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Sean Perrin

Sean Perrin

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Psychology

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Overview

Sean Perrin is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and conducts research primarily in the field of psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology. Their work spans several subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, general health professions, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology.

The main topics covered in their research include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, mental health research, posttraumatic stress disorder, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, child abuse and trauma, and health policy implementation science.

Sean Perrin's recent publications reflect this breadth of research interests. Notable papers published include:

  • "Predictors and mediators of outcome in cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic pain: the contributions of psychological flexibility" (2020, Journal of Behavioral Medicine)
  • "A Network Analysis of Clinical Variables in Chronic Pain: A Study from the Swedish Quality Registry for Pain Rehabilitation (SQRP)" (2021, Pain Medicine)
  • "Involvement of fear, incompleteness, and disgust during symptoms of pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder" (2020, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
  • "Confirmatory factor analysis of the Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS) in a large and representative Swedish sample: is the use of the total scale and subscale scores justified?" (2020, BMC Medical Research Methodology)
  • "Incompleteness and Disgust Predict Treatment Outcome in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" (2020, Behavior Therapy)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sean Perrin include Lance M. McCracken, Peik Gustafsson, Sophia Åkerblom, Matti Cervin, and Marcelo Rivano Fischer.

Their research has been published mostly in a core group of academic venues, including:

  • Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology
  • Scandinavian Journal of Pain
  • Psychotherapy Research
  • European Journal of Pain
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Best Publications

  • Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents with autistic spectrum disorders: a meta-analysis

    Francisca J. A. van Steensel;Susan M. Bögels;Sean Perrin

  • Symptoms following mild head injury: expectation as aetiology.

    Wiley Mittenberg;Diane DiGiulio;Sean Perrin;Anthony Bass

  • The Children’s Revised Impact of Event Scale (CRIES): Validity as a screening instrument for PTSD.

    Sean Perrin;Richard Meiser-Stedman;Patrick Smith

  • DSM-III-R anxiety disorders in children: Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics

    Sean Perrin;Michel Hersen;Alan E. Kazdin

  • A Prospective Study of Childhood Anxiety Disorders

    Sean Perrin;Michel Hersen;Alan E. Kazdin

  • Stress, coping, and well-being among third-year medical students.

    Thomas H. Mosley;Sean G. Perrin;Susan M. Neral;Patricia M. Dubbert

  • Anxiety disorders in children and their families.

    Michel Hersen;Alan Kazdin;Helen Orvaschel

  • A twin study of anxiety-related behaviours in pre-school children

    Thalia C. Eley;Derek Bolton;Thomas G. O'Connor;Sean Perrin

  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy for PTSD in children and adolescents: a preliminary randomized controlled trial.

    Patrick Smith;William Yule;Sean Perrin;Troy Tranah

  • Practitioner Review: The Assessment and Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents

    Sean Perrin;Patrick Smith;William Yule

  • Principal components analysis of the impact of event scale with children in war

    Patrick Smith;Sean Perrin;Atle Dyregrov;William Yule

  • Clonality in myeloproliferative disorders: analysis by means of the polymerase chain reaction.

    D G Gilliland;K L Blanchard;J Levy;S Perrin

  • War Exposure and Maternal Reactions in the Psychological Adjustment of Children from Bosnia-Hercegovina

    Patrick Smith;Sean Perrin;William Yule;Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

  • War exposure among children from Bosnia-Hercegovina: psychological adjustment in a community sample.

    Patrick Smith;Sean Perrin;William Yule;Berima Hacam

  • Do childhood anxiety measures measure anxiety

    Sean Perrin

  • Post-traumatic stress disorders in children and adolescents

    William Yule;Sean Perrin;Patrick Smith

  • Battered women's cognitive schemata

    Mary Ann Dutton;Kimberly J. Burghardt;Sean G. Perrin;Kelly R. Chrestman

  • Social desirability and self-reported Anxiety in children : An analysis of the RCMAS lie Scale

    Mark R. Dadds;Sean Perrin;William Yule

  • Anxiety disorders in African-American and white children

    Sean Perrin

  • The mediating role of acceptance in multidisciplinary cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic pain

    Sophia Åkerblom;Sean Perrin;Sean Perrin;Marcelo Rivano Fischer;Lance M. McCracken

  • The Child PTSD Symptom Scale: an update and replication of its psychometric properties.

    Reginald D. V. Nixon;Richard Meiser-Stedman;Tim Dalgleish;William Yule

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Smith
Patrick Smith University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
William Yule
William Yule King's College London
Lance M. McCracken
Lance M. McCracken Uppsala University
Mary Ann Dutton
Mary Ann Dutton Georgetown University Medical Center
Michel Hersen
Michel Hersen Pacific University Oregon
David M. Clark
David M. Clark University of Oxford
Thomas G. O'Connor
Thomas G. O'Connor University of Rochester
Thalia C. Eley
Thalia C. Eley King's College London
Vincent B. Van Hasselt
Vincent B. Van Hasselt Nova Southeastern University
Tim Dalgleish
Tim Dalgleish University of Cambridge

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