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| Allison M WatersSummaryAffiliation: Griffith University Country: Australia Publications
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The relationships of child and parent factors with children's anxiety symptoms: parental anxious rearing as a mediatorAllison M Waters
School of Applied Psychology and Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Mt Gravatt, Queensland, Australia
J Anxiety Disord 26:737-45. 2012..Results are discussed in terms of relevant theory and empirical evidence regarding the roles of both child and parent factors in the development of child anxiety...- Functional gastrointestinal symptoms in children with anxiety disordersAllison M Waters
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Mt Gravatt Campus, Brisbane, QLD, 4122, Australia
J Abnorm Child Psychol 41:151-63. 2013.... - Direction of threat attention bias predicts treatment outcome in anxious children receiving cognitive-behavioural therapyAllison M Waters
School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Australia
Behav Res Ther 50:428-34. 2012..However, there have been inconsistent findings regarding whether attention bias towards threat predicts better or poorer treatment outcome... - Attentional bias for emotional faces in children with generalized anxiety disorderAllison M Waters
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:435-42. 2008..To examine attentional bias for angry and happy faces in 7- to 12-year-old children with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD; n = 23) and nonanxious controls (n = 25)... - Developmental changes in startle reactivity in school-age children at risk for and with actual anxiety disorderAllison M Waters
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
Int J Psychophysiol 70:158-64. 2008..These findings may suggest an underlying vulnerability that becomes manifest with development in offspring of anxious parents as the risk for anxiety disorders increases... - Attentional bias for emotional faces in paediatric anxiety disorders: an investigation using the emotional Go/No Go taskAllison M Waters
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast QLD, Australia
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 40:306-16. 2009..The present study examined contextual modulation of attentional control processes in paediatric anxiety disorders... - Aversive Pavlovian conditioning in childhood anxiety disorders: impaired response inhibition and resistance to extinctionAllison M Waters
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Queensland 4222, Australia
J Abnorm Psychol 118:311-21. 2009..the CS- relative to control children. Results suggest that deficits in response inhibition to safety cues and retarded extinction may underlie learning processes involved in the pathogenesis of childhood anxiety disorders... - Cognitive-behavioural therapy for young children with anxiety disorders: Comparison of a Child + Parent condition versus a Parent Only conditionAllison M Waters
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Queensland, Gold Coast Campus, Qld 4222, Australia
Behav Res Ther 47:654-62. 2009.... - Attentional bias towards angry faces in childhood anxiety disordersAllison M Waters
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 41:158-64. 2010..To examine attentional bias towards angry and happy faces in 8-12 year old children with anxiety disorders (n=29) and non-anxious controls (n=24)... - Threat-based cognitive biases in anxious children: comparison with non-anxious children before and after cognitive behavioural treatmentAllison M Waters
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast Australia, Queensland 9726, Australia
Behav Res Ther 46:358-74. 2008..Moreover, a residual threat interpretation style on the stories task at post-treatment was associated with higher anxiety symptoms in both ANX and NA children... - Baseline and affective startle modulation by angry and neutral faces in 4-8-year-old anxious and non-anxious childrenAllison M Waters
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Qld 4222, Australia
Biol Psychol 78:10-9. 2008..Results may reflect elevated reactivity to threat contexts in 4-8-year-old high anxious versus non-anxious children... 
The influence of animal fear on attentional capture by fear-relevant animal stimuli in childrenAllison M Waters
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
Behav Res Ther 46:114-21. 2008....- The effects of anxiety upon attention allocation to affective stimuliAllison M Waters
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre, Queensland 9726, Australia
Behav Res Ther 45:763-74. 2007..The results suggest that biased attention processes for aversive stimuli may contribute to the greater female propensity for anxiety disorders... - The effects of affective picture stimuli on blink modulation in adults and childrenAllison M Waters
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Biol Psychol 68:257-81. 2005..However, the extent of blink modulation was larger overall at this very short lead interval in anxious children. Children did not differ at other lead intervals... - Attentional bias toward fear-related stimuli: an investigation with nonselected children and adults and children with anxiety disordersAllison M Waters
School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD 9726, Australia
J Exp Child Psychol 89:320-37. 2004..However, compared with nonselected children, anxious children showed a stronger attentional bias overall toward affective picture stimuli... - Threat interpretation bias as a vulnerability factor in childhood anxiety disordersAllison M Waters
School of Psychology, Griffith University Gold Coast Campus, PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre, Queensland, Australia
Behav Res Ther 46:39-47. 2008..These results suggest that threat interpretation bias may be a cognitive factor associated with ongoing childhood anxiety but not a vulnerability factor associated with parental anxiety... - The use of an unpleasant sound unconditional stimulus in an aversive conditioning procedure with 8- to 11-year-old childrenDavid L Neumann
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
Biol Psychol 79:337-42. 2008..The methods have the potential to facilitate the ethical conduct of aversive conditioning research in children using psychophysiological, affective, and self-report expectancy measures... - A social relations analysis of liking for and by peers: associations with gender, depression, peer perception, and worryMelanie J Zimmer-Gembeck
Griffith University, School of Psychology, Australia
J Adolesc 33:69-81. 2010..SRM results were compared to results using more typical methods, and recommendations were made for using same-gender vs. cross-gender ratings and summary affective preference scores... - The development of an attentional bias for angry faces following Pavlovian fear conditioningLeah K Pischek-Simpson
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Southport QLD, Australia
Behav Res Ther 47:322-30. 2009..The findings confirm the interplay between learning-based mechanisms and cognitive processes, such as attentional biases, in models of fear acquisition and have implications for treatment of the anxiety disorders... - The use of an unpleasant sound as the unconditional stimulus in aversive Pavlovian conditioning experiments that involve children and adolescent participantsDavid L Neumann
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Behav Res Methods 40:622-5. 2008..The results support the use of an unpleasant sound as a low-risk alternative to traditional USs in aversive Pavlovian conditioning experiments with children and adolescents... - The use of an unpleasant sound as an unconditional stimulus in a human aversive Pavlovian conditioning procedureDavid L Neumann
Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Research Centre, School of Psychology, Griffith University Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Biol Psychol 73:175-85. 2006..The results support the use of an unpleasant sound as a US in human Pavlovian conditioning experiments... - Cognitive biases and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in children: examining the role of maternal cognitive bias and child ageLara J Farrell
Griffith Health Institute, School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Brisbane, Queensland 4222, Australia
Behav Ther 43:593-605. 2012..Treatments for pediatric OCD are likely to be improved by age-specific considerations for the role of maternal and child cognitive biases associated with OCD... - When the orbicularis oculi response to a startling stimulus is zero, the vertical EOG may reveal that a blink has occurredAllison M Waters
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia
Clin Neurophysiol 116:2110-20. 2005..This requires re-evaluation of the construct of startle response probability... - Depression as a longitudinal outcome and antecedent of preadolescents' peer relationships and peer-relevant cognitionMelanie J Zimmer-Gembeck
School of Psychology, Griffith University Gold Coast Campus, Private Mail Bag 50 GCMC, Southport, Queensland 9726, Australia
Dev Psychopathol 21:555-77. 2009..There were no age differences, some gender differences, and no support for cognition as a moderator of the association between depression and peer likeability... - The use of virtual reality in acrophobia research and treatmentCarlos M Coelho
School of Human Movement Studies, University of Queensland, Level 5, Building 26, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
J Anxiety Disord 23:563-74. 2009.... - When danger lurks in the background: attentional capture by animal fear-relevant distractors is specific and selectively enhanced by animal fearOttmar V Lipp
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
Emotion 7:192-200. 2007..g., a spider for snake-fearful participants). These results indicate preferential attentional capture that is specific to phylogenetically fear-relevant stimuli and is selectively enhanced in individuals who fear these animals... - Relapse of successfully treated anxiety and fear: theoretical issues and recommendations for clinical practiceMark J Boschen
School of Psychology and Griffith Institute of Health and Medical Research, Griffith University, Southport, Southport, QLD, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 43:89-100. 2009..Clinicians engaging in treatment of anxiety disorders should be mindful of these methods to ensure optimal patient outcome... - Snakes and cats in the flower bed: fast detection is not specific to pictures of fear-relevant animalsOttmar V Lipp
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia
Emotion 4:233-50. 2004..These findings suggest that results from the present visual search task cannot support the notion of preferential processing of fear relevance... - Panic disorder, phobias, and generalized anxiety disorderMichelle G Craske
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Annu Rev Clin Psychol 1:197-225. 2005....