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Dr. Marija Maric is an assistant professor clinical developmental psychology at the Department of Developmental Psychology of the University of Amsterdam. Her research is focused on the efficacy of interventions for childhood psychopathology (e.g., anxiety, ADHD). Main research questions include mediation of treatment outcomes (i.e., how does the treatment work, what are the mechanisms) and moderation of treatment outcomes (i.e., for whom does the treatment work and for whom it does not). Another area of interest concerns development and implementation of methodology for the analysis of data in intervention studies, large, as well as small samples research (i.e. single-case experimental designs). These methodologies are implemented in clinical practice through workshops and webapplications (i.e., System for Effective Measurement and Therapy) to enhance evidence-based work of the therapists. Further, she is Cognitive Behavioral Therapist in training at the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (VGCt), and works as a therapist at UvA Minds (Academic Treatment Center for Children and Parents).

Publications
Maric, M., Wiers, R.W., & Prins, P.J.M. (2012). Ten Ways to Improve the Use of Statistical Mediation Analysis in the Practice of Child and Adolescent Treatment Research. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 15 , 177-191.  

Maric, M., Heyne, D. A., MacKinnon, D. P., Van Widenfelt, B. M., & Westenberg, P. M. (2012). Cognitive Mediation of Cognitive-behavioral Therapy Outcomes for Adolescent School Refusal. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (manuscript accepted for publication) .  

Maric, M., Heyne, D. A., de Heus, P., van Widenfelt, B. M., & Westenberg, P. M. (2011). The Role of Cognition in School Refusal: An Investigation of Automatic Thoughts and Cognitive Errors. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 29 , 1-15 .  

Maric, M., Heyne, D. A., van Widenfelt, B. M., & Westenberg, P. M. ( 2011 ). Distorted Cognitive Processing in Youth: The Structure of Negative Cognitive Errors and Their Associations with Anxiety. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 35, 11-20.  

Verschuur, M. J., Maric, M., & Spinhoven, P. (2010). Differences in Changes in Health-Related Anxiety Between Western and Non-Western Participants in a Trauma-Focused Study. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 23 , 300-303.

Grants
2005 NWO Mozaiek grant (180.000 E)
2011 NWO Meerwaarde grant (31.464 E)

Presentations (selected)
Maric, M., Heyne, D. A., MacKinnon, D. P., Van Widenfelt, B. M., & Westenberg, P. M. (2011). Cognitive Mediation of Cognitive-behavioral Therapy Outcomes for Adolescent School Refusal . Presentatie bij Congress Nederlandse Vereniging   voor Psychiatrie (NVvP)  

Maric, M., Heyne, D. A., MacKinnon, D. P., Van Widenfelt, B. M., & Westenberg, P. M. (2011). Cognitive Mediation of Cognitive-behavioral Therapy Outcomes for Adolescent School Refusal . Presentation at the 41st Annual Congress of the European Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Reykjavik, Iceland.  

Organisation symposium and chair N=1 studies herzien! Een brug slaan tussen onderzoek en praktijk (2011). Najaarsconferentie van de Vereniging van Gedragstherapie en Cognitieve Therapie (VGCt), Veldhoven.  

Maric, M. (2011). Werkingsmechanismen en N=1 designs: een onmisbare combinatie. Presentatie bij Najaarsconferentie van de Vereniging van Gedragstherapie en Cognitieve Therapie (VGCt), Veldhoven.    

Teaching

• Courses: (1) Clinical developmental psychology; (2) Psychological interventions for children and adolescents: theory, research and practice
• Master thesis and clinical internship supervision

• No ancillary activities