

  • Can work make you mentally ill? A systematic meta-review of work-related risk factors for common mental health problems

    Samuel B Harvey;Matthew Modini;Sadhbh Joyce;Josie S Milligan-Saville

  • Does Early Psychological Intervention Promote Recovery From Posttraumatic Stress

    Richard J. McNally;Richard A. Bryant;Anke Ehlers

  • Treatment of acute stress disorder: A comparison of cognitive-behavioral therapy and supportive counseling.

    Richard A. Bryant;Allison G. Harvey;Allison G. Harvey;Suzanne T. Dang;Tanya Sackville

  • Early intervention for trauma: Current status and future directions.

    Brett T. Litz;Matt J. Gray;Richard A. Bryant;Amy B. Adler

  • The relationship between acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder: a prospective evaluation of motor vehicle accident survivors

    Allison G. Harvey;Richard A. Bryant

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder following cancer. A conceptual and empirical review.

    Maria Kangas;Jane L. Henry;Richard A. Bryant

  • Proposals for mental disorders specifically associated with stress in the International Classification of Diseases-11

    Andreas Maercker;Chris R Brewin;Richard A Bryant;Marylene Cloitre

  • A Review of Current Evidence Regarding the ICD-11 Proposals for Diagnosing PTSD and Complex PTSD

    Chris R. Brewin;Marylène Cloitre;Philip Hyland;Mark Shevlin

  • International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

    Caroline M. Nievergelt;Caroline M. Nievergelt;Adam X. Maihofer;Adam X. Maihofer;Torsten Klengel;Torsten Klengel;Elizabeth G. Atkinson;Elizabeth G. Atkinson

  • Treating acute stress disorder: an evaluation of cognitive behavior therapy and supportive counseling techniques.

    Richard A. Bryant;Tanya Sackville;Suzanne T. Dang;Michelle Moulds

  • Posttraumatic stress disorder in children. The influence of developmental factors.

    Karen Salmon;Richard A Bryant

  • Interactions between BDNF Val66Met polymorphism and early life stress predict brain and arousal pathways to syndromal depression and anxiety

    J. M. Gatt;Charles Nemeroff;C. Dobson-Stone;C. Dobson-Stone;C. Dobson-Stone;R. H. Paul

Frequent Co-Authors

Kim L Felmingham
Kim L Felmingham University of Melbourne
Meaghan O'Donnell
Meaghan O'Donnell University of Melbourne
Angela Nickerson
Angela Nickerson University of New South Wales
David Forbes
David Forbes University of Melbourne
Mark Creamer
Mark Creamer University of Melbourne
Leanne M. Williams
Leanne M. Williams Stanford University
Belinda J. Liddell
Belinda J. Liddell University of New South Wales
Andrew H. Kemp
Andrew H. Kemp Swansea University
Ulrich Schnyder
Ulrich Schnyder University of Zurich
Evian Gordon
Evian Gordon University of Sydney

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