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SUMMARY:Thriving With and Beyond Cancer: A World Psycho-Oncology Day Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Clinical: Supporting Mental Health in Cancer CareCancer care is about more than just treatment\, scans\, and surgery. In honour of World Psycho-Oncology Day\, the Psycho-Oncology Cooperative Research Group (PoCoG) invites you to a special webinar: Thriving With and Beyond Cancer. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Thursday 9 April to discover how psycho-social and supportive care clinical trials and implementation research are transforming the way we support the emotional and psychological needs of patients and their families. \n\n\n\nThis session is open to all – clinicians\, researchers\, students\, and community members alike. \n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE \n\n\n\nWhen: Thursday 9 April\, 1pm – 2 pm AEST \n\n\n\nWhere: Online (link provided upon registration) \n\n\n\nHost: PoCoG (School of Psychology\, Faculty of Science\, University of Sydney)
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/thriving-with-and-beyond-cancer-a-world-psycho-oncology-day-webinar/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Psychology Colloquium: Prof Mark Dadds (University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:UNFORTUNATELY\, MARK’S COLLOQUIUM HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR LATER IN THE YEAR. \n\n\n\nProf Mark Dadds (University of Sydney) \n\n\n\nTitle: What is it to discipline a child; what should it be? Evidence\, myths\, and the moral high ground \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nParental discipline of children is central to children’s moral development but is also the context for most abuse and violence. Time-out (TO) is a widely used parental discipline strategy developed as an alternative to physical punishment for children with behavioural problems and is now the 2nd most common discipline strategy. Despite strong research support\, concerns have spread widely regarding adverse impact on child mental health (CMH) in part driven by evidence of widespread variability in how TO is implemented\, and also with regard to its use with child from trauma and adversity backgrounds. I will present the results of several studies using a new measure of procedural implementation of TO by parents of children aged 2-8 years\, to examine the relationship between use and implementation of TO and child mental health\, attachment\, moral development\, and other outcomes. Data will include the first surveys of young adults who grew up in the Time-out generation. Overall\, the findings suggest that TO is ……. you’ll need to come to hear this bit! \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nMark Dadds is Director of Growing Minds Australia\, Professor of Psychology at the University of Sydney and Founding Co-Director of the Child Behaviour Research Clinic\, which develops state-of-the-art treatments for children and adolescents with MH problems. He has received over $17M of NHMRC\, MRFF and philanthropic funding since 2020. He has developed and directed several national intervention programs for children\, youth\, and their families\, at risk for MH problems. His Integrated Family Intervention for Child Conduct Disorder (with D.Hawes) is implemented throughout the world in the form of a tertiary treatment and since 2020\, online as Parentworks and FamilyMan\, both developed in partnership with the Movember Foundation. The ABC 3-part documentary of his approach to treating early onset child mental health problems led to him being awarded the 2021 Inaugural APS Award for Media Engagement with Science. Other awards include Early Career Award from the Division of Scientific Affairs of the Australian Psychological Society\, the Ian Matthew Campbell Award for Excellence in Clinical Psychology\, Distinguished Career Award of the Australian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy\, the Eric Taylor Award for Translational Research into Practice\, Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health\, UK\, 2020\, and in 2021\, the APS President’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology. He has authored 4 books and over 280 papers on child and family psychology receiving over 39\,000 citations in total and over 11\,000 since 2020 on Google Scholar\, and has given invited keynote addresses and skills training workshops to international audiences throughout the world. In 2021 he established Australia’s first Clinical Trials Network in Child and Youth Mental Health funded by the federal government and tasked with developing innovative methods for identifying and responding to early mental health problems in children. This CTN has since 2021 developed Australia’s first network of Early and Midcareer researchers in child and youth mental health\, established over 14 flagship\, funded and endorsed new research trials\, established core methods support teams in Health Economics\, Lived Experience and Co-design\, Translation\, and Statistical methods\, and engaged ~100 research collaborators in child and youth mental health.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-mark-dadds-university-of-sydney/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Natalie Matosin (University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Natalie Matosin (University of Sydney) \n\n\n\nTitle: Decoding the impacts of stress on the human brain \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nSevere psychological stress is a global issue. The accumulation of recent geopolitical\, environmental\, and health crises has highlighted that stress has broad and substantial ramifications for global mental health. In this presentation\, Dr. Natalie Matosin will present cutting-edge research on how stress and trauma affect the cytoarchitecture of the human brain\, and how through studying this process\, the lab is defining new brain cell types that have not been described before. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nDr. Natalie Matosin is a Sydney Horizon and Al & Val Rosenstrauss Senior Research Fellow in the School of Medical Sciences\, and Director of the MINDS Lab in the Charles Perkins Centre. With over a decade of international training in neurobiology\, Natalie specialises in advanced techniques to explore brain complexities and disorders. Her lab’s pioneering research in spatial and single-cell histology aims to improve diagnostics and develop new treatments for mental health conditions\, driving solutions from lab research to clinical applications.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-tba-tba/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Learning\, Education\, and Assessment Research Network (Psychology) (USYD)
DESCRIPTION:L.E.A.R.N. (Learning\, Education\, and Assessment Research Network) (Psychology) (USYD) \n\n\n\nTitle: The discipline that couldn’t explain itself: Narrative identity and Psychology’s crisis of coherence \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nAnyone familiar with Psychology’s history will recognise a discipline shaped by fragmentation\, competing paradigms\, and unresolved questions about Psychology’s identity and purpose. These tensions have become more pronounced in contemporary debates about open science\, interdisciplinarity\, decolonisation\, and Psychology’s standing beyond being ‘just’ a science. In this presentation\, we argue that Psychology continues to face an identity problem that is at once theoretical\, pedagogical\, and professional. We situate the problem historically\, tracing enduring tensions between experimental science\, applied practice\, and humanistic approaches. Drawing on McAdams’ narrative identity framework\, we propose that Psychology’s pluralism can be understood not only as intellectual diversity\, but also as narrative fragmentation. \n\n\n\nWe then examine how Psychology’s narrative is encountered by students in undergraduate education. Undergraduate curricula often present Psychology as a collection of disparate topic areas\, with limited explicit guidance on how these areas connect to one another or to students’ emerging professional identities. We argue that this lack of a shared disciplinary narrative has important negative consequences for student engagement\, sense of belonging\, and their understanding of Psychology as a coherent and meaningful field of study. \n\n\n\nWe then present findings examining first-year students’ perceptions of the implicit and explicit narratives operating within our large introductory Psychology courses. Our findings reveal systematic mismatches between what we teach within the scientist-practitioner model and student narratives potentially shaped by career aspirations and broader societal understandings of Psychology. \n\n\n\nWe conclude by addressing how narrative coherence can function as a unifying device for Psychology education\, linking disciplinary identity\, pedagogical practice\, and student professional development. More broadly\, we suggest that addressing Psychology’s identity challenges begins not only with theoretical integration\, but with the stories we tell both ourselves and our students about what Psychology is and can be. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nL.E.A.R.N (Psychology) is a collective of education‑focused academics within the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney\, dedicated to advancing evidence‑based teaching and learning in higher education. The group has enjoyed recent success in securing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) grant funding for innovative projects spanning feedback literacy\, clinical supervision\, self‑regulated learning\, peer‑assisted study\, and learning analytics. Funded initiatives include:  Facing Feedback: Developing Student–Teacher Feedback Literacy Through Partnership; Advancing Clinical Supervision Pedagogy: Using Developmentally‑Tailored Approaches to Strengthen Engagement\, Competency\, and Confidence in Early Clinical Placements; Teaching First‑Year Students How to Learn: Co‑Designing Self‑Regulated Learning at Scale; The Value of Peer‑Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) for Mathematics and Statistics Students; and Early Warning: Using AI to Predict and Support At‑Risk Students in Large‑Scale Units.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-tba-tba-2/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Prof Louise Sharpe (University of Sydney)
DESCRIPTION:Prof Louise Sharpe (University of Sydney) \n\n\n\nTitle: Treating anxiety in the context of physical illness: The importance of safety behaviours and fears of disease progression \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nCognitive-behavioural treatments (CBT) for anxiety disorders are amongst the most successful applications of CBT\, with a vast literature confirming efficacy with large effect sizes. However\, when anxiety is treated in the context of a chronic physical illness\, meta-analyses confirm that treatments are far less effective\, typically with small effect sizes. This keynote will explore two potential mechanisms that are important in working with people with chronic physical illness and comorbid anxiety. First\, the presentation of safety behaviours in people with chronic physical health problems will be explored. Clinicians must determine the difference between safety behaviours that exacerbate anxiety and safety precautions which keep patients safe from the impacts of their illness. A decision-making framework will be presented to differentiate safety behaviours and safety precautions. Second\, the content of worries differs for people with anxiety in the context of chronic physical conditions. Specifically\, an extremely common worry across populations of people with different chronic illnesses is the fear of their disease progressing. Our research shows that fears of progression are common amongst common chronic physical illnesses\, including cancer\, cardiovascular disease\, rheumatological conditions\, respiratory conditions and diabetes. This keynote will review evidence of the importance of fears of progression in anxious symptoms\, theories of fear of progression and review the relevant treatment outcome literature. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nTBA
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-prof-louise-sharpe-university-of-sydney/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Scientia Prof Kaarin Anstey (University of NSW)
DESCRIPTION:Scientia Prof Kaarin Anstey (University of NSW) \n\n\n\nTitle: Disaggregating by sex and gender sheds new light on cognitive ageing and dementia risk \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nTBA \n\n\n\nBio:Kaarin Anstey is a Scientia Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales\, Director of the UNSW Ageing Futures Institute and Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia. She held an ARC Laureate Fellowship 2020-2025 focusing on cognitive resilience in ageing. Anstey conducts research in the fields of dementia epidemiology\, risk reduction\, and cognitive aging and has developed evidence-based\, dementia risk assessment tools that are used in clinical practice and research\, including the ANU-ADRI and the CogDrisk. She currently leads two clinical trials focussing on risk reduction in in people with mild cognitive disorders\, a program of research on women’s brain health and the app-based Resilient Minds study. Anstey is a member of the World Dementia Council\, and a member of the World Health Organisation Guideline Development Group for risk reduction. In 2025 she was awarded the NSW Premier’s Award for Excellence in Biological and Medical Science.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-scientia-prof-kaarin-anstey-university-of-nsw/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Poppy Watson (UTS)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Poppy Watson (UTS) \n\n\n\nTitle: TBA \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nTBA \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nTBA
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-poppy-watson-uts/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Denise Moerel (Western Sydney University)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Denise Moerel (Western Sydney University) \n\n\n\nTitle: TBA \n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nTBA \n\n\n\nBio: \n\n\n\nTBA
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-denise-moerel-western-sydney-university/
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