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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Research

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) conducts research into the mental health of children and adolescents.

Our research staff have a diverse range of interests and research projects underway and in development. Research themes include: attachment and the refugee family and the impact of prolonged visa insecurity, obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescents, delirium in neonates, six-month qualitative follow-up of the experience of young people who have been admitted to the non-acute rehabilitation unit and their families, and the use of wearable devices in young people with major psychiatric illness.

Much of the work is conducted in partnership with a range of universities and Local Health Districts.

Our Publications

2023

McInnis P, Tran L. Early-onset mania presenting as catatonia in childhood: A case report. Psychiatry Res Case Rep. 2023;2(2):100151.

Nunn KP, Tran L, Gittany H, Angiti R, Boyd S, et al. The process of assembling a prognosis in NICU. J Pediatr Neonatal Biol. 2023;8(3):256-61.

Perkes IE, Morris RW, Griffiths KR, Quail S, Waters F, O'Brien M, Hazell PL, Balleine BW. The Motivational Determinants of Human Action, Their Neural Bases and Functional Impact in Adolescents With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci. 2022 Dec 5;3(4):1062-1072. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2022.11.004.

Ratnamohan L, Silove D, Mares S, Krishna Y, Hadzi-Pavlovic D, Steel Z. Breaching the family walls: Modelling the impact of prolonged visa insecurity on asylum-seeking children. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2023 Aug;57(8):1130-1139. doi: 10.1177/00048674221148399. Epub 2023 Jan 12.

2019

Breukelaar IA, Erlinger M, Harris A, Boyce P, Hazell P, Grieve SM, Antees C, Foster S, Gomes L, Williams LM, Malhi GS, Korgaonkar MS. Investigating the neural basis of cognitive control dysfunction in mood disorders. Bipolar Disord. 2019 Oct 11. doi: 10.1111/bdi.12844. [Epub ahead of print]

Efron D, Gulenc A, Sciberras E, Ukoumunne O, Hazell P, Anderson V, Silk T, Nicholson J. Prevalence and Predictors of Medication use in Children with ADHD: Evidence from a Community-based Longitudinal Study. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology 2019 Feb;29(1):50-57. doi: 10.1089/cap.2018.0095. Epub 2018 Dec 1.

Hazell P. That which we call a rose. Child and Adolescent Mental Health 2019; 24:97-98 https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12317.

Korgaonkar M, Erlinger M, Breukelaar I,A, Boyce P, Hazell P, Antees C, Foster S, Grieve SM, Gomes L, Williams LM, Harris A, Malhi G. Amygdala activation and connectivity to emotional processing distinguishes patients with euthymic bipolar disorders and remitted unipolar depression. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive neuroscience and Neuroimaging 2019;4: 361-370 doi: 10.1016.

McInnis P, Kasinathan J. Combination long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotic medication in adolescents with severe psychosis and aggression: a case series. Australasian Psychiatry. 2019 Aug;27(4):383-387. doi: 10.1177/1039856219859811. Epub 2019 Jul 2.

McInnis P, Lee A. Methamphetamine use in an early psychosis service: a cross-sectional retrospective cohort study. Australasian Psychiatry. 2019 Aug;27(4):383-387. doi: 10.1177/1039856219859811. Epub 2019 Jul 2.

Nielsen, F., Isobel, S. & Starling, J. (2019). Evaluating the use of responsive art therapy in an inpatient child and adolescent mental health services unit. Australasian Psychiatry. 27 (2), 165-170.

Perkes I, Birmaher B, Hazell P. Indications for the psychiatric hospitalization of children and adolescents. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2019 Aug;53:729-731. doi: 10.1177/0004867419835930.

Reddihough DS, Marraffa C, Mouti A, O'Sullivan M, Lee KJ, Orsini F, Hazell P, Granich J, Whitehouse AJO, Wray J, Dossetor D, Santosh P, Silove N, Kohn M. Effect of fluoxetine on obsessive-compulsive behaviors in children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA. 2019 Oct 22;322(16):1561-1569. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.14685.

Silk, T. J., Malpas, C.M., Beare, R., Efron, D., Anderson, V., Hazell, P., Jongeling, B., Nicholson, J.M., Sciberras, E. A network analysis approach to ADHD symptoms: more than the sum of its parts. PLOS ONE 2019 Jan 18;14(1):e0211053. doi: 10.1371.

Soler N, Hardwick C, Perkes IE, Dossetor D, Bray P, Dale RC. An exploratory study into an adapted use of the Alert Program for tic disorder in children. Australasian Psychiatry. 2019 Apr;27(2):144-151. doi: 10.1177/1039856218815750. Epub 2018 Dec 3.

Soler N, Hardwick C, Perkes IE, Mohammad SS, Dossetor D, Nunn K, Bray P, Dale RC. Sensory dysregulation in tic disorders is associated with executive dysfunction and comorbidities. Movement Disorders. 2019 Dec;34(12):1901-1909. doi: 10.1002/mds.27817. Epub 2019 Sep 10.

Stephens K, O'Loughlin R, Green JL, Anderson V, Rinehart N, Nicholson JM, Hazell P, Silk TJ, Efron D, Sciberras E. The association between autism symptoms and child functioning in a sample with ADHD recruited from the community. Journal of Attention Disorders 2019 Nov 11:1087054719886352. doi: 10.1177/1087054719886352. [Epub ahead of print].

Witt K, Townsend E, Arensman E, Gunnell D, Hazell P, Taylor Salisbury T, Van Heeringen K, Hawton K. Psychosocial interventions for people who self-harm: Methodological issues involved in trials to evaluate effectiveness. Archives of Suicide Research 2019 Jul 10:1-62. doi: 10.1080/13811118.2019.1592043. [Epub ahead of print].

2018

Boydell KM, Ball J, Curtis J, de Jager A, Kalucy M, Lappin J, Rosenbaum S, Tewson A, Vaughan P, Ward P, Watkins A. A novel landscape for understanding physical and mental health: body mapping researc hwit hyouth experiencing psychosis. Art Research International: A Tansdisciplnary Journal 2018;3:236-261.

Brakoulias V, Salamanios EM, Perkes IE. A call for prevention and early intervention in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. 2018;12: 572-577.

Hazell P, Moor S. The art is in the delivery. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2018;52;383-384.

Hazell P*. Is it clinically defensible to treat children longer term with second generation antipsychotics? Expert Opinion on Drug Safety 2018; 17: 657-659, DOI:10.1080/14740338.2018.1479741.

Hazell P*. Use of psychotropic medications in general paediatric practice. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2018;54: 1073-1076.

Korgaonkar M, Erlinger M, Breukelaar I,A, Boyce P, Hazell P, Antees C, Foster S, Grieve SM, Gomes L, Williams LM, Harris A, Malhi G.Amygdala activation and connectivity to emotional processing distinguishes patients with euthymic bipolar disorders and remitted unipolar depression. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive neuroscience and Neuroimaging 2018 doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.08.012. [Epub ahead of print].

Mantz SC, O’Brien M, Waters FA, Abbott MJ. The impact of enhanced responsibility and threat beliefs on self-report and behavioural indices during a sorting task for young people with OCD. Cognitive Therapy and Research 2018 /doi.org/10.1007/s10608-018-9946-1 [Epub ahead of print].

Mulraney M, Schilpzand E, Anderson V, Nicholson J, Efron D, Hazell P, Sciberras, E. Correlates of anxiety in 6-8 year old children with ADHD: A community-based study. Journal of Attention Disorders 2018;22: 425-434. doi: 10.1177/1087054716638510.

Nielsen, F. Responsive Art Psychotherapy as a component of intervention for severe adolescent mental illness: a case study. ATOL 2018; 9:1-36

Ratnamohan, L., Mares, S., & Silove, D. Ghosts, tigers and landmines in the nursery: Attachment narratives of loss in Tamil refugee children with dead or missing fathers. Clinical child psychology and psychiatry 2018, 23(2), 294-310.

Ratnamohan, L., MacKinnon, L., Lim, M., Webster, R., Waters, K., Kozlowska, K., ... & Ribeiro, M. Ambushed by Memories of Trauma: Memory-Processing Interventions in an Adolescent Boy with Nocturnal Dissociative Episodes. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 2018, 26(4), 228-236.

Soler, N, Hardwick C, Perkes IE, Dossetor D, Bray P, Dale RC. An exploratory study into an adapted use of the Alert Program for tic disorder in children. Australasian Psychiatry 2018 Dec 3:1039856218815750. doi: 10.1177/1039856218815750. [Epub ahead of print].

Wijaya M, Efron D, Hazell P, Sciberras S. Peer Victimization in Children with ADHD: A Community-Based Study. Journal of Attention Disorders 2018 doi: 10.1177/1087054718796287. [Epub ahead of print]

Rice, L. J., Emerson, E., Gray, G., Howlin, P., Tonge, B. J. & Einfeld, S. L. (2018). Concurrence of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and Developmental Behaviour Checklist Among Children with an Intellectual Disability. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 62 (2), 150-155. DOI: 10.1111/jir.12426.

Rice, L. J., Carter, C.S., Hu, N., & Einfeld, S. L. (2018). A review of clinical trials of oxytocin in Prader-Willi syndrome. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 31(2), 123-127.

Mazzucchelli, T. G., Hodges, J., Kane, R. T., Sofronoff, K., Sanders, M. R., Einfeld, S., Gray, K. M & The MHYPEDD Team. (2018). Parenting and family adjustment scales (PAFAS): validation of a brief parent-report measure for use with families who have a child with a developmental disability. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 72, 140-151.

Arora, S., Goodall, S., Viney, R., Einfeld, S. (2018). Using discrete choice experiment methods to estimate the value of informal care; the case of children with intellectual disability. Pharmacoeconomics.

Garg, P., Ha, M. T., Eastwood, J., Harvey, S., Woolfenden, S., Murphy, E., ... & Einfeld, S. (2018). Health professional perceptions regarding screening tools for developmental surveillance for children in a multicultural part of Sydney, Australia. BMC family practice, 19(1), 42.

Rice, L.J., Woodcock, K., & Einfeld, S.L. (2018). The Characteristics of Temper Outbursts in Prader-Willi Syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, 1–9.

Teague, S. J., Newman, L. K., Tonge, B. J., & Gray, K. M., and the MHYPEDD Team. (2018). Caregiver Mental Health, Parenting Practices, and Perceptions of Child Attachment in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 1-11.

Einfeld, S. L., Beaumont, R., Clark, T., Clarke, K. S., Costley, D., Gray, K. M., ... & Taffe, J. R. (2018). School-based social skills training for young people with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 43(1), 29-39.

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