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Mental Health

Mental Health has a very active multi-disciplinary research group that meets monthly and allows for cross fertilisation of research ideas.  It is involved in multi site interventional research trials including trials of psychological interventions.  We are one of four national sites investigating an innovative approach to management of Hepatitis C in people with psychosis.  We have just completed the state wide NHMRC funded partnership research into the PARCS (Prevention and Recovery Services).  The Dr Owen Williams Bequest, Mental Health research fund allows us to support local research to a maximum of $20000 per year in addition to supporting a visiting scholar to provide a Grand round and education to our clinical and research staff.  The Mental Health research group has established a useful web site within Peninsula Health Moodle to assist early career researchers in developing their research proposals.  Access to this can be granted by contacting Jennie Chislett Jchislett@phcn.vic.gov.au.

Two PhDs are currently being supervised within the department. 

  • Culturally modified CBT in Sri Lanka.  Dr Asiri Rodrigo University Melbourne
  • Smoking policies and the impact on mental health in patient units E Hungwar.  Swinburne University

Publications

  • The relative associations of shape and weight over-evaluation, preoccupation, dissatisfaction, and fear of weight gain with measures of psychopathology: An extension study in individuals with anorexia nervosa
  • Feeling fat in eating disorders: Testing the unique relationships between feeling fat and measures of disordered eating in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
  • Testing the relative associations of different components of dietary restraint on psychological functioning in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
  • Peer mentoring for eating disorders, evaluation of a pilot program
  • Diverse Definitions of the Early Course of Schizophrenia – A Targeted Literature Review
  • The burden of disease in early schizophrenia, a systematic review
  • Effectiveness of a brief intervention aimed at increasing distress tolerance for individuals in crisis or at risk of self-harm
  • Borderline Personality Disorder and Eating Disorders – a trans-diagnostic approach to unravelling diagnostic complexity
  • Prevention and Recovery Care Services in Australia: Developing a State-Wide Typology of a Subacute Residential Mental Health Service Model
  • The challenges facing the public mental health sector: Implications of the Victorian Psychiatry workforce project

Staff

  • Professor Richard Newton
    Clinical Director Mental Health Service RichardNewton@phcn.vic.gov.au
    View Monash Pure profile
  • Jennie Chislett
    Operations Assistant jchislett@phcn.vic.gov.au

    03 9784 7110

  • MH Research Working Group Members

    Cameron Marshman, Carolyn Golotta, Cylie Williams, Despina Breen, Emmanuel Costuna, Esther Murray, Gladys Walker, Grace Mosely, Gracie Tan, Jacinta Jolly, Janine Davies, Jennie Chislett, Jennifer Somerville, Jessica Green, Jessica Stergiou, Jigneshkumar Panchal, Joanne Weir, Kate Lessing, Katherine Woolaston, Kerryn Rubin, Liz Treuel, Lucinda Smith, Margaret Cowgill, Melissa Osborne, Michelle Shanti, Rebecca Thompson, Richard Newton, Ruth Lonie, Sarah Dickenson, Simon Kimberley, Sini Jacob, Siobain Bonfield, Stuart Wall, Susan Smith, Teresa Fox, Tom Wood, Virginia Plummer

Contact us

Director of Research
Professor Velandai Srikanth
velandai.srikanth@monash.edu
(03) 9788 1722

Manager, Office for Research
Lee-Anne Clavarino
lclavarino@phcn.vic.gov.au
(03) 9784 2679

Ethics and Governance
HREC@phcn.vic.vic.au

Research Governance
RGO@phcn.vic.gov.au
(03) 9784 2680

Office 2Q09, Ngarnga Centre
PO Box 52
Frankston Hospital
Frankston VIC, 3199

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