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Publications

Our rich collection of publications span various areas relating to family therapy.

Explore our major publications in the following areas from the last five years. For a more comprehensive listing of publications by our staff members, view their profiles.

  1. Poon, A. W. C., Harvey, C., Fuzzard, S., & O'Hanlon, B. (2019). Implementing a family‐inclusive practice model in youth mental health services in Australia. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 13, 461-468. DOI: 10.1111/eip.12505
  1. Maybery, D., Goodyear, M., Reupert, A., Sheen, J., Cann, W., O’Hanlon, B., & Cuff, R. (2019). A mixed method evaluation of an intervention for parents with mental illness. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1177/1359104518822676
  2. O'Hanlon, B., Hayes, L., Perlesz, A., & Harvey, C. (2018). Understanding the complex family experiences of Behavioural Family Therapy. Journal of Family Therapy, 40, 45-62. DOI: 10.1111/1467-6427.12139
  1. von Doussa, H., Sundbery, J., Cuff, R., Jones, S., & Goodyear, M. (2017). ‘Let's Talk About Children’: Investigating the Use of a Family focused Intervention in the Gambling Support Services Sector. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 38(3), 482-495.
  1. Goodyear, M., McDonald, M., von Doussa, H., Cuff, R., & Dunlop, B. (2018). Meeting the Intergenerational Needs of Families Where a Parent Has a Mental Illness. Journal of Parent and Family Mental Health, 3(2), 1.
  1. Maybery, D., Goodyear, M., Reupert, A., Sheen, J., Cann, W., Dalziel, K., ... & von Doussa, H. (2017). Developing an Australian-first recovery model for parents in Victorian mental health and family services: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMC Psychiatry, 17(1), 198.
  1. McIntosh, J.E. & Tan, E.S. (2017). Young Children in Divorce and Separation. Pilot Study of a Mediation based Parent Education Program. Family Court Review. Vol 55, 3. DOI: 10.1111/fcre.12291
  2. Butera-Prinzi, F., Charles, N., & Story, K. (2016): Holding Resilience in Trust: Working Systemically with Families Following an Acquired Brain Injury, Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation, DOI: 10.1080/1536710X.2016.1220882
  1. Goodyear, M., Hill, T., Allchin, B., McCormick, F., Hine, R., Cuff, R., & O'Hanlon, B. (2015) Standards of practice for the adult mental health workforce: Meeting the needs of families where a parent has a mental illness. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 01/2015; DOI: 10.1111/inm.12120 

    Book

  1. M.F. Hoyt, M. Bobele, A. Slive, J. Young, & M. Talmon (Eds.), (2018). Single-Session Therapy by Walk-In or Appointment: Clinical, Supervisory, and Administrative Aspects. New York:  Routledge.

  1. McLean, S.A. & McIntosh, J.E. (2021): The mental and physical health of family mental health practitioners during COVID-19: relationships with family violence and workplace practices, Australian Journal of Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/00049530.2021.1934118
  2. McIntosh, J.E., Tan, E.S., Greenwood, C.,Lee, J. & Holtzworth-Munroe, A. (2021) Profiling Mother and Father Reports of Safety Risks in a Post-Separation Cohort. Psychology of Violence. 11(1), 61–71. DOI: 10.1037/vio0000321
  3. McIntosh, J.E., Wells, Y., & Lee, J. (2016). The development and validation of the Family Law DOORS. Psychological Assessment, 28(11), 1516-1522. DOI: 10.1037/pas0000277
  4. McIntosh, J. E., Tan, E. S., Levendosky, A. A., & Holtzworth-Munroe, A. (2019). Mothers’ Experience of Intimate Partner Violence and Subsequent Offspring Attachment Security Ages 1–5 Years: A Meta-Analysis. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. DOI: 10.1177/1524838019888560
  5. McIntosh, J.E., Schnabel, A., Youssef, G., Olsson, C. (2020). Pre-conception and perinatal predictors of offspring attachment disorganization: Advancing the replicated evidence. Development & Psychopathology, April 17:1-12.
  6. Clancy,E.M., McIntosh, J.E., Booth, A.T., Sheen, J., Johnson, M., Gibson, T., Bennett, R.N., Newman,L. (2020). Training maternal and child health nurses in early relational trauma: An evaluation of the MERTIL workforce training, Nurse Education Today, Volume 89. DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104390
  7. Wells, Y., Lee. J. & McIntosh, J.E. (2018). Re-examination of the Family Law DOORS Risk Screen: Establishing Fitness for Purpose. Psychological Assessment. 30(8):1121-1126. DOI: 10.1037/pas0000581
  8. McIntosh, J.E., Lee, J. & Ralfs, C. (2016). The Family Law DOORS: Research and practice updates. Family Matters, 98, 34-41.
  9. McIntosh, J.E., Smyth,B., & Kelaher, M. (2015). Responding to concerns about a study of infant overnight care post-separation, with comments on consensus: Reply to Warshak (2014). Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 21(1), 111–119. DOI: 10.1037/h0101018
  10. Sadowski, C., & McIntosh, J.E. (2015). A Phenomenological Analysis of the Experience of Security and Contentment for Latency Aged Children in Shared-time Parenting Arrangements. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 46(1), 69–104. DOI: 10.1163/15691624-12341285

  1. McIntosh, J.E., Opie, J., Greenwood, C. J., Booth, A., Tan, E., Painter, F., ... & ATPG3 MAC Lab and Consortium. (2023). Infant and preschool attachment, continuity and relationship to caregiving sensitivity: findings from a new population‐based Australian cohort. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13865
  2. McIntosh, J.E, Olsson, C. A.,  Schuijers, M., Tan, E., Schnabel, Le Bas, G., Painter, F., Higgs-Howarth, S., Benstead, M., Booth, A., Hutchinson, D. Exploring Perinatal Indicators of Infant Social-Emotional Development:  A Review of the Replicated Evidence. Clinical Child Family Psychology Review. DOI :10.1007/s10567-021-00356-2
  3. Macdonald, J.A., Greenwood, C.J., Letcher, P., Spry, E., Mansour, K., McIntosh, J.E.,  Thomson, K.C., Deane, C., Biden, E.J., Edwards, B., Hutchinson, D., Cleary, J., Toumbourou, J.W., Sanson, A., Olsson. C.A. (2021). Parent and peer attachments in adolescence and paternal postpartum mental health: Findings from the ATP Generation 3 Study. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, p.1939, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.672174
  4. Olsson, C.A., Hancox, R.J., Spry, E., Letcher, P., Youssef, G., Sligo, J., Macdonald, J. A., McAnally, H. M., Thomson, K., Romaniuk, H., Greenwood, C., Becker, D., Iosua, E., Hutchinson, D., McIntosh, J.E, Williams, S., McGee, R., Sanson, A., Patton, G. C. (2020). The Australian and New Zealand Intergenerational Cohort Consortium: A study protocol for investigating mental health and wellbeing across generations. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. DOI: 10.1332/175795920X15792720930280.
  5. Thomson, K. C., Romaniuk, H., Greenwood, C. J., Letcher, P., Spry, E., MacDonald, J. A., McAnally, H. M., Youssef, G. J., McIntosh, J.E., Hutchinson, D., Hancox, R. J., Patton, G. C., Olsson, C. A. (2020). Adolescent antecedents of maternal and paternal perinatal depression: A 36-year prospective cohort. Psychological Medicine. Online first. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720000902
  6. McIntosh, J.E., Schnabel, A., Youssef, G., Olsson, C. (2020). Pre-conception and perinatal predictors of offspring attachment disorganization: Advancing the replicated evidence. Development & Psychopathology, April 17:1-12.
  7. Letcher, P., Greenwood, C., Romaniuk, H., Spry, E., Macdonald, J.A., McAnally, H., Thomson, K.C., Youssef, G., Hutchinson, D., McIntosh, J.E,  Sanson, A., Ryan, J., Edwards, B., Sligo, J.,  Hancox, R.J., Patton, G.C., Olsson, C.A. (2020) Adolescent and young adult mental health problems and infant offspring behavior: Findings from a prospective intergenerational cohort study, Journal of Affective Disorders. DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.101
  8. Furlong, M. (2019). Dependence or Independence: Which Is the Dirty Word? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 40, 255-271. DOI: 10.1002/anzf.1358
  9. Le Bas, G., Macdonald, J., McIntosh, J.E, Olsson, C., Greenwood, C., Hutchinson, C. (2019). The Role of Antenatal and Postnatal Maternal Bonding in Infant Development: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis". Social Development.  
  10. Teague, S., Youssef, G., Macdonald, J., Sciberras, E., Shatte, A., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., Greenwood, G., McIntosh, J.E, Olsson, C., Hutchinson, D. (2018). Retention strategies in longitudinal cohort studies: A systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 18: 151.
  11. Tan, E.S., McIntosh, J.E., Kothe, E.J., Opie, J.E., & Olsson, C.A. Couple relationship quality and offspring attachment security: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2018). Attachment and Human Development. Aug; 20(4):349-377 DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2017.1401651
  12. O’Connor, M,  Chong, S., Hutchinson, D, Sanson, A, McIntosh, J.E., Olsson, CA,  Goldfeld, S. (2019). Socioeconomic Disadvantage in Infancy and Academic and Self-Regulation Outcomes. Pediatrics, May 14 (5) e20182640;  DOI: 10.1542/peds.2018-2640
  13. Booth, A., Macdonald J., & Youssef, G. (2018). Contextual Stress and Maternal Sensitivity: A Meta-Analytic Review of Stress Associations with the Maternal Behavior Q-Sort in Observational Studies. Developmental Review.

Conference Presentations

  1. McIntosh, J.E., Opie, J., Tan, E. S., Booth, A. (2017).Infant attachment security correlates, continuity and outcomes, and the influence of stress on care-giving sensitivity: New meta-analytic evidence. Symposium Presentation.  International Attachment Conference. London. 
  2. McIntosh, J.E., Ryan, J., Greenwood, C., Letcher, P. Olsson, C. and the ATP-G3 consortium. (2017). Offspring attachment in a three-generation cohort: emerging psycho-social and epigenetic signals. Individual Paper Presentation. International Attachment Conference. London.

  1. Greenwood, C., Youssef, G.J., Betts, K., Letcher, P., McIntosh, J.E, Spry, E., Hutchinson, D., MacDonald, J., Hagg, L., Sanson, A., Toumbourou, J., Olsson. C. (2019). A comparative analysis of modelling approaches: Alcohol and cannabis use from adolescence to young adulthood. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.05.001
  2. Damiano, S.R., McLean, S.A., Nguyen, L., Yager, Z., Paxton, S.J. (2020). Do we cause harm? Understanding the impact of research with young children about their body image. Body Image, 34, 59-66. DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.05.008
  3. Reupert, A., Maybery, DJ., Bartholomew, C., Cuff, R., Foster, K., Matar, J., & Pettenuzzo, L. (2020) The Acceptability and Effectiveness of an Online Intervention for Youth With Parents With a Mental Illness and/or Substance Use Issue. Journal of Adolescent Health
  4. Reupert, A., Maybery, DJ., Bartholomew, C., Cuff, R., Duncan, Z., Foster, K., Matar, J., & Pettenuzzo, L. (2019) A web-based intervention for young adults whose parents have a mental illness and/or substance use concern: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. JMIR Research Protocols
  5. Reupert, A., Bartholomew, C., Cuff, R., Foster, K., Matar, J., Maybery, DJ. & Pettenuzzo L (2019) An Online Intervention to Promote Mental Health and Wellbeing for Young Adults Whose Parents Have Mental Illness and/or Substance Use Problems: Theoretical Basis and Intervention Description. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10:59
  6. Maybery, D., Goodyear, M., Reupert, A., Sheen, J., Cann, W., O’Hanlon, B., & Cuff, R. (2019). A mixed method evaluation of an intervention for parents with mental illness. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1177/1359104518822676
  7. McLean, S.A., & Paxton, S.J. (2019). Body image in the context of eating disorders. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 42, 145-156.
  8. Thomson, K. C., Romaniuk, H., Greenwood, C. J., Letcher, P., Spry, E., MacDonald, J. A., McAnally, H. M., Youssef, G. J., McIntosh, J.E, Hutchinson, D., Hancox, R. J., Patton, G. C., Olsson, C. A. Adolescent antecedents of maternal and paternal perinatal depression: A 36-year prospective cohort. Psychological Medicine.
  9. McLean, S.A., Caldwell, B., & Roberton, M. (2019). Reach Out and Recover: Intentions to seek treatment in individuals using online support for eating disorders. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 52, 1137-1149. DOI: 10.1002/eat.23133
  10. McLean, S.A., Jarman, H.K., & Rodgers, R.F. (2019). How do “selfies” impact adolescents’ well-being and body confidence?: A narrative review. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 12, 512-521.

  1. Elliott, A., Dokona, J., von Doussa, H. (2020). Following the River’s Flow: A Conversation about Single Session Approaches with Aboriginal Families. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 41, 249-257 DOI: 10.1002/anzf.1423
  2. Moloney, B. (2014) A Black and White Model for Teaching Family Therapy: Empowerment by Degree. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 35, 261-276. DOI: 10.1002/anzf.1066 

    Book

  3. Sundbery, J. (2016) Aboriginal drug service workers' experience of family therapy: Training and practice. Lap Lambert Academic Publishing.

    Research Report

  4. Sundbery, J., Latham, R. (2018) Working side by side: a process of collaboration for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2, 71-76.

  1. Yager, Z., Gray, T, Curry, C, & McLean, S.A. (2020). Pre-service teachers’ gendered attitudes towards role modelling in health and physical education. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 25, 67-78. (Q1; Impact Factor 2.035).
  2. von Doussa, H., Power, J., & Riggs, D. W. (2017). Family matters: transgender and gender diverse peoples’ experience with family when they transition. Journal of Family Studies, 1-14.
  1. Riggs, D. W., Power, J., & von Doussa, H. (2016). Parenting and Australian trans and gender diverse people: An exploratory survey. International Journal of Transgenderism, 17(2), 59-65.
  1. von Doussa, H., Peters, J., Lewis, G., and Caddick, A. (2016) The trans debate [online]. Arena Magazine (Fitzroy, Vic), No. 141, Apr/May 2016: 13-15.
  1. Griffiths, S, Hay, P. Mitchison, D., Mond, J.M., McLean, S.A., Rodgers, B., Massey, R., & Paxton, S.J. (2016). Sex differences in the relationships between body dissatisfaction, quality of life and psychological distress. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 40, 518-522. DOI: 10.1111/1753-6405.12538
  1. von Doussa, H., Power, J., McNair, R., Brown, R., Schofield, M., Perlesz, A., . . . Bickerdike, A. (2015). Building healthcare workers' confidence to work with same-sex parented families. Health Promotion International, 1-11. DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dav010
  2. von Doussa, H., Power, J., & Riggs, D. (2015). Imagining parenthood: the possibilities and experiences of parenthood among transgender people. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1-13. DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2015.1042919
  1. Riggs, D. W., von Doussa, H., Power, J., (2015): The family and romantic relationships of trans and gender diverse Australians: an exploratory survey, Sexual and Relationship Therapy, DOI: 10.1080/14681994.2014.992409
  1. Power, J., Schofield, M. J., Farchione, D., Perlesz, A., McNair, R., Brown, R., . . . Bickerdike, A. (2015). Psychological Wellbeing Among Same-sex Attracted and Heterosexual Parents: Role of Connectedness to Family and Friendship Networks. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 36, 380-394. DOI: 10.1002/anzf.1109

    Book Chapter

  2. Dunk-West, P., & Hafford-Letchfield, T. (2018). Transgender people negotiating intimate relationships. Riggs, D., von Doussa, H., & Power, P. In Sexuality, Sexual and Gender Identities and Intimacy Research in Social Work and Social Care (pp. 108-122). Routledge.