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Dr Rhonda BROWN
Associate Professor
Email : Rhonda.Brown@anu.edu.au
Phone : (02) 612 50635
Fax : (02) 612 50499
Office Location
Room 128, Research School of Psychology (Building 39)
Mailing Address
Research School of Psychology (Building 39) The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
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On this page...About Me
Research and Supervision Interests
Current Teaching
Research Students
Qualifications
Selected Publications
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About Me
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Dr Brown is unit coordinator and lecturer in Health Psychology, PSYC3020, at the Australian National University. Her areas of research expertise include: Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology, and Psychiatry.
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Research and Supervision Interests
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Rhonda has a broad range of medical psychology research interests with emphasis on the chronic illness experience and predictors of disease outcomes in chronic illness patients. Recently this work has focused on: (i) the relationship between stress, psychosocial factors (e.g. coping, psychological distress) and chronic illness outcomes (e.g. fatigue, relapse); (ii) and the impact of chronic illness on psychological outcomes and quality of life in people with multiple sclerosis, cancer, fatiguing illness, and autism spectrum disorders; (iii) anxiety, depression, and fatigue co-morbidity; (iv) immune and infectious disease disturbances in anorexia nervosa; and (iv) communication skills training, doctor-patient communication, medical decision-making, and work-related stress in doctors and other health workers.
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Current Teaching
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Dr Brown is unit coordinator and lecturer in Health Psychology, PSYC3020, at the Australian National University.
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Research Students
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Current student projects
HDR students
- Development and validation of the Multiple Sclerosis Work Difficulties Scale, and predictors of current and future work outcomes in people with MS
- A protocol for measuring the direct clinical benefit of neuro-psychological assessment with feedback to patients with multiple sclerosis and their caregivers
- Relationships between stress, social support utilization & coping in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Predictors of flow and objective sports performance in elite road and mountain cyclists, and a mindfulness intervention to improve their flow and sports performance
- The use of Argentine tango dancing to ameliorate symptoms of depression
Honours
- Relationship between stress, mindfulness, sleep quality and fatigue in a student sample
- Relationship between stress, physical activity evaluations, and fatigue in a student sample
- Relationship between sleep quality, depression, binge eating, and BMI in a student sample
- A mindfulness intervention to address stress and mental health in intellectual disability support workers
- Longitudinal predictors of affective symptoms and fatigue in chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple sclerosis patients
- Predictors of annoyance in landholders living in close proximity to planned and recently constructed wind turbines in NSW
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Qualifications
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BSc(hons), PhD
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Selected Publications
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Publications
- Temple, E & Brown, R 2012, 'A comparison of internet-based participant recruitment methods: Engaging the hidden population of Cannabis users in research', Journal of Research Practice, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. -.
- Wells L, Thorsteinsson EB, Brown RF. 2012. Control cognitions and causal attributions as predictors of fatigue severity in a community sample. The Journal of Social Psychology, 152, 1-14.
- Honan-Lowe CA, Brown RF, Hine DW, Vowels L, Wollin JA, Simmons RD, Pollard JD. 2011. Development and validation of the Multiple Sclerosis Work Difficulties Scale: full and short version. Multiple Sclerosis Journal. Published online 6 December 2011
- Brown RF, Thorsteinsson EB. 2009. Stressful life-events and fatigue in a non-clinical sample. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 197, 707-710.
- Brown RF, Valpiani E, Tennant CC, Dunn SM, Sharrock M, Hodgkinson S, Pollard JDP. 2009. Longitudinal assessment of anxiety, depression and fatigue in people with multiple sclerosis. Psychology & Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, 82, 41-56.
- Thorsteinsson EB, Brown RF. 2009. Mediators and moderators of the stressor - fatigue relationship in non-clinical samples. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 66, 21-29.
- Brown RF, Bartrop R, Birmingham CL. 2008. Immunological disturbance and infectious disease in anorexia nervosa: a review. Acta Neuropsychiatrica, 20, 117-128.
- Brown RF, Tennant CC, Sharrock M, Hodgkinson S, Dunn SM, Pollard JD. 2006. Relationship between stress and relapse in multiple sclerosis: Part I. Important features. Multiple Sclerosis, 12: 453-64.
- Brown RF, Tennant CC, Sharrock M, Hodgkinson S, Dunn SM, Pollard JD. 2006. Relationship between stress and relapse in multiple sclerosis: Part II. Direct and indirect relationships. Multiple Sclerosis, 12: 465-75.
- Brown RF, Bartrop R, Beumont P, Birmingham CL. 2005. Bacterial infections in anorexia nervosa: Delayed recognition increases complications. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 37: 161-65.
- Brown RF, Tennant CC, Dunn SM, Pollard JD. 2005. A review of stress-relapse interactions in MS: Important features and stress-mediating and moderating variables. Multiple Sclerosis, 11: 477-84.
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