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Sharon Dawe is a researcher affiliated with Griffith University in Australia, with a focus on psychology and medicine. Their work primarily concentrates on clinical psychology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, and epidemiology. The research topics covered include homelessness and social issues, child abuse and trauma, prenatal substance exposure effects, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, birth, development, and health, and substance abuse treatment and outcomes.

Dawe has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications. Recent papers include:

  • An investigation of the link between prenatal alcohol exposure and sleep problems across childhood (2020), published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Moderators and mediators of outcomes of parents with substance use problems: further evaluation of the Parents under Pressure programme (2021), published in Addiction
  • Direction of the relationship between methamphetamine use and positive psychotic symptoms in regular methamphetamine users: evidence from a prospective cohort study (2020), published in The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Understanding the impacts of childhood adversity on sleep problems in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A comparison of cumulative and dimensional approaches (2023), published in Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research
  • PROTOCOL: Psychosocial, pharmacological and legal interventions for improving the psychosocial outcomes of children with substance misusing parents (2020), published in Campbell Systematic Reviews

Frequent coauthors in Dawe's research include Ned Chandler-Mather, Elizabeth Eggins, Paul Harnett, Doug Shelton, and Joseph Betts.

Dawe's work is frequently published in venues such as Campbell Systematic Reviews, Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research, Mindfulness, Drugs Education Prevention and Policy, and Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Best Publications

  • The role of impulsivity in the development of substance use and eating disorders

    Sharon Dawe;Natalie June Loxton

  • Reward drive and rash impulsiveness as dimensions of impulsivity: implications for substance misuse.

    Sharon Dawe;Matthew John Gullo;Natalie June Loxton

  • Alcohol abuse and dysfunctional eating in adolescent girls: The influence of individual differences in sensitivity to reward and punishment

    Natalie June Loxton;Sharon Dawe

  • The relationship between sociocultural pressure to be thin and body dissatisfaction in preadolescent girls

    Lucy C Blowers;Natalie J Loxton;Megan Grady-Flesser;Stefano Occhipinti

  • The contribution of mindfulness‐based therapies for children and families and proposed conceptual integration

    Paul H. Harnett;Sharon Dawe

  • Impulsivity and adolescent substance use: rashly dismissed as "all-bad"?

    Matthew John Gullo;Sharon Dawe

  • Dose-related psychotic symptoms in chronic methamphetamine users: evidence from a prospective longitudinal study.

    Rebecca McKetin;Dan I. Lubman;Amanda L. Baker;Sharon Dawe

  • Reducing potential for child abuse among methadone-maintained parents: results from a randomized controlled trial

    Sharon Dawe;Paul Harnett

  • Psychotic symptom and cannabis relapse in recent-onset psychosis : Prospective study

    Leanne Hides;Sharon Dawe;David Kavanagh;Ross Young

  • Does methamphetamine use increase violent behaviour? Evidence from a prospective longitudinal study

    Rebecca McKetin;Dan I. Lubman;Jake M. Najman;Sharon Dawe

  • Review of diagnostic screening instruments for alcohol and other drug use and other psychiatric disorders

    Sharon Dawe;Natalie J. Loxton;Leanne Hides;David J. Kavanagh

  • Does the tendency to act impulsively underlie binge eating and alcohol use problems? An empirical investigation

    Tamsin A. Kane;Natalie June Loxton;Petra K. Staiger;Sharon Dawe

  • Impulsivity: Four ways five factors are not basic to addiction

    Matthew J. Gullo;Natalie J. Loxton;Natalie J. Loxton;Sharon Dawe;Sharon Dawe

  • Evaluating the impact of community-based treatment options on methamphetamine use: findings from the Methamphetamine Treatment Evaluation Study (MATES).

    Rebecca McKetin;Jake M. Najman;Amanda L. Baker;Dan I. Lubman

  • Systematic Review of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Interventions Across the Life Span.

    Natasha Reid;Sharon Dawe;Sharon Dawe;Douglas Shelton;Paul Harnett

  • Drug use in the family: Impacts and implications for children

    Sharon Dawe;Sally Anne Frye;David Best;Derran Moss

  • Does post‐withdrawal cue exposure improve outcome in opiate addiction? A controlled trial

    Sharon Dawe;Jane Powell;David Richards;Michael Gossop

  • Alcohol expectancies and drinking refusal self-efficacy mediate the association of impulsivity with alcohol misuse.

    Matthew John Gullo;Sharon Dawe;Nicolas Kambouropoulos;Petra K. Staiger

  • Nicotine intake in smokers increases following a single dose of haloperidol

    S. Dawe;C. Gerada;M. A. H. Russell;J. A. Gray

  • Effects of nicotine and amphetamine on latent inhibition in human subjects.

    J. C. Thornton;S. Dawe;C. Lee;C. Capstick

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca McKetin
Rebecca McKetin University of New South Wales
Leanne Hides
Leanne Hides University of Queensland
Natalie J. Loxton
Natalie J. Loxton Griffith University
Ross McD. Young
Ross McD. Young University of the Sunshine Coast
Matthew J. Gullo
Matthew J. Gullo Griffith University
Dan I. Lubman
Dan I. Lubman Monash University
Amanda L. Baker
Amanda L. Baker University of Newcastle Australia
Jane Barlow
Jane Barlow University of Oxford
Chris J. Jackson
Chris J. Jackson University of New South Wales
Jeffrey A. Gray
Jeffrey A. Gray King's College London

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