Carolyn Schniering

Dr Carolyn Schniering

Carolyn Schniering is a Senior Lecturer and Child Psychologist at the Centre for Emotional Health, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Australia. She has an active research programme on the nature and treatment of anxiety and depression in adolescents, and is involved in trials to improve treatments for this age group. Carolyn has first-hand experience in the treatment of adolescents with emotional difficulties, and recently developed and evaluated a new transdiagnostic treatment that targets both anxiety and depression in youth. She also developed the Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS) which has been used on a national and international scale to identify thinking styles associated with emotional syndromes in children and adolescents.