Maree Teesson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5408631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maree Teesson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maree |
| FAMILY NAME | Teesson |
| SIGNATURE | TEESSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6744-463X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Longitudinal Evidence of the Relationship Between Pretend Play and Mental Health in the Early Years
Empirical evidence suggests that pretend play can help children manage anxiety. Few longitudinal studies have explored the benefits of pretend play on the mental health outcomes of children in the general population. The current study explored longitudinal associations between pretend play at age 2–3 years old and mental health outcomes at age 4–5 and 6–7 using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, which included children born …
Prevalence, Associations and Comorbidity of Cannabis Use and Cannabis Use Disorders in the Australian National Mental Health Surveys From 2007 to 2020–22
Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Help‐Seeking for Alcohol and Other Drug Use Among Australian Public Safety Personnel
Co-design of the ‘OurFutures Vaping’ programme: A school-based eHealth intervention to prevent e-cigarette use
Effective preventive interventions are urgently needed to address e-cigarette use (‘vaping’) and related harms among young people. There is a strong evidence base supporting the delivery of substance use preventive interventions in the school setting, and eHealth interventions can overcome common implementation barriers. However, there is a dearth of effective school-based e-cigarette preventive interventions available. This study summarizes the …
E‐cigarette use among gender and sexuality diverse ( LGBTQA +) adolescents in Australia: The case for LGBTQA + affirmative harm reduction
Childhood traumatic experiences and vaping among Australian adolescents: A prospective investigation
The Coproduced Youth Priorities Project: Australian Youth Priorities for Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Research
BACKGROUND: New approaches to mental health and substance use prevention, that bridge research and diagnostic silos are urgently needed to address rising trends in mental illness amongst young people. Engaging diverse stakeholders, including young people, in setting research priorities could aid the development of innovative responses, enhance research and improve translation. While previous activities have identified priorities for Australian me…
The impact of arts-inclusive programs on young children’s mental health and wellbeing: A rapid review
BACKGROUND: This review evaluated the existing literature exploring the effects of arts-inclusive programs (AIPs) on the mental health and wellbeing of young children. AIPs include activities, programs, or interventions containing creative arts. METHODS: Literature searches were conducted across three databases (SCOPUS, psycINFO, and ERIC). The search was restricted to studies reporting outcomes of children 0-6 years. RESULTS: = 2). All included …
Efficacy of an instant messaging-based life-skills training program to prevent behavioral risk factors among adolescents in Europe: Study protocol of a cluster-randomized controlled trial
One of the most significant risk factors for cancer and several other adverse health outcomes is nicotine and tobacco use. Life-skills training programs conducted within the school curriculum are effective in preventing substance use, including nicotine and tobacco use, however, large-scale implementation is hindered by time, organizational and financial constraints. Providing life-skills training programs via smartphones may be a more economical…
A randomised controlled implementation trial of the feasibility and effectiveness of school staff delivery of a selective substance use and mental health program during the Covid-19 pandemic
The study was prospectively registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry, registration number: ACTRN12620000790943, registration date: 6 August 2020
Implementing digital interventions for co-occurring mental health and alcohol and other drug use problems in health and community settings: A study protocol for the eCliPSE cluster randomised controll…
Mental health and alcohol and other drug use problems consistently dominate the top causes of disease burden in Australians. eHealth stands to be a key tool in addressing these issues but is not routinely well-integrated into service provision models. This study will evaluate the uptake of the digital ecosystem and website, eCliPSE [electronic Clinical Pathways to Service Excellence], developed to improve the symptoms of mental health and alcohol…
A mixed-methods study among adolescents and teachers in Bogotá, Colombia: Adapting the OurFutures Alcohol Program
Early onset of alcohol consumption among Colombian adolescents highlights the need for effective and accessible preventive interventions. This project aimed to conduct formative work to inform the adaptation of an effective eHealth alcohol use prevention program originally developed in Australia, the OurFutures Alcohol Module, to the Bogotá context. Twenty-six adolescents and 10 teachers in Bogotá participated in the study. We used a mixed-method…
Perceived barriers to help‐seeking for people who use crystal methamphetamine: Perspectives of people with lived experience, family members and health workers
Exploring the association between adolescent‐perceived parental monitoring on dietary intake
Parenting practices such as parental monitoring are known to positively impact dietary behaviours in offspring. However, links between adolescent-perceived parental monitoring and dietary outcomes have rarely been examined and never in an Australian context. This study investigated whether adolescent-perceived parental monitoring is associated with more fruit and vegetable, and less sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and junk food consumption in Aus…
Cost-Utility Analysis of a School-Based Universal Program for the Prevention of Anxiety, Depression, and Substance Use: The Climate Schools Combined Trial
Predicting Risk of Heroin Overdose, Remission, Use, and Mortality Using Ensemble Learning Methods in a Cohort of People with Heroin Dependence
Despite decades of research demonstrating the effectiveness of treatments for heroin dependence, rates of heroin use, dependence, and death have dramatically increased over the past decade. While evidence has highlighted a range of risk and protective factors for relapse, remission, and other outcomes, this presents clinicians with the challenge as to how to synthesise and integrate the evolving evidence-base to guide clinical decision-making and…
The Triple E project: A factorial randomised controlled trial to enhance engagement with eHealth approaches to improve health risk behaviours among adolescents
The trial is registered at the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12623000399695). Date registered: 19/04/2023
Adolescent behavioural intentions: Secondary outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial of the Health4Life school-based lifestyle modification intervention
Health4Life shows promise in influencing adolescent intentions across various MHBC areas, especially immediately after intervention. However, further investigation is needed to sustain these intention changes beyond short term to facilitate behaviour change
Effectiveness of online training for improving knowledge, attitudes, and confidence of alcohol and other drug workers in relation to co-occurring mental health conditions
There is increasing recognition that the high rates of co-occurring mental disorders among clients of substance use treatment services require alcohol and other drugs (AOD) workers to be skilled in their identification, management, and treatment. Despite advances in e-learning, to our knowledge, based on our review of the literature, there are no training programs with the capacity to build foundational knowledge, attitudes, and confidence in men…
Longitudinal and self‐attributed change in alcohol use among young adults during the Covid ‐19 pandemic in Australia
Peer-Related Correlates of e-Cigarette Use in Australian Adolescents: A Cross-sectional Examination
Background This study examined cross-sectional associations between e-cigarette use and (i) perceived peer use of e-cigarettes and (ii) bullying (perpetration and/or victimisation) in Australian adolescents. Methods Data were collected in 2022 as part of a cluster randomised controlled trial. Logistic regressions examined associations between e-cigarette use (ever use) and the perceived proportion of friends who use e-cigarettes, bullying victimi…
Patterns and Predictors of Heroin Use, Remission, and Psychiatric Health Among People with Heroin Dependence: Key Findings from the 18–20-Year Follow-Up of the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (Atos…
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11469-022-01006-6
Different Tokes for Different Folks: Use of Cannabis Products Among a Longitudinal Cohort of People with Heroin Dependence
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11469-023-01071-5
Study protocol of the Our Futures Vaping Trial: A cluster randomised controlled trial of a school-based eHealth intervention to prevent e-cigarette use among adolescents
The trial has been prospectively registered with the Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12623000022662; date registered: 10/01/2023)
Long-term patterns of treatment use for opioid use disorder (OUD): Findings from the 18-20-year Australian Treatment Outcome Study
In one of the longest cohort studies of its kind, we characterised distinct trajectories of treatment use in people with heroin dependence over 18-20-years. Clinicians should be aware of the potential impact of demographics and substance use on long-term treatment use. Despite the well-documented benefits of long-term treatment, some patients may be able to achieve abstinence from opioids without engaging in treatment over the life-course
How common is comorbidity and why does it occur
Comorbidity is most generally defined as the co-occurrence of two or more mental health problems. Comorbidity between drug and other psychological disorders has emerged as a major clinical, public health and research issue over the past few decades. The reasons for comorbidity are complex. Furthermore, comorbidity is often associated with poor treatment outcome, severe illness course, and high service utilisation. This presents a significant chal…
Patterns of Nonfatal Heroin Overdose Over a 3-Year Period: Findings From the Australian Treatment Outcome Study
Lifetime Prevalence of Gender-Based Violence in Women and the Relationship With Mental Disorders and Psychosocial Function
CONTEXT: Intimate partner physical violence, rape, sexual assault, and stalking are pervasive and co-occurring forms of gender-based violence (GBV). An association between these forms of abuse and lifetime mental disorder and psychosocial disability among women needs to be examined. OBJECTIVES: To assess the association of GBV and mental disorder, its severity and comorbidity, and psychosocial functioning among women. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICI…
The association between moral disengagement, psychological distress, resistive self-regulatory efficacy and alcohol and cannabis use among adolescents in Sydney, Australia
Objective: The current study aimed to: (i) examine the estimated proportion of young Australian's using alcohol and cannabis, and (ii) investigate a number of individual risk factors associated with use
Developing the Climate Schools: Ecstasy Module—A Universal Internet-Based Drug Prevention Program
The Climate Schools: Ecstasy module is a universal harm-minimisation school-based prevention program for adolescents aged 14 to 16 years. The program was developed to address the need for Ecstasy prevention given the increasing use of Ecstasy use among young Australians. The core content of the program is delivered over the Internet using cartoon storylines to engage students, and the teacher-driven activities reinforce the core information. The …
A cluster randomised controlled trial of the Climate Schools: Ecstasy and Emerging Drugs Modulein Australian secondary schools: study protocol
This trial is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry, ACTRN12613000708752
The iTreAD project: A study protocol for a randomised controlled clinical trial of online treatment and social networking for binge drinking and depression in young people
Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12614000310662. Date registered 24 March 2014
Birth cohort trends in the global epidemiology of alcohol use and alcohol-related harms in men and women: Systematic review and metaregression
Pathways to prevention: Protocol for the CAP (Climate and Preventure) study to evaluate the long-term effectiveness of school-based universal, selective and combined alcohol misuse prevention into ear…
This trial was registered in the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ( ACTRN12612000026820 ) on January 6th 2012
Social Phobia Among Depressed Individuals Entering Residential Rehabilitation Programmes: Prevalence and Correlates
Lifestyle risk indices in adolescence and their relationships to adolescent disease burden: Findings from an Australian national survey
This lifestyle risk factor index represents a useful summary metric in the context of adolescent health promotion and non-communicable disease prevention. Lifestyle risk factors were found to cluster in adolescence, supporting the implementation of multiple health behaviour change interventions
Bidirectional relationships in the development of internalising symptoms and alcohol use in adolescence
Themes in sentencing young adults charged with serious violent crime involving alcohol and other drugs
The majority of young people in custody have alcohol and other drug problems and over 90% report past-year experiences of high-risk drinking and illicit drug use. Despite a strong link between drug use and violent offending, there is a dearth of information about how this relationship plays out in sentencing young adult offenders. This study examines themes in the sentencing of drug-using young adults facing court for serious violent crime and de…
Shared decision‐making among people with problematic alcohol/other drug use and co‐occurring mental health conditions: A systematic review
It’s the Content That Counts: Longitudinal Associations between Social Media Use, Parental Monitoring, and Alcohol Use in an Australian Sample of Adolescents Aged 13 to 16 Years
(1) Background: More time spent on social media has been linked to increased alcohol use, with exposure to peer alcohol-related content on social media (content exposure) named as a critical factor in this relationship. Little is currently known about whether early content exposure may have lasting effects across adolescent development, or about the capacity of parental monitoring of social media use to interrupt these links. (2) Methods: These g…
Strong and Deadly Futures: Co-Development of a Web-Based Wellbeing and Substance Use Prevention Program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Non-Aboriginal Adolescents
School-based programs can effectively prevent substance use; however, systematic reviews and consultation with stakeholders identified a need for effective, culturally inclusive programs for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (hereafter Aboriginal) youth. This paper describes the development of Strong & Deadly Futures , a six-lesson, curriculum-aligned wellbeing and substance use prevention program that was designed for, and with, the Abori…
Stigma, discrimination and crystal methamphetamine (‘ice’): Current attitudes in Australia
Stigma and discrimination surrounding crystal methamphetamine use was common in this sample of Australian residents, with public stigma more prevalent than self-stigma. This highlights a need for stigma reduction initiatives. Given higher levels of knowledge were associated with less stigmatising attitudes, public education campaigns providing accurate, evidence-based information about crystal methamphetamine along with guidelines and support for…
A systematic review of the efficacy, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of workplace-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of problematic substance use
Employee alcohol and other drug use can negatively impact the workplace, resulting in absenteeism, reduced productivity, high turnover, and worksite safety issues. As the workplace can influence employee substance use through environmental and cultural factors, it also presents a key opportunity to deliver interventions, particularly to employees who may not otherwise seek help. This is a systematic review of workplace-based interventions for the…
The relationship between brain structure and general psychopathology in preadolescents
BACKGROUND: An emerging body of literature has indicated that broad, transdiagnostic dimensions of psychopathology are associated with alterations in brain structure across the life span. The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between brain structure and broad dimensions of psychopathology in the critical preadolescent period when psychopathology is emerging. METHODS: (n = 11,875; age range = 9-10 years; male = 52.2%). General ps…
Acceptability and feasibility of Strong & Deadly Futures, a culturally-inclusive alcohol and drug prevention program for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander secondary students
Although there are effective alcohol and drug prevention programs available for Australian secondary schools, no effective culturally-inclusive programs exist for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students. To address this gap, we developed the Strong & Deadly Futures program for young people aged 12–14 years. The web-based program was developed with Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous staff and students at four secondary…
The directionality of anxiety and gaming disorder: An exploratory analysis of longitudinal data from an Australian youth population
Gaming activities among adolescents have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing with it a growing concern for the potential harms of excessive gaming and its risk factors. Anxiety is frequently linked with gaming disorder, but studies investigating this association were mostly cross-sectional in design. Longitudinal studies that explore risk factors associated with gaming disorder are sparse and the trajectories of gaming disorder remai…
Examining Potential Mechanisms of an Online Universal Prevention for Adolescent Alcohol Use: A Causal Mediation Analysis
Several universal school-based prevention programs, notably the Australian Climate Schools program, have proven efficacious at reducing and maintaining a lower level of harmful alcohol consumption relative to a control condition. Yet, there are limited studies investigating the potential mechanisms that account for the reduction in harmful alcohol consumption. The current study utilised modern causal mediation analysis to investigate whether seve…
Effectiveness of online training for improving knowledge, attitudes, and confidence of alcohol and other drug workers in relation to co-occurring mental health conditions
There is increasing recognition that the high rates of co-occurring mental disorders among clients of substance use treatment services require alcohol and other drugs (AOD) workers to be skilled in their identification, management, and treatment. Despite advances in e-learning, to our knowledge, based on our review of the literature, there are no training programs with the capacity to build foundational knowledge, attitudes, and confidence in men…
Longitudinal and self‐attributed change in alcohol use among young adults during the Covid ‐19 pandemic in Australia
Peer-Related Correlates of e-Cigarette Use in Australian Adolescents: A Cross-sectional Examination
Background This study examined cross-sectional associations between e-cigarette use and (i) perceived peer use of e-cigarettes and (ii) bullying (perpetration and/or victimisation) in Australian adolescents. Methods Data were collected in 2022 as part of a cluster randomised controlled trial. Logistic regressions examined associations between e-cigarette use (ever use) and the perceived proportion of friends who use e-cigarettes, bullying victimi…
Medicine (36 works) · Psychiatry (29 works) · Psychology (28 works) · Environmental health (15 works) · Public health (15 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Mental health (12 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Poison control (10 works)