School of Psychological Science

		Dr John Farhall Senior Lecturer		Phone: +61 3 9479 1626 Fax: +61 3 9479 1956 j.farhall@latrobe.edu.au Room 256 George Singer Building
		BA(Hons) (Melb), MA(Clinical Psychology) (Melb), PhD (La Trobe)

I have held a joint appointment at the School of Psychological Science and North Western Mental Health (Melbourne Health), since 1992. This position is designed to build bridges between the public mental health services in Victoria on the one hand, and university research and training in clinical psychology, on the other. My teaching is primarily in the postgraduate professional programs and includes innovations in mental health care, psychopathology, and therapy and rehabilitation for psychotic disorders.

My current research includes:

1. The “real world” effectiveness of cognitive behaviour therapy for people with psychotic disorders, especially our local version, “Recovery Therapy”.
2. How people with persisting auditory hallucinations and other symptoms cope, including behavioural and information processing strategies; CBT for persisting command hallucinations; and, the use of mindfulness and distancing. (with students and MHRI colleagues)
3. The phenomenology of hallucinations, delusions, overvalued ideas, and related phenomena in psychotic disorders, eating disorders and normal samples.
4. Translating innovative treatments from research into practice, especially in public mental health services, including evidence based psychosocial interventions for Bipolar disorders and Family Interventions for Schizophrenia (with colleagues at North Western Mental Health, and the Psychosocial Research Centre)
5. The nature of the relationship between mental health professionals and family carers of people with mental illness (with past doctoral students)
   

	Professional History		Recent Publications
			Other Publications
			Conference Presentations

Memberships and Associations

Member, The Australian Psychological Society, 1978 - current.
Member, College of Clinical Psychologists, and College of Community Psychologists
Member, Australian Association for Cognitive & Behavioural Therapies
Member, British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies
Registered as a Psychologist and a supervisor of Probationary Psychologists in the State of Victoria

Professional History

Co-ordinator, Staff Training Team, Office of Psychiatric Services, Health Department, Victoria (1987-1992).
Senior Clinical Psychologist, Melville Clinic, Office of Psychiatric Services, Health Department, Victoria, (1985 - 1987)
Senior Clinical Psychologist, Larundel Hospital, Health Commission of Victoria, (1982 - 1985)
Clinical psychologist, Clarendon Clinic, Health Commission of Victoria, (1977 - 1982)

Recent Publications

Farhall, J. (2001). Clinical psychology and the common good. Australasian Psychiatry 9(2), 139-142.

Farhall, J.F. & Cotton, S. (2002). Implementing psychological treatment for symptoms of psychosis in an area mental health service: The response of patients, therapists and managers. Journal of Mental Health, 11(5), 511-522.

Farhall, J., Greenwood, K., & Jackson, H. (2007). Coping with hallucinated voices in schizophrenia: a review of self-initiated strategies and therapeutic interventions. Clinical Psychology Review, 27, 476-493.

Farhall, J., Trauer, T., Newton, R., & Cheung, P. (2003). Minimizing adverse effects on patients of involuntary relocation from long-stay wards to community residences Psychiatric Services. 54(7), 1022-1027

Fulford, M. & Farhall, J.F. (2001). Hospital versus home care for the acutely mentally ill? Preferences of relatives who have experienced both forms of service. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 35(5), 619-625.

Herrman, H., Trauer, T., Warnock, J., Professional Liaison Committee (Australia) Project Team (2002). The roles and relationships of psychiatrists and other service providers in mental health services. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 36, 75-80.

Royal Australian and New Zealand Royal College of Psychiatrists Clinical Practice Guidelines Team for the Treatment of Schizophrenia and Related Disorders (2005). Royal Australian and New Zealand Royal College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of schizophrenia and related disorders. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 39, 1-3

Shawyer, F., Mackinnon, A., Farhall, J., Trauer, T., & Copolov, D. (2003). Command Hallucinations and violence: Implications for detention and treatment. Australian Journal of Psychology, Psychiatry and the Law, 10(1), 97-107.

Shawyer, F., Ratcliff, K., Mackinnon, A., Farhall, J., Hayes, S. C., & Copolov, D. (2007). The voices acceptance and action scale: pilot data. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 63(6), 593-606.

Trauer, T., Farhall, J., Newton, R., & Cheung, P. (2001). From long-stay psychiatric hospital to Community Care Unit: Evaluation at 1 year. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 36, 416-419.

Other Publications - Book chapters, published conference papers, etc.

Asgari, F., Cumming, G., & Farhall, J. (2006). Source monitoring and auditory hallucinations in clinical and non-clinical samples (abstract). Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 40(Suppl. 2), 127. (Paper presented at the Australian Schizophrenia Conference, Perth WA, Sept. 2006)

Bennett, C., Farhall, J., Fossey, E., Leggatt, M. & Macdonald, E. (2001). Assessing and responding to the needs of people with schizophrenia and related disorders. Chapter 17 in G. Meadows & B. Singh (Eds), Mental health in Australia. Collaborative community practice, South Melbourne, Oxford University Press: 283-312.

Bennett, C., Fossey, E., Farhall, J., & Grigg, M. (2007). Schizophrenia and related disorders. In G. Meadows, B. Singh & M. Grigg (Eds.), Mental Health in Australia. Collaborative Community Practice (2nd ed., pp. 534-572). South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Bland, R., Clarke, M., Elsom, S., Epstein, M., Farhall, J., Fielding, J., Fossey, E., Leggatt, M., Liaw, S., Meadows, G., Olsen, A., Rosen, A. & Singh, B. (2001). The active participants in mental health services. Chapter 10 in G. Meadows & B. Singh (Eds), Mental health in Australia. Collaborative community practice, South Melbourne, Oxford University Press: 136-162.

Bland, R., Farhall, J., Fossey, E., Happell, B., Meadows, G., Renouf, N. & Willshire, D. (2001). Specialised assessment skills. Chapter 15 in G. Meadows & B. Singh (Eds), Mental health in Australia. Collaborative community practice, South Melbourne, Oxford University Press: 250-268.

Cornish, D., Tobias, G., Farhall, J., Trauer, T., & Slade, M. (2005). Consumer/key worker/casemanager perception of need - enhancing dialogue to improve outcomes. In K. Kellehear, M. Teesson, V. Miller, P. Hanlon, C. Issakidis, S. Robertson, J. Farhall, J. Peters, B. Wieland, S. Garvin, C. Lloyd & P. Robinson (Eds.), Harvesting hope: Across the lifespan, Contemporary TheMHS in mental health services. Gold Coast conference proceedings, September 2004 (pp. 132-136). Sydney: TheMHS Conference, Inc.

Farhall, J.F. (1977), Spontaneous mental activity in sleeping and waking states. Brainwave, 3, 3-6.

Farhall, J.F. (1991). Invited Paper: Changing psychiatric services from within: Strategies and roles of a "staff training" unit. In C. Fraser & D. Harvey, (Eds). Health, Psychology and the Community: Selected proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Psychological Society. Melbourne, The Australian Psychological Society.

Farhall, J.F. (1994). Tell me I'm Here. In B. Creed. & I. O'Loughlan (Eds), Insight 94 Text Guide. Melbourne: Aird Books.

Farhall, J.F. (1994). What do hospital based rehabilitation staff believe about rehabilitation? In V. Miller, S. Robertson, M. Teesson & B. Garvey, Eds, On The Street Where You Live. Proceedings of the Third Annual Mental Health Services Conference of Australia & New Zealand, Sydney, September 1993. Glebe, NSW: Fast Books.

Farhall, J.F. (1994). Psychiatric rehabilitation: Some critical issues for training and practice. In Advancing Rehabilitation. Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference of the Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, 2-4 November, 1994.

Farhall, J.F. (1998) Book Review: Clinical Psychology in Australia. The Australian Journal of Primary Health - Interchange, 4, 98-99.

Farhall, J.F. (2000) Book Review: Cognitive psychotherapy of psychotic and personality disorders: Handbook of theory and practice. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 34, 541-542.

Farhall, J., Fossey, E., Keble-Devlin, B., Meadows, G., Roberts, S. & Singh, B. (2001). Conceptual models used in mental health practice. Chapter 3 in G. Meadows & B. Singh (Eds), Mental health in Australia. Collaborative community practice, South Melbourne, Oxford University Press: 19-40.

Farhall, J., Gierlicz, J., Freeman, N., Trauer, T., & Shawyer, F. (2005). Trialling CBT for psychosis in ordinary mental health services: Issues in studying real-worls effectiveness. In K. Kellehear, M. Teesson, V. Miller, P. Hanlon, C. Issakidis, S. Robertson, J. Farhall, J. Peters, B. Wieland, S. Garvin, C. Lloyd & P. Robinson (Eds.), Harvesting hope: Across the lifespan, Contemporary TheMHS in mental health services. Gold Coast conference proceedings, September 2004 (pp. 70-75). Sydney: TheMHS Conference, Inc.

Farhall, J. F., Gierlicz, J., Shawyer, F., & Trauer, T. (2003). Recovery Therapy: A dissemination and effectiveness trial of a broad CBT for Psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 60 (1, supp), 321-322.

Farhall, J., R. Humphries, R., Macrae, M., Pinches, A., Renouf, N., Elkadi, S. & Vile, S. (2004). TRIP - Translating research into practice: A collaborative project engaging area mental health staff in use of evidence based practices. In Robertson, S., Kelleahear, K., Teesson, M., Miller, V., Issakidis, C., Farhall, J., Peters, J., Wieland, B., Bland, R. & Shaw, D. From Rhetoric to Reality: Contemporary TheMHS in Mental Health Services, Canberra Conference Proceedings 2003, TheMHS Conference, Sydney, Australia, 133-8.

Farhall, J., Trauer, T., Cheung, P., & Newton, R. (2000). Moving long-stay psychiatric patients into the community: The importance of living environment. In: Whose Dreams? Whose Reality? Contemporary TheMHS in Mental Health Services, Proceedings of the 9th Annual Mental Health Services Conference of Australia and New Zealand, (Melbourne, Sept 1999).

Farhall, J., Trauer, T., Newton, R., & Cheung, P. (2001). Replacing long term wards with community care units: What have we learned? In: K. Kellehear, M. Teesson, S. Robertson, V. Miller, J. Farhall, C. Issikidis, J. Peters, C. Swendson, R. Bland, C. Wigg. Creativity and Development: Services for the future contemporary TheMHS in mental health services, Adelaide Conference Proceedings 2000, TheMHS Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Shawyer, F., Farhall, J., Sims, E., & Copolov, D. (2005). Command hallucinations in psychosis: acceptance and disengagement as a focus of treatment. In M. Jackson & G. Murphy (Eds.), Theory and Practice in Contemporary Australian Cognitive and Behaviour therapy: Proceedings of the 28th AACBT Conference (pp. 5-14). Melbourne: Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy.

Shawyer, F., Mackinnon, A., Farhall, J., Mullen, P., Sims, E., Blaney, S., Yardley, P., Daly, M., & Copolov, D. (2003). Risk factors for compliance with harmful command hallucinations in psychotic disorders (Abstract). Schizophrenia Research, 60(1 supp), 25-26.

Trauer, T., Farhall, J., Newton, R., & Cheung, P. (1999). Moving long stay psychiatric patients into the community: Tenure and progress in clinically staffed accommodation units. In Robertson S, Kellehear, K., Teesson, M, Miller V (Ed.), Making History: Shaping the Future. Contemporary TheMHS in Mental Health Services, Hobart Conference Proceedings 1998 . Sydney Australia: TheMHS Conference.

Trauer, T., Farhall, J., Newton, R., Cheung, P., Keks, N., Robinson. T. & Vaddadi, K. (1995). The evaluation of the impact on patients, staff and carers of moving long stay patients into the community. In Kellehear, K., Teesson, M., Farhall, J., Peters, J., Miller, V. & Robertson, S. Contemporary THEMHS in Mental Health Services, Proceedings of the 5th Annual Mental Health Services Conference of Australia & New Zealand, Melbourne, Auckland, Sept. 1995, Lilyfield, NSW:Liddell.

Weir, W., Farhall, J., & Carter, J. (1999). The workplace as a learning place. In Deakin Human Services Australia (Ed.), Learning Together: Education and Training Partnerships in Mental Health Service. Final Report . Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care.

Unpublished Conference Presentations

Blaney, S., Sims, E., Shawyer, F., Mackinnon, A., Farhall, J., Mullen, P., Yardley, P., Daly, M., & Copolov, D. (2002). Delusions and compliance with harmful command hallucination in psychotic disorders. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Australian Society for Psychiatric Research, Canberra, December.

Farhall, J.F. (1984). An interdisciplinary in-service course in community mental health. Paper presented at the 19th Annual Conference of The Australian Psychological Society, Perth, August, 1984.

Farhall, J.F. (1997). Training as a strategy for change in mental health organisations: Opportunities and limitations. Paper presented to the First National Mental Health Education and Training Workshop, Canberra, February, 1997

Farhall, J.F. (1998) Psychological management of persisting delusions and hallucinations: Findings from a study tour. Invited paper presented at the conference: Building on the framework: A conference for service providers, Melbourne, August, 1998.

Farhall, J.F. (1999) Coping enhancement for voices and delusions: Piloting routine implementation by psychologists in an area mental health service. Presented at the Annual Conference of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, Bristol, UK, July 1999.

Farhall, J. (2000). Invited Paper: Using staff training as a strategy for change - From Willsmere to "Get Together FaST". Presented at the conference, Working with Families- Making it a Reality, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, March 2000.

Farhall, J. F. (2002). Recovery Therapy: An Australian adaptation of CBT for psychosis. Workshop presented at the National Conference of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy, Brisbane, 29th June 2002.

Farhall, J. F. (2002). Can talking therapy assist recovery from psychosis? Paper presented at the 5th Conference for Carers of People with Mental Illness, Melbourne, 26th October, 2002.

Farhall, J. F. (2006). How should rehabilitation workers respond to hallucinations and delusions? Implications from psychological research and practice. Invited address at the VICSERV and Richmond Fellowship Asia Pacific Conference: Partnerships towards recovery. Melbourne, April 27th, 2006.

Farhall, J.F., Buckingham, W.J., Smith, J.G., Freese, P., O'Connor, E.M. & Devine, K.M. (1989). Supporting the re-development of psychiatric services through tailored staff development programs. Paper presented at the 8th Biennial Congress of the World Federation for Mental Health, Auckland, New Zealand, August, 1989.

Farhall, J., Freeman, N., & Shawyer, F. (2006). How central is symptom amelioration in CBT for psychosis? Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy, Sydney, October 18-25th.

Farhall, J., Freeman, N., & Shawyer, F. (2007). A real-world effectiveness trial of CBT for psychosis in a prospective, representative sample of service users. Paper presented at the World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy, Barcelona, July 11th-14th.

Farhall, J., Freeman, N., Shawyer, F., & Trauer, T. (2006). Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for psychosis: More than just positive symptoms. Paper presented at the The Mental Health Services Conference of Australia and New Zealand, Townsville, August 30th - September 1st.

Farhall, J. F., Humphries, R., Macrae, M., Pinches, A., Renouf, N., Vile, S. (2003) TRIP – translating research into practice The Mental Health Services Conference of Australia and New Zealand, Canberra ACT, September, 2003.

Farhall, J.F., Kinsella & Love, A. (1987). Development of a measure of independent living skills for chronic psychiatric patients. Paper presented at the Australian Behaviour Modification Association Annual Conference, May.

Farhall, J. F., Leggatt, M., Reiss, C., Hocking, B., Young, J & Webster, B. (1994). An evaluation of a pilot training program for mental health staff working with families and other carers. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Mental Health Services Conference of Australia & New Zealand, Melbourne, September, 1994.

Farhall, J.F. & Love, A. (1986). A survey of the teaching of community psychology in tertiary institutions in Australia. Paper presented at the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society, Townsville, August, 1986.

Farhall, J & Norton, A (2003). Factors affecting levels of family work in mental health services. Paper presented at the conference, Working with Families: Giving people their lives back, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, March 17th-18th, 2003

Farhall, J., Shawyer, F., Gierlicz, J. & Trauer, T. Introducing CBT for psychosis into an area mental health service: The recovery therapy effectiveness trial. Paper presented at Reconciliation, Reform and Recovery: Creating a future for psychological interventions in psychosis: 14th International Symposium for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses. Melbourne, Australia.

Farhall, J.F., Smith, J.G., Devine, K.M., & O'Connor, M. (1991). Effecting system change through staff development and training: The approach of the Staff Training Team. Invited paper presented as part of a Workshop entitled, Training and Retraining Strategies for Professionals. Mental Health Services to the Year 2000 Conference, Adelaide, May, 1991.

Gierlicz, J., & Farhall, J. (2001). Do “normals” hallucinate?, Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Psychiatric Research. Melbourne, December. (Awarded 1st Prize, Poster Competition)

Rimmer, J.R., Buckingham, W.J. & Farhall, J.F. (1988). Achieving continuity of care in mental health service systems: Victoria's approach. Paper presented at the 24th International Congress of Psychology, Sydney, August.

Shawyer, F., Mackinnon, A., Farhall, J., Trauer, T., Mullen, P., Castle, D., et al. (2006). The treatment of resistant command hallucinations (TORCH) trial: initial results. Paper presented at the National conference of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy, Sydney, October 18-20th.

Shawyer, F., Mackinnon, A., Farhall, J., Mullen, P., Sims, E., Blaney, S., Yardley, P., Daly, M., & Copolov, D. (2002). “The devil made me do it…” Acting on harmful command hallucinations. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Australian Society for Psychiatric Research, Canberra, December.

Shawyer, F., Farhall, J., Mackinnon, A., Trauer, T., Mullen, P., Castle, D. & Copolov, D. (2003). Psychological treatment of command hallucinations: A randomised controlled trial. Paper presented at Reconciliation, Reform and Recovery: Creating a future for psychological interventions in psychosis: 14th International Symposium for the Psychological Treatment of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses. Melbourne, Australia.

Sims, E., Shawyer, F., Farhall, J., Trauer, T., Ratcliff, K., Daly, M., Hayes, E., & Copolov, D. (2004,). A psychological treatment for command hallucinations in schizophrenia: case studies and comment. Paper presented at the 8th Biennial Australasian Schizophrenia Conference, Brisbane, 22 – 24th September, 2004.

Waddell, F., Farhall, J., & Greenwood, K. (2002). Collaborative practice between family carers and professionals: Investigation of a model. Paper presented at the First National Conference Holding it All Together, Melbourne Victoria, 21-24th April, 2002.

Young, J., Riess, C., Osman, A., & Farhall, J. (1998). Get Together FaST: Statewide training in family sensitivity. Paper presented at the Eighth Mental Health Services Conference of Australia & New Zealand, Hobart Tasmania, 7-9th September, 1998