Theses Passed 2002 - 2003

Scroll this page for details of theses passed for 2002 and 2003. For other years, go to:

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• Theses Passed 2000

DECEMBER 2003

Helen Gwenda Dixon
PhD
Thesis title: Portrayal of Tobacco Use in Popular Films: An Investigation of Audience Impact
Supervisor/s: Dr Ron Borland, Dr Jenny Boldero

Natalie Genardini
DPsych (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: Patterns of Psychosocial Adjustment Following Cardiac Surgery
Supervisor/s: Dr Sarah Wilson

Wendy Knight
DPsych (Child Clinical)
Thesis title: Mediators of Change in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Nicholas Allen

Leonie Simpson
DPsych (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: Memory and General Intellectual Ability in People in their First Episode and at a High Risk of Developing Psychosis
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Michael Saling, Dr Stephen Wood, Dr Christos Pantelis

Erika Szerda
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: An Investigation of Rater Agreement and Rater Bias in the Workplace
Supervisor/s: Prof Alex Wearing

NOVEMBER 2003

Rani Jacobs
PhD
Thesis title: Executive Skills Following Focal Frontal Lobe Lesions in Childhood
Supervisor/s: Prof Vicki Anderson

Fiona Petersen
DPsych (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: Adolescent Self-Concept Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Supervisor/s: Prof Vicki Anderson, Dr Jenny Boldero

OCTOBER 2003

Amee Baird
MPsych/PhD
Thesis title: Sexual Outcomes after Epilepsy Surgery
Supervisor/s: Dr Sarah Wilson, A/Prof David Reutens, and Prof Peter Bladin

Vicki Cowling
MA (Research)
Thesis title: What Are the Special Characteristics of Families Who Provide Long Term Care For Children of Parents With Mental Illness?
Supervisor/s: Dr Mary Ainley

Colleen Galna
MPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: Assessing Measurement Equivalence of a 360 Degree Feedback Instrument Using Multiple Group CFA
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Richard Bell

Sophie Havighurst
PhD
Thesis title: Shaping Emotional Competence in Preschoolers with Behaviour Problems
Supervisor/s: Prof Margot Prior

Nicole Moulday
DPsych (Forensic)
Thesis title: Violence Prediction and Communication: Clinicians' Knowledge, Attitudes and Expressed Preferences in Clinical Practice
Supervisor/s: Dr Mark Brown and Prof Tony Ward

SEPTEMBER 2003

Charlotte Ho
DPsych (Forensic)
Thesis title: Return of the Suppressed: Mental Control and Sexual Offending
Supervisor/s: Prof Tony Ward

Thabisa Mabusela
DPsych (Child Clinical)
Thesis title: Exposure to Adversity, Parenting Styles, and Internalising and Externalising Syndromes in African Adolescents in South Africa
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Steven Klimidis, Dr Michael Kyrios

Meaghan Louise O'Donnell
PhD
Thesis title: Psychopathology Following Injury: An Exploration of Vulnerability
Supervisor/s: Prof Mark Creamer, Prof Pip Pattison

AUGUST 2003

Joel Beling
MA (Research)
Thesis title: The Relationship Between Prior Knowledge, Inferential Ability and Reading Skill Efficiency
Supervisor/s:  Dr Michael Johnston, Dr Paul Dudgeon

Euling Chong
DPsych (Clinical)
Thesis title: Cultural Competence in Graduate Psychology and Medical Training: An Australian Study
Supervisor/s: Dr Nola Rushford

Matthew Guthridge
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: Leadership, Psychological Climate, Service Climate, and Contextual Performance in Health Care
Supervisor/s: Prof Alex Wearing

Katherine Rowena Wilson
PhD
Thesis title: Fathering: Pathways to Involvement
Supervisor/s: Prof Margot Prior

JULY 2003

Jordana Bayer
PhD
Thesis title: Predicting Development of Internalising Difficulties in the Preschool Years
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Ann Sanson

Shaymaa Elkadi
PhD
Thesis title: The Influence of Testosterone on the Development of Cerebral Lateralization
Supervisor/s: Prof Michael O'Boyle

Stephen Mihailides
DPsych (Forensic)
Thesis title: Implicit Cognition, Cognitive Distortions and Sexual Offending
Supervisor/s: Prof Tony Ward

Wee Meng Winston Ong
PhD
Thesis title: The Importance of the Unit Concept in Rational Number Reasoning
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Robert Reeve

Tracey Wardill
PhD
Thesis title: Cognitive Function in the Australian Aged: A Normative Study
Supervisor/s: Prof Vicki Anderson

Sarah Wrigley
DPsych (Clinical)
Thesis title: The Role of Psychological Variables in Help-seeking for Mental Health Issues: An Investigation of a Rural Australian Population
Supervisor/s: Prof Henry Jackson, Prof Fiona Judd

JUNE 2003

Mari Botti
PhD
Thesis title: The Role of Domain Experience in Nurses' Judgments About Pain Assessment and Management
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Robert Reeve, Prof Glen Evans

Annukka Lindell
PhD
Thesis title: Strategies of Language Processing in the Left and Right Cerebral Hemispheres
Supervisor/s: Dr Mike Nicholls, Dr Anne Castles

Anthony Ryan
MSc (Research)
Thesis title: An Investigation of Forecasting Behaviour
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Bernd Rohrmann

Diana Smidts
PhD
Thesis title: Development of Executive Processes in Early Childhood
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Vicki Anderson

Barbara Tint
PhD
Thesis title: Collective Memory and Conflict Resolution
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Di Bretherton

Rachel Tuffield
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: Individual Perceptions of the Factors Affecting the Job Impact of Training
Supervisor/s: Prof Alex Wearing

Naomi Wilson
MPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: Examining the utility of visual and textual elements in fire safety brochures
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Bernd Rohrmann

APRIL 2003

Irene Bobevski
DPsych (Clinical)
Thesis title: Differences in Personality Traits Between Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Panic Disorder
Supervisor/s: Prof Henry Jackson

Martin Boult
DPsych (Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: Cognitive Deficits in Child and Adolescent Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder on Neuropsychological Tests
Supervisor/s: Dr Michael Kyrios, Prof Vicki Anderson

Emma Gollings
DPsych (Health)
Thesis title: A comparison of an internet-based and face-to-face intervention to modify body satisfaction and disturbed eating in young women
Supervisor/s: Prof Susan Paxton

Heidi Newitt
DPsych (Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: Paediatric Head Injury: Implications for Psychosocial Adjustment into Adulthood
Supervisor/s: Prof Vicki Anderson

MARCH 2003

Jo-Anne Buchanan
MPsych (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: Cognitive and Structural Predictors of Working Memory in Normal Controls and Patients with Schizophrenia
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Michael Saling

Martin Bunnage
MPsych (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: Imaging the Hippocampus - an fMRI Study
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Stephen Bowden

Elissa Didus
DPsych (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: Cognitive Function After a First-Ever Stroke: A Longitudinal and Community-Based Study
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Michael Saling

Alison Griffiths
DPsych (Forensic)
Thesis title: Evaluation of Psychopathy and Impulsivity in a Victorian Sample of Offenders
Supervisor/s: Dr David Rawlings

Vanessa Kwan Lim
PhD
Thesis title: Focal dystonia: A sensorimotor perspective
Supervisor/s:  Dr Mike Nicholls

Chi-Hung Leung
PhD
Thesis title: Modeling of Parenting Style, Achievement Attribution, and Learning Approaches among Junior High School Students - A Comparative Study of Hong Kong Chinese and Anglo-Australian Students
Supervisor/s: Dr Mary Ainley

Vincent Marziano
DPsych (Forensic)
Thesis title: Male Child Molesters' Implicit Theories
Supervisor/s:  Prof Tony Ward

Laura Peterson
DPsych (Child Clinical)
Thesis title: Temperament: Psychophysiological correlates, stability, and influences on change between two and four years of age
Supervisor/s: Prof John Trinder and A/Prof Ann Sanson

Melissa Slavin
PhD
Thesis title: Visual attention in Alzheimer's Disease: the efficiency of inhibitory processes, attention to competing information and divided attention
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Jason Mattingley and Prof John Bradshaw

Shanya Virasinghe
DPsych (Child Clinical)
Thesis title: An Exploratory Study to Determine Behavioural Adjustments in School Aged Children in Sri Lanka
Supervisor/s: Prof Margot Prior

JANUARY 2003

Samantha Corneille
MPsych (Clinical)
Thesis title:An Investigation of Religious Beliefs and Religious Delusions: Contextual Influences
Supervisor/s:Prof Henry Jackson

Feyona Lau
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: The initiation of Trust in Negotiation Relationships: The effects of cognitive, situational and individual difference factors
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Philip Smith and Dr Mara Olekalns

Eda Ruschena
DPsych (Child Clinical)
Thesis title:  Family Transitions and Children's Adjustment: Studies from the Australian Temperament Project
Supervisor/s: Prof Margot Prior

Hua-Hie Yong
PhD
Thesis title: Age Differences in Pain Attitudes
Supervisor/s: Dr Richard Bell and A/Prof Stephen Gibson

DECEMBER 2002

Vicki Gordon
PhD
Thesis title: The experience of being a hidden child survivor of the holocaust
Supervisor/s: Dr Peter Parker

Nicole Houchin
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: The impact of psychological barriers on risk communication outcomes
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Bernd Rohrmann

NOVEMBER 2002

Anna Camfield
MPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: Self over-rating; a result of ego protection or ?
Supervisor/s: Prof Alex Wearing and Prof Leon Mann

Shona Francey
PhD
Thesis title: Predicting psychosis: A longitudinal investigation of prodromal features and neurocognitive vulnerability indicators in young people at risk of psychosis
Supervisor/s: Prof Henry Jackson

Mark Jones
MPsych (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: Changes in blood pressure during sleep onset
Supervisor/s: Prof John Trinder

Shu-Huei Lin
DPsych (Clinical)
Thesis title: Safeguarding fairness for children: The importance of context for young women and girls
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Jeanette Lawrence

OCTOBER 2002

Lidia Ferraro
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: Safety climate measurement: The implications of safety performance
Supervisor/s: Prof Alex Wearing

Giovanna Lajbcygier-Pennella
DPsych (Clinical)
Thesis title: The relationship between self-discrepancies and eating disordered behaviours - the role of mediating and moderating factors
Supervisor/s: Dr Jenny Boldero

Catherine O'Brien
PhD
Thesis title: A Quantitative model of human rhinal cortex and its neuropsychological correlates in patients with mesial temporal sclerosis
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Stephen Bowden

James Boon Lip Tan
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: Post-hoc analyses of tests for use in a computer adaptive testing format
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Richard Bell

SEPTEMBER 2002

Lynne Eccleston
DPsych (Forensic)
Thesis title: Violent offenders' failure on parole - personality and dynamic risk predictors
Supervisor/s: Prof Henry Jackson

Michelle Menzel
DPsych (Clinical)
Thesis title: Group cognitive-behavioural therapy for eating-related emotions and behaviours in anorexia nervosa
Supervisor/s: Dr Nola Rushford

Sharon Morris
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: The impact of social value orientation and motivational orientation on mental maps of negotiation
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Philip Smith and Dr Mara Olekalns

Danielle Payne
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: Relationships between organisational variables underlying an employee opinion survey
Supervisor/s: Prof Alex Wearing

AUGUST 2002

Kim Albert
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: Work group cohesion: Structural, functional and cognitive interdependence
Supervisor/s: Prof Pip Pattison

Sika Foverskov
DPsych (Clinical)
Thesis title: Reaction time measures of attentional biases in clinical depression.
Supervisor/s: Dr Nick Allen

Michele Roberts
DPsych (Clinical)
Thesis title: The relationships between trauma, cognitive assumptions, psychological adaptations and subjective quality of life in a sample of HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay men.
Supervisor/s: Dr Nola Rushford

JUNE 2002

Deborah McNamara
DPsych (Child Clinical)
Thesis title: Rapid naming speed, orthographic processing, and phonological skill in children with reading difficulties
Supervisor/s: Dr Lesley Bretherton

Lesley Matthews
DPsych (Child Clinical)
Thesis title: Psychiatric and psychological morbidity and predictors of adjustment in a sample of adolescents with early diagnosed Type 1 diabetes
Supervisor/s: Dr Elisabeth Northam

MAY 2002

Peter Anderson
PhD
Thesis title: Measurement and development of executive function
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Vicki Anderson

Peter Gordon
PhD
Thesis title: A study of group psychotherapy, an empirical study of the whole group
Supervisor/s: Dr Mike Kyrios

John Gleeson
PhD
Thesis title: Early signs and risk factors for relapse in early psychosis
Supervisor/s: Dr David Rawlings, Prof Henry Jackson and Prof Pat McGory

Paige Hardy
MA Research
Thesis title: Co-morbid conduct disorder and depression in adolescence: Multivariate description and developmental trajectories
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Ann Sanson

Karyn Matotek
PhD
Thesis title: Working memory function in mild multiple sclerosis
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Michael Saling

Tina-Marie Proffitt
DPsych (Neuro)
Thesis title: The stability of spatial working memory and problem solving deficits in first-episode psychosis and established psychotic illness
Supervisor/s: Dr David Andrewes

APRIL 2002

Suzanne Barrett
DPsych (Child Clinical)
Thesis title: Differences between autism and communication disorders in social behaviour, imagination, repetitive behaviours and communication
Supervisor/s: Prof Margot Prior and Dr Janine Manjiviona

MARCH 2002

Michelle Kornblum
DPsych (Clinical)
Thesis title: Giftedness and perfectionism: The nature and incidence of perfectionism in a sample of mixed ability Australian students
Supervisor/s: Dr Mary Ainley

Lankamali Pangnadasa
DPsych (Neuro)
Thesis title: The differential effect of chemotherapy on neuropsychological ability in children as a function of sex and age at treatment
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Vicki Anderson

Teresa Senserrick
PhD
Thesis title: Future time perspective and motivation: An investigation of students' personal goals and academic orientations
Supervisor/s: Dr Mary Ainley

FEBRUARY 2002

Sarah Adey
DPsych (Clinical)
Thesis title: Startle elicited event related potentials and attentional processing of emotional stimuli in anxiety and depression
Supervisor/s: Dr Nick Allen

Fiona Brown
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: The relationship between student part-time work, adolescent developmental contexts, and autonomy
Supervisor/s: Dr Mary Ainley

Damian Collins
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: Predicting performance in elite Australian Rules football
Supervisor/s: Prof Barry Fallon

Duncan Frazer
DPsych (Neuro)
Thesis title: The `burden of normality' following the relief of chronic medical illnesses: A comparison of narcolepsy and epilepsy
Supervisor/s: Dr Sarah Wilson and A/Prof Michael Saling

Simon Gaymer
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: Transformational coaches and athletic satisfaction: A multilevel analysis of leadership in sport
Supervisor/s: Dr Garry Robins

Carol Hulbert
PhD
Thesis title: The relationship of personality and development factors to course and outcome in first-episode psychosis
Supervisor/s: Prof Henry Jackson

Sophie Reeves
DPsych (Forensic)
Thesis title: The role of the social environment in moderating the relationship between sensation seeking and antisocial behaviour in adolescent males
Supervisor/s: Dr Mary Ainley

Alyson Saunders
MPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: A longitudinal evaluation of a risk communication program regarding infection control in hospitals
Supervisor/s: A/Prof Bernd Rohrmann

Thamizan Tucker
DPsych (Clinical)
Thesis title: Naltrexone maintenance for heroin dependance: An evaluation of the addition of a 12-week structured group counselling program
Supervisor/s: Prof Henry Jackson

Mark Vujevic
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: A new multidimensional measure of organisational commitment
Supervisor/s: Prof Barry Fallon

Theses Passed 2007/ 2006 / 2005 / 2004 / 2001 / 2000