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Dr Kylie Burke

Senior Research Fellow
School of Psychology
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Researcher biography

Dr Burke is a researcher and psychologist with twenty years' experience working with parents and families. Her work focuses on supporting parents and children experiencing adversity, including parenting adolescents, supporting parents of children with life-threatening child illnesses and the intergenerational effects of social disadvantage. She has extensive experience in training other professionals to better support parents and is co-author on several programs for parents. She has extensive experience in training other professionals to better support parents and is co-author on several programs for parents, including:

• The 'Take A Breath Parent Intervention' – a program for parents who have a child with a life-threatening illness

• The "ABCD Parenting Young Adolescents Program" – a group based program for parents of 10-14 year olds

• The "Parenting Support Toolkit for Alcohol and Other Drug Workers"

Dr Burke is the currently the Director of a population-based trial of the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program multilevel system of evidence-based parenting support. This project will target some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable families in Australia.

Featured projects Duration
Every Family: The Australian Triple P system population trial
Assessing the multifaceted influence of parents on adolescent adjustment: Development and validation of a new parent-adolescent questionnaire battery
Protective functions of parent-adolescent relationships in youth mental health outcomes
Supporting families involved in the Queensland community corrections system: The role of parenting interventions in improving adolescent and parent outcomes
Preventing intergenerational disadvantage and poor psychosocial wellbeing: How family factors influence the long-term effects of adversity

Publications

Journal Articles (17)

Journal Articles

Muscara, Frank, McCarthy, Maria C., Thompson, Emma J., Heaney, Claire-Marie, Hearps, Stephen J. C., Rayner, Meredith, Burke, Kylie, Nicholson, Jan M. and Anderson, Vicki A. (2017) Psychosocial, demographic, and illness-related factors associated with acute traumatic stress responses in parents of children with a serious illness or injury. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 30 3: 237-244. doi:10.1002/jts.22193
Burke, Kylie, McCarthy, Maria, Lowe, Cherie, Sanders, Matthew R. , Lloyd, Erin, Bowden, Madeleine and Williams, Lauren (2017) Measuring cancer-specific child adjustment difficulties: development and validation of the Children's Oncology Child Adjustment Scale (ChOCs). Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 64 3: . doi:10.1002/pbc.26223
Sanders, Matthew R., Burke, Kylie, Prinz, Ronald J. and Morawska, Alina (2017) Achieving population-level change through a system-contextual approach to supporting competent parenting. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 1-9. doi:10.1007/s10567-017-0227-4
Dittman, Cassandra K., Burke, Kylie, Filus, Ania, Haslam, Divna and Ralph, Alan (2016) Measuring positive and negative aspects of youth behavior: development and validation of the Adolescent Functioning Scale. Journal of Adolescence, 52 135-145. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2016.08.002
Williams, Lauren K., McCarthy, Maria C., Burke, Kylie, Anderson, Vicki and Rinehart, Nicole (2016) Addressing behavioral impacts of childhood leukemia: a feasibility pilot randomized controlled trial of a group videoconferencing parenting intervention. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 24 61-69. doi:10.1016/j.ejon.2016.08.008
McCarthy, Maria C., Hearps, Stephen J. C., Muscara, Frank, Anderson, Vicki A., Burke, Kylie, Hearps, Simone J. and Kazak, Anne E. (2016) Family psychosocial risk screening in infants and older children in the acute pediatric hospital setting using the psychosocial assessment tool. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 41 7: 820-829. doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsw055
Rayner, Meredith, Dimovski, Anica, Muscara, Frank, Yamada, Jackie, Burke, Kylie, McCarthy, Maria, Hearps, Stephen J. C., Anderson, Vicki A., Coe, Amy, Hayes, Louise, Walser, Robyn and Nicholson, Jan M. (2016) Participating from the comfort of your living room: feasibility of a group videoconferencing intervention to reduce distress in parents of children with a serious illness or injury. Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 38 3: 209-224. doi:10.1080/07317107.2016.1203145
Rayner, Meredith, Muscara, Frank, Dimovski, Anica, McCarthy, Maria C., Yamada, Jackie, Anderson, Vicki A., Burke, Kylie, Walser, Robyn and Nicholson, Jan M. (2016) Take a breath: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of an online group intervention to reduce traumatic stress in parents of children with a life threatening illness or injury. BMC Psychiatry, 16 1: . doi:10.1186/s12888-016-0861-2
Muscara, Frank, Burke, Kylie, McCarthy, Maria C., Anderson, Vicki A., Hearps, Stephen J. C., Hearps, Simone J., Dimovski, Anica and Nicholson, Jan M. (2015) Parent distress reactions following a serious illness or injury in their child: a protocol paper for the take a breath cohort study. BMC Psychiatry, 15 1: 1-11. doi:10.1186/s12888-015-0519-5
Muscara, F., McCarthy, M. C., Woolf, C., Hearps, S. J. C., Burke, K. and Anderson, V. A. (2015) Early psychological reactions in parents of children with a life threatening illness within a pediatric hospital setting. European Psychiatry, 30 5: 555-561. doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2014.12.008
Burke, Kylie and Moore, Susan (2014) Development of the Parental Psychological Flexibility Questionnaire. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 46 4: 548-557. doi:10.1007/s10578-014-0495-x
Burke, Kylie, Muscar, Frank, McCarthy, Maria, Dimovski, Anica, Hearps, Stephen, Anderson, Vicki and Walser, Robyn (2014) Adapting acceptance and commitment therapy for parents of children with life-threatening illness: pilot study. Families, Systems and Health, 32 1: 122-127. doi:10.1037/fsh0000012
Hackworth, Naomi J., Matthews, Jan, Burke, Kylie, Petrovic, Zvezdana, Klein, Britt, Northam, Elisabeth A., Kyrios, Michael, Chiechomski, Lisa and Cameron, Fergus J. (2013) Improving mental health of adolescents with Type 1 diabetes: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial of the Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained online adolescent and parenting support intervention. BMC Public Health, 13 1: 1185.1-1185.10. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-13-1185
Sanders, Matthew R. and Burke, Kylie (2013) The “Hidden” technology of effective parent consultation: a guided participation model for promoting change in families. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 23 7: 1289-1297. doi:10.1007/s10826-013-9827-x
Hearps, Simone J., McCarthy, Maria C., Muscara, Frank, Hearps, Stephen J. C., Burke, Kylie, Jones, Bryn and Anderson, Vicki A. (2013) Psychosocial risk in families of infants undergoing surgery for a serious congenital heart disease. Cardiology in the Young, 1-8. doi:10.1017/S1047951113000760
Burke, Kylie, Brennan, Leah and Cann, Warren (2012) Promoting protective factors for young adolescents: outcomes from a randomised controlled trial of the ABCD parenting young adolescents program. Journal of Adolescence, 35 5: 1315-1328. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2012.05.002
Burke, Kylie, Brennan, Leah and Roney, Sarah (2010) A randomised controlled trial of the efficacy of the ABCD Parenting Young Adolescents Program: Rationale and methodology. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 4 . doi:10.1186/1753-2000-4-22