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Tara M. Augenstein

Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park

Publications -  25
Citations -  2131

Tara M. Augenstein is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social anxiety & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 22 publications receiving 1567 citations. Previous affiliations of Tara M. Augenstein include University of Rochester Medical Center & Boston Children's Hospital.

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The validity of the multi-informant approach to assessing child and adolescent mental health.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors meta-analyzed 341 studies published between 1989 and 2014 that reported cross-informant correspondence estimates, and observed low-to-moderate correspondence (mean internalizing: r =.25; mean externalizing: R =.30; mean overall: R.28).
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The Validity of the Multi-Informant Approach to Assessing Child and Adolescent Mental Health

TL;DR: This article critically evaluated research on the incremental and construct validity of the multi-informant approach to clinical child and adolescent assessment, and identified crucial gaps in knowledge for future research, and provided recommendations for "best practices" in using and interpreting multi-Informant assessments in clinical work and research.
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Multi-Informant Assessments of Adolescent Social Anxiety: Adding Clarity by Leveraging Reports from Unfamiliar Peer Confederates.

TL;DR: Adolescent and peer confederate (but not parent) SA reports predicted adolescents' state arousal in social interactions, which has implications for clarifying patterns of reporting correspondence in clinical assessments of adolescent SA.
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A Multi-informant Approach to Assessing Fear of Positive Evaluation in Socially Anxious Adolescents

TL;DR: In this paper, the Fear of Positive Evaluation Scale (FPES) was used to assess adolescents' fears of positive evaluation in clinical assessment of social anxiety and anxiety-related constructs.
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Trained Observers’ Ratings of Adolescents’ Social Anxiety and Social Skills within Controlled, Cross-Contextual Social Interactions with Unfamiliar Peer Confederates

TL;DR: This paper examined the psychometric properties of independent observers' ratings of adolescents' social anxiety and social skills within unstructured versus structured social contexts and found that adolescents at a high risk for experiencing social anxiety display elevated distress and social skill deficits in social interactions with unfamiliar peers.