Centre for Emotional Health
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CEH'S DR CATHY MCMAHON wins prize for best paper.
Dr Cathy McMahon won the prize was for the best paper in the Psychosocial stream at the Fertility Society of Australia meeting in Perth 25th -29th October, 2009.
The paper was called "Age at first birth, IVF conception and depression in the first four months after childbirth: Preliminary findings from the PATPA study.
For more information on the PATPA study please see www.psy.mq.edu.au/PATPA
Professor Ron Rapee, director of the Centre for Emotional Health, receives two prestigious awards.
Professor Ron Rapee was awarded the Australian Psychological Society 2009 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award in October 2009. The Award recognizes the outstanding contribution Ron's work has made to the science of Psychology in Australia.
This award follows Ron's recent award in August from the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy. He was awarded the 2009 Distinguished Career Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Cognitive Behaviour Research and Therapy.
CEH Lecture: The Lingering Legacy of Lead Toxicity
Presented by
Professor Bruce Lanphear MD, MPH
Friday 13 November 2009, 3.30pm
Price Theatre 2, W5A
When Fear Takes Over
Professor Ron Rapee and Jonathan Gaston from the Centre's Emotional Health Clinic discuss latest treatments and the doubling of the success rate for treatment of social phobia in Sydney Morning Herald on 28 May 2009.
NO NEED FOR MOTHER BLAMING
Published this month in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, CEH researchers find that over protection is a normal response to anxious children and is not the fault of the mother. For more information please go to: No Need for Mother Blaming.
NeW TREATMENT FOR SOCIAL ANXIETY AND ALCOHOL USE PROBLEMS
Recruitment has commenced for our NHMRC funded clinical trial to investigate treatment of social anxiety combined with alcohol use problems.
For more information please visit the CASP website.
Young Investigator Career Award goes to CEH's Maria Kangas.
Maria Kangas is to receive the American Society for Behavioural Medicine's Early Career Investigator Award for 2009. For more information please click here.
Centre for Emotional Health, Colloquia, Semester 2, 2009
The Centre for Emotional Health in conjunction with the Department of Psychology offers colloquia for visitors, staff and students. For more information on the current Colloquia Series, please go to Colloquia Semester 2, 2009.