Psychological Medicine :: Research

The Department of Psychological Medicine has three main research streams encompassing a range of research interests and activities:

Psychiatric Disorders

This stream includes the epidemiological work of Dr Kate Scott in connection to Te Rau Hinengaro, The New Zealand Mental Health Survey, part of the WHO World Mental Health Surveys; studies on schizophrenia and sleep disorders;

Interventions

Research activity here ranges from psychopharmacological to cognitive-behavioural therapies and includes work with consumers and government agencies;

Education

The foci of these projects include undergraduate and postgraduate medical, supervision, and workforce issues.

Major current and recent research projects and some of the relevant publications are listed below.

Current Major Research Projects

• Te Rau Hinengaro: The New Zealand Mental Health Survey (NZMHS) and World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys
• Treatment Outcome Measures for New Zealand General Adult Mental Health Services
• Evaluation of the Towards Well-being Programme, a programme to monitor young people accessing Child Youth and Family Services who are at risk of suicide
• Guideline Informed Resource Utilisation Modelling Project
• The Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Study
• A Qualitative Study of the Supervision of Postgraduate Psychiatric Trainees
• Operationalising 'Theory of Mind': The Psychometrics of Mentalizing in Schizophrenia
• Implicit Sequence Learning in Schizophrenia
• Maori Adaption of an Ultra-brief Intervention for Common Mental Health Syndromes in Primary Care
• Sleep & Mental Health
• Mood and the Menstrual Cycle
• Epidemiology
• Use of Social Networking Sites by Medical Students & Young Doctors
• Mental Health: Development of a Self-Assessed Measure of Consumer Recovery Outcome
• Mental Incompacity in Forensic Patients

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