Craig A Olsson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 769368 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Craig A Olsson |
| NOMBRES | Craig A |
| APELLIDO | Olsson |
| FIRMA | OLSSON C A |
| AFILIACIONES | Royal Children's Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5927-2014 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Population Approaches to Promoting Relational Health From Early Life
In this paper we provide an integrative synthesis of eight systematic reviews that compromise our systematic review series entitled ‘Population Perspectives on Nurturing Relational Health from Early Life’. We reflect on what we know, what we don’t know, and what we need to know to better safeguard the interpersonal world of the child. Our review series brings forth evidence addressing a fundamental question: How do we create the basis for optimal…
Population Perspectives on Nurturing Relational Health from Early Life
A Scoping Review of Australian Aboriginal Early Relational Health Knowledge Systems
Australian Aboriginal people have evolved advanced relational knowledge systems for raising children and young people over thousands of years. Documentation of this knowledge within peer-reviewed literature is dispersed across a broad set of disciplines and sources that are mostly contextualised within Eurocentric frameworks. In this scoping review, we describe the literature on Australian Aboriginal Early Relational Knowledge Systems. Our aim is…
Opportunities to Improve the Implementation of Relational Health Interventions for Children and Families
Despite the availability of universally delivered evidence-based relational health interventions, their wide-scale translation into practice is slow and unsustained. Measuring implementation outcomes within intervention trials is critical to understand their effectiveness and inform future scaling. This study aimed to determine the extent to which universally delivered relational health interventions measured and reported on implementation outcom…
A Living Scoping Review of Universal Interventions for Promoting Relational Health in Childhood, Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Mapping What Works to Strengthen the Relational Ecology of Early Child Development
The development of secure bonds between children and adult carers, particularly parents, is determined by a complex ecosystem of relationships that includes parents, care providers in other settings, and the values and institutions that care for those who care for children. Here we conduct a scoping review to map scientific progress in the development of evidence based interventions across all levels of relational ecology of early child developme…
A longitudinal investigation of men’s depressive symptoms and psychological wellbeing
Social disconnection among men is of concern worldwide. This study prospectively investigates men’s social connections with friends and associations with depressive symptoms and psychological wellbeing. Data were from a community sample of Australian men ( n = 528) across five annual waves. We assessed three structural indicators of men’s social connections (time spent with friends, number of close friends and number of extended friends). Using p…
The association between parent–child and peer relationship quality in adolescence and intimate partner relationship quality in young adulthood
Adolescent experiences in close relationships play a seminal role in social–emotional development across the lifespan. Here, we examine the unique and combined effects of parent–child and peer relationship quality in adolescence (age 11–13 years) in shaping intimate partner relationship quality in young adulthood (age 19–28 years). Prospective data were from the Australian Temperament Project ( n = 1117) and the TRacking Adolescents' Individual L…
Preconception risk and promotive factors of postpartum social support
Social support is a vital resource for parents raising young children. Yet, little is known about the developmental histories of parents that may compromise or strengthen social support in early parenthood. We explored the extent to which parents' perceived social support at 1 year postpartum could be predicted by factors from well before parenthood, assessed across 10 waves of data collected in their childhoods, adolescence, and young adulthoods…
The role of childhood illness in shaping relationships through to young adulthood
Objective To explore how those with a physical illness in childhood are managing in relationships across childhood to young adulthood.Methods On transition to primary school parents were asked about their child’s physical health (n = 1895). Childhood health problems were classified using the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) framework. Relational health was assessed using parent and self-reported measures.Results A total of 1347 parents reported the…
The value of social networks for men
Given concurrent and future effects of social network connections on men's wellbeing, public health investment in opportunities that improve men's social connectedness are recommended
Adolescent School Belonging and Substance Use in Young Adulthood
Empowering students as change agents to reduce vehicle idling and promote pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours
Empowering students as change agents to reduce vehicle idling and promote pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours: the idle off pilot study
Multilevel Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Life course predictors of child emotional distress during the Covid ‐19 pandemic
BACKGROUND: We examine precursors of child emotional distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in a prospective intergenerational Australian cohort study. METHODS: Parents (N = 549, 60% mothers) of 934 1-9-year-old children completed a COVID-19 specific module in 2020 and/or 2021. Decades prior, a broad range of individual, relational and contextual factors were assessed during parents' own childhood, adolescence and young adulthood (7-8 to 27-28 yea…
Infant and preschool attachment, continuity and relationship to caregiving sensitivity
BACKGROUND: Here, we report new prevalence and temporal stability data for child attachment and parental caregiving behaviour, from infancy (1 year) to preschool (4 years). METHODS: Attachment (SSP) and caregiving data (MBQS) were from observations of parents and their infants and preschoolers, who represent the third generation of participants within an Australian longitudinal cohort. RESULTS: At 1 year (n = 314 dyads) and at 4 years (n = 368 dy…
Father trait anger and associations with father–infant bonding and caregiving
Trait anger reflects a tendency to feel irritation, annoyance, and rage, and involves a narrowing of cognition and attention. This narrowed scope may impact the capacity to understand the mental states of oneself and others (mentalizing), which for fathers of infants may compromise bonding and caregiving involvement. Here, we investigated the extent to which mentalizing mediated the relationship between father trait anger and both father–infant b…
Shame and depressive symptoms in men
Our findings suggest that promoting a sense of psychological wellbeing in men may confer protective proximal effects in the context of shame, potentially attenuating depression severity. The current study aligns with calls for strength-based approaches to reducing mental health problems in men
The lived experience of stress for parents in the context of Covid ‐19–related disruption
Is Neighborhood Nature an Ecological Precursor of Parenting Practices, Infant-Parent Bonding, and Infant Socioemotional Function
Nurturing relationships are crucial for adaptive child development. The objectives of the study were to investigate whether nature availability was associated with early nurturing parenting practices, mother-infant bonding, and infant socioemotional function. Data were from the Australian Temperament Project ( n = 809 infants to 515 parents residing in Victoria, Australia) and were linked cross-sectionally to residential greenness (i.e., Normaliz…
Parental history of positive development and child behavior in next generation offspring
This study examined whether positive development (PD) in adolescence and young adulthood predicts offspring behavior in two Australasian intergenerational cohorts. The Australian Temperament Project Generation 3 Study assessed PD at age 19–28 (years 2002–2010) and behavior in 1165 infants (12–18 months; 608 girls) of 694 Australian-born parents (age 29–35; 2012–2019; 399 mothers). The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Parenting Stu…
Factor structure of the Mini‐Maternal Behavior Q‐Sort and associations with infant attachment
We examined the factor structure of parental sensitivity to infants as assessed by the Mini‐Maternal Behavior Q‐Sort (Mini‐MBQS), a 25‐item short‐form of the original 90‐item MBQS. We aimed to: (1) identify latent factors of the Mini‐MBQS; and (2) validate each factor by testing associations with infant attachment classifications. Data on parent‐infant dyads ( n = 313; 222 mothers with 281 children, 29 fathers with 32 children) were drawn from a …
Illicit Substance Use and Harm in Young Adulthood
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11469-023-01181-0
Eating and Body Image Disturbances in Adolescence and Substance Use Throughout Young Adulthood
We investigated whether eating and body image disturbances in mid-adolescence were associated with substance use in young adulthood. Participants ( n = 1566) completed the drive for thinness, bulimic behavior, and body dissatisfaction subscales from the Eating Disorder Inventory during adolescence (15–16 years), and reported frequencies of substance use (tobacco, cannabis, binge drinking, other illicit substances) across young adulthood (19–20, 2…
Effects of racism and discrimination on mental health among young people in Victoria, Australia, during Covid‐19 lockdown
Racism and discrimination are fundamental determinants of health inequities, with young people particularly vulnerable. Since the onset of the global COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020, reports of racism and discrimination rose sharply. This study examined direct discrimination, vicarious racial discrimination, heightened vigilance, worries about experiencing racial discrimination, COVID‐19‐related stressors and their associations with young people's ment…
Consequences of childhood reading difficulties and behaviour problems for educational achievement and employment in early adulthood
BackgroundReading difficulties (RDs) and behaviour problems (BPs) are two common childhood problems that have a high degree of stability and often negatively affect well-being in both the short and longer terms.AimsThe study aimed to shed light on the unique and joint consequences of these two childhood problems for educational and occupational outcomes in early adulthood.SampleData were drawn from a life-course longitudinal study of psychosocial…
Balancing friends and romance
Romantic and peer relationships both contribute to overall well-being; however, each demand time and emotional investment that may give rise to competition. Little is known about how men, in particular, balance these relationships. We explored the extent to which men's investments in peer relationships are associated with romantic relationship quality. We further examined differences between fathers and non-fathers. Data were from five annual wav…
Predictors of Positive Development in Emerging Adulthood
Effects of racism and discrimination on mental health among young people in Victoria, Australia, during Covid‐19 lockdown
Racism and discrimination are fundamental determinants of health inequities, with young people particularly vulnerable. Since the onset of the global COVID‐19 pandemic in 2020, reports of racism and discrimination rose sharply. This study examined direct discrimination, vicarious racial discrimination, heightened vigilance, worries about experiencing racial discrimination, COVID‐19‐related stressors and their associations with young people's ment…
Health Psychology Intervention in Key Social Environments to Promote Adolescent Health
Although important challenges remain, advances in psychological theory and practice have made significant contributions to preventing and reducing adolescent health problems in Australia and in other nations. This article reviews current approaches and advances within the field of health psychology, and their contribution to the prevention of high priority adolescent health problems and to adolescent health promotion. Advances in adolescent healt…
Stability and Change in Positive Development During Young Adulthood
Genetics and public health—evolution, or revolution
During the 19th and early 20th century, public health and genetics shared common ground through similar approaches to health promotion in the population. By the mid-20th century there was a division between public health and genetics, with eugenicists estranged and clinical genetics focused on single gene disorders, usually only relevant to small numbers of people. Now through a common interest in the aetiology of complex diseases such as heart d…
Supporting the dying and bereaved during Covid-19
Objective: To reflect on the experiences of loss and grief during the COVID-19 pandemic. The world is united in grief with COVID-19 now the leading cause of death globally (close to 4 million by mid-2021), with public health approaches to containment having widespread social and economic impacts. COVID-19 has not only changed how we live but also how we die; complicating the dying process for those with the disease, as well as those dying from ot…
Depression and anxiety in adolescent and young adult offenders
The effect of low parental warmth and low monitoring on disordered eating in mid-adolescence
Longitudinal Prediction of Mid‐Adolescent Psychosocial Outcomes From Early Adolescent Family Help Seeking and Family Support
This study examined whether family help seeking and family support represented the same or distinct constructs and prospective associations between emergent constructs and psychosocial outcomes. Data were from 1,713 school‐based adolescents participating in a randomized controlled trial, in V ictoria, A ustralia. Family help seeking emerged as a single factor, distinct from family support, and was prospectively associated with improved psychosoci…
The Reporting of News in Scandinavian Countries
The Reporting of News in Scandinavian Countries
Adolescent resilience
There is need for greater clarity around the concept of resilience as it relates to the period of adolescence. Literature on resilience published between 1990 and 2000 and relevant to adolescents aged between 12‐ and 18‐years of age was reviewed with the aim of examining the various uses of the term, and commenting on how specific ways of conceptualizing of resilience may help develop new research agendas in the field. By bringing together ideas …
Genetics and public health—evolution, or revolution
During the 19th and early 20th century, public health and genetics shared common ground through similar approaches to health promotion in the population. By the mid-20th century there was a division between public health and genetics, with eugenicists estranged and clinical genetics focused on single gene disorders, usually only relevant to small numbers of people. Now through a common interest in the aetiology of complex diseases such as heart d…
Predictors of Positive Development in Emerging Adulthood
Stability and Change in Positive Development During Young Adulthood
The natural history of self-harm from adolescence to young adulthood
The prognosis of common mental disorders in adolescents
Longitudinal Prediction of Mid‐Adolescent Psychosocial Outcomes From Early Adolescent Family Help Seeking and Family Support
This study examined whether family help seeking and family support represented the same or distinct constructs and prospective associations between emergent constructs and psychosocial outcomes. Data were from 1,713 school‐based adolescents participating in a randomized controlled trial, in V ictoria, A ustralia. Family help seeking emerged as a single factor, distinct from family support, and was prospectively associated with improved psychosoci…
Health Psychology Intervention in Key Social Environments to Promote Adolescent Health
Although important challenges remain, advances in psychological theory and practice have made significant contributions to preventing and reducing adolescent health problems in Australia and in other nations. This article reviews current approaches and advances within the field of health psychology, and their contribution to the prevention of high priority adolescent health problems and to adolescent health promotion. Advances in adolescent healt…
The effect of low parental warmth and low monitoring on disordered eating in mid-adolescence
The Structural Stability of Positive Development Across Young Adulthood
The purpose of this study was to examine the structural stability of positive development across the 20s using data from one of Australia’s oldest population-based studies of social–emotional development. Positive development was indicated by civic action and engagement, trust and tolerance of others, trust in authorities and organizations, social competence, and life satisfaction. Results extend an earlier published model spanning 19–20 and 23–2…
Consequences of childhood reading difficulties and behaviour problems for educational achievement and employment in early adulthood
BackgroundReading difficulties (RDs) and behaviour problems (BPs) are two common childhood problems that have a high degree of stability and often negatively affect well-being in both the short and longer terms.AimsThe study aimed to shed light on the unique and joint consequences of these two childhood problems for educational and occupational outcomes in early adulthood.SampleData were drawn from a life-course longitudinal study of psychosocial…
Retention strategies in longitudinal cohort studies
Adolescence and the next generation
Adolescent growth and social development shape the early development of offspring from preconception through to the post-partum period through distinct processes in males and females. At a time of great change in the forces shaping adolescence, including the timing of parenthood, investments in today’s adolescents, the largest cohort in human history, will yield great dividends for future generations.
Mother–Infant and Partner–Infant Emotional Availability at 12 Months of Age
Emotional availability (EA) is a focal indicator of parent–infant relationship quality and plays a key role in determining healthy child development, yet factors thought to influence EA have not been examined comprehensively in the postnatal period in both mothers and partners . The aim of this study was to examine the influence of mother–infant and partner–infant bonding, mental ill‐health and substance use at 8 weeks postbirth on mother–infant …
Mother–Infant Bonding and Emotional Availability at 12-Months of Age
Does adolescent heavier alcohol use predict young adult aggression and delinquency? Parallel analyses from four Australasian cohort studies
While the association between heavy alcohol consumption and aggression has been well documented, the causal direction of this association, particularly at a population level, is disputed. A number of causal sequences have been proposed. First, that aggression leads to heavy alcohol use. Second, that heavy alcohol use leads to aggression. Third, that the association between alcohol use and aggression is due to confounding by (a) sociodemographic v…
Depression and anxiety in adolescent and young adult offenders
Association Between Maternal Perinatal Depression and Anxiety and Child and Adolescent Development
Importance: There is widespread interest in associations between maternal perinatal depression and anxiety and offspring development; however, to date, there has been no systematic, meta-analytic review on the long-term developmental outcomes spanning infancy through adolescence. Objective: To provide a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis of the extant literature on associations between maternal perinatal depression and anxiety and …
Maternal and paternal depression and anxiety and offspring infant negative affectivity
The role of antenatal and postnatal maternal bonding in infant development
The purpose of this study was to systematically review the empirical literature on maternal bonding and associations with infant physical, psychological, and social development. Nineteen articles met inclusion criteria and were included in a qualitative synthesis (79 effect sizes); 15 articles were suitable for aggregation in a series of 14 meta‐analyses (51 effect sizes). All mean effects were in the expected direction, with higher maternal bond…
Study Protocol for the Covid-19 Pandemic Adjustment Survey (CPAS)
This study will provide timely information on the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on parents and children in Australia; identify communities, parents, families, and children most at risk of poor outcomes; and identify potential factors to address in clinical and public health interventions to reduce risk
Profiles of Depressive Symptoms and Anger in Men
Background: Evidence suggests that men commonly experience depression as feelings of anger; yet, research has not investigated what this means for the manifestation of depressive symptoms in the early years of fatherhood and for key indicators of family functioning. Methods: Using data from a longitudinal cohort study of men at the normative age for entering fatherhood (28-32 years), we conducted latent class analyses to identify patterns of depr…
Childhood disadvantage and adolescent socioemotional wellbeing as predictors of future parenting behaviour
INTRODUCTION: In extending work on early life antecedents of parenting, we investigate associations between childhood family history of disadvantage, adolescent socioemotional wellbeing, and age at first parenthood and subsequent parenting behaviour. METHODS: Parent-child interactions were recorded when participants in the longitudinal Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (New Zealand) had a three-year-old child. Data were avail…
Preparing for Future Adversities
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has placed considerable pressure on families, testing the quality of relationships and the strength of social support within and beyond the family network. However, little is known about the pre-pandemic factors that predict family relational resilience and social functioning during times of natural disaster or global crisis. Here we use data from one of Australia's longest running studies of social and emotional…
Psychology (38 obras) · Medicine (31 obras) · Developmental psychology (27 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (25 obras) · Psychiatry (25 obras) · Clinical Psychology (22 obras) · Social Psychology (19 obras) · Population (15 obras) · Public health (15 obras) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (14 obras)