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Biography
Dr Frances Shawyer is Deputy Director and a Research Fellow at Southern Synergy, the Southern Adult Mental Health Research, Training and Evaluation Centre at Monash University. She has worked as a clinical psychologist and researcher for over 20 years in a variety of settings including public mental health, clinical research and private practice. Her role at Southern Synergy has included coordination of the DARE project, a large-scale trial of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for recurrent depression funded by the NHMRC, and management of the Refugee Mental Health project, a survey of the mental health needs of refugees attending specialist refugee health services in south-east metropolitan Melbourne funded by Southern Health. The latter was recently cited in the Australian Federal Government report: Australia's health 2018 by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Fran was also was centrally involved in the day-to-day operation of PULSAR (Principles Unite Local Services Assisting Recovery), a training and research project funded through a major competitive grant by the Victorian State Government's Mental Illness Research Fund (MIRF). The project tested a practical approach to address the vital issue of how different types of services within a defined geographical area can be refocused to support recovery. In another setting, Fran was a Chief Investigator with the Lifengage Project, a trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Medication-Resistant Psychosis run through La Trobe University. She is currently the Lead Chief Investigator in Melbourne for the Place-based suicide prevention trials evaluation team (formative phase), which is a consortium that includes the Sax Institute in Sydney and Southern Synergy, amongst others. In addition to her research activities, she coordinates the Mindfulness Program at Southern Synergy and is a member of the Promotion and Prevention Committee at Monash Health. Fran completed her training in Clinical Psychology in 1993 and her PhD in 2000, both at La Trobe University. Her primary research interest is the application of third-wave therapies to psychiatric conditions: she has led or co-authored 34 journal articles and book chapters including 17 related to this topic. Fran is based at Dandenong Hospital.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Depression
- psychosis
- mindfulness
- acceptance and commitment therapy
- third-wave therapies
Network
Projects
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Better Mental Health Treatment Plans Project
Meadows, G., Shawyer, F., Fossey, E., Enticott, J. & Kunin, M.
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
17/02/20 → 22/05/20
Project: Research
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Place-based suicide prevention trials evaluation (summative phase)
Shawyer, F., Meadows, G., Enticott, J., Edan, V. & Johnson, B.
Department of Health (DH) (Victoria)
1/01/20 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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Place-based suicide prevention trials evaluation (formative phase)
Shawyer, F., Meadows, G., Enticott, J., Edan, V. & Johnson, B.
30/03/19 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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Place-based suicide prevention trials evaluation (establishment phase)
Meadows, G., Shawyer, F., Edan, V., Kennedy, H. & Enticott, J.
Department of Health (DH) (Victoria)
4/01/18 → 30/03/19
Project: Research
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Corrigendum: Mental Health in Australia: Psychological Distress Reported in Six Consecutive Cross-Sectional National Surveys From 2001 to 2018 (Front. Psychiatry, (2022), 13, 815904, 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.815904)
Enticott, J., Dawadi, S., Shawyer, F., Inder, B., Fossey, E., Teede, H., Rosenberg, S., Ozols AM, I. & Meadows, G., 27 Jun 2022, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13, 2 p., 934065.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate › Other › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Group Mindfulness-Integrated Cognitive Behavior Therapy (MiCBT) Reduces Depression and Anxiety and Improves Flourishing in a Transdiagnostic Primary Care Sample Compared to Treatment-as-Usual: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Francis, S. E. B., Shawyer, F., Cayoun, B., Enticott, J. & Meadows, G. N., 31 May 2022, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13, 15 p., 815170.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Mental Health in Australia: Psychological Distress Reported in Six Consecutive Cross-Sectional National Surveys From 2001 to 2018
Enticott, J., Dawadi, S., Shawyer, F., Inder, B., Fossey, E., Teede, H., Rosenberg, S., Ozols AM, I. & Meadows, G., 1 Apr 2022, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13, 14 p., 815904.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
Commentary on Sawrikar et al. Using Staged Care to Provide "Right Care First Time" to People With Common Affective Disorders
Meadows, G. & Shawyer, F., Jun 2021, In: Psychiatric Services. 72, 6, p. 726-727 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate › Other › peer-review
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REFOCUS-PULSAR Recovery-Oriented Practice Training in Adult Primary Mental Health Care: Exploratory Findings Including From a Pretest–Posttest Evaluation
Enticott, J. C., Shawyer, F., Brophy, L. M., Russell, G., Mazza, D., Wilson-Evered, E., Weller, P. J., Slade, M., Edan, V. & Meadows, G. N., 11 Mar 2021, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry. 12, 12 p., 625408.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus)
Activities
- 11 Contribution to conference
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International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology
Joanne Enticott (Speaker), D. Mazza (Speaker), Grant Russell (Speaker), Lisa Mary Brophy (Organiser), Frances Shawyer (Speaker), Elisabeth Wilson-Evered (Speaker), Vrinda Edan (Speaker), Mike Slade (Organiser) & Graham Meadows (Speaker)
10 Apr 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology
Graham Meadows (Speaker), L Brophy (Organiser), Frances Shawyer (Speaker), Joanne Enticott (Speaker), Ellie Fossey (Speaker), Christine Thornton (Speaker), P Weller (Speaker), Elisabeth Wilson-Evered (Speaker), Vrinda Edan (Speaker) & Mike Slade (Speaker)
10 Apr 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Centre for Mindfulness Research & Practice Conference 2017
Graham Meadows (Speaker), Joanne Enticott (Speaker) & Frances Shawyer (Speaker)
10 Jul 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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RANZCP Congress 2017
Graham Meadows (Speaker), Daniël A. Korevaar (Speaker) & Frances Shawyer (Speaker)
4 May 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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International Congress of the International-Federation-of-Psychiatric-Epidemiology 2017
S. Cooper (Speaker), J. Enticott (Speaker), F. Shawyer (Speaker) & G. Meadows (Speaker)
20 Oct 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
Press/Media
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When it’s easier to get meds than therapy: how poverty makes it hard to escape mental illness
Graham Meadows, Anthony Cichello, Anton Isaacs & Frances Shawyer
3/07/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature