BA, MA (Honours), PhD
Professor, School of Psychology
Contact details for Professor Sharon Dawe
Research expertise
- Substance misuse and mental health
- Psychosis and substance use
- Parenting in high risk families
- Impulsivity and substance use
- Biological basis of personality
Current teaching areas
- Professor Dawe teaches in the postgraduate Clinical Psychology program and covers topics related to child and family mental health
- A large team of doctoral, PhD and researchers working with her on the topics listed above.
Publications
- Harnett, P.H. & Dawe, S. (2012). The contribution of mindfulness-based therapies for children and families and a proposed conceptual integration. Child and Adolescent Mental Health. doi:10.1111/j.1475-3588.2011.00643.x
- Dawe, S., S., Dingle, G., Loxton, N.J. (in press). Screening and assessment of comorbidity. In P. M. Miller (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Addictive Behaviours. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.Dawe, S., Geppert, L., Occhipinti, S.O., & Kingswell, W. (2011) A comparison of the symptoms and clinical course in substance-induced psychosis and primary psychosis. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 40 (1), pp. 95-101.
- Gullo, M., Dawe, S., McHugh, M. (2011) Impulsivity and adolescent substance use: From self-report measures to neuroimaging and beyond. In Inhibitory Control and Drug Abuse Prevention: From Research to Translation. Eds MT Bardo, DH Fishbein, R Miltch, Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-1-4419-1267-1.
- Loxton, N.J., Dawe, S., Cahill, A. (2011) Responsivity of disinhibited and restrained eaters to food cues after negative mood induction, Appetite
- Gullo, M.J, Ward, E., Dawe, S., Powell, J., Jackson, C.J. (2010) Support for a two-factor model of impulsivity and hazardous substance use in British and Australian young adults. Journal of Personality Research.
- Gullo, M.J., Jackson, C., & Dawe, S., (2010) Impulsivity and reversal learning in hazardous alcohol use, Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 123-127.
- Gullo, M.J., Dawe, S., Kambouropoulos, N. Staiger, P (2010) Alcohol expectancies and drinking refusal self-efficacy mediate the association of impulsivity with alcohol misuse. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 34, 1386 – 1399.
- Day, C., Kowlalenko, S., Dawe, S., Harnett, P.H., (2010) The Helping Families Programme: A new parenting intervention for primary school aged children with conduct problems. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 15, 1- 6.