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Clinical Psychology/Psychopathology
Academic staff in clinical psychology and psychopathology at UNSW conduct internationally-recognised research that focuses on a range of psychological disorders and the basic processes that underlie those disorders. Research topics include behavioural medicine, traumatic brain injury, childhood emotional and conduct disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, assessment of anxiety and depression, eating disorders, and dissociative processes. Much of the clinical research is conducted in collaboration with the Psychology Clinic located within the School. The Clinic provides assessment and intervention for clients with a wide range of clinical problems, including childhood and adult anxiety disorders, mood disorders, learning disabilities, brain injury, conduct disorders, eating disorders, relational problems, and many other problems. Research in clinical psychology and psychopathology at UNSW represents cutting edge advances in many fields of clinical psychology, and is widely acclaimed internationally. The work conducted by this research group has resulted in over $3 million in research funding in recent years, publication of over 200 journal articles, and receipt of numerous academic awards. Please click on the names of researchers below to learn more about the work they are doing. People Involved
Here is a list of people within the school involved in clinical psychology or psychopathology research. Follow the links for further information including full CVs. Richard A. BryantPost-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety: assessment, cognitive processes, and treatment. Experimental and clinical investigation of dissociative processes: memory, trauma, and dissociation. Clinical and experimental hypnosis. Autobiographical memory in clinical disorders. Mark R DaddsClinical child psychology; learning and psychopathology; anxiety, aggression, and depression; family processes and therapy; early intervention and prevention in mental health. Belinda GoodenoughCancer in childhood, pain, health psychology, coping with illness, humour, acceptance and commitment therapy. Jessica GrishamObsessive-compulsive disorder, compulsive hoarding, and related disorders. Comorbidity and classification of anxiety disorders. Investigations into processes that are associated with various types of psychopathology, including emotion regulation and thought suppression. Brett Hayes Concept formation and categorisation; Reasoning and decision-making; The development of memory; Eyewitness memory and suggestibility in children; Forensic interviewing with children; Information processing in children with developmental disabilities. Julie Henry Emotion, neuropsychological assessment, executive cognitive control, normal and abnormal adult ageing, schizophrenia, prospective memory. Peter F. Lovibond Topics in learning and experimental psychopathology, eg reasoning in associative learning, cognitive processes in anxiety, relationships between anxiety, depression and stress. Skye McDonald Investigation of the nature of cognitive and other psychological disorders following brain injury in adulthood including acquired impairments of emotion, behaviour, language, visuospatial processing, perception, memory and learning and executive functions. Issues related to neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation. Pragmatic language processes in normal and brain-injured adults. Communication disorders after brain injury. Michelle L Moulds The role of rumination in depression, the impact of rumination on memory functioning, and the role of intrusive memories in depressive disorders. Comorbidity of PTSD and depression. Selected Recent Publications
Richard Bryant
- Bryant, R.A., & Guthrie, R.M. (in press). Maladaptive self appraisals before trauma exposure predict posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
- Bryant, R.A., Sutherland, K.S., & Guthrie, R.M. (in press). Impaired specific autobiographical memory as a risk factor for posttraumatic stress after trauma. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
- Bryant, R.A., Moulds, M.L., Guthrie, R.M., & Nixon, R.V. (2005). The additive benefit of hypnosis and cognitive behavior therapy in treating acute stress disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 334-340.
- Guthrie, R.M., & Bryant, R.A. (2005). Acoustic startle response in firefighters before and after trauma exposure. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 283-290.
- Bryant, R.A., Felmingham, K.L., Kemp, A., Barton, M., Rennie, C., Gordon, E., Williams, L.M. (2005). Neural networks of information processing in posttraumatic stress disorder: A functional MRI study. Biological Psychiatry, 58, 111-118.
Mark Dadds
- Barrett, P.M., Farrell, L.J., Ollendick, T.H., Dadds, M.R., (2006). Long-term outcomes of an Australian universal prevention trial of anxiety and depression symptoms in children and youth: An evaluation of the Friends Program. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 35, 403-411.
- Dadds, MR et al. (submitted) Eye gaze explains fear recognition deficits in psychopathy. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
- Dadds, M.R., Perry, Y., Hawes, D.J., Merz, S., Riddell, A.C., Haines, D.J., Solak, E. & Abeygunawardane, A.I.. (2006). Look at the eyes: Fear recognition in child psychopathy. British Journal of Psychiatry, 189, 180-181.
- Dadds, M.R., & Hawes, D. (2006). Integrative Family Intervention for Child Conduct Disorders. Brisbane, Australian Academic Press.
- Dadds, M.R., Frost, A., Fraser, J., & Hawes, D. (2005). Disentangling conduct problems and early psychopathic traits in children: A longitudinal community study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 400-410.
- Hawes, D. & Dadds, M.R. (2005). Callous-unemotional traits are a risk factor for poor treatment response in young conduct problem children. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 737-741.
Belinda Goodenough
- Piira T, Hayes B, Goodenough B, von Baeyer CL (2006).Effects of attentional direction, age, and coping style on cold-pressor pain in children. Behavior Research & Therapy, 44: 835-848
- Goodenough B, Craft T. (2005). Children’s self-report of symptoms and anticipation for symptom change:Comparative study of hospitalized oncology and surgical patients. Journal of Cancer Pain and Symptom Palliation. 1(2):3-13.
- Goodenough B, Ford J. (2005). Self-reported use of humor by hospitalised pre-adolescent children to cope with pain-related distress from a medical intervention. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. 18 (3):279-298
- Goodenough B, Drew D, Higgins S, Trethewie S. (2004).Bereavement outcomes for parents who lose a child to cancer: Are place of death and sex of parent associated with differences in psychological functioning? Psycho-oncology. 13(11): 779-791
- Goodenough B, Foreman T, Suneson J, Cohn RJ. (2004). Family income change as a correlate for use of social work services: an Australian study in pediatric oncology. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology. 22(2): 57-73
Jessica Grisham
- Brown, T. A., Campbell, L. A., Lehman, C. L., Grisham, J. R. & Mancill, R. B. (2001). Current and lifetime comorbidity of the DSM IV anxiety and mood disorders in a large clinical sample. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110, 585-599.
- Campbell, L. A., Brown, T. A., & Grisham, J. R. (2003). The relevance of age of onset to the psychopathology of generalized anxiety disorder. Behavior Therapy, 34, 31-48.
- Grisham, J. R., Brown, T. A., Liverant, G., & Campbell, L. A. (2005). The distinctiveness of hoarding from other dimensions of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 19, 767-769.
- Grisham, J.R., Brown, T. A., Savage, C.R., Steketee, G., & Barlow, D.H. (2007). Neuropsychological impairment associated with compulsive hoarding. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 1471-1483.
- Grisham, J. R., Anderson, T. A., Poulton, R. & Andrews, G. (in press). Genetic and environmental influences on obsessive-compulsive disorder. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience.
Brett Hayes
- Hayes, B. K., & Thompson, S. (in press). Causal relations and feature similarity in children’s inductive reasoning, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
- Hayes, B. K. (2006). Knowledge, development and category learning, The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 46, 37-78.
- Hayes, B. K. & Heit, E. (2004). Why learning and development can lead to poorer recognition memory. Trends in Cognitive Science, 8, (8), 337-339.
- Hayes, B. K. & Younger, K. (2004). Category-use effects in children. Child Development, 75, 1-14.
- Hayes, B. K., Foster, K., & Gadd, N. (2003). Prior knowledge and subtyping effects in children's category learning. Cognition, 88, 177-199.
Julie Henry
- Henry, J. D., Rendell, P. G., Green, M. J., McDonald, S., & O’Donnell, M. (in press). Emotion regulation in schizophrenia: Affective, social and clinical correlates of suppression and reappraisal. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
- Henry, J. D., Ruffman, T., McDonald, S., Peek O’Leary, M., Phillips, L. H., Brodaty, H., & Rendell, P. G. (in press). Recognition of disgust is selectively preserved in Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychologia.
- Henry, J. D., Rendell, P. G., Kliegel, M., & Altgassen, M. (2007). Prospective memory in schizophrenia: Primary or secondary impairment? Schizophrenia Research, 95, 179-185.
- Henry, J. D., Green, M. J., de Lucia, A., Restuccia, C., McDonald, S. & O’Donnell, M. (2007), Emotion dysregulation in schizophrenia: Reduced amplification of emotional expression is associated with emotional blunting. Schizophrenia Research, 95, 197-204.
- Henry, J. D., Crawford, J. R. and Phillips, L. H. (2004). Verbal fluency performance in dementia of the Alzheimer’s type: A meta-analysis. Neuropsychologia, 42, 1212-1222.
Peter Lovibond
- Lovibond, P.F. (2003). Causal beliefs and conditioned responses: Retrospective revaluation induced by experience and by instruction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 97-106.
- Lovibond, P.F. (2004). Cognitive processes in extinction. Learning and Memory, 11, 495-500.
- Lovibond, P.F. (2006). Fear and avoidance: An integrated expectancy model. In Craske, M.G., Hermans, D. & Vansteenwegen, D. Fear and learning: Basic science to clinical application. American Psychological Association.
- Szabó, M. & Lovibond, P.F. (2002). The cognitive content and affective correlates of naturally occurring worry episodes. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 26, 167-177.
- Taylor, R., Lovibond, P.F., Nicholas, M.K., Cayley, C & Wilson, P.H.. (2005). The utility of somatic items in the assessment of depression in chronic pain patients: A comparison of the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) in chronic pain and clinical and community samples. Clinical Journal of Pain, 21, 91-100.
Skye McDonald
- Bornhofen, C. & McDonald, S. (In press) Evaluation of an emotion treatment program for people with severe traumatic brain injury, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
- Martin, I. & McDonald, S. (2006) That can’t be right! What causes pragmatic language impairment following right hemisphere damage? Brain Impairment, 7, 202-211.
- McDonald, S., Bornhofen, C., Shum, D., Long, E. Saunders, C., Neulinger, K. (2006) Reliability and validity of ‘The Awareness of Social Inference Test’ (TASIT): A clinical test of social perception. Disability and Rehabilitation, 28, 1529-1542.
- McDonald, Skye, Tate, Robyn, Togher, Leanne, Perdices, Michael, Mosely, Anne, Winders, Kiri, Shultz, Regina, Smith, Kate. (2006) Improving evidence-based practice in neuropsychological rehabilitation: Introducing PsycBITETM. Aphasiology, 20, 676-683.
- Saunders, C., McDonald, S. & Richardson, R. (2006) Loss of emotional experience after traumatic brain injury? Findings with the startle probe procedure. Neuropsychology, 20, 224-231.
Michelle Moulds
- Moulds, M.L., Kandris, E., Starr, S., & Wong, A. (in press). The relationship between rumination, avoidance and depression in a non-clinical sample. Behaviour Research and Therapy
- Moulds, M.L., & Kandris, E. (2006). The effect of practice on recall of negative information in dysphoria. Journal of Affective Disorders
- Moulds, M.L., & Bryant, R.A. (2002). Directed forgetting in acute stress disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Starr, S., & Moulds, M.L. (2006). The role of negative interpretations of intrusive memories in depression. Journal of Affective Disorders
- Watkins, E., & Moulds, M.L. (2005). Distinct modes of ruminative self-focus: Impact of abstract versus concrete rumination on problem solving in depression. Emotion
Current & Recent Grants
Here is a list of grants currently held by people in the clinical area.
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Source
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Years
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Funding
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Excellence In Anxiety and Neuroscience Bryant, Williams, Schofield, Raphael, Richardson, Dadds, Harris, & Boyce
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National Health & Medical Research Council (NH&MRC) Centre for Clinical Research
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2007-11
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$2,000,000
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Enhancing indigenous mental health, Bryant, McFarlane & Silove.
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NH&MRC Preventative Health Care Grant
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2007-11
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$1,600,000
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Cognitive behaviour therapy for complicated grief Bryant & Moulds
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NH&MRC project grant
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2007-09
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$370,000
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Emotion processing deficits in childhood: Risk for psychopathology and indications for clinical intervention Dadds & Hawes
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Royal far West Children's Health Service: ARC Linkage Grant
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2006-08
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$310,000
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Use of the SDQ with Indigeneous Populations. Williamson, Dadds, Eades, Daniels, Raphael, Redman, & D'Este.
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NHMRC Project Grant
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2007-09
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$376,375
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Relating genetic, biological, and behavioural markers of early vulnerability in conduct problem children. Dadds, Hawes, Brennan, Hay, & Urwin
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NHMRC Project Grant
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2007-09
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$421,875
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As-if reasoning in categorization, reasoning and decision-making, Hayes & Newell
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Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant
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2007-10
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$271 000
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The development of causal induction, Hayes & Heit
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ARC Discovery Grant
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2006-09
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$240 000
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D-Cycloserine and conditioning: Increasing the effectiveness of exposure therapy for fear and anxiety. Guastella, Dadds, Richardson, Lovibond
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National Health and Medical Research Council
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2005-07
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$184,000
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Testing a cooperative model of human associative learning. Mitchell, Lovibond
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ARC Discovery Project
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2007-09
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$225,000
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Treating emotion recognition disorders: maximising treatment effects: Part II McDonald & Tate
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UNSW: Goldstar
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2007
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$40,000
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Towards a model of emotional control: Assessment of patients with focal cortical injuries Henry & McDonald
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ARC: Discovery Grant
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2006-08
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$195,000
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Communication and severe brain injuryTogher, McDonald & Tate
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NH&MRC: Project Grant
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2006-08
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$440,000
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Knowing in advance: Effective strategies for preparing children for novel experiences. Salmon & Pipe
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ARC Discovery Grant
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2006-08
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$175,000
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Hope, stress, and quality of life after a diagnosis of childhood cancer: pilot test of the emotional stroop paradigm.Goodenough, Willis, Foreman.
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Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation.
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2006-07
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$15,000
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