Staff profile

Ms Siann Bowman

Lecturer

Faculty of Health Sciences

School of Allied Health
Department of Occupational Therapy

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

B App Sc OT, La Trobe Grad Dip Arts (Art History), Uni Melb, Research Masters (Occ Therapy)

Membership of professional associations

International Early Psychosis Association.

Area of study

Occupational Therapy

Brief profile

Siann is an experienced youth mental health clinician. She has worked with adults who have ongoing illness (schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform psychosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, antisocial personality disorder and borderline personality disorder), mothers and babies (post-partum psychosis, post-partum depression), and people with serious eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, eating disorder NOS).  Siann has spent the majority of her career working in early psychosis. She was the Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC), Orygen Youth Health, Clinical Manager before joining the Occupational Therapy School at Latrobe University. She has extensive experience in case management, crisis intervention, group therapy, young people with complex presentations, post-traumatic stress disorder in young people and family interventions. Her research masters was a quantitative study that investigated the experience of being a sibling of a young person with early psychosis. Siann's role at the university is establishing curriculum and lecturing in the areas of mental health. She works across both the Bundoora and Bendigo campuses. She has presented at many international conferences and has trained therapists in Europe on the assessments, interventions and application of the cognitive behavioural case management early psychosis model of practice. Siann is a member of Occupational Therapy Australia and the Australian and New Zealand Occupational Therapy Mental Health Academics.

Recent publications

 

Bowman, S., Wade, D., Alverez-Jimenez, M., McGorry, P & Howie, L. (2012).  The Forgotten Family Member - Siblings in Early Psychosis.  Early Intervention in Psychiatry. In press.  

Bowman, S., Alverez-Jimenez, M., McGorry, P & Howie, L. (2012). The sibling relationship in early psychosis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. In press.  

Bowman, S., Alverez-Jimenez, M., McGorry, P. (2012). The sibling quality of life in early psychosis. Schizophrenia Research. In press.   Tegos, K., Bowman, S., Woodhead, G & Rouse, J. (2012). The experience of group work for young people with early psychosis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. In press.

Selected Conference Presentations

Bowman, S. (2010). The sibling relationship in early psychosis. International Early Psychosis Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

 

Bowman, S., Gee, D. (2006). Cognitive behavioural case management in early psychosis. Training conference for European therapists from European multisite randomised control trial in early psychosis. Lisbon , Portugal .

Bowman, S. (2004). The profile of brothers and sisters of young people with early psychosis. Fourth International Conference on Early Psychosis, Vancouver , Canada .

Bowman, S., Macdonald, E., Elkins, K. (2003). Knowledge of psychosis in brothers and sisters of young people with first episode psychosis. The international Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses. Melbourne , Australia .

Bowman, S. (2002) The sibling relationship – brother and sisters of young people with early psychosis. Third International Conference on Early Psychosis, Copenhagen , Denmark .

Bowman, S. (2000) Art as Therapy – a unique intervention to enhance recovery in early psychosis. Second International Conference on Early Psychosis , New York , United States of America .

Research projects