Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences School of Behavioural Science

Professor Henry Jackson

B.A., M.A., M.A. (Clin.Psych.), PhD, FAPS

email: henryjj AT unimelb.edu.au

 
telephone: +61 3 8344 4062  

Professor Henry Jackson is a clinical psychologist who worked as a fulltime public practice clinician for 13 years before entering academia in 1991.

Henry and Professor Patrick McGorry from ORYGEN Research Centre developed the early intervention research paradigm which has led to a world-wide change in the way we think about intervening in young people with psychotic disorders and in youth mental health service delivery systems.  He studies the psychopathology of psychosis, mechanisms underlying positive psychotic symptoms, the development and the assessment of new psychological treatments for psychotic disorders, and factors affecting functional recovery and quality of life in psychotic patients.

His second major research interest includes the structure of personality disorders, their relationship to social cognition, treatments for personality disorders - especially borderline personality disorder, and the influence of personality factors in physical health outcomes and quality of life.

He collaborates with a number of colleagues within this School, with OYRGEN Research Centre, the Royal Women's Hospital and the University of Padua.

He has authored or co-authored over 155 papers in refereed journals, 17 book chapters and co-edited three books. He has been a Chief Investigator on many grants including the large NH&MRC Program and Clinical Centre of Excellence Grants on early psychosis both of which were awarded to ORYGEN in 2004. He has supervised to completion 16 PhDs, 25 other higher degrees, and 30 Honours students. He serves on the boards of a number of journals.

Henry was made a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) in 1995, is the 2004 winner of the Distinguished Career Award presented by the Australian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy and is the 2005 winner of the APS Ian Matthew Campbell Prize in clinical psychology. He was Chair of the NH&MRC Project Grants Committee for Psychology and Psychiatry in 2003 and 2004 and previously served as a member of that panel in 2001 and 2002.

He is an ex-National President of the Board (now College) of Clinical Psychologists of the APS. He is past-Chair of the Heads of Departments and Schools of Psychology (HODSPA) (2006-7). In December 2006, he was elected President of the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research for a period of 3 years. In September 2007 he took up a position on the Research Committee of the Mental Health Council of Australia. In January 2007, the APS appointed Henry a member of their Science, Academia and Research Advisory Group (SARAG). Since 2008 he has served on the Australian Rotary Health Research Committee. Research Interests: Aspects of early psychosis Personality disorders and the influence of personality on health outcomes and quality of life.

 

Research Interests:

Aspects of early psychosis
Personality disorders and the influence of personality on health outcomes and quality of life


Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:

Memberships

Editorial Consultation

Panel Memberships

Awards

Recent Funded Research:

Project: Preventive and Early Intervention Strategies in Emerging Mental Disorders in Young People
Year: 2004
Funded by: National Health & Medical Research Council Clinical Centre of Research Excellence Grant: ORYGEN

 

Project: Emerging Severe Mental Illness in Young People: Clinical Staging, Neurobiology, Prediction and Intervention from Vulnerability to Recovery
Year: 2004
Funded by: National Health & Medical Research Council Program Grant

Project: Depression in Farmers and Farming Families
Year: 2001
Funded by: Beyond Blue
Administered by: Bendigo Health Care

Project: Developing a Short Screening Measure for Borderline Personality Disorder
Year: 2003
Funded by: Medical Research Committee (MRC) Funds of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

Project: Preventing Relapse and Recurrence of Depression in Adolescence
Year: 2002
Funded by: Melbourne University Research Grants Scheme

Project: Cognitive Changes Following Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Year: 2001
Funded by: Melbourne University Research Grants Scheme

Project: Rural Epidemiology: Rural Health Promotion Project: Measuring Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Rural Australia .
Year: 2001
Funded by: Beyond Blue
Administered by: Bendigo Health Care

Project: A Comparison of an Integrated Psychological Intervention with 'Befriending' in First Presentation Psychosis
Year: 2000
Funded by: National Health & Medical Research Council

 

Selected Publications:

Edited Books :

Cotton, P. and Jackson, H.J. (Eds). Early Intervention and Prevention in Mental Health. Melbourne: The Australian Psychological Society Ltd (An APS Imprint Book), 1996.

McGorry, P. D. and Jackson, H. J. (Eds ). The Recognition and Management of Early Psychosis: A Preventive Approach. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Jackson, H.J., Mcgorry, P.D And Edwards, J. - Cognitively oriented psychotherapy for early psychosis: Theory, praxis, outcomes, and challenges (pp. 249-284). In Social Cognition and Schizophrenia. (Eds.) P. Corrigan and D.A. Penn. American Psychological Association: Washington, D.C., 2001.

Francey, S., M., And Jackson, H.J.- Assessment and developing a formulation. In Working with People at High Risk of Developing Psychosis: A Treatment Handbook. (Eds.) J. Addington,  S. M. Francey, and A. Morrison. Wiley: Chichester: United Kingdom, 2006 (pp 25-39).

Jovev, M., And Jackson, H, J.– Personality disorders: Constructs and conceptualizations. In Personality Disorders and Eating Disorders: Exploring the Frontiers. (Eds.)  R.A. Sansone and J.L. Levitt,  Routledge (Taylor & Francis). New York (pp.     in press).  (2005).

Book Chapters:

Jackson, H.J. "The Assessment of Personality Disorder: Some Issues and Directions", in Cognitive Psychotherapy of Psychotic and Personality Disorders: Handbook of Theory and Practice (Eds.) C. Perris and P.D. McGorry, Wiley: Chichester, U.K, 293-314. (1998).

Yung, A., and Jackson, H.J. "The Onset of Psychotic Disorder: Clinical and Research Aspects", in The Recognition and Management of Early Psychosis: A Preventive Approach. (Eds.) P.D.McGorry and H.J. Jackson, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, U.K, 27-50. (1999).

Jackson, H.J., Edwards, J., Hulbert,C., and McGorry, P.D. "Recovery from Psychosis: Psychological Interventions", in The Recognition and Management of Early Psychosis: A Preventive Approach. (Eds.) P.D. McGorry and H.J. Jackson, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, U.K, 265-307. (1999).

Refereed Journal Articles:

Jackson, H.J., McGorry,P.D., Edwards, J., Hulbert, C., Henry, L., Francey, S., Maude, D., Cocks, J., Power, P., Harrigan, S., and Dudgeon, P."Cognitively-oriented Psychotherapy for Early Psychosis (COPE): Preliminary Results", British Journal of Psychiatry, 172, (Supplement) , 93-100. (1998).

McGorry, P.D., Yung, A.R., Phillips, L.J., Yuen, H.P., Francey, S., Cosgrave, E.M., Germano, D., BRAVIN, J., McDonald, T., Blair, A., Adlard, S., and Jackson, H. "Randomized Controlled Trial of Interventions Designed to Reduce the Risk of Progression to First-episode Psychosis in a Clinical Sample with Subthreshold Symptoms",Archives of General Psychiatry, 59, 921-928 (2002)

Jackson, H.J., and Burgess, P. "Personality Disorders in the Community: Results from the Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Well-Being. Part III. Relationships between Specific Type of Personality Disorders, Axis I Mental Disorders and Physical Conditions with Disability and Health Consultations", Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 39, 765-776 (2004).

JACKSON, H.J., MCGORRY, P., EDWARDS, J., HULBERT, C., HENRY, L., HARRIGAN, S., DUDGEON, P., FRANCEY, S., MAUDE, D., COCKS, J., KILLACKEY, E., and POWER, P. – A controlled trial of cognitively-oriented psychotherapy for early psychosis (COPE) with four-year follow-up readmission data. Psychological Medicine, 35, 1295-1306 (2005)

FRANCEY, S.H., JACKSON, H.J., PHILLIPS, L.J., WOOD, S.J., YUNG, A.R., and McGORRY, P.D.  - Sustained attention in young people at high risk of psychosis does not predict transition to psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 79, 127-136 (2005)

JOVEV, M., and JACKSON, H.J. – The relationship of borderline personality disorder, life events and functioning in an Australian psychiatric sample. Journal of Personality Disorders, 20, 205-217 (2006)

JUDD, F., JACKSON, H., FRASER, C., MURRAY, G., ROBINS, G., and KOMITI, A. Understanding suicide in Australian farmers. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 41, 1-10 (2006)

Students under Supervision:

Masters of Psychology in Progress

Doctor of Psychology Theses in Progress

PhD Theses in Progress

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