Selected publications

  • Waters, A. M., Groth, T. A., Purkis, H., & Alston-Knox, C. (2018). Predicting outcomes for anxious children receiving cognitive-behavioural therapy: Does type of diagnosis make a difference? Clinical Psychologist.
  • Dowell, T., Martin, P. R., Waters, A. M. (2018). Migraine and Headache. In J. R. Matson (Ed.). Handbook of Childhood Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities: Treatment.Springer. 321-340.
  • Waters, A. M., Cao, Y., Kershaw, R., Kerbler, G. M., Shum, D. H. K., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Craske, M. G., Bradley, B. P., Mogg, K., Pine, D. S., & Cunnington, R. (2018). Changes in neural activation underlying attention processing of emotional stimuli following treatment with positive search training in anxious children. Journal of Anxiety Disorders55, 22-30.
  • Waters, A. M., Kershaw, R., & Lipp, O. V. (2018). Multiple fear-related stimuli enhance arousal during extinction and reduce arousal to novel stimuli and the threat-conditioned stimulus. Behaviour Research and Therapy106, 28-36.
  • Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Webb, H. J., Farrell, L. J. & Waters, A. M. (2018). Girls' and boys' trajectories of appearance anxiety from age 10 to 15 years are associated with earlier maturation and appearance-related teasing. Development & Psychopathology. 30,337-350.
  • O’Malley, K. R. & Waters, A. M. (2018). Attention avoidance of the threat conditioned stimulus during extinction increases physiological arousal generalisation and retention. Behaviour Research and Therapy104, 51-61.
  • Dowell, T., Donovan, C. L., Farrell, L. J., & Waters, A. M. (2018). Child and adolescent anxiety paper. Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry. 5, 98–112.
  • Waters, A. M., Candy, E. M., & Candy, S. G. (2018). Attention bias to threat in mothers with emotional disorders predicts increased offspring anxiety symptoms: A joint cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis. Cognition & Emotion.32, 892-903.
  • Mogg, K.,Waters, A. M., & Bradley, B. P. (2017). Attention bias modification (ABM): Review of effects of multisession ABM training on anxiety and threat-related attention in high-anxious individuals. Clinical Psychological Science.5, 698-717.
  • Platt, B., Waters, A. M., Schulte-Koerne, G., Engelmann, L., & Salemink, E. (2017). A review of cognitive biases in youth depression: Attention, interpretation and memory. Cognition & Emotion. 31(3),462-483.
  • Waters, A. M., Theresiana, C., Neumann, D. L., & Craske, M. G. (2017). Developmental differences in Pavlovian fear acquisition, extinction and reinstatement: A study with children, adolescents and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology159, 263-278.
  • Oar, E., Farrell, L. J. Waters, A. M. Conlon, E. Ollendick, T. H. (2017). Patterns of response and remission following a One Session Treatment for Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia in Youth. Child and Family Behaviour Therapy. 39, 43-63.
  • Waters, A. M. (2017). Magnitude of conditioned responding to threat and safety cues as predictors of anxiety symptoms in high risk offspring: A twelve-month follow-up.Journal of Experimental Psychopathology. 8, 110-125.
  • Waters, A. M., & Le Beau, R. & Craske, M. G. (2017). Experimental Psychopathology and Clinical Psychology: An Integrative Model to Guide Clinical Science and Practice. Psychopathology Review. 4(2), 112-128.
  • Lau, J. Y. F. & Waters, A. M. (2017). Annual Research Review: An expanded account of information-processing mechanisms in risk for child and adolescent anxiety and depression. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.58, 387-407.
  • Howley, J. & Waters, A. M. (2017). Overt verbalisation of strategies to attend to and retain learning about the threat conditioned stimulus reduces US expectancy generalization during extinction. Learning and Motivation.59,19-26.
  • Waters, A. M. & Craske, M. G. (2016). Towards a cognitive-learning formulation of anxiety disorders in youth: A narrative review of theory and evidence and implications for treatment. Clinical Psychology Review. 50, 50-66.
  • Waters, A. M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Craske, M. G., Pine, D. S., Bradley, B. P., & Mogg, K. (2016).A preliminary evaluation of a home-based, computer-delivered attention training treatment for anxious children living in regional communities. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology. 7, 511-527.
  • Waters, A. M., & Pine, D. S. (2016). Evaluating differences in Pavlovian fear conditioning and extinction as predictors of outcome from cognitive-behavioural therapy for anxious children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 57, 869-876.
  • Farrell, L. J., Lavell, C., Waters, A. M., & Oar. (2016). Predictors of Treatment Response to Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Psychiatry Research.245,186-193.
  • Farrell, L. J., Oar, E., Waters, A. M., McConnell, H., Tiralongo, E., Garbharran, V., & Ollendick, T. H. (2016). A Multiple Baseline Trial of Novel Intensive Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Pediatric OCD: Two-sessions of exposure therapy combined with e-therapy maintenance. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 42, 85-94.
  • Fielding, J., Young, S., Martin, P. R., & Waters, A. M. (2016). Incidence of headache symptoms consistent with migraine and tension-type headaches in children with anxiety disorders.  Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 40, 67-74.
  • Waters, A. M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Craske, M. G., Pine, D. S., Bradley, B. P., & Mogg, K. (2015). Look for good and never give up: A novel attention training treatment for childhood anxiety disorders. Behaviour Research & Therapy. 73, 111-123.
  • Waters, A. M., Groth, T. A., Sanders, M., & O’Brien, R, & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2015). Developing partnerships in the provision of youth mental health service delivery and clinical education: A school-based cognitive behavioural intervention targeting anxiety symptoms in children. Behaviour Therapy. 46, 844-855.
  • Waters, A. M., Forrest, K., Peters, R-M., Bradley, B. P., & Mogg, K. (2015).  Attention bias to emotional information in children as a function of maternal emotional disorders and maternal attention biases. Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 46, 158-163.
  • Waters, A. M., & Kershaw, R. (2015). Direction of threat attention bias is related to fear acquisition and extinction in anxious children. Behaviour Research & Therapy. 64, 56-65.
  • Bell, C., Waters, A. M., & Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J. (2015). The impact of mothers’ trait anxiety on their expectations of approach-avoidance behaviour in anxious and non-anxious children. Australian Journal of Psychology. 67, 55-64.
  • Waters, A. M., Potter, A., Jamesion, L., Bradley, B. P., & Mogg, K. (2015). Predictors of treatment outcome in anxious children receiving group-based cognitive behavioural therapy: Pre-treatment attention bias for threat and emotional variability during exposure tasks. Behaviour Change. 32, 143-158.
  • Waters, A. M., Farrell, L. J., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Milliner, E., Tiralongo, E., Donovan, C. L., McConnell, H., Bradley, B. P., Mogg, K., & Ollendick, T. H. (2014). Augmenting one session treatment of children’s specific phobias with attention training towards positive stimuli. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 62, 107-119.
  • Peters, R-M., & Waters, A.M. (2014).  Intensive treatments for generalized anxiety disorder in children and adolescents.  Psychopathology Review.  1, 209-214.
  • Wolitzky-Taylor, K., Dour, H., Zinbarg, R., Mineka, S., Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Epstein, A., Bobova, L., Griffith, J., Waters, A.M., Nazarian, M., Rose, R., & Craske, M.G. (2014).  Experiencing core symptoms of anxiety and unipolar mood disorders in late adolescence predicts disorder onset in early adulthood. Depression and Anxiety. 31 , 207-213.
  • Waters, A.M., Nazarian, M., Mineka., Zinbarg, R., Griffiths, J. W., Naliboff, B., Ornitz, E.M., & Craske, M.G. (2014). Preliminary evidence of differences in startle modulation as a function of principal fear versus distress disorders in adolescents. Psychiatry Research. 217 , 93-99.
  • Wolitzky-Taylor, K., Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Waters, A.M., Mineka, S., Zinbarg, R., Ornitz, E. M., Naliboff, B., Craske, M.G. (2014). Adversity in early and mid-adolescence is associated with elevated startle responses to safety cues in late adolescence. Clinical Psychological Science, 2 (2) , 202-213.
  • Waters, A.M., & Farrell, L. J. (2014). Response inhibition to emotional faces in childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder.  Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders. 3, 65-70.

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