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PROF SIDNEY BLOCH



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Organization: Psychiatry
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.psychiatry.unimelb.edu.au/dept/profiles/bloch04.pdf
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery University of Cape Town 31-Dec-1964
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1972

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) 30-Jun-1989
Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPSYCH) 31-Aug-1972

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Psychosocial adjustment of men with advance prostate cancer Chief Investigator BETHLEHEM GRIFFITHS RESEARCH FOUNDATION Medical Research Grants 01/01/2004
Songs for Life: Group Music Therapy for Serious Mental Illness (SMI)-a Randomised Control Trial Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • The effect of group music therapy on quality of life for participants living with a severe and enduring mental illness
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Music Therapy
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 90-104
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Family therapy
    Year: 2008
    Book: Essential Psychiatry. Fourth edition
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • Psychiatric ethics
    Year: 2008
    Book: The Cambridge textbook of bioethics
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Is there a role for music therapy in the care of the severely mentally ill?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australasian Psychiatry
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 442-445
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  • Psychosocial adjustment in newly diagnosed prostate cancer
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 423-429
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  • Publishing ethics in child and adolescent psychiatry: essentials for authors and readers
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 149-163
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Reports

  • The Cunningham Dax Collection: Statement of Significance


     


    Year: 2008
    Publisher: The Cunningham Dax Collection(Parkville)
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • Foundations of clinical psychiatry


    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Book Chapters

  • Stress, coping and the adjustment disorders


    Year: 2007
    Book: Foundations of clinical psychiatry. 3rd ed.
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • The psychotherapies
    Year: 2007
    Book: Foundations of clinical psychiatry. 3rd ed
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Journal Articles

  • Care ethics: what psychiatrists have been waiting for to make sound ethical decisions
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Psychiatric Annals
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 787-791
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  • Psychological adjustment of men with prostate cancer: a review of the literature
    Year: 2007
    Journal: BioPsychoSocial Medicine
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-14
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  • Reforming mental health care in Victoria: a decade later
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australasian Psychiatry
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 181-184
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  • Supportive-expressive group therapy for women with metastatic breast cancer: survival and psychosocial outcome from a randomized controlled trial
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Psycho-Oncology
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 277-286
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • An anthology of psychiatric ethics
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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  • An introduction to the psychotherapies
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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Book Chapters

  • Family therapy in the adult psychiatric setting


    Year: 2006
    Book: An introduction to the psychotherapies
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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  • An historical context
    Year: 2006
    Book: An introduction to the psychotherapies
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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  • Ethical aspect of psychotherapy practice
    Year: 2006
    Book: An introduction to the psychotherapies
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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  • Supportive psychotherapy
    Year: 2006
    Book: An introduction to the psychotherapies
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • An ethical framework for psychiatry
    Year: 2006
    Journal: British Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 188
    Page numbers: 7-12
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  • Family focused grief therapy: a randomized, controlled trial in palliative care and bereavement
    Year: 2006
    Journal: American Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 163
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1208-1218
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  • Psychological morbidity and quality of life in women with advanced breast cancer: a cross-sectional survey
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Palliative & Supportive Care
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 47-56
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  • Psychosocial adjustment of female partners of men with prostate cancer: a review of the literature
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Psycho-Oncology
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 937-953
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  • The psychosocial impact of prostate cancer on patients and their partners
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 185
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 428-432
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  • The role of meaning in advanced cancer - integrating the constructs of assumptive world, sense of coherence and meaning-based coping
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 27-42
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Family therapy
    Year: 2005
    Book: Oxford textbook of psychcotherapy
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • The art of psychiatry
    Year: 2005
    Journal: World Psychiatry
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 130-134
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Cultivating empathy
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Meanjin
    Volume: 63
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 122-129
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  • Effect of cognitive-existential group therapy on survival in early-stage breast cancer
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Oncology
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 21
    Page numbers: 4255-4260
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  • Psychiatric disorder in women with early stage and advanced breast cancer: a comparative analysis
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 320-326
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  • Screening for depression in women with metastatic breast cancer: a comparison of the Beck Depression Inventory Short Form and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 526-531
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  • Ten Books
    Year: 2004
    Journal: British Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 184
    Page numbers: 275-279
    Publisher: Royal College of Psychiatrists(London)
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  • Women psychiatrists and research: so far, no further? An Australasian perspective on factors that encourage and hinder women psychiatrists' involvement in research
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 470-476
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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Publications in 2003

Books

  • Understanding troubled minds
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Modan Publishing House(Moshav Ben-Shemen)
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Journal Articles

  • Counting on citations: a flawed way to measure quality
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 178
    Page numbers: 280-281
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • Informed consent in psychiatric research
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Current Opinion in Psychiatry
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 679-684
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Medical students and clinical ethics
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 178
    Page numbers: 167-169
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • Psychosocial morbidity associated with patterns of family functioning in palliative care: baseline data from the family focussed grief therapy controlled trial
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Palliative Medicine
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 527-537
    Publisher: Arnold Publishers
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • Family focused grief therapy A model of family-centred care during palliative care and bereavement
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Open University Press(Buckingham)
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Journal Articles

  • Cognitive-existential group psychotherapy for women with primary breast cancer: A randomised controlled trial
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Psycho-Oncology
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 1-15
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(West Sussex)
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  • Diagnostic efficiency of the hospital anxiety and depression scale in women with early stage breast cancer at treatment completion
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 246-250
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • The written report in consultation-liaison psychiatry: a proposed schema
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 251-258
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Publications in 2001

Books

  • Foundations of clinical psychiatry (Vietnamese language edition)


    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • Foundations of clinical psychiatry


    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Book Chapters

  • Stress, coping and the adjustment disorders.
    Year: 2001
    Book: Foundations of clinical psychiatry.
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • The psychotherapies.
    Year: 2001
    Book: Foundations of clinical psychiatry.
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Journal Articles

  • Counselling the family carer: aims and approaches of 47 service organisations
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Family Studies
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 72-86
    Publisher: La Trobe University Press
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  • Moses Maimonides' contribution to the biophysical approach in clinical medicine
    Year: 2001
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 358
    Page numbers: 829-832
    Publisher: Lancet(London)
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  • Publishing ethics in psychiatry
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 28-35
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • The impact factor: time for change
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 563-568
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Working in a flawed mental health care system: an ethical challenge.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: American Journal of Psychiatry
    Publisher: American Psychiatric Press(Washington DC)
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