Research Assistant
BSc (Hons)
Jetro is a research assistant with the Early Neurodevelopment and Mental Health team. His work focuses on understanding the early life influences of child neurodevelopment to promote healthy development and wellbeing.
Jetro graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with First Class Honours. His thesis investigated the mechanisms of human attention, exploring the nature of how we efficiently allocate attention through neural filtering.
He collaborates extensively with young people, parents, and community stakeholders nationally and internationally to investigate the role of parenting in preventing and treating mental health difficulties in young people. He is also leading international collaborative research efforts, conducting a systematic review on the relationship between early childhood irritability and later psychopathology outcomes.
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June 2021
Caregiver-mediated interventions to support self-regulation among infants and young children (0-5 years): A protocol for a realist review
Self-regulation is a modifiable protective factor for lifespan mental and physical health outcomes. Early caregiver-mediated interventions to promote infant and child regulatory outcomes prevent long-term developmental, emotional and behavioural difficulties and improve outcomes such as school readiness, educational achievement and economic success. To harness the population health promise of these programmes, there is a need for more nuanced understanding of the impact of these interventions.
Published research Early Childhood Development Child Disability Youth Health Youth Mental Health Early Neurodevelopment and Mental Health -
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