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School of Psychology and Speech Pathology ReCAP ANNUAL REPORT 2011
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Teaching
Introduction to Psychology 100; Abnormal Psychology;
Psychological Assessment.
Research Interests
Psychology and teaching and learning; Psychological testing
and measurement.
Publications
Heaps, N., Davis, M.C., Straker, L., & Smith, A. (2011).
Adolescent drug use, psychosocial functioning, and spinal
pain. Journal of Health Psychology. 16, 688-698. doi:
10.1177/1359105310386822.
Davis, M.C. & Wosinski, N.L. (2011). Cognitive errors as
predictors of adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism
in children. Journal of Rational Emotive and Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy. doi: 10.1007/s10942-011-0129-1.
Davis, M.C. (2011). End-of-chapter questions. In E. Rieger
(Ed.), Abnormal Psychology (2nd edition). Sydney:
McGraw Hill.
SARAH EGAN
Senior Lecturer
BA (Hons), MPsych (Clinical),
PhD
Brief Summary
Dr Egan is the director of Clinical Psychology and involved
in teaching, research, clinical supervision and research
supervision in clinical psychology. Her primary research
interest is the treatment of clinical perfectionism.
Memberships, Awards and Training
Honorary lifetime member, Australian Association
for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy; Member, British
Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy;
Member, American Association for Cognitive and Behavior
Therapy; Member, Australian Psychological Society -
Clinical College.
Research Interests
Perfectionism; Eating disorders; Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder; Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in older adults.
Specialty Areas
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for clinical perfectionism.
Publications
D’Souza, F., Egan, S.J., & Rees, C.S. (2011). The relationship
between perfectionism, stress and b burnout in clinical
psychologists. Behaviour Change, 28(1), 17-27.
Egan, S.J., Piek, J.P., Dyck, M.J., & Kane, R.T. (2011).
The reliability and validity of the positive and negative
perfectionism scale. Clinical Psychologist, 15(2). (Accepted
3.8.2011), doi:10.1111/j.1742-9552.2011.0029.
Egan, S.J., Wade, T.D., & Shafran, R. (2011). Perfectionism
as a transdiagnostic process: A clinical review. Clinical
Psychology Review, 31, 203-212.
Hoiles, K., Egan, S.J., & Kane, R.T. (in press). The validity of
the transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural model of eating
disorders in predicting dietary restraint. Eating Behaviours.
Accepted 07.11.2011, doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2011.11.007.
Lazzari, C., Egan, S.J., & Rees, C.S. (2011). Behavioural
activation treatment for depression in older adults
delivered via videoconferencing: A pilot study. Cognitive
and Behavioral Practice, 18, 555-565. doi:10.1016/j.
cbpra.2010.11.009.
Lethbridge, J., Watson, H., Egan, S.J., Street, H., & Nathan,
P. (2011). The role of perfectionism, dichotomous thinking,
shape and weight overvaluation, and conditional goal
setting in eating disorders. Eating Behaviors, 12, 200-206.
doi:10.1016/J.EATBEH.2011.04.003.
Philp, M., Egan, S.J., & Kane, R.T. (in press). Perfectionism,
over commitment to work and burnout in the workforce.
Australian Journal of Psychology. Accepted 1/2/2011.
doi:10.1111/J.1742-9536.2011.0028.X.
JONATHAN FOSTER
Associate Professor,
Senior Research Fellow
Doctorate (University of
Oxford)
Brief Summary
Dr Foster is associate professor and senior research fellow
in Neuropsychology and Specialist Neuropsychologist
(Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency).
Overview
The focus of his interests is neuropsychology (especially
related to changes occurring in neurocognitive function and
behaviour during the earlier and later years of life, and the
insight these changes provide into necessary, sufficient and
exclusive mechanisms underlying human cognition and
behaviour).
He is also interested in related areas of cognitive
psychology, psychopharmacology and clinical psychology,
in particular concerning memory and regulatory capacities
(e.g. executive functioning).
Teaching
Neuropsychology; Cognitive Psychology;
Psychopharmacology.