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

• Loxton, N., and Dawe, S. (in press). How personality influences the expression of disordered eating. In Cambridge handbook of personality. Corr, P. and Matthews, G. (Eds),Cambridge University Press.
• Dawe, S., Loxton, N.J., Gullo, M.J., Staiger, P., Kambouropoulos, N., Perdon, L., and Wood, A. (2007). The role of impulsive personality traits in the initiation, development and treatment of substance misuse problems. In (Eds) Miller, P. and Kavanagh, D. Translation of Addictions Science into Practice: Update and Future Directions. Elsevier
• Dawe, S., Frye, S., Best, D., Lynch, M., Atkinson, J., Evans, C., Harnett, P.H. (2007) Drug Use in the Family: Impacts and Implications for children. Australian National Council on Drugs, Online version (PDF 1,060k)
• Dawe, S., and Harnett P.H. (2007). Reducing child abuse potential in methadone maintained parents: Results from a randomised controlled trial. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 32, 381-390
• Hides, L., Dawe, S., Kavanagh, D., and Young, R. (2006). The influence of cannabis on symptom exacerbation and relapse in early psychosis. British Journal of Psychiatry 189, 137-143