Read our research publications for the Daily Growth study
Daily Growth: protocol and design
Westrupp, E. M., Bates, M., Bufton, K. J., Berkowitz, T. B., Popple, M., King, G. L., Jones, S., Stone, J., Kupper, J. J. C. F., & Toumbourou, J. W. (2025). Protocol for a randomized and a non-randomized controlled trial testing Daily Growth: a personalised ‘ecological momentary intervention’ parenting app for parents and carers of children aged 2–5 years. BMC Psychology.
Berkowitz, T. S., Toumbourou, J. W., Evans, S., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., & Westrupp, E. M. (2025). Momentary assessment of parent and child emotion regulation to inform the design of a new emotion-focused parenting app. PLoS ONE.
Ewald, S., Berkowitz, T. S., Hiskens-Ravest, S., Bufton, K., Bates, M., O, E., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., King, G., & Westrupp, E. (2025). Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial of a Prototype Emotion Socialisation Parenting Program: An Ecological Momentary Intervention [Preprint]. PsyArXiv (just accepted in JMIR Pediatrics And Parenting – to be updated shortly).
Daily Growth co-design
Bufton, K., Bates, M., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., Hamid, J., & Westrupp, E. (2025). Design Mapping: A Conceptual Framework for Co-Designing Evidence-Based Digital Mental Health Programs. Health Expectations.
Bufton, K., Bates, M., Hamid, J., & Westrupp, E. (2025). Co-designing an active play parenting program to support emotion regulation in early childhood: Presenting user personas and program concepts. Mental Health & Prevention.
Bufton, K., Berkowitz, T., Evans, S., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., Hiskens-Ravest, S., Bates, M., Hamid, J., & Westrupp, E. (2025). Parenting in Motion: Co-designing a Physical Activity Parenting Program to Support Emotion Regulation in Early Childhood. Child and Youth Care Forum.
Popple, M., Westrupp, E., Stone, J., Jones, S., Tarrant, L., Tarrant, J., Bates, M., Redpath, K., Hardgrove, S., & O’Shea, M. (2026). ‘Connecting to the Earth’ (Wayapa Wuurrk), supporting families: centring Indigenous perspectives in co-creating a culturally responsive parenting program for inclusion in a novel parenting app for all Australian parents and carers of 2–5-year-olds. Australian Journal of Psychology.
Katie Q. Lin, Emma M. Marshall, Danhua Zhu, John W. Toumbourou, & Elizabeth M. Westrupp. (2026). Culturally tailored parenting program recruitment: Messaging responses and participation barriers among Chinese immigrant and White parents [Preprint]. PsyArXiv.
Foundational and background
Bufton, K., Westrupp, E., & Olive, L. (2024). The Effects of Physical Activity on Emotion Regulation and Executive Function: A Narrative Review [Preprint]. OSF Preprints.
Lum, M., Turon, H., Keenan, S., Yang, D., David, J. L., Howard, S. J., Westrupp, E. M., Grady, A., Hodder, R. K., & Yoong, S. L. (2024). A rapid review describing the scalability of early childhood education and care-based programs targeting children’s social and emotional learning. Mental Health & Prevention.
Westrupp, E. M., Greenwood, C. J., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., Berkowitz, T. S., Hagg, L., & Youssef, G. (2022). Text mining of Reddit posts: Using latent Dirichlet allocation to identify common parenting issues. PLoS ONE.
Linardon, J., Westrupp, E. M., Macdonald, J. A., Mikocka-Walus, A., Stokes, M. A., Greenwood, C. J., Youssef, G. J., Teague, S., Hutchinson, D., & Sciberras, E. (2021). Monitoring Australian parents’ shifting receptiveness to digital mental health interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry.
Westrupp, E. M., Youssef, G., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., Macdonald, J. A., Havighurst, S., Kehoe, C. E., Olive, L., & Evans, S. (2020). Using technology to tailor and personalise population level parenting interventions. Mental Health & Prevention.
Clancy, E., Benstead, M., Little, K., Skvarc, D., Westrupp, E., Yap, M., Havighurst, S., & Toumbourou, J. (2019). Family partnerships to support children and young people’s mental health: an Evidence Check rapid review brokered by the Sax Institute for Be You [Report]. Sax Institute.
Neelakantan, L., Gonsalves, P. P., & Westrupp, E. M. (2026). Co-design in preventive mental health research: Advancing evidence, equity, and engagement. Mental Health & Prevention.
Emotion socialisation research
King, Gabriella L., Kehoe, Christiane E., Havighurst, Sophie S., Youssef, George J. Macdonald, Jacqui A., Dunsmore, Julie C., Berkowitz, Tomer S., & Westrupp, Elizabeth M. (2023). Creation of a Short-Form and Brief Short-Form Version of the Coping With Children’s Negative Emotions Scale. Assessment.
King, G. L., Macdonald, J. A., Dunsmore, J. C., & Westrupp, E. M. (2025). Creation of an adapted short-form version of the Coping With Toddlers’ Negative Emotions Scale, an emotion socialization measure for parents of toddlers. Social Development.
King, G. L., Macdonald, J. A., Nelson, J. A., Dunsmore, J. C., Havighurst, S. S., Kehoe, C. E., & Westrupp, E. M. (2026). Latent transition analysis of parent emotion socialization profiles. Developmental Psychology.
Teo, H., Klas, A., Satyen, L., King, G. L., & Westrupp, E. M. (2026). Emotion socialization in Chinese migrant families and its associations with children’s emotional and psychological functioning: A systematic review. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development.
Benstead, M. L., King, G. L., & Westrupp, E. M. (2025). The role of contextual factors in associations between parents’ emotion socialization and children’s mental health. Family Relations.
Benstead, M. L., King, G. L., & Westrupp, E. M. (2025). Parenting before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal findings for children’s socio-emotional functioning. Child Psychiatry & Human Development.
Westrupp, E. M., & Kehoe, C. E. (2024). Introduction to the special issue: Emotion socialization across childhood, parent, peer, sibling, and teacher influences [Editorial]. Mental Health & Prevention.
Frogley, W. J., King, G. L., & Westrupp, E. M. (2023). Profiles of parent emotion socialization: Longitudinal associations with child emotional outcomes. Mental Health & Prevention.
King, G. L., Macdonald, J. A., Greenwood, C. J., Kehoe, C., Dunsmore, J. C., Havighurst, S. S., Youssef, G. J., Berkowitz, T. S., & Westrupp, E. M. (2023). Profiles of parents’ emotion socialization within a multinational sample of parents. Frontiers in Psychology.
Bennett, C., Regan, D., Dunsmore, J. C., King, G., & Westrupp, E. M. (2023). Social and emotional determinants of parental reflective functioning in a multinational sample. Journal of Family Psychology.
Westrupp, E. M., Macdonald, J. A., Bennett, C., Havighurst, S., Kehoe, C. E., Foley, D., Berkowitz, T. S., King, G. L., & Youssef, G. J. (2020). The Child and Parent Emotion Study: Protocol for a longitudinal study of parent emotion socialisation and child socioemotional development. BMJ Open.
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Associate Professor Liz Westrupp
Associate Head (Research), School of Psychology
Executive Team, Deakin Lifespan Institute
Editor-in-Chief, Mental Health & Prevention
Deakin Lifespan Institute, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Deakin University, Australia
E elizabeth.westrupp@deakin.edu.au
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