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| Grant J DevillySummaryAffiliation: University of Melbourne Country: Australia Publications
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Treating adults with acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder in general practice: a clinical updateDavid Forbes
Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Med J Aust 187:120-3. 2007..Monoamine oxidase inhibitors may be considered by mental health specialists for use in people with treatment-resistant symptoms...- [The role of psychological debriefing in the treatment of victims of trauma]Grant J Devilly
Centro de Neuropsicologia Universidade Swinburne Austrália
Rev Bras Psiquiatr 25:41-5. 2003..A generic set of guidelines for intervention following trauma is provided... - The investigation of exposure and cognitive therapy: comment on Tarrier et al (1999)G J Devilly
Department of Criminology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
J Consult Clin Psychol 69:114-6. 2001..Equally, in light of N. Tarrier et al.'s low effect sizes in relation to past research the authors also highlight the need to utilize accountable treatment integrity checks... - The psychological effects of a lifestyle management course on war veterans and their spousesGrant J Devilly
Department of Criminology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
J Clin Psychol 58:1119-34. 2002.... - Implicit cognitive distortions and sexual offendingStephen Mihailides
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Sex Abuse 16:333-50. 2004..Child sexual offenders also had a larger IAT effect than male and female nonoffenders for the "sexual entitlement-bias" implicit theory. Implications for the semantic-motivation hypothesis are discussed... - The content of sexual fantasies for sexual offendersDion G Gee
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sex Abuse 16:315-31. 2004..The strengths of the SFCM are discussed and its clinical implications are reviewed... - Dissociative tendencies and memory performance on directed-forgetting tasksGrant J Devilly
Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Psychol Sci 18:212-7; discussion 218-21. 2007..In effect, we found little evidence to support betrayal trauma theory, yet observed increased memory fallibility, as demonstrated by lower general recall and (in one study) commission errors, in high dissociators... - Post-trauma debriefing: the road too frequently travelledRichard Gist
Kansas City, Missouri Fire Department, and University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, M0 64106, USA
Lancet 360:741-2. 2002 - Australian guidelines for the treatment of adults with acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorderDavid Forbes
Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, West Heidelberg, Vic, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 41:637-48. 2007..Structured interventions such as psychological debriefing, with a focus on recounting the traumatic event and ventilation of feelings, should not be offered on a routine basis... - A randomised controlled trial of group debriefingGrant J Devilly
Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, Australia
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 39:42-56. 2008..Those who were debriefed later recalled having wanted to talk more to someone about the video than those who were not debriefed. It is suggested that cognitive dissonance may explain this result... - Power Therapies and possible threats to the science of psychology and psychiatryGrant J Devilly
Centre for Neuropsychology, Swinburne University, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 39:437-45. 2005..These therapies are then put to the test for pseudoscientific practice... - Alters in dissociative identity disorder. Metaphors or genuine entities?Harald Merckelbach
Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Law, University of Maastricht, P O Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Clin Psychol Rev 22:481-97. 2002..As a matter of fact, results of these studies are open to multiple interpretations and in no way refute an interpretation of alters in terms of metaphors for different emotional states... - An approach to psychotherapy toleration: the Distress/Endorsement Validation Scale (DEVS) for clinical outcome studiesGrant J Devilly
Centre for Neuropsychology, Swinburne University, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, Australia
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 35:319-36. 2004..Suggestions for future research are presented and the full questionnaire is attached as an appendix... - The effect of stressor severity on outcome following group debriefingGrant J Devilly
Clinical and Forensic Research Unit, Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University, Hawthorn, Vic, Australia
Behav Res Ther 46:130-6. 2008..This was particularly the case for those who received debriefing -- adding further caution to the longer-term effects of systematised group interventions following harrowing events...