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Learning to 'talk the talk: the relationship of psychopathic traits to deficits in empathy across childhoodMark R Dadds
School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 50:599-606. 2009..Despite a rapidly advancing neuroscience of empathy, little is known about the developmental underpinnings of this psychopathic disconnect between affective and cognitive empathy...- Attributions, affect, and behavior in abuse-risk mothers: a laboratory studyMark R Dadds
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
Child Abuse Negl 27:21-45. 2003..Evidence was found for the validity of using videotaped stimuli of the behavior of known and unknown children as a method of assessing parental attributions... - Oxytocin increases gaze to the eye region of human facesAdam J Guastella
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney, Australia
Biol Psychiatry 63:3-5. 2008..In humans, oxytocin has been found to enhance trust and the ability to interpret the emotions of others. It has been suggested that oxytocin may enhance facial processing by increasing focus on the eye region of human faces... 
A randomized controlled trial of intranasal oxytocin as an adjunct to exposure therapy for social anxiety disorderAdam J Guastella
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Psychoneuroendocrinology 34:917-23. 2009....- Impaired attention to the eyes of attachment figures and the developmental origins of psychopathyMark R Dadds
The University of New South Wales, Australia Kings College London, Institute of Psychiatry, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 52:238-45. 2011..the eyes) of attachment figures. The current study tested whether impaired eye contact is a characteristic of children with antisocial behaviour and callous-unemotional (CU) traits in real life settings... - Outcomes, moderators, and mediators of empathic-emotion recognition training for complex conduct problems in childhoodMark Richard Dadds
School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Electronic address
Psychiatry Res 199:201-7. 2012..Emotion recognition training has potential as an adjunctive intervention specifically for clinically referred children with high CU traits, regardless of their diagnostic status... - Love, eye contact and the developmental origins of empathy v. psychopathyMark R Dadds
King s College London, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Br J Psychiatry 200:191-6. 2012..A propensity to attend to other people's emotions is a necessary condition for human empathy... - Disentangling the underlying dimensions of psychopathy and conduct problems in childhood: a community studyMark R Dadds
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Consult Clin Psychol 73:400-10. 2005..These results indicate that although the dimensions of the APSD overlap with dimensions of the disruptive behavior disorders, CU traits have unique predictive validity in childhood... 
Aggression in young children with concurrent callous-unemotional traits: can the neurosciences inform progress and innovation in treatment approaches?Mark R Dadds
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 363:2567-76. 2008..The use of D-cycloserine in fear extinction and oxytocin in affiliative bonds is used as an example of these futuristic approaches...- Reduced eye gaze explains "fear blindness" in childhood psychopathic traitsMark R Dadds
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47:455-63. 2008..This study tested whether psychopathic traits are associated with reduced attention to the eye region of other people's faces... - A measure of cognitive and affective empathy in children using parent ratingsMark R Dadds
Department of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Kensington Campus, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 39:111-22. 2008..Consistent with theoretical accounts of empathy, it was found to include affective and cognitive components that showed divergent associations with other aspects of child functioning... - Attention to the eyes and fear-recognition deficits in child psychopathyMark R Dadds
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 189:280-1. 2006..These data support models of psychopathy that emphasise specific dysfunction of the amygdala and suggest an innovative approach for intervening early in the development of psychopathy... - Fire interest, fire setting and psychopathology in Australian children: a normative studyMark R Dadds
School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 40:581-6. 2006..Little information is available about fire setting in normal populations and thus opportunities for screening and early intervention are not well developed... - Measurement of cruelty in children: the Cruelty to Animals InventoryMark R Dadds
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2052
J Abnorm Child Psychol 32:321-34. 2004..The results indicate that cruelty to animals can be reliably measured using brief child and parent report measures... - Punishment insensitivity and parenting: temperament and learning as interacting risks for antisocial behaviorMark R Dadds
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 6:69-86. 2003..Implications for parenting of children with low responsiveness to punishment strategies are discussed... - Individual differences in imagery and reports of aversionsMark R Dadds
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Memory 12:462-6. 2004..The results are unable to disentangle causal paths but suggest a focus on individual differences in imagery vividness may be fruitful for understanding individual differences in aversion learning... - Examining alternative explanations of the covariation of ADHD and anxiety symptoms in children: a community studyJennifer S Baldwin
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:67-79. 2008..ADHD symptoms (particularly inattention) and anxiety symptoms are covarying phenomena that are linked with an irritable temperament and disruptive behavior... - Emotional communication in families of conduct problem children with high versus low callous-unemotional traitsDave S Pasalich
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Australia
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 41:302-13. 2012..We discuss the implications of these findings for the conceptualization of CU traits in preadolescent children, and interventions for conduct problems in children elevated on these traits... - Adolescents' ability to read different emotional faces relates to their history of maltreatment and type of psychopathologyTatyana Leist
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Australia
Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry 14:237-50. 2009..Maltreatment was predictive of superior recognition of fear and sadness. The findings are considered in terms of social information-processing theories of psychopathology. Implications for clinical interventions are discussed... - A randomized controlled trial of D-cycloserine enhancement of exposure therapy for social anxiety disorderAdam J Guastella
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Biol Psychiatry 63:544-9. 2008..The aim of this study was to determine whether 50 mg of DCS enhances ET for social anxiety disorder (SAD) according to a comprehensive set of symptom and life impairment measures... - Attachment and callous-unemotional traits in children with early-onset conduct problemsDave S Pasalich
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 53:838-45. 2012..This study examined parent-child attachment relationships and levels of CU traits in conduct-problem children... - Practitioner review: When parent training doesn't work: theory-driven clinical strategiesStephen Scott
King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, England
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 50:1441-50. 2009..We summarise each of these models and present practical examples of when and how they may help the clinician plan treatment... - Does oxytocin influence the early detection of angry and happy faces?Adam J Guastella
Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2050, Australia
Psychoneuroendocrinology 34:220-5. 2009..Oxytocin may have greater influence in altering the cognitive processing of social valence at more conceptual and elaborate levels of processing... - Cortisol, callous-unemotional traits, and pathways to antisocial behaviorDavid J Hawes
University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Curr Opin Psychiatry 22:357-62. 2009..We examine evidence that the role of the HPA axis in the development of antisocial behavior may differ across subgroups of children... - Can emotional language skills be taught during parent training for conduct problem children?Karen Salmon
University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 40:485-98. 2009.... - Do callous-unemotional traits moderate the relative importance of parental coercion versus warmth in child conduct problems? An observational studyDave S Pasalich
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Australia
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 52:1308-15. 2011..We aimed to extend and improve on prior studies examining the moderating role of CU traits on associations between parenting and conduct problems, by using independent observations of two key dimensions of parenting: coercion and warmth... - Is there a mutual relationship between opposite attentional biases underlying anxiety?Renzo Onnis
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Emotion 11:582-94. 2011..Within this relationship, hypervigilance and avoidance to threat operate at different stages of information processing suggesting fuzzy boundaries between early reactive and later-strategic processing of threat... - Associations among cruelty to animals, family conflict, and psychopathic traits in childhoodMark R Dadds
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Interpers Violence 21:411-29. 2006.... - Do childhood callous-unemotional traits drive change in parenting practices?David J Hawes
School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 40:507-18. 2011..Results partially replicate previous findings regarding the association between quality of parenting and prospective change in CU traits, and provide initial evidence that CU traits disrupt parenting practices over time... - Assessing relational schemas in parents of children with externalizing behavior disorders: reliability and validity of the Family Affective Attitude Rating ScaleDave S Pasalich
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Psychiatry Res 185:438-43. 2011..This brief measure of parent-child dynamics appears well-suited to 'real-world' (i.e., community) clinical settings in which intensive methods of observation are often not feasible... - Cognitive-behavioural emotion writing tasks: a controlled trial of multiple processesAdam J Guastella
University of New South Wales, School of Psychology, Sydney 2052 NSW, Australia
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 39:558-66. 2008..Results suggest the use of these paradigms to study emotion-processing mechanisms and, potentially, in practice to enhance coping in process-specific ways... - A randomized controlled trial of the effect of D-cycloserine on extinction and fear conditioning in humansAdam J Guastella
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Behav Res Ther 45:663-72. 2007..Further experimental research is needed to better understand the mechanisms underlying the therapeutic effects of DCS... - Stability and malleability of callous-unemotional traits during treatment for childhood conduct problemsDavid J Hawes
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Australia
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 36:347-55. 2007..Post hoc analyses of cases grouped according to pattern of CU stability indicated that boys with the most stable high CU traits showed the poorest outcomes at follow-up... - Parental anxiety in the treatment of childhood anxiety: a different story three years laterVanessa E Cobham
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4067, Australia
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 39:410-20. 2010.... - The treatment of conduct problems in children with callous-unemotional traitsDavid J Hawes
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Consult Clin Psychol 73:737-41. 2005..These findings present important implications for the role of child temperament in intervention for conduct problems... - Reliability and validity of parent and child versions of the multidimensional anxiety scale for children in community samplesJennifer S Baldwin
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:252-60. 2007..To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC), which measures physical symptoms, harm avoidance, social anxiety, and separation/panic... - Australian data and psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties QuestionnaireDavid J Hawes
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 38:644-51. 2004..Being the first study to empirically support the use of the SDQ in Australia, it is recommended that the youth and teacher-report forms of the measure receive similar attention in the future... - A randomized controlled trial of the effect of D-cycloserine on exposure therapy for spider fearAdam J Guastella
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
J Psychiatr Res 41:466-71. 2007..DCS did not enhance the reduction of spider fears or the generalisation of treatment of a single session of exposure-based therapy. These results suggest that DCS may not enhance loss of non-clinical levels of fear in human populations... - Effects of oxytocin on human social approach measured using intimacy equilibriumsJean C J Liu
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Electronic address
Horm Behav 62:585-91. 2012..Based on this notion, our results suggest that oxytocin does not facilitate social approach by increasing the intimacy equilibrium between two strangers... - A review of safety, side-effects and subjective reactions to intranasal oxytocin in human researchElayne Macdonald
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Psychoneuroendocrinology 36:1114-26. 2011..Human research investigating the impact of intranasal oxytocin on psychological processes has accelerated over the last two decades. No review of side effects, subjective reactions and safety is available... - Language for emotions in adolescents with externalizing and internalizing disordersRichard O'Kearney
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Dev Psychopathol 17:529-48. 2005.... - School connectedness is an underemphasized parameter in adolescent mental health: results of a community prediction studyIan M Shochet
Queensland University of Technology, School of Psychology and Counseling, Carseldine, Queensland, Australia
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 35:170-9. 2006..Results suggest a stronger than previously reported association with school connectedness and adolescent depressive symptoms in particular and a predictive link from school connectedness to future mental health problems... - Facilitating treatment attendance in child and adolescent mental health services: a community studyBruce D Watt
Queensland Health Department, Australia
Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry 12:105-16. 2007..The results are discussed in relation to the importance of training and supervision of professionals working with families in mental health services targeting a range of strategies to enhance treatment participation...