Autism Spectrum Disorder

An exploratory analysis of the use of cognitive,adaptive and behavioural indices for cluster analysis of ASD subgroups (with Christopher F. Sharpley and Sharon Orapeleng), Journal of intellectual disability research (2008)

Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) includes symptoms that vary in severity and frequency between children....

 

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Including an analysis of difficult behaviour in the assessment of children with an autism spectrum disorder: Implications for school psychologists, Australian journal of guidance & counselling (2008)

School psychologists who contribute to the assessment of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD)...

 

Stress, anxiety and depression among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (with Christopher F. Sharpley), Australian journal of guidance and counselling (2004)

In a replication of a previous study of the incidence and contributing factors in anxiety,...

 

Behavioural Difficulties

Limitations of functional analysis: The case for including valued outcomes analysis in the investigation of difficult behaviour, Behaviour change (2006)

Effective behaviour change is based on understanding the reasons for difficult behaviour. However, current functional...

 

"But I'm not really bad": Using an idiographic versus a nomothetic approach to understand the reasons for difficult behaviour in children, Australian journal of guidance and counselling (2003)

The number of students who are identified as experiencing behavioural difficulties in the mainstream school...

 

Depression

The contribution of anxiety and depression to fatigue among a sample of Australian university students: Suggestions for university counsellors (with Christopher F. Sharpley and Ryan Bell), Counselling psychology quarterly (2009)

Responses to the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS: Zung, W. (1971). A rating instrument for...

 

Understanding the causes of depression among prostate cancer patients: Development of the effects of prostate cancer on lifestyle questionnaire (with Christopher F. Sharpley and David R. H. Christie), Psycho-oncology (2009)

Objective: Depression among prostate cancer patients remains a major source of distress for them and...

 

Psychotherapy Treatments

Treating the client rather than the symptoms: Moving beyond manualised treatments in psychotherapy (with Christopher F. Sharpley), Australian journal of guidance and counselling (2006)

There have been some challenges to the reliance upon data from randomised controlled clinical trials...

 

Anxiety

The contribution of anxiety and depression to fatigue among a sample of Australian university students: Suggestions for university counsellors (with Christopher F. Sharpley and Ryan Bell), Counselling psychology quarterly (2009)

Responses to the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS: Zung, W. (1971). A rating instrument for...

 

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The diverse neurogeography of emotional experience: Form follows function (with Christoper Francis Sharpley), Behavioural brain research (2010)

The experience of emotion underlies emotional expression and consequent action. Although several theoretical models of...

 

Helping prostate cancer patients understand the causes of anxiety and depression: Comparing cancer-caused vs patient response events (with Christopher F. Sharpley and David R. H. Christie), Journal of men's health (2009)

Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) patients have elevated anxiety and depression, often showing impairments in decision-making...

 

Positive (but not negative) punishment predicts anxiety and depression among prostate cancer patients: An exploration of the behaviour analytic model of depression (with Christopher Sharpley and David R. H. Christie), Behaviour change (2009)

The relative power of Positive and Negative Punishment as predictors of anxiety and depression was...

 

'Why I feel bad': Refinement on the effects of prostate cancer upon lifestyle questionnaire and an initial exploration of its links with anxiety and depression among prostate cancer patients (with Christopher F. Sharpley and David R. H. Christie), Psycho-oncology (2009)

Objective: To psychometrically refine a standardized scale for identifying those lifestyle changes that were most...

 

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Psychological distress among prostate cancer patients: Fact or fiction? (with Christopher F. Sharpley and David H. R. Christie), Clinical medicine insights: Oncology (2008)

Although the detrimental effect upon psychological well-being of receiving a diagnosis of, or treatment for,...

 

Causal 'mapping' of depression and anxiety among prostate cancer patients: A preliminary interview study (with Christopher F. Sharpley and David R. H. Christie), The journal of men's health and gender (2007)

Background: Men with prostate cancer experience elevated levels of anxiety and depression, with some previous...

 

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A variation on functional analysis in the classroom: A clinical note (with Christopher F. Sharpley and Robyn Hawkins), Australian journal of guidance and counselling (2007)

Traditional Functional Analytic procedures rely upon the identification of one or two 'target' behaviours for...

 

Beyond nomothetic classification of behavioral difficulties: Using Valued Outcomes Analysis to deal with the behaviour problems that occur in the classroom, British journal of guidance & counselling (2005)

The number of students who are labeled as having some form of behavioural disorder which...