Viviana M Wuthrich
Biographic Data
| ID | 2745592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Viviana M Wuthrich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Viviana M |
| FAMILY NAME | Wuthrich |
| SIGNATURE | WUTHRICH V M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7227-229X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Stakeholder Attitudes Toward the Implementation of School-Based, Universal, Mental Health Screening
This paper reports on data from two trials about stakeholders' attitudes to school-based mental health screening. Study 1 reports data from 6228 students from grades 4 to 12 while Study 2 reports data from 267 caregivers and 34 educators from a larger trial. All three groups of stakeholders reported broadly positive attitudes toward school-based screening. Few students reported distress from questions and most agreed that schools should screen. C…
The positivity effect is robust to health and social content in ambiguous scenario interpretation
These studies investigated whether the positivity effect in older adults results in positively valenced interpretations of ambiguous scenarios and whether personally relevant health content and induced positive and negative moods attenuate or moderate the effect. In two studies conducted in 2022 and 2023, older ( n Study1 = 31, M ageStudy1 = 72.16, SD ageStudy1 = 7.81, n Study2 = 51, M ageStudy2 = 71.64, SD ageStudy2 = 6.39) and younger ( n Study…
Temporal associations of emotional and social loneliness and psychosocial functioning in emerging adulthood
Emerging adulthood is an important developmental phase often accompanied by peaks in loneliness, social anxiety, and depression. However, knowledge is lacking on how the relationships between emotional loneliness, social loneliness, social isolation, social anxiety and depression evolve over time. Gaining insight in these temporal relations is crucial for our understanding of how these problems arise and maintain each other across time. Young adu…
Academic Stress Interventions in High Schools
The experience of academic stress is common during high school and can have significant negative consequences for students' educational achievement and wellbeing. High school students frequently report heightened levels of school-related distress, particularly as they approach high-stakes assessments. Programs designed to reduce or prevent academic stress are needed, and their delivery in school settings is ideal to improve treatment access. The …
Anxiety and Teacher-Student Relationships in Secondary School
Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental disorders experienced by adolescents. As students spend a significant amount of time within a school environment, it is not surprising that factors in the school environment have been linked to student mental health. Positive teacher-student relationships (TSRs) in children have been found to improve student mental health outcomes, with supportive TSRs associated with reduced student anxiety, and in…
Older adults’ attitudes and motivations towards learning about personal dementia risk and their willingness to make changes to improve their health in primary care settings
Objective This study assessed older adults' preferences, attitudes, and motivations to understand and change their individual risk for developing dementia via screening in primary care settings
Necessary but not sufficient
Objective This study examined the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns and physical distancing requirements on engagement with and sense of connectedness to social activities among older adults.Method Community-dwelling cognitively healthy older adults (N = 126) completed self-report questionnaires post-lock down (November 2020 to February 2021) assessing participation format (face-to-face with restrictions, online), frequency of attendance, and connecte…
Practitioners’ use of exposure therapy in older adults with anxiety disorders
Objective Despite the empirical support for exposure therapy, it is unclear how many community-dwelling older adults with anxiety disorders receive this intervention. This study examined the use of exposure therapy compared to other treatment techniques among clinicians who treat older adults with anxiety disorders.Method 60 registered mental health treatment providers (e.g., psychologists, clinical psychologists) (M = 44 years, 83.3% female) com…
Implementation trial of a cognitive behavioural therapy programme for reducing student stress in the final year of secondary school
The final year of secondary school has been shown to be associated with heightened student stress. Psychological interventions have been shown to be effective in reducing and preventing distress in students during this school period, although the widespread adoption of these interventions into school settings is limited. There have been recent calls for research to examine the implementation success of evidence‐based programmes when used by schoo…
Teachers use of fear appeals
BackgroundFear appeals are discourses commonly used by teachers to motivate students especially when academic outcomes are paramount. Fear appeals have been associated with better and worse academic performance by the student recipients, with some evidence that fear appeals are detrimental for students who are anxious and have lower self-efficacy. Little is known about the factors that drive teachers' use of fear appeals beyond a desire to increa…
Barriers and Facilitators to Social Participation in Older Adults
Tracking stress, depression, and anxiety across the final year of secondary school
Levels of distress, which include stress, depression, and anxiety, are often heightened during the final year of secondary school and have been linked to major examinations that occur during this time period. However, relatively little is known about how these symptoms change over the course of the year or what moderates symptom severity. Using a longitudinal survey design, we tracked student outcomes and potential moderators (i.e., gender, test …
Assessing Functional Impairment in Youth
Acceptability and Feasibility of Stepped-Care for Anxious Adolescents in Community Mental Health Services
Randomised Controlled Trial of Study Without Stress
How do you think about stress? A qualitative analysis of beliefs about stress
This qualitative study aimed to identify common stress beliefs. Undergraduate psychology students ( N = 35) completed semi-structured interviews discussing the sensations, causes, purpose, valence, consequences, control, and timeline of stress. Interviews were analysed via double-coded thematic analysis employing a latent, inductive, and realist framework. Five themes (cognition, emotion, physical health, interpersonal relations, and behaviour) a…
The Youth Online Diagnostic Assessment (Yoda)
Mental Health and Wellbeing of Older Workers in Australia
Population ageing has catalyzed worldwide social and political reform to encourage continued work and delayed retirement. These changes necessitate an understanding of the impact of working later in life on mental health and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of age and work force status (working full time, part time, or retired) with mental health and wellbeing in Australian men and women past the average retirement…
Multimedia Reviews
Running time: 156 minutes, being in threesegments of 52 minutes each; A Film AustraliaInterest Program; 2005; Rated: M; E-mail: [email protected]; Website: www.filmaust.com.au; Price: $225(GST inclusive)
Teachers use of fear appeals
BackgroundFear appeals are discourses commonly used by teachers to motivate students especially when academic outcomes are paramount. Fear appeals have been associated with better and worse academic performance by the student recipients, with some evidence that fear appeals are detrimental for students who are anxious and have lower self-efficacy. Little is known about the factors that drive teachers' use of fear appeals beyond a desire to increa…
How do you think about stress? A qualitative analysis of beliefs about stress
This qualitative study aimed to identify common stress beliefs. Undergraduate psychology students ( N = 35) completed semi-structured interviews discussing the sensations, causes, purpose, valence, consequences, control, and timeline of stress. Interviews were analysed via double-coded thematic analysis employing a latent, inductive, and realist framework. Five themes (cognition, emotion, physical health, interpersonal relations, and behaviour) a…
Mental Health and Wellbeing of Older Workers in Australia
Population ageing has catalyzed worldwide social and political reform to encourage continued work and delayed retirement. These changes necessitate an understanding of the impact of working later in life on mental health and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of age and work force status (working full time, part time, or retired) with mental health and wellbeing in Australian men and women past the average retirement…
Multimedia Reviews
Running time: 156 minutes, being in threesegments of 52 minutes each; A Film AustraliaInterest Program; 2005; Rated: M; E-mail: [email protected]; Website: www.filmaust.com.au; Price: $225(GST inclusive)
Mental Health and Wellbeing of Older Workers in Australia
Population ageing has catalyzed worldwide social and political reform to encourage continued work and delayed retirement. These changes necessitate an understanding of the impact of working later in life on mental health and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of age and work force status (working full time, part time, or retired) with mental health and wellbeing in Australian men and women past the average retirement…
The Youth Online Diagnostic Assessment (Yoda)
Barriers and Facilitators to Social Participation in Older Adults
Tracking stress, depression, and anxiety across the final year of secondary school
Levels of distress, which include stress, depression, and anxiety, are often heightened during the final year of secondary school and have been linked to major examinations that occur during this time period. However, relatively little is known about how these symptoms change over the course of the year or what moderates symptom severity. Using a longitudinal survey design, we tracked student outcomes and potential moderators (i.e., gender, test …
Assessing Functional Impairment in Youth
Acceptability and Feasibility of Stepped-Care for Anxious Adolescents in Community Mental Health Services
Randomised Controlled Trial of Study Without Stress
How do you think about stress? A qualitative analysis of beliefs about stress
This qualitative study aimed to identify common stress beliefs. Undergraduate psychology students ( N = 35) completed semi-structured interviews discussing the sensations, causes, purpose, valence, consequences, control, and timeline of stress. Interviews were analysed via double-coded thematic analysis employing a latent, inductive, and realist framework. Five themes (cognition, emotion, physical health, interpersonal relations, and behaviour) a…
Practitioners’ use of exposure therapy in older adults with anxiety disorders
Objective Despite the empirical support for exposure therapy, it is unclear how many community-dwelling older adults with anxiety disorders receive this intervention. This study examined the use of exposure therapy compared to other treatment techniques among clinicians who treat older adults with anxiety disorders.Method 60 registered mental health treatment providers (e.g., psychologists, clinical psychologists) (M = 44 years, 83.3% female) com…
Implementation trial of a cognitive behavioural therapy programme for reducing student stress in the final year of secondary school
The final year of secondary school has been shown to be associated with heightened student stress. Psychological interventions have been shown to be effective in reducing and preventing distress in students during this school period, although the widespread adoption of these interventions into school settings is limited. There have been recent calls for research to examine the implementation success of evidence‐based programmes when used by schoo…
Teachers use of fear appeals
BackgroundFear appeals are discourses commonly used by teachers to motivate students especially when academic outcomes are paramount. Fear appeals have been associated with better and worse academic performance by the student recipients, with some evidence that fear appeals are detrimental for students who are anxious and have lower self-efficacy. Little is known about the factors that drive teachers' use of fear appeals beyond a desire to increa…
Older adults’ attitudes and motivations towards learning about personal dementia risk and their willingness to make changes to improve their health in primary care settings
Objective This study assessed older adults' preferences, attitudes, and motivations to understand and change their individual risk for developing dementia via screening in primary care settings
Necessary but not sufficient
Objective This study examined the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns and physical distancing requirements on engagement with and sense of connectedness to social activities among older adults.Method Community-dwelling cognitively healthy older adults (N = 126) completed self-report questionnaires post-lock down (November 2020 to February 2021) assessing participation format (face-to-face with restrictions, online), frequency of attendance, and connecte…
Temporal associations of emotional and social loneliness and psychosocial functioning in emerging adulthood
Emerging adulthood is an important developmental phase often accompanied by peaks in loneliness, social anxiety, and depression. However, knowledge is lacking on how the relationships between emotional loneliness, social loneliness, social isolation, social anxiety and depression evolve over time. Gaining insight in these temporal relations is crucial for our understanding of how these problems arise and maintain each other across time. Young adu…
Academic Stress Interventions in High Schools
The experience of academic stress is common during high school and can have significant negative consequences for students' educational achievement and wellbeing. High school students frequently report heightened levels of school-related distress, particularly as they approach high-stakes assessments. Programs designed to reduce or prevent academic stress are needed, and their delivery in school settings is ideal to improve treatment access. The …
Anxiety and Teacher-Student Relationships in Secondary School
Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental disorders experienced by adolescents. As students spend a significant amount of time within a school environment, it is not surprising that factors in the school environment have been linked to student mental health. Positive teacher-student relationships (TSRs) in children have been found to improve student mental health outcomes, with supportive TSRs associated with reduced student anxiety, and in…
Stakeholder Attitudes Toward the Implementation of School-Based, Universal, Mental Health Screening
This paper reports on data from two trials about stakeholders' attitudes to school-based mental health screening. Study 1 reports data from 6228 students from grades 4 to 12 while Study 2 reports data from 267 caregivers and 34 educators from a larger trial. All three groups of stakeholders reported broadly positive attitudes toward school-based screening. Few students reported distress from questions and most agreed that schools should screen. C…
The positivity effect is robust to health and social content in ambiguous scenario interpretation
These studies investigated whether the positivity effect in older adults results in positively valenced interpretations of ambiguous scenarios and whether personally relevant health content and induced positive and negative moods attenuate or moderate the effect. In two studies conducted in 2022 and 2023, older ( n Study1 = 31, M ageStudy1 = 72.16, SD ageStudy1 = 7.81, n Study2 = 51, M ageStudy2 = 71.64, SD ageStudy2 = 6.39) and younger ( n Study…
Psychology (15 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (11 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Anxiety (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Mental health (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)