Qualifications

• PhD in Psychology (funded by the Economic Social and Research Council- E.S.R.C) entitled 'The role of the family environment and of threat-related cognitive biases in childhood anxiety', University of Southampton
• MSc Research Methods in Psychology, University of Southampton
• Postgraduate Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Skills, University of East Anglia

Personal Profile/Teaching Experience

Modules:

• Social and Developmental Psychology
• Theoretical Foundations in Psychology
• Psychopathology
• The Psychology of Every day life
• MSc in Clinical Child Psychology

Research Interests

• Models explanatory of anxiety and depression in childhood with a focus on (1) developmental theories of the acquisition of cognitive skills (i.e. inhibitory control, emotional reasoning) and (2) symptom specificity
• Intergenerational transmission of mental health problems in chronic conditions (diabetes, chronic pain) focusing on positive psychology (i.e. acceptance, emotional regulation) in predicting resilience in the child

Consultancy and other Professional Activity

Member of the Research Group GRIA (Department of Developmental Psychology) University of Barcelona.

Publications

Perez-Olivas, G., & Hadwin, J. A. (under review). The development of a theoretical framework to understanding the origins of panic in children and adolescents. Clinical Psychology Review.

Hoppitt, L., Bowler, J., Illingworth, J, Dalgleish, T., Ononaiye, M., Perez-Olivas, G.,& Mackintosh, B. (under review). Asymmetrical transfer effects of cognitive bias modification: modifying attention to threat influences interpretation of emotional ambiguity but not vice versa. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychology.

Perez-Olivas, G., Stevenson, J., & Hadwin, J. A. (2011) The association between elevated maternal panic-like and depression symptoms and separation-related interpretive biases in offspring. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 20, (2), 232-239.

Hadwin, J. A., Garner, M., & Perez-Olivas, G. (2006). The development of information processing biases in childhood anxiety: A review and exploration of its origins in parenting. Clinical Psychology Review, 26, 876-894.

Perez-Olivas, G., Stevenson, J., & Hadwin, J. A. (2008). Do anxiety-related attentional biases mediate the link between maternal over involvement and separation anxiety in children?. Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion 22, (3), 509-521.

Conference Papers

Hoppitt, L, Mathews, A, Yiend, J, Perez-Olivas, G & Mackintosh, B. (2009) Cognitive Bias Modification: improving the effectiveness of interpretive bias training. In: 37th Annual Congress of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP), University of Exeter.

Perez-Olivas G., Hadwin, J. A., Daley, D., Stevenson, J.,& Garner M. (2005) The development of information processing biases in childhood anxiety: A review and exploration of its origins in parenting . In 33rd Annual Congress of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP), University of Kent.