Recent Theses Passed

Scroll this page for details of theses passed for 2004 and 2005. For previous years, go to:

• Theses Passed 2007
• Theses Passed 2006
• Theses Passed 2005
• Theses Passed 2004
• Theses Passed 2003
• Theses Passed 2002
• Theses Passed 2001
• Theses Passed 2000

DECEMBER 2006

Richard Moulding
MPsych/PhD
Thesis title: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder and Control-Related Beliefs
Supervisors: Professor Mike Kyrios, Dr Carol Hulbert

Zubaidah Jamil Osman
DPsych (Clinical)
Thesis title: Cultural Values Dissonance and its Relationship with Parent-Adolescent Conflict – A Study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Supervisors: Professor Mike Kyrios, A/Professor Steven Klimidis

Sarah Ogilvie
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: Negotiator Framing of Conflict and Changes in Framing Over Time
Supervisors: Professor Mara Olekalns, Professor Philip Smith

Krystyne Pniewski
MSc (Research)
Thesis title: The Assessment and Treatment of Concerns and Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Pre-Surgical Monitoring for Epilepsy
Supervisor: A/Professor David Andrewes
 

Olga Szymanska
DPsych (Clinical – Child Specialisation)
Thesis title: The Psychological Adjustment of Adolescents with a Biological Vulnerability: The Influence of Family and Friends
Supervisors: A/Professor Lis Northam, Dr Peter Anderson

Carl Zabel
DPsych (Clinical)
Thesis title: Compulsive Buying in Australia: A comparative study of psychological correlates and predictors of pathological acquisition
Supervisors: Professor Mike Kyrios, A/Professor John Gleeson
  

NOVEMBER 2006

Dana Sullivan
DPsych (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: The Reliability and Validity of Wada Test Scores in Assessing Memory Function in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients
Supervisor: A/Professor Stephen Bowden

OCTOBER 2006

Kylie Anne Altson
DPsych ( Clinical Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: Attentional Affective Processing in Early Adolescents Who Vary on Primary Dimensions of Temperament
Supervisor: A/Professor Nick Allen
 
Nina Cook
DPsych (Clinical – Child Specialisation)
Thesis title: The Psychophysiological Correlates of Affective Temperament Dimensions
Supervisor: A/Professor Nick Allen
 
Alison Crichton
DPsych (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: Reading Subprocesses and Comprehension in Hyperlexia – A Cognitive Neuropsychology Perspective
Supervisors: Professor Margot Prior, A/Professor Anne Castles
 
Jennifer Kirsner
DPsych (Forensic)
Thesis title: Early Maladaptive Schemas Underlying Aggression and Associated Personality Functioning
Supervisor: Professor Henry Jackson
 
Helena Sandahl
DPsych (Clinical – Child Specialisation)
Thesis title: Psychotropic Treatment of Depressive Disorders During Pregnancy: Birth Outcomes and the Neurobehaviour in the Newborn
Supervisors: A/Professor Stephen Bowden, A/Professor Anne Buis

Barry Waterman
DPsych (Forensic)
Thesis title: Child sex offenders with an Intellectual Disability: A Descriptive Model of the Offence Process
Supervisors: Dr Lynne Eccleston, Professor Tony Ward
 
Benedict Williams
PhD
Thesis title: Cognitive Complexity and the Dynamics of Temporal Pattern Production
Supervisor: Professor Philip Smith

SEPTEMBER 2006

Guy Doron
MPsych/PhD
Thesis title: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Role of Attachment Representations, Perceptions of Self and the World in Cognitive Theory of Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder.
Supervisors: A/Professor Mike Kyrios, Dr Carol Hulbert

Dean Lusher
PhD
Thesis title: Masculinities in Local Contexts: Structural, Individual and Cultural Interdependencies
Supervisor: Associate Professor Garry Robins

Maja Nedeljkovic
MPsych/PhD
Thesis title: Meta-Memory Factors in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Cognitive and Neuropsychological Correlates
Supervisors: A/Professor Mike Kyrios, Dr Carol Hulbert

Kim Peters
MPsych/PhD
Thesis title: From Social Talk to Social Structure: How sharing emotions with everyday social talk organises social relationships
Supervisor: A/Professor Yoshi Kashima

Jonathon Walker
MPsych (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: Ten Things I Hate About Me: Probing the comparator function as a means of integrating process-control theory with models of depression
Supervisor: A/Professor Nick Allen

AUGUST 2006

Helen Cisternino
DPsych (Health)
Thesis title: Play Therapy and the Hospitalised Child: Influence of Normative, Therapeutic and Educative Play in Reducing Emotional Distress
Supervisor: Associate Professor Mary Ainley
 
Sarity Dodson
DPsych (Health)
Thesis title: Living as a Young Adult with Type 1 Diabetes
Supervisors: A/Professor Jeanette Lawrence, Dr Agnes Dodds
 
Tanya Madsen
DPsych (Health)
Thesis title: Breaking Bad News. Predictors of patient anxiety, depression and satisfaction with communication following a diagnosis of breast cancer
Supervisor: Professor Jeannette Milgrom
 
Georgina Roberts
DPsych (Health)
Thesis title: Exploring the Relationship between Alcohol Use, Religiosity and Self-concept in Jewish Adolescents
Supervisor: Associate Professor Mary Ainley, Dr Sheryl Hemphill
 
Jacqueline Snow
PhD
Thesis title: Neuropsychological Investigations of Spatial Bias in Selective Attention
Supervisor: Professor Jason Mattingley
 

JULY 2006

Christina Bryant
PhD
Thesis title: Anxiety and Depression in Physically Unwell Older Adults: Prevalence and Outcomes
Supervisors: Professor Henry Jackson, Professor David Ames

Belinda Chuah
DPsych (Health)
Thesis title: The Influence of Coping and Emotional Intelligence on Psychological Adjustment to Cancer: A Longitudinal Study of Patients Calling a Cancer Helpline
Supervisors: Dr Victoria White, Professor Jeannette Milgrom

Sandra Rubinstein
DPsych (Clinical)
Thesis title: Attitudes to Cosmetic Surgery
Supervisor: Professor Henry Jackson

Alexandra Stol
MPsych/PhD
Thesis title: Evaluating Leadership Training: A longitudinal study investigating individual and organisational impact.
Supervisor: Professor Alex Wearing

Sheri Todd
DPsych (Clinical / Child Specialisation)
Thesis title: Factors Influencing Psychological and Health Outcomes in Type 1 Diabetes: Perspectives from a Longitudinal Study
Supervisors: A/Professor Lis Northam

Amanda Wood
MPsych (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: Regional Callosal Morphology and Hemispheric Asymmetry for Language
Supervisor: A/Professor Michael Saling

MAY 2006

Alan Headey
DPsych (Health)
Thesis title: An Evaluation of Medicare-Funded Case Conferences for Private Psychiatrists
Supervisors: Dr Paul Dudgeon, Dr Jane Pirkis

Qusai Hussain
DPsych (Forensic)
Thesis title: Checklist of Offence Pathways for Rapists: A Clinician's Guide to Informed Intervention
Supervisors: Professor Grant Devilly, Professor Tony Ward, Dr Lynne Eccleston

Kelly Johnson
DPsych (Clinical (Child Specialisation)
Thesis title: Relationship of Neurological and Environmental Factors with Temperament in Very Preterm Infants at 12 Months of Age
Supervisors: A/Professor Lis Northam, Dr Peter Anderson

Frank Muscara
DPsych (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: Social Problem Solving Skills as a Mediator Between Executive Function and Long-Term Social Outcome Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Children
Supervisors: Professor Vicki Anderson, Dr Cathy Catroppa

Karli Treyvaud
DPsych (Clinical – Child Specialisation)
Thesis Title: Parenting and Neurobehavioural Development of Very Preterm Children
Supervisors: Professor Vicki Anderson, Dr Peter Anderson

Marie Wegge
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: Bilingual Sentence Processing: Subject-Verb Agreement and Word Order
Supervisor: A/Professor Virginia Holmes

Bradley Wolfgang
PhD
Thesis title: Are attentional effects in the attentional blink and spatial cuing paradigms mediated by common mechanisms?
Supervisor: Professor Philip Smith

APRIL 2006

Katherine Waters
DPsych (Clinical – Child Specialisation)
Thesis title: Precursors and Consequences of Heavy Alcohol Use in Adolescence
Supervisor: A/Professor Ann Sanson

MARCH 2006

Jennifer McGrail
DPsych (Forensic)
Thesis title: An Investigation into the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with Comorbidity
Supervisors: Professor Grant Devilly, Dr Lynne Eccleston

Barbara Milliken
DPsych (Forensic)
Thesis title: A Descriptive Model of the Management of Therapist Morals and Values in Therapeutic Interventions with Sex Offenders
Supervisors: Professor Tony Ward, Dr Lynne Eccleston

Fiona Reynolds
PhD
Thesis title: Factors Affecting Transitions in Young Children's Proportional Reasoning Abilities
Supervisors: A/Professor Bob Reeve, Professor Pip Pattison

Tanya Warms
PhD
Thesis title: Word Retrieval Deficits in Aphasia: Effects of Phonological Awareness and Lexical Semantic Processing
Supervisors: Dr Chris Davis, A/Professor Anne Castles, A/Professor Virginia Holmes

February 2006

Joanne Hatch
DPsych (Clinical – Child Specialisation)
Thesis title: Adolescents Who Sexually Abuse Their Siblings: A Study of Family Factors and Victim Selection
Supervisor: A/Professor Lis Northam

Felicity Joslin
DPsych (Organisational/Industrial)
Thesis title: The Experience of an Internal Merger: The Relationships between Openness to Change, Institutional Support, Acculturation, Psychological Distress and Work-Related Outcomes
Supervisor/s: Dr Paul Dudgeon, Dr Lea Waters

Yuval Kalish
MPsych/PhD
Thesis title: People and Networks: Psychology, Structure, and Motivations
Supervisor: Associate Professor Garry Robins

Meredith McKague
PhD
Thesis title: The Development of Orthographic Representations in Skilled Readers
Supervisor/s: Dr Chris Davis, A/Professor Yoshi Kashima

Jennifer McNeill
MPsych (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Thesis title: Distractor Interference: Does Temporal Separation Between Distractor and Target Affect Goal-directed Actions?
Supervisor/s: A/Professor Michael Saling, Dr Ada Kritikos

Rachel Reilly
DPsych (Health)
Thesis title: Psychosocial Determinants of Indigenous Health
Supervisor/s: A/Professor Di Bretherton, Dr Kevin Rowley

Theses Passed: 2007/ 2005 / 2004 / 2003 / 2002 / 2001 / 2000