Eva R Kimonis

Biographic Data

ID1463974
NAMEEva R Kimonis
GIVEN NAMESEva R
FAMILY NAMEKimonis
SIGNATUREKIMONIS E R
AFFILIATIONSUNSW Sydney
ORCID0000-0002-4325-6108
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS48
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Investigating Feasibility in a Pilot Intergenerational Program Bringing Preschool Children and Older Adults Together in the Community (Interaction)

    Open AccessAmy Sparks, Micah B Goldwater et al.ARTICLEJournal of Intergenerational…2026References: 4

    This pilot study explores the feasibility of a novel intergenerational program bringing preschool children and community-dwelling older adults together. This paper reports the acceptability of this program and the feasibility of collecting empirically robust assessment measures. Using a non-randomized wait-listed controlled trial design, 20 children were recruited across two preschools, with one preschool assigned to the intervention group (n = 1…

  • Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) delivered in the school setting with teacher involvement

    Open AccessGeorgette E Fleming, Kelly A Kershaw et al.ARTICLEAustralian Psychologist2026References: 4

  • When Is the Still‐Face Not the Still‐Face

    Open AccessShriya Mathur, Frances L Doyle et al.ARTICLEInfancy2025

    The Face‐to‐Face Still‐Face (FF‐SF) procedure has been a popular paradigm to understand infant behavior. The current study examines the validity of mothers' behavior during the Still‐Face phase of the FF‐SF, especially the quality of her neutral face and its impact on infant arousal ( N = 358 ethnically‐diverse mother–infant dyads, Mean infant age = 223 days, SD = 27 days). Results showed that more than half of the mothers in the sample breached …

  • Affective and Behavioral Responses to Time-Out in Preschool Children With Conduct Problems and Varying Levels of Callous-Unemotional Traits

    Open AccessEva R Kimonis, F S Cooper et al.ARTICLEBehavior Therapy2025References: 63

    Punishment insensitivity characterizes individuals with callous-unemotional (CU) traits. This has been put forward as an explanation for their persistent conduct problems despite intervention. The purpose of the current study was to compare the emotional and behavioral responses to parent-implemented time-out within a behavioral parent training intervention between children with conduct problems who are high versus low on CU traits. Children (N =…

  • The Impact of Parental Cognitions on Outcomes of Behavioral Parent Training for Children With Conduct Problems

    Open AccessGeorgette E Fleming, Vilas Sawrikar et al.ARTICLEBehavior Therapy2025References: 47

    Parental cognitions predicted outcomes of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) • Mothers’ unhelpful cognitions predicted less improvement from baseline to follow-up. • Fathers’ unhelpful cognitions were associated with more severe baseline problems. • Fathers’ unhelpful cognitions predicted similar baseline to follow-up improvement. • Results inform treatment personalization efforts for child conduct problems. Despite decades of support for be…

  • The “Measure of Empathy in Early Childhood”

    Open AccessValentina Levantini, Pietro Muratori et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2024

  • The student will always be a problem”

    Open AccessGeorgette E Fleming, A Boulton et al.ARTICLETeaching and Teacher Education2024References: 1

    This study investigated associations between student callous-unemotional (CU) traits and teacher attributions for misbehavior. Participants were N = 151 elementary school educators who completed a survey assessing a nominated student's psychopathology and CU traits, student-teacher relationship quality, and teacher attributions. Using multiple regression, higher CU traits were associated with lower student-teacher closeness and higher conflict. B…

  • Facial reactions to emotional films in young children with conduct problems and varying levels of callous‐unemotional traits

    Open AccessEva R Kimonis, Brandon Le et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2023

    BACKGROUND: Elevated levels of callous-unemotional (CU) traits have proven useful for identifying a distinct subgroup of children whose conduct problems (CP) are early emerging, severe, persistent, and underpinned by aberrant emotional processing. The early childhood emotional experiences and expressions of CP subtypes are poorly understood, despite their importance to understanding the problematic attachments and atypical social affiliation expe…

  • Still connecting the dots

    Open AccessSinia Sareen, Frances L Doyle et al.ARTICLEInfancy2022

    An attentional bias toward threat has been theorized to be a normative aspect of infants' threat and safety learning, and an indicator of risk for internalizing psychopathology in older populations. To date, only four studies have examined this bias using the dot‐probe task in infancy and the findings are mixed. We extended the literature by examining patterns of attention to threat in a culturally and linguistically diverse sample of infants age…

  • Towards Preventative Psychiatry

    Open AccessFrances L Doyle, Sophie J Dickson et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2022

    Maternal-infant bonding is important for children's positive development. Poor maternal-infant bonding is a risk factor for negative mother and infant outcomes. Although researchers have examined individual predictors of maternal-infant bonding, studies typically do not examine several concurrent and longitudinal predictors within the same model. This study aimed to evaluate the unique and combined predictive power of cross-sectional and longitud…

  • Callous–unemotional traits linked to earlier onset of self-reported and official delinquency in incarcerated boys

    Bryan Neo, Eva R KimonisARTICLELaw and Human Behavior2021

    OBJECTIVE: Research shows that youth who engage in early delinquency have higher callous-unemotional (CU) traits than youth with a later start. This study extends prior research to determine the optimal delinquency onset age cutoff for identifying youth high versus low on CU traits and the average age of delinquency onset for youth with clinically significant CU traits. HYPOTHESES: We hypothesized that youth with childhood-onset delinquency would…

  • Mapping the Specific Pathways to Early-Onset Mental Health Disorders

    Open AccessFrances L Doyle, Antonio Mendoza Diaz et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    This study will be the first to test a clear developmental map of both the unique and specific causes of childhood psychopathology and will identify more precise early intervention targets for children with complex comorbid conditions

  • Callous–Unemotional Traits and Disorganized Attachment

    Open AccessJane Kohlhoff, Dina Mahmood et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2020

  • An elusive deficit

    Eva R Kimonis, Jodie Kidd et al.ARTICLEEmotion2019

    Emotional stimuli are typically prioritized in competition for attention in healthy individuals. In contrast, there is evidence that individuals high in psychopathic traits fail to similarly prioritize emotional stimuli. With aberrant attention to emotional stimuli implicated in the development and maintenance of other psychopathologies, attentional insensitivity to emotional stimuli may also be important in the callous-unemotional responding see…

  • ParentWorks

    Open AccessPatrycja J Piotrowska, Lucy Tully et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2019

    Evidence-based parenting interventions are effective in reducing conduct problems, yet these interventions have limited reach, and few involve the participation of fathers. This paper describes the outcomes of an open trial of ParentWorks, a universal, online, father-inclusive parenting intervention aiming to decrease childhood behavioural problems and promote positive parenting in mothers and fathers. A total of 388 families (456 individual pare…

  • Evaluating Practitioner Training to Improve Competencies and Organizational Practices for Engaging Fathers in Parenting Interventions

    Open AccessMatthew B Burn, M Burn et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2018

    Fathers are consistently underrepresented in parenting interventions and practitioners are an important target for change in interventions to enhance father engagement. This research examined the effects of two practitioner training programs in improving practitioner rated competencies and organizational father-inclusive practices. Two studies were conducted, each with a single group, repeated measures (pre, post and 2-month follow-up) design. St…

  • Enhancing Father Engagement in Parenting Programs

    Open AccessMeryn Lechowicz, Meryn E Lechowicz et al.ARTICLEAustralian Psychologist2018Cited by: 12

    ObjectiveGiven the increasing research and practice interest in father engagement, this article aimed to develop a clinical narrative integrating the extant research literature to distil key practice recommendations for enhancing father engagement in parenting interventions for child wellbeing.MethodA narrative review of research on father engagement in interventions for child wellbeing was conducted, to identify and distil evidence‐based policie…

  • Study protocol

    Open AccessLucy Tully, Lucy A Tully et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2017

    ACTRN12616001223426 , registered 05/09/2016

  • Optimising child outcomes from parenting interventions

    Open AccessLucy Tully, Patrycja J Piotrowska et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    The findings have important implications for services seeking to increase father engagement and highlight a number of strategies to enhance the promotion and delivery of parenting interventions to fathers. These strategies include more public health messaging about parenting programs and the importance of father participation

  • Examining Practitioner Competencies, Organizational Support and Barriers to Engaging Fathers in Parenting Interventions

    Open AccessLucy Tully, L A Tully et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2017

    Evidence-based parenting interventions have been developed and evaluated largely with mothers. This study examined practitioner reports of rates of father attendance, barriers to engagement, organizational support for father-inclusive practice, participation in training in father engagement, and competencies in working with fathers. It also explored predictors of practitioner competence and rates of father attendance. Practitioners (N = 210) who …

  • Heterogeneity in externalizing problems at age 3

    Kostas A Fanti, Eva R KimonisARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2017Cited by: 7References: 5

    Investigating heterogeneity in antisocial behavior early in life is essential for understanding the etiology, development, prognosis, and treatment of these problems. Data from the longitudinal National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) study of Early Child Care were used to identify homogeneous groups of young antisocial children differentiated on externalizing problems, internalizing problems, and callous-unemotional (CU) traits…

  • Identifying stable variants of callous-unemotional traits

    Open AccessNatalie Goulter, Eva R Kimonis et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2017References: 6

    Callous-unemotional (CU) traits have proven important for designating children and adolescents showing a pattern of particularly severe, stable, and aggressive antisocial behaviors (Frick, Ray, Thornton, & Kahn, 2014). Individuals with secondary CU traits represent a subpopulation that are distinguished from those with primary CU traits by their high anxiety levels and marked histories of social/environmental adversity; however, evidence is large…

  • Maternal Care, Maltreatment and Callous-Unemotional Traits Among Urban Male Juvenile Offenders

    Open AccessEva R Kimonis, Brittany Cross et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2013Cited by: 4References: 55

  • Variants of Callous-Unemotional Conduct Problems in a Community Sample of Adolescents

    Open AccessKostas A Fanti, Chara A Demetriou et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2013Cited by: 5References: 83

  • Victimization History and Posttraumatic Stress

    Joseph R Tatar, Elizabeth Cauffman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child & Adolescent…2012