mw. dr. M. (Marija) Maric

Dr. Maric, Marija is an assistant professor clinical developmental psychology and cognitive behavioral therapist. Her main research areas include investigation of effectiveness and mediators of interventions for youth anxiety, school refusal, negative self-esteem, trauma, child abuse, and comorbid anxiety and ADHD. In her research, she uses both RCT designs as well as single-case design methodology. She teaches courses Developmental Psychopathology and Interventions for Children and Adolescents, and trains therapists in the use of single-case methodology to assess individual client progress. Dr. Maric is the winner of the Wim Truijsburgprijs for the best Dutch junior researcher conducting clinical practice relevant research. 

Publications

Books

Maric, M., Prins, P.J.M., & Ollendick, T.H. (Eds.) (2015). Moderators and Mediators of Youth Treatment Outcomes. New York: Oxford University Press.

Chapters

Maric, M., Willard, C., Wrzesien, M., & Bögels, S.M. (in press). Innovations in the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders: Mindfulness and self-compassion approaches. In Farell, L., Muris, P. & Olendick, T.H. Innovations in CBT for Childhood Anxiety, OCD, and PTSD:  Improving Access & Outcomes. Cambridge University Press.

Prins, P.J.M., Ollendick, T.H, Maric, M., & MacKinnon, D.P. (2015). Moderators and Mediators in Treatment Outcome Studies of Childhood Disorders: The What, Why, and How. In Maric, M., Prins, P.J.M., & Ollendick, T.H. (Eds.) (2015). Moderators and Mediators of Youth Treatment Outcomes. New York: Oxford University Press.

International publications

Maric, M. & Bögels, S.M. (2019). Parenting behaviors associated with youth AD diagnosis vs. youth ADHD diagnosis. The European Journal of Psychiatry. DOI:10.1016/j.ejpsy.2018.07.003.

Maric, M., Bexkens, A. & Bögels, S.M.  (2018). Is clinical anxiety a risk or a protective factor for executive functioning in youth with ADHD? A meta-regression analysis. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review.

Telman, L.G.E., van Steensel, F.J.A., Maric, M., & Bögels, S.M. (2017). What are the odds of anxiety disorders running in families? A Family Study of Anxiety Disorders in Mothers, Fathers, and Siblings of Children with Anxiety Disorders. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1007/s00787-017-1076-x. 

Telman, L. G. E., van Steensel, F. J. A., Maric, M., & Bögels, S. M. (2017). Are Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents Less Impairing Than ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders? Associations with Child Quality of Life and Parental Stress and Psychopathology. Child Psychiatry and Human Development. DOI: 10.1007/s10578-017-0712-5

Verkleij, M., Maric, M., Colland, V., Nagelkerke, A. F., Geenen, R. (2017). Cognitive-behavioral therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in an adolescent with difficult-to-control asthma. Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology, 30, 103-112.

op den Kelder, R., Ensink, J. B. M., Overbeek, G., Maric, M., & Lindauer, R. J. L. (2017). Executive function as a mediator in the link between single or complex trauma and posttraumatic stress in children and adolescents. Quality of Life Research, 26(7), 1687-1696.

Heyne D., Vreeke L.J., Maric M., Boelens H., & Van Widenfelt B.M. (2017), Functional assessment of school attendance problems: An adapted version of the School Refusal Assessment Scale-Revised. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders 25(3): 178-192.

Koning, I., Maric, M., MacKinnon, D. P, & Vollebergh, W. (2015). Effects of a combined parent-student alcohol prevention program on intermediate factors and adolescents’ drinking behavior: A sequential mediation model. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 83, 719-727.

Maric, M., van Steensel, F.J.A & Bögels, S. M. (2015). Parental Involvement in CBT for Anxiety-Disordered Youth Revisited: Family CBT outperforms child CBT in the long term for children with comorbid ADHD symptoms. Journal of Attention Disorders, 1-9.

Maric, M., de Haan, E., Hogendoorn, S. M., Wolters, L. H., & Huizenga, H. M. (2014). Evaluating Statistical and Clinical Significance of Intervention Effects in Single-Case Experimental Designs: An SPSS Method to Analyse Univariate Data. Behavior Therapy, 46. 230-241.

Maric, M. & Schwartz, J. S. (2014). Negative Cognitive Errors in Youth: Specificity to Anxious and Depressive Symptoms and Developmental Differences. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 43, 526-537.  

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-Behavioural Therapy outcomes for anxiety-based school refusal. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 28, 1-16. 

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.

National publications

Maric, M., Smit, J., & van Steensel, B. (2019). Gepersonaliseerde therapie bij jeugd: hoe moet dat? Kinder en Jeugdpsychotherapie (VKJP).

Maric, M. (2018). Single-Case Experimental Designs in CBT. Special issue Gedragstherapie, 2, 158-170.

Maric, M. (2017). Het overbruggen van de kloof tussen klinisch onderzoek en praktijk van kinder en jeugd psychotherapie. Tijdschrift voor Psychotherapie, 204-205.

Koning, I., Maric, M., MacKinnon, D. P, & Vollebergh, W. (in press). Effecten van een gecombineerd alcoholpreventieprogramma voor ouders en leerlingen op mediërende factoren en alcoholgebruik van adolescenten: een sequentieel mediatiemodel. Gezinstherapie Wereldwijd, DOI 10.1007/s12440-016-0026-0. 

Telman, L., van Steensel, F.J.A., Maric, M., & Bögels, S.M. (2015). Denken, doen, durven. Werkzame factoren in de angstbehandeling. Werk in Uitvoering. Tijdschrift Kind & Adolescent Praktijk.

Versluis, A., Maric, M., & Peute, L. (2014). N=1 studies in onderzoek en praktijk. De Psycholoog, 3, 10-20.

Verschuur, M.J., Maric, M., Cuijpers, A.T.F., Emmerik, A.A.P. van, Rosendaal, F.R., & Spinhoven, Ph. (2004). The Effects of the Medical Investigation into the Bijlmermeer Aviation Disaster on the Health Experience of the Inhabitants and Workers [256 pages]. Leiden University; Leiden University Medical Centre.

Awards

Winner of the Wim Truijsburgprijs for the best Dutch junior researcher conducting clinical practice relevant research. Nederlandse vereniging voor Psychotherapie (price: glass sculpture and budget for international work visit, 2015).

Grants and research funding

Maric Co-PI with NJI: Effectiviteit en bereik van zorgprogramma's voor slachtoffers van loverboys en mensenhandel. ZonMW, (€496.890, Funded 2019).

Maric, M. & Sepers, A. (2017). Efficacy of the Resolutions Approach method for the treatment of abuse in the families. Zon-MW (€ 50.000, Funded 2017).

Maric, M. project member on Hein, I., Lindauer, R., Ensink, J., et al. Efficacy of family therapy and EMDR for childhood trauma and abuse. Zon-MW (€ 50.000, Funded 2017).

Maric, M. Explicit and implicit self-esteem in children and adolescents: Developmentally sensitive assessment tools and associations with anxiety. 2015 Developmental Psychology, UvA (€ 3.000).

Snellings, P., Maric, M., Salemink, E., Collot déscury, A. & Jurgen Tijms. Training negative self-esteem in children with dyslexia. 2015 Developmental Psychology, UvA (€ 10.000).

F.J.A. van Steensel, Maric, M. Bögels, S.M. Studying working mechanisms in anxiety treatment of youth. 2014 Zon-MW subsidie (100.000 E).

Maric, M. Evaluating mediators of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy outcomes in single-case studies: The way towards evidence-based practice. 2011 NWO Meerwaarde grant (31.464 E). 

Maric, M. Factors moderating and mediating change during Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for anxiety-based school refusal. NWO Mozaiek grant (180.000 E).  

Teaching

• Courses - BA: Psychological interventions for children and adolescents: theory, research and practice; MA: Psychological interventions for children and adolescents: clinical skills
• Master thesis and clinical internship supervision
• Coordinator Bachelor Research Projects