Dr Allison Waters - Griffith University

Site Degrees

BSS (Psychology), BA (Honours), PhD Clinical Psychology

Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology

Program Convenor, Clinical Psychology Postgraduate Programs

Research expertise

Dr Waters research interests focus on improving our understanding of the underlying processes and determinants of childhood anxiety disorders.
This includes a systematic research program on the cognitive, emotional and physiological processes that characterise anxious responding and how these processes develop in children
Dr Waters also has a strong research interest in factors that contribute to gender differences in the prevalence of anxiety disorders in children, as well as in the assessment and treatment of childhood anxiety disorders
She directs the "Take Action Program" which is a cognitive-behavioural treatment program for children with anxiety disorders which runs within the School of Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast campus

Dr Waters is the convenor of a third year undergraduate course about abnormal psychology. This course provides an overview of the major mental disorders, their assessment and treatment.
She also convenes an advanced postgraduate course on child and adolescent psychology and co-convenes an advanced postgraduate course on child and adult psychological assessment.

Waters, A. M., Mogg, K., Bradley, B. P., and Pine, D. S. (2008). Attentional bias for emotional faces in children with generalised anxiety disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 47(4), 435-442.
Waters, A. M., Neumann, D. L., Henry, J., Craske, M. G., and Ornitz, E. M. (2008). Baseline and affective startle modulation by emotional faces in 4-8 year old high and low anxious children. Biological Psychology. 78(1), 10-19.
Waters, A. M., Wharton, T. A., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., and Craske, M. G. (2008).Threat-based cognitive biases in anxious children: Comparison with non-anxious children before and after cognitive-behavioural treatment. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 46(3), 358-374.
Waters, A. M., and Lipp, O. V. (2008). The influence of animal fear on attentional capture by fear-relevant animal stimuli in children. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 46(1), 114-121.
Waters, A. M., Nitz, A. B., Craske, M. G., and Johnson, C. (2007). The effects of anxiety upon attention allocation to affective stimuli. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 45(4), 763-774.