Clinical and Health Psychology
 The clinical and health psychology group at the ANU undertakes research and provides research supervision in a range of areas related to better understanding and managing psychological disorders and distress, models of psychological adjustment and the interface between health and psychology. Members of the group teach on the post-graduate professional training programs in clinical psychology (M.Clin Psych., D.Psych, & PhD (Clinical Psychology)) as well as in the undergraduate psychology curriculum in abnormal psychology across the lifespan, personality theory, personality assessment, and health psychology. Our current research includes work on interpersonal functioning and psychological attachment in adolescents and adults, the study of child and family psychology and school psychology, investigations of the relationship between language and psychopathology and on the nature and development of anxiety disorders particularly OCD and PTSD, work on occupational stress and cardiovascular disease, adolescent stress, tobacco use in young people, coping with cancer and its treatment, and the study of illicit drug use. Research supervision is possible in all of these areas.
Faculty
- Dr Jay BRINKER
- Research & supervision
- Key Interests : Geriatric psychology, developmental theories of aging, late life depression and depression in the general population, cognitive factors in depression, specifically rumination.
- Current Teaching
Undergraduate:
PSYC3020 ( Health Psychology ) Co-teach with L. Reiger
Testing and Assessment (Honours Course)
Graduate:
Research Methods in Clinical and Health Psychology
Working With Special Populations
- Dr Phillipa BUTCHER
- Research & supervision
- Key Interests : Developmental neuropsychology, developmental disabilities, plasticity
- Current Teaching
Coordinator PSYC2002 (Developmental Psychology)
Coordinator (with Dr Ross Wilkinson) PSYC3026 (Personality & the Assessment of Individual Differences)
Lecturer PSYC1004 (Understanding people in Context)
- Professor Don BYRNE
- Research & supervision
- Key Interests : Health and cllnical psychology including stress; adolescence; smoking; stress; Type A behaviour; cancer; coping, child health
- Current Teaching
Undergraduate – PSYC3020 (Health Psychology) offered annually at the third year level and co-taught with Dr Jay Brinker.
Postgraduate – Semester length courses in Presentation of Psychological Abnormality and Health Psychology in the first and second years respectively of the programs in Clinical Psychology.
I was also responsible for the development of the human behaviour components of the ANU Graduate Medical Course and provide regular teaching in that course.
- Ms Antoinette HARMER
- Research & supervision
- Dr Bernd HEUBECK
- Research & supervision
- Key Interests : Clinical child & family psychology, school psychology, psychological therapy, parent training, psychological assessment, program evaluation
- Current Teaching
- coordinator PSYC3025 (Abnormal Psychology Across the Lifespan) with Dr. Richard O'Kearney
Postgraduate Clinical Program
- coordinator Clinical Child Psychology (Assessment and Treatment of Child Behaviour Problems)
- coordinator Principles and Practices of Psychological Therapy
- Dr Richard O'KEARNEY
- Research & supervision
- Key Interests : Clinical psychology including language and psychopathology; emotion regulation; anxiety disorders
- Current Teaching
Undergraduate
- coordinator PSYC3025(Abnormal Psychology Across the Lifespan)
Postgraduate Clinical Program
- Director of Clinical Programs
- lecturer Models and Methods I (Anxiety Disorders and Depression)
- lecturer Models and Methods II (OCD)
- lecturer Psychological Interventions I (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy)
- Mr Salih OZGUL
- Research & supervision
- Key Interests : Anxiety disorders, grief and bereavement, depression, body dysmorphic disorder, trichotillomania, shame and guilt, primary care
- Dr Elizabeth RIEGER
- Research & supervision
- Key Interests : Eating disorders, obesity, body image, psychological interventions (including cognitive behavioural therapy, motivational enhancement therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy)
- Current Teaching
Undergraduate: Health Psychology (PSYC3020) for third year undergraduate students which I co-teach with Dr Jay Brinker and Professor Don Byrne
Postgraduate: Interpersonal Approaches to Psychotherapy for second year clinical psychology students; Advanced Clinical Workshops with third year clinical psychology students
- Dr Ross WILKINSON
- Research & supervision
- Key Interests : Clinical psychology; interpersonal relationships; adult and adolescent attachment; psychological well-being and adjustment
- Current Teaching
Undergraduate Program
- Coordinator (with Dr Phillipa Butcher) PSYC3026 (Personality & the Assessment of Individual Differences)
- Coordinator PSYC1005 (Life Issues: Applying Psychology)
Postgraduate Clinical Program
- Coordinator Clinical Psychological Assessment
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- Research & supervision
- Key interests : Long-term cognitive and perceptual effects of ecstasy and amphetamines
- Dr Jeff WARD
- Research & supervision
- Key Interests : Clinical psychology including empathy and theory of mind; psychotherapy research; personality disorder; jealousy
- Current Teaching
- Currently I teach personality psychology in the undergraduate program:
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lecturer
PSYC1001 (
Introduction to Psychology )
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coordinator
(with Dr Ross Wilkinson)
PSYC3026 (
Personality & the Assessment of Individual Differences )
In the postgraduate clinical psychology program, I teach courses on interpersonal approaches to psychotherapy and on psychological approaches to the treatment of drug and alcohol problems.
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