Richard A Bryant
Biographic Data
| ID | 3927941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard A Bryant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bryant |
| SIGNATURE | BRYANT R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Examining the associations between trauma intrusions, emotion regulation, and affect among European Australian and Chinese Australian trauma survivors using ecological momentary assessment
Momentary intrusions were associated with diverse emotion regulation strategy use and moderated associations between emotion regulation strategy use and affect. Importantly, cultural group moderated some of these associations, suggesting the use of emotion regulation strategies is not universal. The findings highlight the importance of considering cultural context in trauma treatment and a need for further research in this area. (PsycInfo Databas…
Effectiveness of a stepped-care programme of WHO psychological interventions in migrant populations resettled in Italy: Study protocol for the Respond randomized controlled trial
ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier: NCT04993534
Views and experiences of migrants and stakeholders involved in social and health care for migrants in Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study
Registration number 2021-UNVRCLE-0106707, February 11 2021
Opponent intrinsic brain network connectivity profiles associated with posttraumatic fear and dysphoria symptoms in trauma-exposed refugees
Fear and dysphoria posttraumatic symptoms showed opponent associations with admDMN and tpDMN connectivity, potentially reflecting patterns of under- and overemotion dysregulation associated with these symptom profiles respectively. Findings highlight the importance of considering posttraumatic heterogeneity when constructing neural models of PTSD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Efficacy of a brief psychological intervention to reduce distress in healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial
This trial provides initial evidence that a brief psychological intervention delivered via videoconferencing results in significant reductions in mental health problems arising during the COVID-19 pandemic. Booster sessions or digital tools may be needed to maintain the initial gains achieved by RECHARGE. This intervention may have utility in improving the mental health of HCWs both during pandemics and everyday stressors. (PsycInfo Database Reco…
Mental health problems and needs of frontline healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic in Spain: A qualitative analysis
Background: Healthcare workers (HCWs) from COVID-19 hotspots worldwide have reported poor mental health outcomes since the pandemic's beginning. The virulence of the initial COVID-19 surge in Spain and the urgency for rapid evidence constrained early studies in their capacity to inform mental health programs accurately. Here, we used a qualitative research design to describe relevant mental health problems among frontline HCWs and explore their a…
Problems after flight: Understanding and comparing Syrians’ perspectives in the Middle East and Europe
This study highlights the impact of local contextual factors on wellbeing. The findings emphasise that planning preventative procedures and mental health care services for SRAs need to consider local challenges affecting the population in specific countries
Prolonged Grief Disorder Among Refugees in Psychological Treatment—Association With Self-Efficacy and Emotion Regulation
These findings suggest that emotion regulation and perceived self-efficacy are associated with PGD in refugees in psychological treatment and are thus potential targets for treatment interventions
Group problem management plus (gPM+) in the treatment of common mental disorders in Syrian refugees in a Jordanian camp: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry, ACTRN12619001386123. Registered prospectively on 10/10/2019
Post‐traumatic stress disorder: A state‐of‐the‐art review of evidence and challenges
Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is arguably the most common psychiatric disorder to arise after exposure to a traumatic event. Since its formal introduction in the DSM‐III in 1980, knowledge has grown significantly regarding its causes, maintaining mechanisms and treatments. Despite this increased understanding, however, the actual definition of the disorder remains controversial. The DSM‐5 and ICD‐11 define the disorder differently, reflec…
The effect of group involvement on post-disaster mental health: A longitudinal multilevel analysis
The effect of post-traumatic stress disorder on refugees' parenting and their children's mental health: A cohort study
BACKGROUND: Children and adolescents, who account for most of the world's refugees, have an increased prevalence of psychological disorders. The mental health of refugee children is often associated with the severity of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in their caregivers. Despite the potential for refugee caregivers' PTSD to affect child mental health, little evidence exists concerning the underlying mechanisms of this association. This stu…
A Longitudinal Investigation of Moral Injury Appraisals Amongst Treatment-Seeking Refugees
There is currently an unprecedented number of forcibly displaced people worldwide. Understanding psychological mechanisms that contribute to the mental health of refugees and asylum-seekers is important for informing the development of effective interventions for these populations. Moral injury appraisals represent an important potential cognitive mechanism that may contribute to psychological symptoms following exposure to persecution, war, and …
Can work make you mentally ill? A systematic meta-review of work-related risk factors for common mental health problems
It has been suggested that certain types of work may increase the risk of common mental disorders, but the exact nature of the relationship has been contentious. The aim of this paper is to conduct the first comprehensive systematic meta-review of the evidence linking work to the development of common mental health problems, specifically depression, anxiety and/or work-related stress and to consider how the risk factors identified may relate to e…
A review of current evidence regarding the ICD-11 proposals for diagnosing PTSD and complex PTSD
Activating attachment representations during memory retrieval modulates intrusive traumatic memories
The mental health benefits of employment: Results of a systematic meta-review
OBJECTIVE: The literature on mental health in the workplace largely focuses on the negative impacts of work and how work may contribute to the development of mental disorders. The potential mental health benefits of employment have received less attention. METHOD: A systematic search of reviews or meta-analyses that consider the benefits of work in regards to mental health was undertaken using academic databases. All relevant reviews were subject…
Challenging future, challenging past: The relationship of social integration and psychological impairment in traumatized refugees
BACKGROUND: Refugees have been shown to present high prevalence rates of trauma-related mental disorders. Despite their psychological impairment, they are expected to meet high functional requirements in terms of social integration into, and financial independence from, the host society. METHODS: This cross-sectional study examined the relationship of mental health problems, post-migration living difficulties (PMLD), and social integration in a s…
Acute Stress Disorder: What It Is and How to Treat It
Advantages and psychometric validation of proximal intensive assessments of patient-reported outcomes collected in daily life
Conceptualising Post-Disaster Recovery: Incorporating Grief Experiences
In the disaster literature, psycho-social recovery is conceptualised typically as the alleviation of traumatic stress, with the alleviation of disaster-related grief as a less prominent part of this. Yet, incorporating grief understandings into recovery conceptualisations post disaster is important. This paper explores these conceptualisations by analysing participants' bereavement experiences following the Black Saturday bushfires. It draws on d…
Diagnosis and classification of disorders specifically associated with stress: Proposals for ICD-11
The diagnostic concepts of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other disorders specifically associated with stress have been intensively discussed among neuro- and social scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists, public health planners and humanitarian aid workers around the world. PTSD and adjustment disorder are among the most widely used diagnoses in mental health care worldwide. This paper describes proposals that aim to maximize clinica…
The influence of cognitive and emotional suppression on overgeneral autobiographical memory retrieval
Exploration of Delayed-Onset Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After Severe Injury
Objective The first aim of this work was to conduct a rigorous longitudinal study to identify rates of delayed-onset posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a sample of patients with severe injury. The second aim was to determine what variables differentiated delayed-onset PTSD from chronic PTSD. Methods Randomly selected patients with injury who were admitted to four hospitals around Australia were recruited to the study (N = 834) and assessed i…
Beyond Bushfires: Community, Resilience and Recovery - a longitudinal mixed method study of the medium to long term impacts of bushfires on mental health and social connectedness
Conducting the study over five years and focussing on the role of social networks will provide new insights into the interplay between individual and community factors and their influence on recovery from natural disaster over time. The study findings will thereby expand understanding of long term disaster recovery needs for individuals and communities
Worry, worry attacks, and PTSD among Cambodian refugees: A path analysis investigation
The effect of group involvement on post-disaster mental health: A longitudinal multilevel analysis
Dreams of the Dead Among Cambodian Refugees: Frequency, Phenomenology, and Relationship to Complicated Grief and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
The authors investigated the importance of dreams of the deceased in the experiencing of prolonged grief (PG) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Cambodian refugees who survived the Pol Pot genocide (1975-1979). Such dreams were frequent in the last month (52% of those surveyed), and most often involved a relative who died in the Pol Pot period. Past month frequency was correlated with PG severity (r = .59) and PTSD severity (r = .52).…
A mixed-method study of expert psychological evidence submitted for a cohort of asylum seekers undergoing refugee status determination in Australia
Conceptualising Post-Disaster Recovery: Incorporating Grief Experiences
In the disaster literature, psycho-social recovery is conceptualised typically as the alleviation of traumatic stress, with the alleviation of disaster-related grief as a less prominent part of this. Yet, incorporating grief understandings into recovery conceptualisations post disaster is important. This paper explores these conceptualisations by analysing participants' bereavement experiences following the Black Saturday bushfires. It draws on d…
Evaluation of the Dispositional Hope Scale in injury survivors
Atomic testing and post-traumatic stress disorder: Legally defining a stressor
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric diagnosis that links a stressor to an anxiety reaction. It is increasingly the subject of compensation claims in Australian courts. A recent Federal Court decision ruled against an applicant's claim for PTSD arising from exposure to atomic testing in Maralinga in 1957. The legal definition of stressor is discussed in the context of this case and of recent developments in diagnostic criteria o…
The Assessment of Post‐traumatic Stress Disorder for Workers' Compensation in Emergency Service Personnel
There is considerable debate concerning the diagnosis of post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in compensation claims. This study reviewed the quality of the assessment reports prepared by clinicians who evaluated 31 emergency service workers making PTSD‐related compensation claims. Assessments were conducted by 4‐year trained psychologists (39%), psychologists holding a masters degree (36%), and psychiatrists (19%). The assessment reports were e…
Hypnotic blindness and the relevance of cognitive style
Real, hypnotized and simulating, unhypnotized subjects were instructed to use either a constructive or a concentrative cognitive style when attempting to respond to a suggestion for hypnotic blindness; also, some subjects were administered the suggestion without any instructions about cognitive style. More reals who received the constructive rather than the concentrative instructions reported complete blindness; a similar number of simulators who…
Atomic testing and post-traumatic stress disorder: Legally defining a stressor
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric diagnosis that links a stressor to an anxiety reaction. It is increasingly the subject of compensation claims in Australian courts. A recent Federal Court decision ruled against an applicant's claim for PTSD arising from exposure to atomic testing in Maralinga in 1957. The legal definition of stressor is discussed in the context of this case and of recent developments in diagnostic criteria o…
Acute stress disorder: A synthesis and critique
Seeing is believing: The reality of hypnotic hallucinations
Elevated Resting Heart Rate as a Predictor of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Objective: This study indexed the relationship between resting heart rates (HRs) after injury and subsequent posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in patients who sustained severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Methods: Patients who sustained a severe TBI (N = 68) had their resting HR assessed 1 week and 1 month after injury, and they were assessed for PTSD 6 months after injury with the PTSD Interview, a structured clinical interview based on the …
Extinction Learning Before Trauma and Subsequent Posttraumatic Stress
OBJECTIVE: Fear conditioning theories propose that persistent stress reactions may occur as a result of impaired extinction learning, and a poor capacity for extinction learning may predispose some individuals to posttraumatic stress disorder development. This study indexed the extent to which deficits in extinction learning before trauma exposure are a risk factor for persistent posttraumatic stress after trauma exposure. METHODS: Eighty-four fi…
Five Essential Elements of Immediate and Mid–Term Mass Trauma Intervention: Empirical Evidence
Given the devastation caused by disasters and mass violence, it is critical that intervention policy be based on the most updated research findings. However, to date, no evidence-based consensus has been reached supporting a clear set of recommendations for intervention during the immediate and the mid-term post mass trauma phases. Because it is unlikely that there will be evidence in the near or mid-term future from clinical trials that cover th…
The psychology of ongoing threat: Relative risk appraisal, the September 11 attacks, and terrorism-related fears
There are now replicated findings that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms related to the September 11, 2001, attacks occurred in large numbers of persons who did not fit the traditional definition of exposure to a traumatic event. These data are not explained by traditional epidemiologic "bull's eye" disaster models, which assume the psychological effects are narrowly, geographically circumscribed, or by existing models of PTSD onset. …
Association of Torture and Other Potentially Traumatic Events With Mental Health Outcomes Among Populations Exposed to Mass Conflict and Displacement: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
CONTEXT: Uncertainties continue about the roles that methodological factors and key risk factors, particularly torture and other potentially traumatic events (PTEs), play in the variation of reported prevalence rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression across epidemiologic surveys among postconflict populations worldwide. OBJECTIVE: To undertake a systematic review and meta-regression of the prevalence rates of PTSD and depress…
Evaluation of the Dispositional Hope Scale in injury survivors
The impact of fear for family on mental health in a resettled Iraqi refugee community
A critical review of psychological treatments of posttraumatic stress disorder in refugees
Dream rebound of suppressed emotional thoughts: The influence of cognitive load
Worry, worry attacks, and PTSD among Cambodian refugees: A path analysis investigation
The impact of perceived self-efficacy on mental time travel and social problem solving
Diagnosis and classification of disorders specifically associated with stress: Proposals for ICD-11
The diagnostic concepts of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other disorders specifically associated with stress have been intensively discussed among neuro- and social scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists, public health planners and humanitarian aid workers around the world. PTSD and adjustment disorder are among the most widely used diagnoses in mental health care worldwide. This paper describes proposals that aim to maximize clinica…
The influence of cognitive and emotional suppression on overgeneral autobiographical memory retrieval
Exploration of Delayed-Onset Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After Severe Injury
Objective The first aim of this work was to conduct a rigorous longitudinal study to identify rates of delayed-onset posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a sample of patients with severe injury. The second aim was to determine what variables differentiated delayed-onset PTSD from chronic PTSD. Methods Randomly selected patients with injury who were admitted to four hospitals around Australia were recruited to the study (N = 834) and assessed i…
Beyond Bushfires: Community, Resilience and Recovery - a longitudinal mixed method study of the medium to long term impacts of bushfires on mental health and social connectedness
Conducting the study over five years and focussing on the role of social networks will provide new insights into the interplay between individual and community factors and their influence on recovery from natural disaster over time. The study findings will thereby expand understanding of long term disaster recovery needs for individuals and communities
Dreams of the Dead Among Cambodian Refugees: Frequency, Phenomenology, and Relationship to Complicated Grief and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
The authors investigated the importance of dreams of the deceased in the experiencing of prolonged grief (PG) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Cambodian refugees who survived the Pol Pot genocide (1975-1979). Such dreams were frequent in the last month (52% of those surveyed), and most often involved a relative who died in the Pol Pot period. Past month frequency was correlated with PG severity (r = .59) and PTSD severity (r = .52).…
The Assessment of Post‐traumatic Stress Disorder for Workers' Compensation in Emergency Service Personnel
There is considerable debate concerning the diagnosis of post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in compensation claims. This study reviewed the quality of the assessment reports prepared by clinicians who evaluated 31 emergency service workers making PTSD‐related compensation claims. Assessments were conducted by 4‐year trained psychologists (39%), psychologists holding a masters degree (36%), and psychiatrists (19%). The assessment reports were e…
A mixed-method study of expert psychological evidence submitted for a cohort of asylum seekers undergoing refugee status determination in Australia
Advantages and psychometric validation of proximal intensive assessments of patient-reported outcomes collected in daily life
Conceptualising Post-Disaster Recovery: Incorporating Grief Experiences
In the disaster literature, psycho-social recovery is conceptualised typically as the alleviation of traumatic stress, with the alleviation of disaster-related grief as a less prominent part of this. Yet, incorporating grief understandings into recovery conceptualisations post disaster is important. This paper explores these conceptualisations by analysing participants' bereavement experiences following the Black Saturday bushfires. It draws on d…
The mental health benefits of employment: Results of a systematic meta-review
OBJECTIVE: The literature on mental health in the workplace largely focuses on the negative impacts of work and how work may contribute to the development of mental disorders. The potential mental health benefits of employment have received less attention. METHOD: A systematic search of reviews or meta-analyses that consider the benefits of work in regards to mental health was undertaken using academic databases. All relevant reviews were subject…
Psychology (35 works) · Psychiatry (31 works) · Medicine (25 works) · Clinical Psychology (23 works) · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (21 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (19 works) · Mental health (16 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Refugee (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works)