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Senior Lecturer, School of Applied Psychology & Behavioural Basis of Health, Menzies Institute of QLD and Giffith University.

Dr Lara Farrell, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer within the School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus. Dr Farrell conducts clinical research in the field of childhood anxiety and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders. Her research includes experimental studies of underlying cognitive mechanisms associated with childhood psychopathology, as well as the assessment, prevention and treatment of paediatric anxiety disorders and OCD. Her work has involved numerous highly cited clinical trials for child anxiety and OCD, including group treatments of OCD, intensive treatments and novel pharmacological augmentation of CBT. She has particular interests in understanding predictors and moderators of treatment response. She oversees the “OCD Busters” research treatment program at Griffith University, which is an evidence-based CBT program for children and youth with obsessive-compulsive disorder.