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Professional Practice 795 (supervision component);
Psychology Practicum 696/697/698.
General areas of teaching expertise include:
Individual Psychotherapy; Interpersonal Process
Psychotherapy; Existential Psychotherapy; Cognitive
Behaviour Therapy; Chronic Pain; Counselling Skills;
Personality Disorders; Trauma.
Research Interests
Professional training and supervision; Individual
Psychotherapy; Interpersonal Process and Resistance;
Therapeutic ruptures; Sexual Abuse; EMDR/EFT; Trauma/
PTSD; Chronic pain.
Publications
Halse, A., Grant, J., Thornton, J., Indermaur, D., Stevens,
G, & Chamarette, C. (2011). Intrafamilial adolescent
sex offenders’ response to psychological treatment.
Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 1-15.
Jones, S., Thornton, J.A., & Andrews, H.B. (2011). Efficacy
of emotional freedom techniques (EFT) in reducing public
speaking anxiety: A randomized controlled trial. Energy
Psychology, 3, 19-32.
ANNE WHITWORTH
Associate Professor
BAppSci, MA Prelim
(Linguistics), PhD
Memberships, Awards and Training
Awarded fellowship of the Royal College of Speech and
Language Therapists, UK, for contribution to research
and education.
Teaching Areas
Research in Speech Pathology Practice; Evidence Based
Practice in Human Communication Sciences; Cognitive
Neuroscience.
Research interests
Cognitive neuropsychological approaches to the
assessment and intervention of aphasia; Sentence
processing impairments in aphasia; Narrative and
discourse approaches to intervention; Maximising and
capturing real-life change in aphasia intervention; Optimal
delivery of speech pathology services.
Publications
Waldron, H., Whitworth, A. & Howard, D. (2011b)
Comparing monitoring and production based approaches
to the treatment of phonological assembly difficulties in
aphasia. Aphasiology, 25 (10), 1153-1173.
Plant, C., Webster, J. & Whitworth, A. (2011) Category
norm data and relationships with lexical frequency within
verb semantic categories. Behaviour Res Methods. 2011;
43(2),424-40.
Waldron, H., Whitworth, A. & Howard, D. (2011a) Therapy
for phonological assembly difficulties: A case series.
Aphasiology, 25(4), 434-455.
Overview
Dr Whitworth is a researcher, clinician, and educator in
the field of speech pathology and acquired neurological
impairments, in particular, aphasia. Her interests are
in increasing understanding of how language and
communication breakdown following neurological
insult, developing and evaluating theoretically sound
assessments and interventions in aphasia, and both
facilitating and measuring the real life impact of
therapy for people with communication impairments.
A particular area of interest is in working with people
who have sentence processing difficulties. Dr Whitworth
has developed a number of assessments and therapy
protocols that are used widely by therapists, including
a comprehensive battery of assessments for Japanese
speakers with aphasia, in collaboration with colleagues in
the UK and in Tokyo. She has co-written a popular textbook
for aphasia and has recently published a set of resources
for use by speech pathologists (http://research.ncl.
ac.uk/aphasia/resources.html). Exploring narrative as an
intervention in aphasia is a recent area of interest that she
has developed during a two year research fellowship with
the UK Health Foundation.
CORI WILLIAMS
Associate Professor
B.App.Sci. (Speech &
Hearing) B.A.(A.S.)(Hons)
Dip. Ed. PhD., CPSP
Brief Summary
Cori has been a member of staff at Curtin since 2000,
and director of Speech Pathology programs between mid
2006 and early 2011. She is an active member of Speech
Pathology Australia, and immediate past President
of the Association. Her research interests encompass
multicultural and indigenous issues in speech pathology,
language and literacy and hearing impairment.
Memberships, Awards and Training
Member, immediate past President Speech Pathology
Australia; International affiliate, ASHA; Recognition of
Service award, SPA, 2004.