Dr Lisa Phillips

BSc; Grad Dip (Behavioural Studies in Health Care); MPsych (Clinical); PhD

Senior Lecturer

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Dr Phillips has experience working clinically within the area of youth mental health- with a particular focus on the development of interventions for young people who are at ‘ultra’ high risk of the development of a psychotic disorder. She was formerly the Research Coordinator at the PACE Clinic – a clinical research program based at ORYGEN Research Centre- where she coordinated a large programme of research investigating the onset of psychosis as well as the development of preventive interventions. Her primary research interests at PACE were the development of psychological treatment approaches for the high risk group and investigation of the role of stress and coping in the onset of psychosis.

Her current position includes the day-to-day coordination of the University of Melbourne Psychology Clinic and coordination of the external placement program for postgraduate Clinical Psychology students, clinical and research supervision in the postgraduate Clinical Psychology Program and teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Research Interests:

• Youth mental health
• Early psychosis
• Stress and coping

Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:

• Registered Psychologist, Psychologists’ Registration Board of Victoria
• Member, Australian Psychological Society (APS)
• Member, Clinical College of the APS
• Affiliate of the Orygen Research Centre
• Member of the International Early Psychosis Association
• Winner of the 2007 APS Early Career Award
  

Recent Funded Research:

Book

Yung, A.R., Phillips, L.J., & Mc Gorry, P.D., Treating schizophrenia in the prodromal phase. 2004, London:Taylor & Francis.

Book Chapters

Phillips, L. J., Addington, J., & Morrison, A. (in press). At Risk Mental State: Management. In H. J. Jackson, & McGorry, P.D. (Ed.), Recognition and Management of Early Psychosis: A Preventive Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Yung, A. R., Phillips, L.J., & McGorry, P.D. (2006). Prodromal period: Pharmacological and behavioural interventions. In T. Sharma, & Harvey, P. (Ed.), The early course of schizophrenia (pp. 189- 210). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Phillips , L. J., & Francey, S.M. (2004) Changing PACE: Psychological interventions in the pre-psychotic phase. In Psychological Interventions in Early Psychosis: A treatment handbook. P.D McGorry & J. Gleeson. (Eds) Chichester , John Wiley and Sons: 23- 40.

McGorry, P.D., Yung, A.R., & Phillips, L.J. (2004). Intervention in the prepsychotic phase of schizophrenia: Towards effective and safe strategies for earliest intervention in psychotic disorders, In Search for the causes of schizophrenia, W.F. Gattaz, & Hafner, H., (Eds). Darmstadt : Steinkopff Verlag

Phillips , L.J. (in press). Assessing and managing stress. In Working with people at high risk of developing psychosis: A treatment handbook. J Addington, S. Francey & T Morrison (Eds). Chichester : John Wiley and Sons.

Journal Articles

Phillips, L. J., McGorry, P.D., Garner, B., Thompson, K.N., Pantelis, C., Wood, S.J., & Berger, G. (2006). Stress, the hippocampus and the HPA axis: Implications for the development of psychotic disorders. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 40, 725-741.

Bechdolf, A., Phillips, L.J., Francey, S., Leicester, S., Morrison, A.P., Veith, V., Klosterkötter, J., & McGorry, P.D. (2006). Recent approaches to psychological interventions for people at risk of psychosis. European Archives of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 256, 159-173.

Phillips , L.J., McGorry, P.D., Yung, A.R., McGlashan, T.H., Cornblatt, B., & Klosterkotter, J. (2005). Prepsychotic phase of schizophrenia and related disorders: Recent progress and future opportunities. British Journal of Psychiatry, 187 (Suppl. 48), s33-s44.

McGorry, P.D., Yung, A.R., Phillips, L.J., Cadenhead, K., & Sharma, T., Clinical service models for intervention in the prepsychotic phase: Towards effective and safe strategies for earliest intervention in psychotic disorders. in press.

McGorry, P.D., Yung, A.R., Phillips, L. J.,Berger, G., & Francey, S.M. (in press). Can first episode psychosis be predicted and prevented? Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica.

Francey, S.M., Jackson , H.J., Phillips, L.J, Wood, S.J., Yung, A.R., & McGorry, P.D. (2005) Sustained attention in young people at high risk of psychosis does not predict transition to psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 79, 127-136.

Pantelis, C., Yücel, M., Wood, S.J., Velakoulis, D., Sun, D., Berger, G., Stuart, G.W., Yung, A., Phillips, L., & McGorry, P.D. (2005). Structural brain imaging: Evidence for multiple pathological processes at different stages of brain development in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 31, 672-696.

Yun, Y., Phillips, L.J., Cotton, S., Yung, A.R., Francey, S.M., Yuen, H.P., & McGorry, P.D. (2005). Obstetric complications and transition to psychosis in an ultra high risk sample. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 39, 460-466

Brewer, W. J., Francey, S.M., Wood, S. J., Jackson, H.J., Pantelis, C., Phillips, L.J., Yung, A.R., Anderson, V.A., & McGorry, P.D. (2005). Memory impairments identified in people at ultra high-risk for psychosis who later develop first episode psychosis. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162 71- 78.

Yung, A. R., Phillips, L.J., Yuen, H.P., & McGorry, P.D. (2004). Risk factors for psychosis in an ultra high-risk group: Psychopathology and clinical features. Schizophrenia Research 67: 131- 142.