Name: Professor Grant Devilly
Role: Grant is the Director of the research unit and also the
deputy director of the BSI (Operations). Grant liaises with other
senior unit members and supervises honours, masters, doctorate and
PhD students.
Tel: +61 3 9214 5920
Other Links:
Victims website - http://www.swin.edu.au/victims
Professional statistics
software - http://www.clintools.com
Representative Publications From Past 5 Years:
(10 of 38 peer-reviewed
publications in this time period)
Devilly, G.J., Varker, T., Hansen, K., & Gist, R. (in press).
The effects of psychological debriefing on eyewitness memory. Behaviour
Research & Therapy. Accepted September 2006.
Devilly, G.J., & Annab, R. (in press). A randomised controlled
trial of group debriefing. Behavior Therapy & Experimental
Psychiatry. Accepted June 2006.
Devilly, G.J., & Ciorciari, J. (2007). Conclusions in science
when theory & data collide. Psychological Science, 18, 220-221.
Devilly, G.J., Ciorciari, J., Piesse, A., Sherwell, S., & Zammit,
S., Cook, F., & Turton, C. (2007). Dissociative tendencies
and memory performance on directed forgetting tasks. Psychological
Science, 18, 212-215.
Devilly, G.J., Gist, R., and Cotton, P. (2006). Ready! Fire!
Aim! The Evolution of Psychological Debriefing Services and Intervention
Outcome. Review of General Psychology, 10, 318-345.
Yap, M., and Devilly, G.J. (2004). The role of perceived social
support in crime victimization. Clinical Psychology Review,24,
1-14.
Devilly, G.J. (2004). An approach to psychotherapy toleration:
The Distress / Endorsement Validation Scale (DEVS) for clinical
outcome studies. Journal of Behaviour Therapy & Experimental
Psychiatry, 35, 319-336.
Devilly, G.J. (2002). Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing:
A chronology of its development and scientific standing. Scientific
Review of Mental Health Practice, 1, 113-138.
Gist, R., and Devilly, G.J. (2002). Post-trauma debriefing: The
road too frequently travelled. The Lancet, 360, 741-742.
Merckelbach, H., Devilly, G.J., and Rassin, E. (2002). Alters
in Dissociative Identity Disorder: Metaphors or Genuine Entities?
Clinical Psychology Review, 22, 481-497
Current Grants
2005 – 8 National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund ($292,000)
Devilly, G.J., & James, S. The prevention of trauma reactions
in police officers: Decreasing reliance on drugs and alcohol.
2006 – 8 Telstra Community Development Grant Scheme ($83,000)
Devilly, G.J., & Sweeper, S.M. Assisting children affected
by parental separation, exposure to domestic violence and ongoing
parental conflict.
Name: Dr Patrick Johnston
Role: Pat has an interest in the use of integrated technologies
involving fMRI, sMRI, EEG and TMS to study abnormal brain functioning
in schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
He is particularly involved in research into aspects of social behaviour,
but also has a broad interest in memory, preattentive mechanisms
and aspects of executive functioning.
Telephone: +61 3 92145946
Representative Publications:
Johnston, P., Karayanidis, F., Devir, H., (2006) Facial emotion
recognition in schizophrenia: no evidence for an emotion specific
deficit using a differential deficit design. Psychiatry Research,
143 (1) 51-61.
Johnston, P., Stojanov, W., Devir, H., Schall, U., (2005) Functional
MRI of facial emotion recognition deficits in schizophrenia and
their electrophysiological correlates. European Journal of Neuroscience,
22 (5) 1221-1232
Rasser, P., Johnston, P., Lagopoulos, J., Ward, P., Schall,
U., Thienel, R., Bender, S., Toga, A., Thompson, P., (2005) Functional
MRI BOLD response to Tower of London performance of first-episode
schizophrenia patients using cortical pattern matching. Neuroimage
26(3) 941-951.
Rasser, P., Johnston, P., Ward, P., Thompson, P., (2004) A
deformable Brodmann Area atlas. Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International
Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano 1: 400-403.
Schall, U., Johnston, P., Todd, J., Ward, P., Michie, P., (2003)
Functional neuroanatomy of auditory mismatch processing: an event-related
fMRI study of duration-deviant oddballs. Neuroimage 20 (2): 729-736
OCT 2003.
Schall U, Johnston, P, Lagopoulos J, Juptner M, Jentzen W,
Thienel R, Dittmann-Balcar A, Bender S, Ward P (2003) Functional
brain maps of Tower of London performance: a positron emission tomography
and functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Neuroimage 20 (2):
1154-1161 OCT 2003.
Stojanov, W., Karayanidis, F., Johnston, P., Bailey, A., Carr,
V., Schall, U., (2003) Disrupted sensory gating in pathological
gambling. Biological Psychiatry 54 (4): 474-484 AUG 15 2003.
Johnston, P., McCabe, K., Schall, U., (2003) Differential susceptibility
to performance degradation across categories of facial emotion -
a model confirmation. Biological Psychology 63 (1): 45-58 APR 2003.
Byrne, T., Henskens, F., Johnston, P., & Katsikitis, M.
(2003). FaceXpress: an integrated software suite for facial emotion
stimulus manipulation and facial measurement. Methods of Psychological
Research - Online, 8 (3), 97-111.
Johnston, P., Katsikitis, M., Carr, V., (2001) A generalised
deficit can account for problems in facial emotion recognition in
schizophrenia. Biological Psychology, 58 (3), 203-227.
Current grants:
Johnston, P., (2006) An exploration of motor inhibition deficits
in schizophrenia using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Event
Related Potentials and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. NHMRC
386501 Australian Clinical Fellowship Scheme, $280,000.
Henskens, F., Johnston, P., Rasser P., Ward, P., Schall, U.,
Michie, P., Carr, V., (2006) Development of a software grid for
data-sharing associated with the NISAD/LONI Virtual Brain Bank.
ARC (Special research initiatives - e-research) $95,000.
Schall U, Karayanidis F, Budd B, Johnston P. (2005) Functional
neuroimaging of prepulse inhibition in schizophrenia and Parkinson's
disease. NHMRC Project Grant 351129, 2005-2007 ($440,625).
Loughland, C., Cohen, M., Johnston, P ., Carr, V., (2005) Remediation
of facial affect decoding and visual scanpath deficits in schizophrenia.
University of Newcastle Research Grant Committee Project Grant $8,000.
Carr, V., Ward, P., Schall, U., Baker, A., Johnston, P. (2004)
A comparative structural and functional cerebral MRI study of first
episode schizophrenia and long-term cannabis use (NH&MRC Project
Grant: 300734, 2004-2007) - $ 365,000
Name: Tracey Varker
Role: PhD Candidate, investigating the effect of resilience training
upon new recruit Victoria Police officers. In particular, the efficacy
of resilience training in preventing trauma reactions and decreasing
reliance on drugs and alcohol in this at-risk group is currently
being examined.
Telephone: +61 3 9214 5538
Email: tvarker 
swin.edu.au
Name: Fallon Cook
Role: PhD Student. Fallon is currently examining the effectiveness
of a Cognitive Behavioural approach to treating children showing
trauma related fear responses following a conflictual parental separation.
Email: FCook swin.edu.au
Name: Tamara Wolan
Role: Tamara is completing her Doctorate of Clinical Psychology
within the psychology department and conducting her research under
the supervision of Grant Devilly. She is studying the effects of
stimulants and depressants on the encoding and recall of traumatic
information.
Email: tamarawol hotmail.com
Name: Joanne Tarasuik
Role: PhD Candidate. Research study - The Prevention of Stress
Reactions in Experienced Police Officers.
Email: JTarasuik swin.edu.au
Name: Olga Maurer
Role: Olga is an international Masters student from the Maastricht
University in Holland. She is completing her master thesis about
dissociation under the supervision of Grant Devilly during her 6
month stay in Australia.
Email: 6173985 student.swin.edu.au
Name: Dean Janova
Role: Masters of Counselling Psychology student. Dean is studying
the role of empathy deficits in adolescent sexual offenders.
Email: deanjanover hotmail.com
Name: Kimberley Muraca
Role: Masters of Counselling Psychology student. Kimberley is
studying the role of implicit associations in rape victims in maintaining
pathology.
Email: Kimberley.Muraca gslpl.com.au
Name: Nicola Pronk
Role: Research associate, studying the process of change during
treatment-outcome trials for post traumatic stress disorder.
Email: npronk swin.edu.au
