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DR EOIN KILLACKEY



Contact Details

Organization: Centre for Youth Mental Health
Position: RONALD PHILLIP GRIFFITH FELLOW
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Homepage: http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/KillackeyE.html
Work: 9342 2900

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Psychological Interventions in first episode psychosis, vocational recovery in first episode psychosis, psychosocial recovery in first episode psychos first episode psychosis, early psychosis, psychosocial recovery Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States University of California - Los Angeles Research
United Kingdom University of Bristol Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United States University of North Carolina Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1996
Bachelor of Science (honours) Deakin University 31-Dec-1997
Doctorate of Psychology (Clinical) Deakin University 31-Dec-2000

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member International FIrst Episode Vocational Recovery Group Founding Member 30-Jun-2008
Member Australian Psychological Society Member 01-Jul-2000
Member International Early Psychosis Association Member 01-Jan-2002
Member Australian Association of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Member 13-May-2004

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research Schering Plough Organon Medal for best Psychiatric Researcher in Australia under the age of 35 05-Dec-2008

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
Vocational Recovery in Young People with First Episode Psychosis: A Randomised Controlled Intervention Trial Examining Vocational, Health, Economic and Social Outcomes Chief Investigator AUST ROTARY HEALTH RESEARCH FUND Mental Illness Research Grant 01/01/2008
Improving Employment Outcomes in Early Psychosis: Social and Economic Benefits of Early Intervention. Chief Investigator ORYGEN RESEARCH CENTRE,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 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

Book Chapters

  • Enhancing work functioning in early psychosis
    Year: 2009
    Book: The recognition and management of early psychosis - a preventive approach
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Psychosocial and psychological interventions in early psychosis: essential elements for recovery
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Early Intervention in Psychiatry
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: S17 - S21
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Publications in 2008

Books

  • Psychotherapies for the psychoses: theoretical, cultural and clinical integration


    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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  • Psychotherapies for the Psychoses: Theoretical, Cultural, and Clinical Integration
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Book Chapters

Journal Articles

  • Interventions in the early stages of psychosis


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Psychiatric Annals
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 521-526
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  • Pattern of lifetime axis I morbidity among a treated sample of first-episode  psychosis patients


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Psychopathology: international journal of descriptive and experimental psychopathology, phenomenology, and psychiatric diagnosis
    Volume: 41
    Page numbers: 90-95
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  • Vocational intervention in first-episode psychosis: individual placement and support v. treatment  as usual


    Year: 2008
    Journal: British Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 193
    Page numbers: 114-120
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  • A factor analytic investigation of the tripartite model of affect in a clinical sample of young Australians
    Year: 2008
    Journal: BMC Psychiatry
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 79
    Page numbers: 1-12
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  • Acute phase and 1-year follow-up results of a randomized controlled trial of CBT versus Befriending for first-episode psychosis: The ACE project
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Psychological Medicine
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 725-735
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  • Acute-phase and 1-year follow-up results of a randomized controlled trial of CBT versus Befriending for first-episode psychosis: the ACE project
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Psychological Medicine
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 725-735
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  • Do we do what we know works, and if not why not?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 439-444
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  • Early intervention in psychosis: concepts, evidence and future directions
    Year: 2008
    Journal: World Psychiatry
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 148
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  • Motives for substance use among young people seeking mental health treatment
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Early Intervention in Psychiatry
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 188-194
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  • Pattern of Axis I comorbidity among a treated sample of first episode psychosis patients
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Psychopathology: international journal of descriptive and experimental psychopathology, phenomenology, and psychiatric diagnosis
    Volume: 41
    Page numbers: 90-95
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  • The challenge of integrating employment services with public mental health services in Australia: progress at the first demonstration site
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 63-66
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  • Validation of “prodromal” criteria to detect individuals at ultra high risk of psychosis: 2 year follow up
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 1-3
    Issue: 105
    Page numbers: 10-17
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Impact of co-occurring substances use on 6 month outcomes for young people seeking mental health treatment


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 41
    Page numbers: 896-902
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  • Outcome of suicidal ideation and behavior in a young, help-seeking population over a 2-year period

     


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Crisis (Kirkland)
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 4-10
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  • Association between psychotic experiences and depression in a clinical sample over 6 months
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 91
    Page numbers: 246-253
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  • Challenges to implementing evidence-based supported employment in Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 29-37
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  • Clinical utility of the mood and anxiety symptom questionnaire (MASQ) in a sample of young help-seekers
    Year: 2007
    Journal: BMC Psychiatry
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 50
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  • Early intervention in psychotic disorders: detection and treatment of the first episode and the critical early stages
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 187
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: s8-s10
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  • Early psychosis: where we've been, where we still have to go
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 102-108
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  • Effectiveness of early intervention in psychosis
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Current Opinion in Psychiatry
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 121-125
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  • The clinical utility of the Mood and Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire (MASQ) in a clinical sample of help-seeking young people
    Year: 2007
    Journal: BMC Psychiatry
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 50
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  • The prevention of schizophrenia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Review of Psychiatry
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 633-646
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Depressed mood as a risk factor for unprotected sex in young people
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australasian Psychiatry
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 310-312
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  • Emerging psychosis in young people - Part 3. Key issues for a prolonged recovery.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Family Physician
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 329-333
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  • Exciting career opportunity beckons! Early intervention and vocational rehabilitation in first-episode psychosis: employing cautious optimism
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 951-962
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  • Psychotic-Like Experiences in Nonpsychotic Help-Seekers: Associations With Distress, Depression, and Disability
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Schizophrenia Bulletin
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 325-359
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  • Testing the Ultra High Risk (prodromal) criteria for the prediction of psychosis in a clinical sample of young people
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 84
    Page numbers: 57-66
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  • The credibility and acceptability of Befriending as a control therapy in a randomised controlled trial of cognitive behaviour therapy for acute first episode psychosis
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 277-291
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  • The credibility and acceptability of befriending as a control therapy in a randomized controlled trial of cognitive behaviour therapy for acute first episode psychosis
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 277-291
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A controlled trial of cognitively oriented psychotherapy for early psychosis (COPE) with four-year follow-up readmission data
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Psychological Medicine
    Volume: 35
    Page numbers: 1295-1306
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  • Mapping the onset of psychosis: the comprehensive assessment of at-risk mental states
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 964-971
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  • Patterns of current comorbidity in young help-seekers: implications for service planning and delivery.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australasian Psychiatry
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 379-383
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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  • Royal Australian and New Zealand College of psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of schizophrenia and related disorders
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 1-30
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Depression, substance use and suicidality in help-seeking adolescents: a survey of prevalence
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Guidance & Counselling
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 162-175
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  • Sexual decision making in young women
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Sexual and Relationship Therapy
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 15-27
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Summary Australian and New Zealand clinical practice guideline for the treatment of schizophrenia (2003)
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australasian Psychiatry
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 136-147
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Early intervention in psychosis: a new evidence based paradigm
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale
    Volume: 11
    Page numbers: 237-247
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