Doctor Pete Lawrence

Dr Pete Lawrence

 PhD, DClinPsych, MSc, MA (Cantab), AFBPsS, FHEA
Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Children and young people's development in the face of adversity.
  • Prevention of common mental health problems in children and young people.
  • Parents' mental health.

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Research interests

  • Children and young people's development in the face of adversity.
  • Prevention of common mental health problems in children and young people.
  • Parents' mental health.

Current research

Pete’s work, funded by UK Research and Innovation, the ESRC, the Kavli Trust and the Wellcome Trust, includes:

  1. examining the mental health of UK pre-school children and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic; and
  2. randomised controlled trials to prevent anxiety disorders in children at risk of developing these (MY-CATS and Parenting with Anxiety);
  3. laboratory based experiments examining infants' learning from their mothers and fathers.

 

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