Professor Alison Calear
Professor
Co-Head, CMHR
BAppPsych(Hons) (UC), PhD (ANU)
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About
Alison Calear is a Professor and Co-Head of the Centre for Mental Health Research working in the areas of youth mental health, digital mental health and the prevention and early intervention of anxiety, depression, suicide and self-harm. Alison heads the Child, Youth and Family Mental Health and Suicide Prevention research unit and is currently leading the evaluation of the Recognise, Respond and Support - A Parent's Guide to Youth Mental Health resource with Australian parents and caregivers.
Affiliations
Centre
Groups
Research interests
- Youth mental health
- Digital mental health
- Prevention and early intervention of anxiety, depression, suicide and self-harm
- Help-seeking behaviour
- Stigma and literacy
Projects
- Beacon: Directory of evidence-based online programs, Principal investigator
- Development of a program to help parents better support the mental health needs of their children, Principal investigator
- Development of an online portal to support youth and parents, Principal investigator
- Evaluation of the Thriving Minds program in ACT primary schools, Principal investigator
- Investigating Interventions for Postnatal Depression, Principal investigator
- LifeSpan: Integrated Suicide Prevention, Principal investigator
- Mental Health Programs in ACT Primary Schools, Principal investigator
- Screening for suicidality and distress in young people, Principal investigator
- Silence is Deadly, Principal investigator
- Sources of Strength Australia, Principal investigator
- Youth suicide prevention, Principal investigator
- Disclosing suicidal ideation , Supervisor
- Exploring attitudes, well-being, and help-seeking among women, Supervisor
- Interpersonal needs and mental health in adolescents, Supervisor
- Mental health measures (self-reliance), Supervisor
- MindCast PodCast, Supervisor
- Protective pathways for preventing suicide, Supervisor
- Stigma and help seeking in adolescents, Supervisor
- Suicide Stigma, Suicide Literacy and Help-Seeking Attitudes and Intentions in Parents, Supervisor
- The Influence of Parenting Practices, Knowledge and Attitudes on Help-seeking Intentions for Child Anxiety, Supervisor
- Youth suicide prevention, Supervisor
- Assessing mental health, Researcher
- Attitudes to suicide, Researcher
- Bushfire Health Survey, Researcher
- Co-Creating Safe Spaces, Researcher
- Development of a Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) literacy scale in Navy, Researcher
- Epidemiology of suicidal behaviour, Researcher
- FitMindKit, Researcher
- ImpleMentAll, Researcher
- LifeTrack: Understanding Suicidal Transitions, Researcher
- Sustainable Farms Initiative, Researcher
- The Helipad Trial: Brief online training to support workplace mental health , Researcher
- The Way Back Monitoring Evaluation, Researcher
- Uni Virtual Clinic, Researcher
- Y-Worri, Researcher
- YouthMood, Researcher
Location
Room 1.21, Building 63