Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Katherine is a Clinical Psychologist and Course Convener of the Doctor of Psychology (Clinical) and PhD (Clinical Psychology) programs. Katherine also leads the Clinical Psychology Community Clinic at the Monash Psychology Centre - providing clinical services to the community and supervising clinical trainees on their placements.
Katherine is experienced in working with children, youth and families with various mental health difficulties, and has particular expertise in anxiety management and borderline personality disorder (BPD). Katherine's teaching experience began in the UK where she contributed to the clinical psychology and educational psychology training programs at Oxford University and the University College of London and courses run by the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre and the Improved Access to Psychological Therapies initiative.
Katherine has been involved in mental health research since 2003. Her clinical research interests relate mostly to the role of parents and the parent-child relationship in the development and maintenance of mental health disorders during childhood, and process elements of cognitive behaviour therapy more broadly. Katherine is also interested in pedagogical research including the development of trainee competence and the consistency of clinical supervision practices.
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Monash teaching commitment
Clinical supervision of trainees undertaking their Introductory and Internship placements
Co-ordinator of Advanced Clinical Psychology: Child, Adolescent and Family
Contributes to teaching in the following units:
- Cognitive and Behaviour Therapies: Applications and Processes
- Mental Health and Illness
- Developmental Psychology and Clinical Neurosicence
- Abnormal Psychology
Clinical activities
Katherine has worked clinically in hospital, outpatient and university settings, in both mental health and community health. Her work to date has been predominantly with children, youth and parents in the areas of anxiety disorders and borderline personality disorder. Katherine currently practices clinical psychology through the Monash Psychology Centre where she works with a range of clients of all ages with varying mental health difficulties.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Psychology (Clinical Psychology), MONASH UNIVERSITY
Award Date: 15 Dec 2009
Research area keywords
- Anxiety Disorders
- Children/Youth
- Clinical Psychology
- Clinical Supervision
- Family relationships
- Parenting
- Personality disorder
- Trainee competence
Network
Projects
- 1 Finished
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A web based parenting intervention to prevent adolescent depression and anxiety disorders: A randomised controlled trial
Yap, M., Jorm, A. & Lawrence, K.
Australian Rotary Health (ARH)
1/01/15 → 31/12/15
Project: Research
Research output
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A tailored online intervention to improve parenting risk and protective factors for child anxiety and depression: Medium-term findings from a randomized controlled trial
Sim, W. H., Fernando, L. M. N., Jorm, A. F., Rapee, R. M., Lawrence, K. A., Mackinnon, A. J. & Yap, M. B. H., 1 Dec 2020, In : Journal of Affective Disorders. 277, p. 814-824 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Parental Self-Efficacy for Reducing the Risk of Adolescent Depression and Anxiety: Scale Development and Validation
Nicolas, C. C., Jorm, A. F., Cardamone-Breen, M. C., Lawrence, K. A. & Yap, M. B. H., Mar 2020, In : Journal of Research on Adolescence. 30, 1, p. 249-265 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
An exploration of self-compassion and self-criticism in the context of personal recovery from borderline personality disorder
Donald, F., Lawrence, K. A., Broadbear, J. H. & Rao, S., 1 Feb 2019, In : Australasian Psychiatry. 27, 1, p. 56-59 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus) -
Development and evaluation of the Parenting to Reduce Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (PaRCADS): Assessment of parental concordance with guidelines for the prevention of child anxiety and depression
Sim, W. H., Jorm, A. F., Lawrence, K. A. & Yap, M. B. H., 30 May 2019, In : PeerJ. 2019, 5, 31 p., e6865.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus) -
Erratum: Figure Correction: Medium-Term Effects of a Tailored Web-Based Parenting Intervention to Reduce Adolescent Risk of Depression and Anxiety: 12-Month Findings From a Randomized Controlled Trial (Journal of medical Internet research (2019) 21 8 (e13628))
Yap, M. B. H., Cardamone-Breen, M. C., Rapee, R. M., Lawrence, K. A., Mackinnon, A. J., Mahtani, S. & Jorm, A. F., 29 Aug 2019, In : Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21, 8, p. e15915 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate › Other › peer-review
Open Access
Prizes
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Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence (Early Career)
Lawrence, Katherine (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)