Life-Fit-Learning Published Research Papers
Palmer, B. R., Sluis, R., & Waters, A. M. (2025). Using physical activity guidelines to examine associations between self-reported physical activity and depression symptoms in adolescent girls. Australian Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1080/00050067.2025.2475740
Waters, A. M., Sluis, R. A., Usher, W., Farrell, L. J., Donovan, C. L., Modecki, K. L., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Knox, C., Castle, M., & Hinchey, J. (2025). Mental health outcomes for teenage boys and girls following a youth sports development program including a mental health program. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2025.2495590
Waters, A. M., Sluis, R. A., Usher, W., Farrell, L. J., Donovan, C. L., Modecki, K. L., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Castle, M., & Hinchey, J. (2024). Reaching young people in urban and rural communities with mental health and wellbeing support within a youth sports development program: Integrating in-person and remote modes of service delivery. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-023-01647-1
Finch, J., Waters, A. M., & Farrell, L. J. (2023). Developing the HERO within: Evaluation of a brief intervention for increasing Psychological Capital (PsyCap) in Australian female students during the final year of school in the first year of COVID-19. Journal of Affective Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.12.169
Waters, A. M., Gibson, L., Sluis, R. A., & Modecki, K. L. (2023). Using nightly sleep guidelines to address links between adolescents’ self-reported weekly sleep patterns and anxiety and depression symptoms. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-023-01610-0
Waters, A. M., Sluis, R. A., Farrell, L. J., Donovan, C. L., Elvin, O. M., Rossow, N., van den Muyzenberg, J., Dowell, T. L., Ryan, K. M., Finch, J., Usher, W., Modecki, K. L., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., & Spence, S. H. (2022). Examining the process of implementing a three-step mental health and wellbeing system of care for children and adolescents across multiple community settings. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 53(4), 822-839. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01184-9
Waters, A. M., Sluis, R. A., Ryan, K. M., Usher, W., Farrell, L. J., Donovan, C. L., Modecki, K. L., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Castle, M., & Hinchey, J. (2022). Evaluating the Implementation of a Multi-Technology Delivery of a Mental Health and Wellbeing System of Care Within a Youth Sports Development Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Behaviour Change, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1017/bec.2022.17
Waters, A. M., Sluis, R. A., Usher, W., Farrell, L. J., Donovan, C. L., Modecki, K. L., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Castle, M., & Hinchey, J. (2022). Kick-starting youth wellbeing and access to mental health care: Efficacy of an integrated model of care within a junior sports development program. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 157, 104166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2022.104166
Dowell, T. L., Waters, A. M., Usher, W., Farrell, L. J., Donovan, C. L., Modecki, K. L., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Castle, M., & Hinchey, J. (2021). Tackling mental health in youth sporting programs: a pilot study of a holistic program. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 52, 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-020-00984-9
Elvin, O. M., Modecki, K. L., Finch, J., Donnolley, K., Farrell, L. J., & Waters, A. M. (2021). Joining the pieces in childhood irritability: Distinct typologies predict conduct, depressive, and anxiety symptoms. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 136, 103779. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2020.103779
Finch, J., Farrell, L. J., & Waters, A. M. (2020). Searching for the HERO in youth: Does psychological capital (PsyCap) predict mental health symptoms and subjective wellbeing in Australian school-aged children and adolescents?. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 51, 1025-1036. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-020-01023-3
