The Clinical Psychology Lab

Aims

Clinical Psychology aims to understand and to change abnormal behaviour, cognitions, and emotions through the application of principles and techniques developed in the understanding of normal behaviour, cognition, and emotions.

In this spirit, our laboratory group aims to apply our understanding of normal psychology to extend our knowledge of the nature and modification of psychological problems.

Projects

Past

Current
  • Development of the Blood-Injection Symptom Scale
  • Role of images of disgust and fear in the symptoms of blood-injury phobia
  • Development of a state version of the Blood-Injection Symptom Scale (BISS Manual)
  • Effects of images on renewal of fear
  • The genetics of blood-injury fears
  • Distinguishing panic disorder and agoraphobia from social phobia
  • Drug use among different anxiety disorders
  • Ability of stress to reduce vulnerability to neurosis
  • Blood-injury fears in medical practice
  • Blood-Injury phobia
  • For Details on any of these past projects, contact Andrew Page: andrew@psy.uwa.edu.au)
  • The cognitive mechanisms of thought suppression and ironic activation (contact Andrew Page: andrew@psy.uwa.edu.au)
  • Matching treatments to clients with social phobia (contact Holly Exeter: holly@psy.uwa.edu.au)
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  • Effects of distraction on fear reduction (contact Kristy Johnstone: kristy@psy.uwa.edu.au)
  • Self representation in social phobia (contact Jocelyn Manning: jocelyn@psy.uwa.edu.au)
  • Application of the Five Factor Model of personality to Personality Disorders (contact Lisa Saulsman: lisas@psy.uwa.edu.au)
  • Prediction of suicide (contact Jon Pfaff: suicide@iinet.com.au)
  • The prediction of pain (contact Andrew Page: andrew@psy.uwa.edu.au)

    • Where?

    You can find us in the Clinical Psychology Unit, 10-12 Parkway, University of Western Australia, Nedlands WA 6009

    For more information contact Andrew Page : andrew@psy.uwa.edu.au