Kate Papandrea

Room 243, Hughes Building Phone + 61 (08) 8303 7464 Fax +61 (08) 8303 3770 kate.papandrea@adelaide.edu.au

Memberships

Australian Psychological Society (APS)
SA Autism Association
UniSA Division of Health Sciences’ Consultancy and Research Expertise Database (CRED)
Health, Disability and Lifespan Development Research Centre (HDLD)

Awards

Mental Health Postgraduate (APS/Dept of Health) Scholarship 2009
Excellence in Teaching Award 2009
Postgraduate Research Bursary (AFUW) 2008
Postgraduate Coursework Scholarship (UofA) 2007
Chancellor's Letter of Commendation (2003,2004) and Dean's Merit List 2002,2003,2004
Golden Key (2002)

Psychology Research Interests

Despite enhanced prevention and intervention efforts towards reducing internalising disorders in adolescents, the burden of such problems is mounting. This research employed a triple-pronged approach that aimed to improve the evidence-base for service delivery for South Australian adolescents with internalising problems.

Publications

Miller-Lewis, L., Sawyer, M., Baghurst, P., Searle, A., Papandrea, K., & Hedley, D. (2011, submitted). Processes Influencing Mental Health Resilience in Preschool Children: Impact of Relationships with Parents and Teachers. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

Papandrea, K. & Winefield, H. (2011, submitted). The mediating role of maladaptive schemas in relationships between perceived parenting and internalising problems in adolescents: Enhancing specificity. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.

Papandrea, K. & Winefield, H. (2010). It’s not only the squeaky wheels that need the oil: Examining teachers’ views on the disparity between referral rates for students with internalising problems vs. externalising problems. School Mental Health, 3, 1-14.

Papandrea, K., Winefield, H., & Livingstone, A. (2010). Oiling a neglected wheel: An investigation of adolescent internalising problems in rural South Australia. Rural and Remote Health Journal, 10 (online), 1524. Available from: http://www.rrh.org.au

Research Presentations

Papandrea, K. The Underlying Processes Involved in the Development of Anxiety in Adolescence: Test of a Conceptual Framework. Paper presentation at the 27 th International Congress of Applied Psychology & Australian Psychological Society Conference, Melbourne, Australia, July 2010.

Papandrea, K. Attributions and Anxiety: The role of Parental Control. Paper accepted at the 12 th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA) Vilnius, Lithuania, May, 2010.