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DR DAVID FORBES



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Organization: Psychiatry
Position: CLINICAL DIRECTOR/ ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR - ACPMH
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Melbourne
Master of Arts University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne

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Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

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

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder: Best practice GP guidelines
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Australian Family Physician
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 106-111
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Mechanisms of anger and treatment outcome in combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Traumatic Stress
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 142-149
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  • Understanding posttraumatic nightmares: an empirical and conceptual review


     


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Clinical Psychology Review
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 339-356
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  • Naturalistic comparison of models of programmatic interventions for combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 1051-1059
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Australian Guidelines for the treatment of adults with acute stress disorder and postraumatic stress disorder
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 41
    Page numbers: 637-648
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  • Treating adults with acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in general practice: A clinical update
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 187
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 120-123
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Major Reference Works

  • Australian Guidelines for the Treatment of Adults with Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder:

    Australian Guidelines for the Treatment of Adults with Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder


     


    Year: 2007
    Reference Work Title: Australian Guidelines for the Treatment of Adults with Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
    Publisher: Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health(Melbourne)
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  • Mental Health Advice Book for practitioners helping veterans with common mental health problems:

    Mental Health Advice Book for practitioners helping veterans with common mental health problems

     


    Year: 2007
    Reference Work Title: Mental Health Advice Book for practitioners helping veterans with common mental health problems
    Publisher: Department of Veteran's Affairs
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Is Mixed Handedness a Marker of Treatment Response in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Pilot Study
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Traumatic Stress
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 961-966
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  • Mental Health Initiatives for Veterans and Serving Personnel
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 185
    Page numbers: 453
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  • Response categories and anger measurement: do fewer categories result in poorer measurement? Development of the DAR5.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 164-172
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  • Treatment for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder: Two year follow-up
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Traumatic Stress
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 675-685
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Clinical Presentations and Treatment Outcomes of PeaceKeeper Veterans With PTSD: Preliminary Findings.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: American Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 162
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 2188-2190
    Publisher: American Psychiatric Press(Washington DC)
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  • Patterns of Treatment Response in Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Application of Latent Growth Mixture Modeling
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Traumatic Stress
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 303-311
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers(New York)
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  • Problem gambling in australian PTSD treatment-seeking veterans
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Traumatic Stress
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 759-767
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers(New York)
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  • Testing the latent structure of posttraumatic stress disorder: A taxometric study of combat veterans
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Traumatic Stress
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 647-656
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers(New York)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Military Populations
    Year: 2004
    Book: Advances in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • A Concise Measure of Anger in Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Traumatic Stress
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 249-256
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers(New York)
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  • Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder in military and veteran populations
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Psychotherapy
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 388-398
    Publisher: American Psychological Association(Philadelphia)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • The long term effects of traumatic stress
    Year: 2003
    Book: Military Stress and Performance - The Australian Defence Force Experience
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • The treatment of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder
    Year: 2003
    Book: Military Stress and Performance - The Australian Defence Force Experience
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Journal Articles

  • Clinical symptomatology of PTSD-diagnosed Australian and United States Vietnam combat veterans: an MMPI-2 comparison
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
    Volume: 191
    Page numbers: 458-464
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Comorbidity as a predictor of symptom change after treatment in combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
    Volume: 191
    Page numbers: 93-99
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Imagery rehearsal in the treatment of posttraumatic nightmares in Australian veterans with chronic combat-related PTSD: twelve month follow up data
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Traumatic Stress
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 509-513
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers(New York)
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  • MMPI-2 as a predictor of change in PTSD symptom clusters: a further analysis of the Forbes et al. (2002) data set.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Personality Assessment
    Volume: 81
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 183-186
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates(Philadelphia)
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  • MMPI-2 based subgroups of veterans with combat-related PTSD.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
    Volume: 191
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 531-537
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Inpatient versus day hospital treatment for chronic, combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder: a naturalistic comparison
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
    Volume: 190
    Page numbers: 183-189
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Self-reported problems: a comparison between PTSD-diagnosed veterans, their spouses, and clinicians
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Behaviour Research and Therapy
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 853-865
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • The MMPI-2 As a Predictor of Symptom Change Following Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Personality Assessment
    Volume: 79
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 321-336
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates(Philadelphia)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • The validity of the PTSD checklist as a measure of symptomatic change in combat-related PTSD
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Behaviour Research and Therapy
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 977-986
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Treatment of combat-related nightmares using imagery rehearsal: a pilot study
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Traumatic Stress
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 433-442
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers(New York)
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