Don Jefferys
Role and profile
Professor Don Jefferys is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychology and works privately at The Melbourne Clinic where he brings an eclectic approach to treatment utilizing his background in Neuroscience.Within the department, he has been involved in the supervision of graduate students in their research projects using his experience as a clinician and researcher. His clinical focus is a spectrum of psychiatric and non-psychiatric disorders their diagnosis, treatment and managing the impact they have on quality of life. Teaching responsibilities
Participation in the supervision of 4th Year Graduate Diploma of Psychology Course.Lecturing on Anxiety Disorders, Mood and Spectrum Disorders. Research interests
The Anxiety Disorders across the life span, specifically their neurobiology, treatment and long-term outcome.The Mood Disorders with emphasis upon their neurobiology, treatment and long-term outcome. The Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders Trichotillomania, Body Dysmorphic Disorder - their neurobiology and treatment. Memory and its neurobiology The hormonal regulation of the stress responses and its contribution to psychiatric diagnoses The Aging Brain Awards and prizes
Order of Australia (AM) 1999Best oral and poster presentation.1st Meeting of European Endocrine Society, Copenhagen 1987 Certificate of Chief Commissioner of Police Victoria Highly Commended 1984 Memberships
AustralianAustralia Psychological Society (MAPS) Australian Psychological Society College of Clinical Psychologists Australian Psychological Society Affiliate, College of Health Psychology Victorian Psychological Society Australian College of Educators - Life Membership (MACE) Australian Neuroscience Society Anxiety Recovery Centre Victoria Endocrine Society of Australia Anxiety Disorders Association of Victoria The Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research Alzheimers Australia Victoria The Royal Society of Victoria International American Psychological Association (Affiliate) Association for Psychological Science (USA) Anxiety Disorders Association of America Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation (USA) Tourettes Association of America Society for Neuroscience (USA) The Endocrine Society (USA) New York Academy of Sciences American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress The American Physiological Society British Neuroscience Association The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine (US Service to the University, discipline or community
FebruaryPublic Lecture OCD Wellbeing Series, Reach Out Southern Mental Health Public Lecture OCD - Geelong OCD and Anxiety Support Group, Geelong Public Lecture Brain Health Jerilderie NSW March Radio Interview Triple J (ABC) Hoarding Public Lecture Brain Health Doncaster Self Help Group, Doncaster June Radio Interview Fears and Phobias Adelaide Radio September TV Channel 9 Current Affairs Hoarding TV Channel 7 Foxtel Crime shows - Hoarding Conferences
Jefferys D. Collaboration in the treatment of Mood, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and the Spectrum disorders Case studies. Clinical Controversies: Examining the Evidence. Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatry 2010Burrows GD, Jefferys D, Moore K. The Treatment of Trichotillomania with Aripiprazole. CINP World Congress. Hong Kong (June) 2010 Burrows GD, Jefferys D, Moore K. The Treatment of Trichotillomania with Aripiprazole. Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Annual Meeting. Melbourne. 2009 Jefferys D. The Anxiety Disorders. General Practitioners Meeting. Wellington New Zealand (Oct) 2009 Jefferys D. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and The Spectrum Disorders. General Practitioners Meeting. Wellington New Zealand (Oct) 2009 |
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