Prof Mark Dadds (University of Sydney Psychology) Title: Evidence, fads, and the moral high ground in clinical psychology: The example of parental discipline practices Abstract: Clinical psychology grew up in a scientist-practitioner framework, but like all human endeavours, it is heavily influenced by fads, hearsay, and polemics. An informative example of this concerns parental discipline […]
Prof Tasha Stanton (Adelaide University) Title: Taking perceptual science to the clinic to optimise care for chronic pain Abstract: Our understanding of what underpins perceptions of our own body and its capacity is growing, with theories of predictive processing and active inference informing both why we feel what we feel and why we do what […]
Prof Ron Rapee (Macquarie University) Title: Identifying risk for the development of internalising distress across adolescence Abstract: Early to middle adolescence is a time of major social and emotional change. Peer relationships begin to take on increasing salience; pubertal changes result in increasingly overt alterations in appearance; self-concept becomes more fluid and negative; and emotional […]
ECR Fire Talks (University of Sydney Psychology) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Bio: TBA
Cultural diversity in research community (University of Sydney Psychology) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Bio: TBA
Postgraduate Prizes with talks by winners (University of Sydney Psychology) H. Tasman Lovell Memorial Medallion winner: Dr Matthew Blanchard (in absentia) Faculty of Science Prize for Outstanding PhD Thesis nominee: Dr Tao Chen Title: Behavioural Rigidity in Dementia: From Clinical Significance to Neurobiological Mechanisms Abstract: With the rapid ageing of the global population, dementia poses […]
Prof Kevin Dunn (Western Sydney University) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Bio: TBA
A/Prof Michele Barnes (University of Sydney Engineering) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Bio: TBA
Prof Anne Castles (Australian Catholic University) Title: Word learning in adolescent readers Abstract: Formal reading instruction typically concludes at the end of the primary school years, with children assumed to transition from “learning to read” to “reading to learn”. Yet the results of both national and international studies show that as much as 30% of […]
A/Prof Miri Forbes (Macquarie University) Title: The Future of Mental Disorder Classification: Problems, Progress, and Possibilities Abstract: There is growing evidence of substantial limitations in traditional, categorical approaches to the classification of mental disorders like the DSM and ICD. In this talk I will examine the case for rethinking how we classify mental illness, and […]
