Alison Calear (née Neil) is an Australian academic who is a Professor at the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University. She studies youth mental health and the prevention of anxiety, depression and suicide.
Alison Calear | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alison Neil |
| Alma mater | Australian National University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Australian National University |
| Thesis | The YouthMood Project : an evaluation of the MoodGYM program with an adolescent school-based population (2009) |
Education edit
Calear's doctoral research developed a program for adolescent mental health.[1] She studied the efficacy of school-based prevention programs to prevent anxiety and depression.[2]
Research and career edit
Calear works on youth mental health and suicide prevention.[3][4] Suicide is one of the leading causes of death for young people in Australia, and Calear has looked to understand the origins of this phenomenon. She evaluated a peer-leadership program, Sources of Strength,[5] which promotes help-seeking behaviour amongst young people. It has been delivered to peer-leaders across twenty high schools in the United States. She evaluated the program in Australia, as well as another specialist program Silence is Deadly,[6] which encourages young men and boys to discuss their feelings.
In 2011, Calear was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council fellowship.[7] She was awarded the Australian Institute of Policy and Science Tall Poppy Award in 2012, which honoured her research efforts in youth mental health.[8] She studied the role of online interventions in preventing anxiety.[8] During the COVID-19 pandemic, she investigated the impact of COVID-19 on community mental health.[9] She found that parents and caregivers who were responsible for their children's home schooling experienced high levels of psychological distress.[10][11]
Selected publications edit
- Alison L. Neil; Helen Christensen (April 2009). "Efficacy and effectiveness of school-based prevention and early intervention programs for anxiety". Clinical Psychology Review. 29 (3): 208–215. doi:10.1016/J.CPR.2009.01.002. ISSN 0272-7358. PMID 19232805. Wikidata Q22252270.
- Aliza Werner-Seidler; Yael Perry; Alison L. Calear; Jill M. Newby; Helen Christensen (February 2017). "School-based depression and anxiety prevention programs for young people: A systematic review and meta-analysis". Clinical Psychology Review. 51: 30–47. doi:10.1016/J.CPR.2016.10.005. ISSN 0272-7358. PMID 27821267. Wikidata Q28075710.
- Alison L Calear; Helen Christensen (31 July 2009). "Systematic review of school-based prevention and early intervention programs for depression". Journal of Adolescence. 33 (3): 429–438. doi:10.1016/J.ADOLESCENCE.2009.07.004. ISSN 0140-1971. PMID 19647310. Wikidata Q33489185.
References edit
- ^ Calear, Alison L (2009). The YouthMood Project: an evaluation of the MoodGYM program with an adolescent school-based population (Thesis). OCLC 515793404.
- ^ Neil, Alison L; Christensen, Helen (March 2007). "Australian school‐based prevention and early intervention programs for anxiety and depression: a systematic review". Medical Journal of Australia. 186 (6): 305–308. doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb00906.x. ISSN 0025-729X. PMID 17371212. S2CID 18580357.
- ^ Director (Research Services Division). "Professor Alison Calear". researchers.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Alison Calear". Black Dog Institute. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ Lievre, Kimberley Le (2017-06-16). "ANU rolls out Sources of Strength suicide prevention program to Canberra schools". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ Calear, Alison L.; Morse, Alyssa R.; Batterham, Philip J.; Forbes, Owen; Banfield, Michelle (April 2021). "Silence is Deadly: A controlled trial of a public health intervention to promote help‐seeking in adolescent males". Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 51 (2): 274–288. doi:10.1111/sltb.12703. ISSN 0363-0234. PMID 33876483. S2CID 233310129.
- ^ "Associate Professor Alison Calear, BAppPsych (Hons), PhD". Life in Mind Australia. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ a b "Dr Alison Calear". AIPS. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Expert - Alison Calear | Australian Academy of Science". www.science.org.au. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ "Home-schooling parents experienced psychological distress". www.myscience.org. 2022-01-28. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
- ^ Dawel, Amy; Shou, Yiyun; Smithson, Michael; Cherbuin, Nicolas; Banfield, Michelle; Calear, Alison L.; Farrer, Louise M.; Gray, Darren; Gulliver, Amelia; Housen, Tambri; McCallum, Sonia M.; Morse, Alyssa R.; Murray, Kristen; Newman, Eryn; Rodney Harris, Rachael M. (2020). "The Effect of COVID-19 on Mental Health and Wellbeing in a Representative Sample of Australian Adults". Frontiers in Psychiatry. 11: 579985. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2020.579985. ISSN 1664-0640. PMC 7573356. PMID 33132940.