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Projects within the Clinical And Health Psychology Program
Clinical and Health Psychology: Master and Doctoral programs are available in clinical psychology. For more detailed information about our Clinical program, students should check the Clinical Program Course Details page, and the Clinical Program and Supplementary Application Form handout. The clinical and health psychology group at ANU undertakes research that currently 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.
Health and clinical psychology
Health and cllnical psychology including stress; adolescence; smoking; stress; Type A behaviour; cancer; coping, child health. Research currently in progress includes studies on (a) adolescent stress and health, (b) coping with cancer (current funded work focuses on breast cancer) and its treatment, (c) stress, lifestyle and health in children, and (d) Type A behaviour, stress and cardiovascular disease (including hypertension).
Prof. Don Byrne
E: don.byrne@anu.edu.au
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Child and family clinical psychology
Clinical child and family psychology, school psychology; including bullying, behaviour therapy and parent training, community mental health, clinical and program evaluation and youth unemployment.
Dr Bernd Heubeck
E: bernd.heubeck@anu.edu.au
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Language and psychopathology
Clinical psychology including language and psychopathology; emotion regulation; anxiety disorders. Broadly, my main research interest is in the relationship between language and psychopathology. For example, I have recently examined and contrasted how emotions are represented linguistically in adolescents with depression, anxiety and behavioural disorders, and I am currently investigating how language is used to provide distance from distressful emotions. In addition, I am also interested in continuing clinical and intervention research into Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, other anxiety disorders and eating disorders and also in the measurement of change in psychological interventions.
Dr Richard O'Kearney
E: richard.okearney@anu.edu.au
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Empathy and theory of the mind
Clinical psychology including empathy and theory of mind; psychotherapy research; personality disorder; jealousy.
Dr Jeff Ward
E: jeff.ward@anu.edu.au
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Adult and adolescent attachment
Clinical psychology including adult and adolescent attachment; psychological well-being and adjustment. My main research is in the area of psychological attachment and personal relationships through the life-span, psychological health, well-being and depression. I also have interests in the area of assessment of personality, intellect, and other areas of psychological functioning.
Dr Ross Wilkinson
E: ross.wilkinson@anu.edu.au
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