Dr Jules Finch
ATH - Lecturer
Child Health Research Centre

Publications
Journal Articles
Finch, Jules, Waters, Allison M. and Farrell, Lara J. (2025). Adolescent anxiety, depression and flourishing before and during COVID-19 and the predictive role of baseline psychological capital (PsyCap) on student mental health and subjective wellbeing during the pandemic. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 56 (2), 392-404. doi: 10.1007/s10578-023-01568-z
Heikkila, Reetta, Finch, Jules, Waters, Allison M. and Farrell, Lara J. (2023). Preliminary effectiveness of a brief school-based HERO intervention: improving the wellbeing of final year adolescent female students. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 55 (3), 575-587. doi: 10.1007/s10578-023-01629-3
Finch, Jules, Waters, Allison M. and Farrell, Lara J. (2023). Developing the HERO within: evaluation of a brief intervention for increasing Psychological Capital (PsyCap) in Australian female students during the final year of school in the first year of COVID-19. Journal of Affective Disorders, 324, 616-623. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.12.169
Waters, Allison M., Sluis, Rachel A., Farrell, Lara J., Donovan, Caroline L., Elvin, Olivia M., Rossow, Nicolas, van den Muyzenberg, Jeroen, Dowell, Tiah L., Ryan, Katherine M., Finch, Jules, Usher, Wayne, Modecki, Kathryn L., Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J. and Spence, Susan H. (2021). Examining the process of implementing a three-step mental health and wellbeing system of care for children and adolescents across multiple community settings. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 53 (4), 822-839. doi: 10.1007/s10578-021-01184-9
Elvin, Olivia M., Modecki, Kathryn L., Finch, Jules, Donnolley, Kylie, Farrell, Lara J. and Waters, Allison M. (2021). Joining the pieces in childhood irritability: distinct typologies predict conduct, depressive, and anxiety symptoms. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 136 103779. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2020.103779
Finch, Jules, Farrell, Lara J. and Waters, Allison M. (2020). Searching for the HERO in youth: does psychological capital (PsyCap) predict mental health symptoms and subjective wellbeing in Australian school-aged children and adolescents?. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 51 (6), 1025-1036. doi: 10.1007/s10578-020-01023-3
Haslam, Divna, Filus, Ania and Finch, Jules (2020). The Guilt about Parenting Scale (GAPS): Development and Initial Validation of a Self-Report Measure of Parenting Guilt, and the Relationship between Parenting Guilt and Work and Family Variables. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29 (3), 880-894. doi: 10.1007/s10826-019-01565-8