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 is the chair of the exam comittee psychology, teaches courses in the area of evidence-based 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. 

Research projects

The effectiveness of treatment for girls who are victims of loverboys. Close collaborators: Nederlandse Jeugdinstituut (Anne Addink, Stefanie Abrahamse), Marinus Spreen (nhl stenden).

The effectiveness of a multidisciplinary treatment of child abuse. Close collaborators: Annemariek Sepers, PhD student (Centrum ’45), Dr. Trudy Mooren (Centrum ’45), Vera van der Werff, junior researcher (UvA), Rivierduinen Leiden, Family Supporters, Altra.

Single-case experimental designs in clinical practice. Close collaborators: Lea Schumacher (junior researcher), Loek Peute (Single 54/Rino/VGCt), Dr. Milica Miocevic (UU), Dr. Yvonne Stikkelbroek.

Mechanisms of personalized treatment for youth anxiety. Close collaborators: Dr. Bonny van Steensel (UvA), Liesbeth Telman, PhD student (UvA), Prof. Dr. Susan Bögels (UvA), Dr. Germie van de Berg (Municipality Amsterdam).

Trauma and social engagement. Close collaborators: Lea Schumacher (junior researcher), Frieda Aelen, clinical psychologist, behavioral and family therapist, supervisor VGCt, and educator NVRG.

Comorbid ADHD and anxiety disorders in youth. Close collaborators: Dr. Bonny van Steensel (UvA), Prof. Dr. Susan Bögels (UvA), assistants: Jeroen Wassmer, Boukje Nass, Savannah de Vos.

Explicit and implicit self-esteem and its relation to anxious and depressive symptoms in youth. Close collaborators: Sera Wiechert (junior researcher), Maaike Vertregt, MSc (UvA), Dr. Bram van Bockstaele (UvA), Prof. Dr. Reinout Wiers (UvA), Dr. Daan Creemers, Lotte van Marwijk, MSc, Office Student Psychologists UvA, Dr. Patrick Snellings (UvA).

CBT for anxious youth: component analysis. Close collaborators: Prof. Dr. Else de Haan, Dr. Lidewij Wolters (AMC/De Bascule).

Publications

Books

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

Chapters

4. Kuin, M., Maric, M.,Peters, P. & van Steensel, F.J.A. (accepted). Competitive memory training (COMET): behandelprotocol voor negatief zelfbeeld bij kinderen en jongeren.Nieuwe editie Braet & Bögels, Protocollaire behandelingen voor kinderen en jongeren met psychische klachten.

3. Maric, M.& van der Werff, V. (2019). Single-case experimental designs in clinical intervention research. Chapter in van de Schoot, R. & Miocevic, M. European Association of Methodology book series. Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group.

2. Maric, M., Willard, C., Wrzesien, M., & Bögels, S.M. (2019). 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.

1. 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

22. Telman, L., van Steensel, B., Verveen, A., Bögels, S., & Maric, M.(accepted). Modular CBT for Social Anxiety in Youth. Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 

21. Miočević, M., Klaassen, F., Geuke, G., Moeyaert, M., & Maric, M.(accepted). Using Bayesian Methods to test Mediators of Intervention Outcomes in Single Case Experimental Designs (SCEDs). Special issue Journal of Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention.

20. Geuke, G., Maric, M., Miocevic, M., Wolters, L.H., & de Haan, E. (accepted). Testing mediators of youth intervention outcomes using single-subject experimental designs. Special issue Journal of New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development.

19. Lancee, J., Maric, M., & Kamphuis, J.H. (accepted). Sleep restriction therapy may be effective for people with insomnia and depressive complaints: Evidence from a case series. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.

18. Dovis, S., Maric, M., Prins, P.J.M., & van der Oord, S. (2019). Does Executive Function Capacity Moderate the Outcome of Executive Function Training in Children with ADHD? ADHD Attention Deficit and hyperactivity Disorders.doi: 10.1007/s12402-019-00310-x

17. Sepers, A., van der Werff, V., Mooren, T., de Roos, C., & Maric, M.(2019). The effectiveness of the RA, a multidisciplinary treatment of child abuse: A Single Case Experimental Design study protocol. Journal of Family Violence, 1-10.

16. 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.

15. 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.

14. 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. 

13. 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

12. 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.

11. 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.

10. 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.

9. 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.

8. 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.

7. 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.

6. 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.  

5. 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.  

4. 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. 

3. 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 .  

2. 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.  

1. 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

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

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

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

4. 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. 

3. 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.

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

1. 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

(PI: principal investigator, CI: co-investigator):

2019   PI Aspasia grant, UvA, €13.000.                                                                                             

2018   PI (with NJi, A. Addink, M. Spreen, C. Dedding): Effectiviteit en bereik van zorgprogramma's voor slachtoffers van loverboys en mensenhandel. ZonMW, €496.890.

2017   PI: Effectiveness of the Resolutions Approach, a multidisciplinary treatment of child abuse, ZonMW, €50.000.

2017   CI: Efficacy of family therapy and EMDR for childhood trauma and abuse. ZonMW, €50.000.

2015   PI: Explicit and implicit self-esteem in children and adolescents: Developmentally sensitive assessment tools and associations with anxiety, UvA, €3.000.

2015   PI (with P. Snellings): Training negative self-esteem in children with dyslexia, UvA, €10.000.

2014   PI (with v. Steensel & Bögels): Studying working mechanisms in cognitive behavioral treatment for youth anxiety, ZonMW, €100.000.

2012   CI: Adolescence, sleep and substance use, toward a better understanding and integrated interventions, Jacobs Foundation, € 33.200.

2011   PI: Evaluating mediators of cognitive behavioral therapy outcomes in single-case studies: The way towards evidence-based practice, NWO, €31.464.

2005   PI: Factors moderating and mediating change during cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety-based school refusal, NWO, €180.000.

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