Ingrid Obsuth
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology

Contact details
- Email: ingrid.obsuth@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Doorway 6,
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Background
I am a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the School of Health in Social Science.
I received my PhD in Clinical Psychology from Simon Fraser University (SFU) in 2010, followed by a 2-year post-doctoral research fellowship at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Department of Psychiatry. Subsequently I worked for 5.5-years as a research associate at the University of Cambridge (UoC), Institute of Criminology.
The doctoral programme at SFU adheres to the scientist-practitioner training model that places equal emphasis on clinical and empirical expertise. Thus, from the outset of my academic career, I have combined my clinical work with research, deriving my research questions from my clinical experiences and bringing research-based knowledge to my clinical practice and teaching.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
I welcome enquiries about PhD supervision in areas of forensic and developmental psychology, as well as research in the intersection of psychology and criminology.
Research summary
My research, clinical and teaching interests are in developmental psychology and psychopathology, with particular focus on adolescents, behavioural problems such as aggression and delinquency, victimisation and attachment with the goal to inform theory, policy and practice. For example, in one of my papers (Obsuth, et al., 2016), utilising propensity score matching, we found that teacher-student relationships at age 10/11 predicted young people’s behaviours up to four years later, while controlling for 106 potentially confounding variables of this link. I also have a special interest in the development and evaluation of manualised interventions and the development of innovative assessment tools. For instance, during my post-doctoral training at HMS, I collaborated on developing/validating an observational measure of adolescent-caregiver disorganised attachment (Obsuth, et al., 2015), while at UoC, I lead a large cluster-randomised trial to evaluate an intervention with the goal of reducing school exclusion (Obsuth et al., 2016, 2017). In addition, during my time at SFU, I collaborated on developing and evaluating an attachment-based manualised treatment programme for parents of youths with severe behavioural problems and histories of maltreatment (Obsuth, et al. 2009).
Current research interests
Victimisation (online and off), meta-verse, inter-partner violence, (attachment) relationshipsProject activity
I am currently working a three projects related to my above described research interests:
- Attachment toward carers, teachers and others in children and adolescents in residential care
- Teacher-student relationships in a variety of contexts
- Understanding school exclusion
- Learning Together - brings together people in criminal justice and higher education institutions to study alongside each other in inclusive and transformative learning communities (https://www.ccgsj.crim.cam.ac.uk/LT/What
- Polyvictimisation
Current project grants
Political Economies of School Exclusion in the UK, ESRC, 2019-2023
https://www.ed.ac.uk/education/rke/centres-groups/creid/projects/politic...
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History of abuse and adolescent hostile-helpless attachment: The mediating role of mother-adolescent punitive interactions
(12 pages)
In:
Child Abuse and Neglect, vol. 140, pp. 1-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106190
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Teacher-student relationships in childhood as a protective factor against adolescent delinquency up to age 17: A propensity score matching approach
(29 pages)
In:
Crime and Delinquency, vol. 69, pp. 727-755
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287211014153
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Latent profiles of childhood psychological maltreatment and their links to adult mental health in China and the UK
(12 pages)
In:
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, vol. 17, pp. 1-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-023-00572-4
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Attachment‑based parent–adolescent interaction linked to visual attention and autonomic arousal to distress and comfort stimuli
(14 pages)
In:
BMC Psychology, vol. 10, pp. 1-14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-00821-9
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The impact of childhood psychological maltreatment on mental health outcomes in adulthood: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(185 pages)
In:
Trauma, Violence and Abuse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380221122816
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Long-term labour market and economic consequences of school exclusions in England: Evidence from two counterfactual approaches
In:
British Journal of Educational Psychology, vol. 92, pp. 801-816
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12487
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Validation of a new scale Evaluating the Personal, Interpersonal and Contextual dimensions of growth through learning – the EPIC scale
(11 pages)
In:
Studies in Educational Evaluation, vol. 74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2022.101154
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Mediating factors in within-person developmental cascades of externalising, internalising and ADHD symptoms in childhood
In:
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-022-00905-5
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Gender differences in cross-informant discrepancies in aggressive and prosocial behaviour: A latent difference score analysis
In:
Psychological assessment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001091
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Fair teachers, fair police? Assessing the pathways between perceptions of teacher and police authority in childhood and adolescence
(15 pages)
In:
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, vol. 51, pp. 193-207
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01537-6
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The impact of childhood psychological maltreatment on mental health outcomes in adulthood: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
In:
Systematic Reviews, vol. 10, pp. 224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-021-01777-4
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Young adulthood outcomes of joint mental health trajectories: A group-based trajectory model analysis of a 13-year longitudinal cohort study
(14 pages)
In:
Child psychiatry and human development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01193-8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Developmental cascades from aggression to internalizing problems via peer and teacher relationships from early to middle adolescence
In:
Journal of Youth and Adolescence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01396-1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
An ecological momentary assessment study of the role of emotional dysregulation in co-occurring ADHD and internalising symptoms in adulthood
In:
Journal of Affective Disorders (JAD)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.11.086
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Developmental relations between ADHD symptoms and reactive versus proactive aggression across childhood and adolescence
In:
Journal of Attention Disorders, vol. 24, pp. 1-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1087054716666323
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Patterns of homotypic and heterotypic continuity between ADHD Symptoms, externalising and internalising problems from age 7 to 15
(14 pages)
In:
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, vol. 48, pp. 223–236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-019-00592-9
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Outcomes of ADHD symptoms in late adolescence: Are developmental subtypes important?
(13 pages)
In:
Journal of Attention Disorders, vol. 24, pp. 113-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1087054718790588
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Evaluating longitudinal invariance in dimensions of mental health across adolescence: An analysis of the social behavior questionnaire
In:
Assessment, vol. 26, pp. 1234-1245
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191117721741
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Disaggregating between- and within-classroom variation in student behavior: A multilevel factor analysis of teacher ratings of student prosociality and aggression
(27 pages)
In:
Journal of Early Adolescence, vol. 39, pp. 993-1019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431618797005
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Quantifying the strength of general factors in psychopathology: A comparison of CFA with maximum likelihood estimation, BSEM and ESEM/EFA bi-factor approaches
In:
Journal of personality assessment, vol. 101, pp. 631-643
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2018.1468338
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)