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Mandurah, November 2011; Member, University Academic
Promotions Committee; Member, University ERA Reference
Group; Member, Faculty of Health Sciences R&D Committee;
Director, Research and Development, School of Psychology
and Speech Pathology.
Teaching
Developmental Psychology; Infant sensory-motor
development; Developmental Coordination Disorder;
Child Psychopathology.
Research Interests
Infant motor development; Motor disabilities in children;
Child psychopathology; Building Mental Wealth - improving
mental health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Inlanders.
Publications
Piek, J P. & Rigoli, D. (in press). Psychosocial and
Behavioral Problems in Children with DCD. In J. Cairney
(Ed) Developmental coordination disorder in children:
consequences and concurrent problems. University of
Toronto Press.
Piek, J.P. (2011). Chapter 2: Sensory development and
motor control in infants and children. In Thomas Korff &
Mark de Ste Croix (Eds) Developmental Biomechanics and
Motor Control, pp. 27-49. London: Routledge
Miyahara, M., & Piek, J. (2011). Chapter 104. Physical
Disability and Self-Esteem. In Roger J.R. Levesque (Ed.)
Encyclopedia of Adolescence, (Vol 4), pp 2079-2083,
NY: Springer.
Dyck, M.J., & Piek, J.P. (in press) Developmental delays
among children with ADHD: Consequence, comorbidity or
contributing cause? Journal of Attention Disorders.
Rigoli, D., Piek, J.P. & Kane, R. (in press) Motor skills and
psychosocial correlates in a normal adolescent sample.
Pediatrics.
Pannekoek, L., Rigoli, D., Piek, J.P., Barrett, N.C. &
Schoemaker, M. (in press). The Revised DCDQ: Is It a
Suitable Screening Measure for Motor Difficulties in
Adolescents? Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly.
Highman, C., Leitão, S., Hennessey, N. W., & Piek, J. (in
press). Prelinguistic communication development in
children with childhood apraxia of speech: A retrospective
analysis. International Journal of Speech-Language
Pathology.
Dyck, M.J., Piek, J.P. & Patrick, J. (2011). The validity of
psychiatric diagnoses: The case of ‘specific’ developmental
disorders. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32,
2704-2713.
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), 121-132.
doi: 10.1111/j.1742-9552.2011.00029.x
Loh, P-R., Piek, J.P., & Barrett, N.C. (2011) Comorbid ADHD
and DCD: Examining cognitive functions using WISC-IV
Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32, 1260-1269.
Pearsall-Jones, J.G., Piek, J.P., Rigoli, D., Martin, N., &
Levy, F. (2011) Motor disorder and anxiety and depressive
symptomatology: A monozygotic co-twin control
approach. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32,
1245-1252.
Pearsall-Jones, J.G., Piek, J.P., Steed, L., McDougall, M.R.
& Levy, F. (2011). Monozygotic twins concordant and
discordant for DCD: two sides to the story. Twin Research &
Human Genetics, 14, 79-87.
Howard, A.L., Robinson, M., Smith, G.J., Piek, J.P., & Oddy,
W.H. (2011). Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD) is associated with a ‘Western’ dietary pattern in
adolescents. Journal of Attention Disorders, 15, 403 - 411.
Straker, L.M., Campbell, A.C., Jensen, L.M., Metcalf, D.R.,
Smith, A.J., Abbott, R.A., Pollock, C.M., Piek, J.P. (2011).
Rationale, design and methods for a randomised and
controlled trial of the impact of virtual reality games on
motor competence, physical activity, and mental health
in children with developmental coordination disorder. BMC
Public Health, 11:654 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-11-654.
LYNN PRIDDIS
Senior Lecturer
MPsych (Counselling),
MPsych (Clinical)
Brief Summary
Dr Priddis is a counselling and clinical psychologist who
specialises in teaching, research and clinical practice in
the field of parenting issues and relationship work with
young families from the perspective of psychodynamic and
attachment theories. She is the current National President
of the Australian Infant Mental Health Association.
Memberships, Awards and Training; Member, Counselling
College APS; Member, Clinical College APS; Member, World
Association of Infant Mental Health; Member, Australian
Association of Infant Mental Health; Member, WA Branch of
AAIMH; Member, Australian Health Promotion Association;
2011 Finalist Mental Health Commission “Good Outcomes
Award” for Tuned in Parenting Programme (Curtin/NGALA).
Teaching
Interventions across the Lifespan; Family and Couples
Therapy theory; Group Psychotherapy at Masters Degree
level.
Research Interests
Research using Attachment and Reflective Functioning
theories in applied settings e.g. couples and families with
IPV issues, alcohol and drug issues, children with health
issues (PMH), children with aggression problems (Family
Pathways), aboriginal families (Derbarl Yerrigan), mothers
in prison (Boronia), fathers, foster families (ARCS/DCP),