Qualifications BA (Hons) - Flinders University Grad Dip Psy Prac - University of South Australia MSc (Inv Psy) - University of Liverpool, UK MPsy (Clin) - Flinders University PhD - Flinders University My initial training was in Organisational Psychology and my early background is human resource management where I gained experience in recruitment, selection, training, personnel development, and project management. I have provided on-call critical incident stress debriefing following trauma for correctional staff and emergency services personnel, as well as worked for the Australian Defence Force providing psychology services and advice to command concerning mental health issues relevant to serving personnel. For the first decade of my career, in addition to management consulting, I assisted injured workers to return to work under State and Federal worker's compensation schemes (vocational rehabilitation). Subsequently, I moved into the area of Clinical Psychology and, later, into Forensic Psychology, training in criminal behaviour analysis (profiling) and specialising in the psychology of deliberate fire setting. I currently conduct a successful private practice in Northern NSW, providing a range of forensic clinical psychology services, working with individuals.
Articles
The multi-trajectory theory of adult firesetting (M-TTAF) (with Therese A. Gannon, Caoilte Ó Ciardha, and Emma Alleyne), Aggression and violent behavior (2011)
The assessment and treatment of adults who set fires deliberately are underdeveloped relative to other...
Juvenile fire-setting: A review of treatment programs (with Katarina Fritzon, Mairead Dolan, and Troy E. McEwan), Psychology, psychiatry and law (2011)
The current paper provides a review of the literature on juvenile fire-setting, focusing on psychological...
Risk factors and risk assessment in juvenile fire-setting (with Mairead Dolan, Troy E. McEwan, and Katarina Fritzon), Psychiatry, psychology and law (2011)
This article provides an overview of the literature on risk issues in juvenile fire-setting behaviour....
Risk factors for recidivistic arson in adult offenders (with Kenneth Fineman, Katarina Fritzon, Mairead Dolan, and Troy E. McEwan), Psychology, psychiatry and law (2011)
This article reviews the current literature on known risk factors for recidivistic arson, with a...
Looking at the characteristics of adult arsonists from a narrative perspective (with Katarina Fritzon and Heather Lewis), Psychology, psychiatry and law (2011)
This article reviews literature on the characteristics of adult arsonists as well as clinical and...
Books
A snapshot of serial arson in Australia, A snapshot of serial arson in Australia (2009)
Studies into arson commonly have two underlying assumptions: 1) that arsonists are in some way...
Book Chapters
Assessment of firesetters (with Bruce D. Watt), Firesetting and mental health: Theory, research and practice (2012)
Bushfire and wildfire arson: Arson risk assessment in the Australian context (with Troy E. McEwan and Mairead Dolan), Firesetting and mental health: Theory, research and practice (2012)
Power and excitement in arson: The case of firefighter arson (with Kenneth R. Fineman), Firesetting and mental health: Theory, research and practice (2012)
Assessment and treatment of fire-setters (with Katarina Fritzon), Forensic psychology and criminology: An Australasian perspective (2008)
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Within clinical literature there has been an assumption that the above quote typifies...