Publications by authors named "Shaminka N Mangelsdorf"

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  • * A new online social therapy platform has been developed to support young people with MDD through peer networking, therapeutic content, and various human supports, aiming to prevent relapses alongside traditional treatments.
  • * This study will conduct a randomised controlled trial with 255 participants aged 14-27, tracking outcomes like depressive relapse and psychological symptoms over 18 months to assess the effectiveness of the new intervention compared to enhanced usual care.
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Background: Evidence-based parenting programs delivered using online technology are an important way to enhance program uptake. To date, programs that address emotion socialization processes, such as , have always been delivered in person, via group or one-to-one delivery. This study used a randomized control design to examine the efficacy of the self-paced .

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Ambient audio sampling methods such as the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) have become increasingly prominent in clinical and social sciences research. These methods record snippets of naturalistically assessed audio from participants' daily lives, enabling novel observational research about the daily social interactions, identities, environments, behaviors, and speech of populations of interest. In practice, these scientific opportunities are equaled by methodological challenges: researchers' own cultural backgrounds and identities can easily and unknowingly permeate the collection, coding, analysis, and interpretation of social data from daily life.

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While children's voice is core to paediatric care, their assessment of future psychological needs is underexplored. We conducted a prospective observational study among children hospitalised for injury in Melbourne, Australia. Their expectations of psychological recovery at baseline (in hospital) were significant and substantial predictors of their quality of life and post-traumatic stress 6 weeks later, suggesting potential diagnostic value.

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Following a serious child injury, the entire family can be affected. Gaining an understanding of family support, interactions, and stress levels can help clinicians tailor treatment. Presently, these factors are assessed mainly via self-reports and structured observations.

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Objective: In the aftermath of a child injury, children and parents can jointly experience acute stress symptoms. Optimism and self-efficacy might buffer against post-traumatic stress disorder. Knowing that children are innately receptive to parent modeling, we were interested in exploring how parent acute stress, optimism, and self-efficacy might transpire in parent-child interactions and whether any differences existed between mothers and fathers.

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