OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Psychologist is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Wellbeing programs for culturally and linguistically diverse population in Australia: barriers and improvements	22
Lessons from COVID-19 and the practice of school psychology: opportunity for a changed landscape	21
The professional identity of Australian counselling psychologists: a reflexive thematic analysis	18
Supporting LGBTQA+ peoples’ recovery from sexual orientation and gender identity and expression change efforts	16
Does participation in structured group supervision impact experiences of transition to the workforce?: A survey of psychology registrars	16
Urgent call for research into imagery rescripting to reduce suicidal mental imagery: clinical research considerations	14
The role of emotion beliefs in depression, anxiety, and stress	13
Understanding the provision of psychological interventions for psychosis in an Australian mental health service: a mixed methods study	10
The relationship between phubbing and social relationships among Turkish college students: mediating roles of self-control and empathy	10
Digital game addiction, classroom engagement, sleep deprivation and mind-wandering: tests of mediating relationships with Turkish adolescents	10
People Needs Country: the symbiotic effects of landcare and wellbeing for Aboriginal peoples and their countries	10
The role of psychologists in managing mental health comorbidities in adults with neurological disorders	9
A qualitative investigation into perceptions of scientist-practitioner competence within supervision during psychology training programmes	9
Beyond desirable: preferences for thinness and muscularity are greater than what is rated as desirable by heterosexual Australian undergraduate students	9
Factorial and construct validity of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) in an Australian sample	8
The psychosocial experience of cancer: a meta-analysis of Australian rural versus urban populations	8
Personal recovery in psychological interventions for bipolar disorder: a systematic review	8
A theory-based examination of the predictors of mental health help-seeking in young men	7
Investigating professional identity formation of postgraduate clinical psychology students	7
Co-sleeping fathers’ perceptions of sleep quality with intentional and unintentional co-sleeping	7
Teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic: the job demands and job resources associated with telework outcomes	7
The Fears of Compassion in Sport Scale: a short, context-specific measure of fear of self-compassion and receiving compassion from others validated in UK athletes	7
Exploring the effect of gender and culture on the relationship between self-silencing and depressive symptoms	7
You’re virtually a psychologist: enhancing professional psychology education through virtual client simulations	7
A mixed methods pilot study assessing adaptations to the ESTEEM program for Australian same sex attracted men	7

Building consensus between lived experience and professional stakeholders on mental health research priorities: a Delphi study	6
The Westerman Aboriginal Symptom Checklist – Youth Version: national data from a clinical sample of Aboriginal youth	6
Resilience, self-compassion, and indices of psychological wellbeing: a not so simple set of relationships	6
A qualitative study of sporting club stakeholder perspectives of a Mental Fitness Charter for South Australian sport	6
Social representations of therapist self-care and well-being: a thematic analysis of peak body media	6
We need something completely different: catalysing new innovations in teaching	5
Cross-cultural validation and measurement invariance of the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire (PAQ): a study in Iran and the USA	5
Perceptions of mental health and illness amongst Australian Ismaili Muslim youth	5
Who are you going to talk to? Help-seeking for partner violence among refugee-background young women in Australia	5
Network psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Australians: a hierarchical exploratory graph analysis	5
A national study of the psychological theories and therapies covered within clinical psychology training programs in Australia	5
Comparison of scores from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–IV and the Woodcock Johnson III in an Australian university sample	5
Family violence education for post-graduate psychology trainees: a longitudinal mixed-method survey evaluating self-reported knowledge and confidence levels	4
Why do some therapists manage uncertainty better than others? A study of individual differences in therapists’ affective responses to uncertainty	4
Jandu Yani U (for all families): evaluating Indigenous Triple P, a community-tailored parenting support program in remote Aboriginal communities	4
Nurturing self-compassionate performers	4
A systematic review of the thoughts and feelings that are associated with suicidal behaviours in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young peoples	4
Eco-psychology: a critical paradigm in the climate emergency	4
The Greek Australian neuropsychological normative study: tests & norms for Greek Australians aged 70-85 years	4
Navigating the scientist-practitioner continuum: strategies to enhance Australian psychologists’ capacity to be research leaders	4
Lose yourself: feared self, emotion regulation, and obsessive-compulsive and eating disorder symptomatology	4
Psychological testing in Australia: what does the profession tell us?	4
Different motivations for volunteering are associated with different outcomes for Australian animal welfare volunteers: a mixed-methods analysis	4
Experience of and recommendations for creating new rural and remote psychology placements	3
Trauma involving violation of trust and mental health help seeking among homeless adults	3
Physical and psychological wellbeing among Australian and New Zealand patients seeking fertility treatment during COVID-19	3
Measuring the coach’s compassion through the eyes of their athletes: validity of The Compassionate Coach Scale as perceived by the adolescent athletes	3
Using physical activity guidelines to examine associations between self-reported physical activity and depression symptoms in adolescent girls	3
“That weird kid without parents”: a qualitative analysis of identity following bereavement due to parental intimate partner homicide in Australia	3
Trait empathy and the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia	3
Cultural interventions that target mental health and wellbeing for First Nations Australians: a systematic review	3
“The only man on the mat”: yoga as a therapeutic pathway for men’s mental health	3
Outcomes from a pilot study to evaluate Phase 1 of a two-phase approach to treat women with complex trauma histories	3
Climate change and mental health: postgraduate psychology student and program coordinator perspectives from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand	3
Self-compassion and psychological mindedness in depressed Turkish adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury	3
Session frequency in routine psychology practice and perspectives on session scheduling: a mixed-methods study of clinician attitudes and practices	3
What do private practice referrers value about neuropsychology assessment?	3
The mediating role of behavioural automaticity and intention on past to future bootcamp attendance	3
Aversion to happiness mediates effects of meaning in life, perfectionism, and self-esteem on psychological distress in Turkish adults	3
Assessing alexithymia in adolescents: psychometric properties of the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire in high school students	2
Mental health literacy in Australian schools: evaluation of the Australian adapted youth education and support program	2
Conceptualising Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara mental health beliefs	2
Self-compassion as a moderator between clinical perfectionism and psychological distress	2
Psychometric examination of the Japanese version of Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory	2
Translation and validation of the Swedish version of the Self-Compassion Scale for Youth	2
Dysfunctional beliefs associated with hair pulling disorder: an examination in clinical versus non-clinical groups	2
Alexithymia, attachment security and negative mood	2
Australian counselling psychologists’ perceptions of the similarities and differences between clinical and counselling psychology	2
Postgraduate students’ perceptions of simulation-based learning in professional psychology training	2
Association between sleep quality and social media use in Australian adults	2

The mental health of elite athletes in developing nations of the greater Oceania region	2
Group supervision is a distinct supervisor competency: empirical evidence and a brief scale for supervisory practice	2
Tackling implicit and explicit stigma towards voice hearing in clinical psychology students before it enters the workplace: a preliminary brief educational intervention	2
Effects of clinical placements in residential aged care settings on geropsychology competencies among provisional psychologists in Australia	2
Promoting psychological interventions in psychosis: the NSW Tertiary Referral Service for Psychosis	2
Loneliness and health in older adults: a multivariate analysis of Spanish Red Cross users living alone	2
Weaving Wayapa and cognitive behaviour therapy: applying research topic yarning to explore a cultural interface between Western and Indigenous psychology practice in Australia	1
Goal motives in depression and anxiety: the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties	1
A network cross-cultural validation of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australian adults	1
Treatment preferences and help seeking experiences of Australian adults with insomnia	1
She is like me: a qualitative exploration of body image ideals and the young woman psychologist working with eating disorders	1
Reflexivity: a model for teaching and learning cultural responsiveness in mental health	1
Internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy for insomnia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Social appearance anxiety, body-compassion, and psychological well-being: psychometric properties of the Body-Compassion Scale among Turkish adults	1
Psychosocial factors and quality of life in HIV	1
Functional outcomes in youth with complex trauma: a systematic review of psychosocial interventions	1
Supervising post-graduate psychology trainees in residential aged care settings: common issues	1
Investigating intentions to use a skin cancer detection smartphone app using an integrated psychosocial model	1
Evaluating emotion regulation ability across negative and positive emotions: psychometric properties of the Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory (PERCI) in American adults and Iranian adults	1
Bridging cross-cultural assessment gaps: developing and validating a pictorial psychological distress scale	1
Psychology service model redesign: direct to psychology and stepped care in the multidisciplinary sleep service	1
Occurrence of potentially traumatic events, type, and severity in undergraduate students	1
Self-efficacy as a mediator between psychologists’ technology affinity and telehealth satisfaction	1
The use of e-& mHealth technology-based interventions to improve modifiable lifestyle risk factors amongst individuals with severe mental illness (SMI): a scoping review	1
Cultural responsiveness for mental health professionals working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients: a concept analysis	1
Ethical dilemmas working with older adults: in-depth interviews with Australian psychologists	1
Project Yarn Circle: development and pilot evaluation of a cultural connection suicide prevention program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people	1
Male-friendly counselling for young men: a thematic analysis of client and caregiver experiences of Menslink counselling	1
Psychologists’ perceptions of assessing and treating trauma-exposed clients	1
Exploring experiences, barriers and treatment preferences for self-reported perinatal anxiety in Australian women: a qualitative study	1
Neuropsychological assessment of older Australian immigrant populations: considerations for clinical practice	1
What counts? A Delphi consensus-based approach to interpreting accreditation standards for Direct Client Activities in clinical psychology and clinical neuropsychology programs	1
Psychometric properties of the DSM-5 Panic Disorder Dimensional Scale in an Australian community sample	1
BEST-Foundations: a mixed methods exploration of the feasibility of a novel intervention treating internalising symptoms in children	1
Health and wellbeing at the intersection of gender modality and ethnicity in Australia	1
Self-reported prevalence of sleep and mental health disorders in current and former athletes: a preliminary cross-sectional investigation of help-seeking behaviours	1
Tracking trainee development: preliminary validation of a tool designed to evaluate clinical psychology competencies over time	1
Yarning sessions to facilitate cultural responsiveness and decolonising the curriculum in a university psychology setting	1
Putting on your best face: investigating social anxiety in Instagram users	1
The relationship between psychosocial variables and drive for muscularity among male bodybuilding supplement users	1
A stress-coping analysis of ‘stranded’ Australians seeking repatriation during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Social and non-social cognitive behavioural therapy strategies for depression: findings from the MoodMission smartphone application	1
Cognitive processing of HIV stigma and its association with posttraumatic growth: a reflexive thematic analysis	1