Melanie Bertino
Role and profile
Melanie is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Youth Mental Health in the School of Psychology, and a practising Health Psychologist. She currently co-supervises Honours and higher degree students.
Research interests
Adolescent mental healthYouth Depression Chronic Pain & Chronic Illness Media Violence Memberships
Member, Australian Psychological Society Member, APS College of Health Psychologists Registered Member, Psychology Board of Australia Member, International Association for the Study of Pain Service to the University, discipline or community
Melanie has previously worked in sessional teaching roles at Deakin University, and completed her doctoral thesis at Deakin in 2008. Clinically she works primarily in a rehabilitation setting with motor vehicle accident and workplace injured clients. She has also done training in youth mental health treatments and clinical work with adolescents and families as part of her role on the Deakin Family Options research team, between 2009 and 2012. Melanie’s recent research has focused on developing and researching new treatment models for child and adolescent mental health problems, and evaluating adult chronic pain management treatment programs.
Conferences
Danaher , Lewis, Toumbourou, Ricciardelli, Knight, & Bertino (December, 2010). Prevention and Early Intervention Work with Australian Families. Winter School on Evidence-based Parenting and Family Skills Programs, Bangkok, Thailand.Bertino, Lewis, Toumbourou, Ricciardelli & Knight (July, 2010). Family therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy for youth with depression, anxiety and substance disorders. 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology Symposium, Melbourne Convention Centre, Australia. Connell, Lewis, & Bertino. (2011) Parental personality disorder and child psychopathology. XIIth International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders Congress, Melbourne, Australia. |
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9th November 2012