Mental Illness 2012
MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH GRANTS –
Dr Eugen Mattes
Co Investigators: Professor Martha Hickey, Professor Ian McKeague, Professor Michael Sawyer & Professor Ezra Susser
University of Western Australia
Amount Awarded: $9,925
Prenatal androgen exposure and its influence on mental health in children and adolescents
Dr Christopher Lee
Co Investigators: Professor Peter Drummond, Professor Arnoud Arntz & Assistant Professor Joan Farrell
Murdoch University, WA
Amount Awarded: $19,085
Multi-site randomised controlled trial of group schema therapy for borderline personality disorder
Professor Ron Rapee
Co Investigators: none
Macquarie University, NSW
Amount Awarded: “in-kind”
Preventing anxiety and depression across childhood
Co Investigators: Mr William Gye & Dr Marie Antoinette Redoblado Hodge
University of Sydney, NSW
Amount Awarded: $35,754
Does cognitive remediation improve employment prospects for people with a mental illness returning to work?
Co Investigator: Dr Charlene Schembri
Austin Health, Vic
Amount Awarded: $69,761
Help-seeking for postnatal depression as a major public health problem: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of Motivational Interviewing
Co Investigators: Dr James Bennett-Levy, Professor David Kavanagh & Dr Cameron Hurst
University of Queensland, Qld
Amount Awarded: $14,168
A randomised trial of low intensity intervention model within a university health service to improve the mental health of students
University of Wollongong, NSW
Co Investigators: Dr Frances Kay-Lambkin, Professor Amanda Baker & Professor Frank Deane
Amount Awarded: $48,507
Improving co-morbidity treatment within residential substance abuse: A randomised trial of a computer-based depression and substance abuse intervention
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre/University of New South Wales, NSW
Co Investigators: Professor Jackob Najman, Associate Professor Kypros Kypri, Dr Tim Slade, Dr Laura Vogl, Dr Delyse Hutchinson, Dr Raimondo Bruno and Monika Wadolowski
Amount Awarded: $40,881
Young people, drinking and the parental supply of alcohol: a longitudinal cohort study
Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle, NSW
Co Investigators: Dr Leanne Hides, Dr Christopher Jackson, Professor Rhoshel Lenroot, Dr Georgie Paulik, Professor Amanda Baker & Professor Patrick McElduff
Amount Awarded: $13,283
Improving social engagement of rural ‘at risk’ youth: A randomised effectiveness trial of a telephone delivered Cognitive and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy intervention
Co Investigator: Dr Melissa Green
Amount Awarded: $50,631
Identifying targets and timing for early intervention: A NSW population record-linkage study to detect childhood indicators of risk for mental illness
Professor Louisa Degenhardt
Burnet Institute, Vic
Co Investigators: Professor George Patton, Professor Wayne Hall, Dr Wendy Swift & Dr Christina O’Loughlin
Amount Awarded: $34,960
The relationship between alcohol use and mental disorders from adolescence to young adulthood – longitudinal analyses from a large Australian cohort study
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre/University of New South Wales, NSW
Co Investigators: Professor Richard Mattick, Professor Stephen Allsop, Professor Ann Sanson & Dr Lucy Burns
Amount Awarded: $69,182
Impact of parental substance use on family functioning and child development in an Australian Birth Cohort of 2,000 families: Pilot study proposal for the Wave III follow-up of Preschoolers
Austin Health, Vic
Co Investigator: Dr Charlene Schembri
Amount Awarded: $61,392
Does treating maternal antenatal depression and anxiety prevent adverse infant neurodevelopment outcomes?
CanTeen Australia, NSW
Co Investigators: Associate Professor Joseph Ciarrochi, Professor Kate White, Dr Claire Wakefield & Dr Danielle Tracey
Amount Awarded: $68,573
An individually randomised group treatment controlled trial of Truce: An ACT based psychological intervention for young people who have a parent with cancer
Black Dog Institute/University of New South Wales, NSW
Co Investigators: Dr Kathleen Griffiths, Ms Julia Reynolds & Ms Kylie Bennett
Amount Awarded: $67,362
Living with deadly thoughts: Reducing suicidal thoughts through a web-based self-help intervention
Australian National University, ACT
Co Investigators: Dr Liana Leach & Dr Sarah Olesen
Amount Awarded: $41,235
The social costs of adolescent mental health problems in Australia: educational disruption and longer term social exclusion
Centre for Youth Mental Health/University of Melbourne, Vic
Co Investigators: Professor Henry Jackson, Dr Mario Alvarez-Jimenez, Associate Professor Eoin Killackey & Professor Patrick McGorry
Amount Awarded: $69,930
Cognitive behavioural treatment for PTSD in young people with first episode psychosis: A randomised controlled trial of an intervention within the Australian service delivery model
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS - $75,000
Colin Dodds Post Doctoral Fellowship
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research/University of Western Australia, WA
Amount Awarded $75,000
Early life influences on child and adolescent mental health problems: A life-course approach to prevention and intervention