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Professor Stephen Houghton is a registered psychologist and Director of the Centre for Child & Adolescent Related Disorders at the University of Western Australia. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde in the School of Psychological and Health Sciences. His research expertise focuses on child and adolescent developmental psychopathology, the effects of loneliness on behavioral, social, educational, and health outcomes. With a robust h-index of 40 and i10-index of 105, his work has garnered significant citations, exceeding 6,000, involving recent studies on the longitudinal causal associations between electronic screen use and mental health among young people, spread across 60 countries. He leads an ARC longitudinal study investigating loneliness among adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders and is involved in a Healthway project to develop a 3-D animated cognitive bias modification treatment for adolescent mental health. Houghton has received multiple grants totaling $6 million from the ARC and Healthway, among others. His teaching encompasses educational psychology, developmental psychopathology, special education, and quantitative research methods, fostering innovative treatments in mental health promotion, loneliness, and developmental issues.
University of Western Australia • Perth, Australia
Lead research and teaching in the field of Child and Adolescent Psychology.
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