Dr Michael J Cavanagh
BA (Hons 1), MClinPsy, PhD
Deputy Director
Coaching Psychology Unit
Department of Psychology
University of Sydney
Australia NSW 2006
+61 (0)2 9351 6791
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Michael Cavanagh is a Coaching and Clinical Psychologist and Deputy Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit at the School of Psychology, University of Sydney. With Tony Grant, Michael has helped design the first university based degree programme in coaching psychology. An academic and a practitioner, Michael holds a BA (Hons – 1st class) in Psychology from the University of Sydney, Australia. He has completed the Masters of Clinical Psychology Programme at Macquarie University where he also completed his doctoral research exploring the impact of cognitive and behavioural patterns on health-related anxiety.
Michael’s background encompasses work in a variety of public and private enterprises, both in Australia and internationally. As an executive coach his areas of special interest include:
Communication skills
Leadership and Emotional competency
Solution focussed approaches to goal achievement and problem solving.
Coaching in complex systems
A registered psychologist, Michael has over 17 years experience in facilitating personal, group and organizational change He has designing and facilitated training and personal development workshops in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. He has coached a wide range of individuals, drawn from every level of management, and from a diverse range of organizations including:
Senior management in NSW Public Sector.
The UK National Health Service
NSW department of Health.
The Senior Leadership Team of Lion Nathan
Western Mining Corporation
The Alliance of NSW Divisions
The Australian Health Management Group
CHEP Asia Pacific
Fairfax,
News Ltd
Australian Graduate School of Management
A range of financial institutions and legal firms.
Michael’s coaching practice and teaching emphasises the use of empirically-validated techniques and draws on the cognitive-behavioural, motivational interviewing and solution-focused approaches.
His research and practice have been reported in the national media, and he has a number of publications in the academic press and has presented at international conferences. He has received a number of awards for his work in psychology, including:
The 1996 O’Neil Prize for proficiency in the theoretical thesis in Psychology Honours;
The 1995 Lithgow scholarship for 1st Place in Psychology
The Walter Reid memorial scholarship for academic excellence in 1994, 1995, and 1996
Publications
Greco, M.; Cavanagh, M.; Brownlea, A. and McGovern, J. (1998). "The Doctors' Interpersonal Skills Questionnaire (DISQ): a validated instrument for use in GP training". Education for General Practice. Vol. 10, 256-264.
Greco, Michael; Brownlea, Arthur; McGovern, Julie; Cavanagh, Michael. (2000) Consumers as educators: Implementation of patient feedback in general practice training. Health Communication. Vol 12(2), 173-193.
Cavanagh, M. & Franklin, J. (2000). The prevalence and treatment of health anxiety. Poster presented at the 30th congress of the European Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, August 2001 Granada Spain .
Cavanagh, M. & Franklin, J. (2001) A controlled clinical trial of attention training as a treatment for hypochondriasis. Conference paper to be presented at the World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Vancouver Canada July 2001,
Cavanagh, M. & Franklin, J. (2001) A controlled clinical trial of attention training as a treatment for hypochondriasis. Conference paper to be presented at the Australian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia, September, 2001
Cavanagh, M., & Franklin, J. (submitted). The Identification of Health Anxiety in Primary Care: A Pilot Study of the Health Anxiety Interview Schedule. submitted for publication.
Cavanagh, M., & Franklin, J. (submitted) The Identification of Health Anxiety in Primary Care: An Australian Sample. submitted for publication.
Cavanagh, M., & Franklin, J. (submitted) A controlled trial of Attention Training as a treatment for Hypochondriasis, submitted for publication.
Cavanagh, M. (2002), Coaching or Therapy? When Coaching Clients have Therapeutic Needs paper presented at the Inaugural Conference of the International Coaching Federation (Australia) July 2002 Sydney, Australia.
Grant, AM & Cavanagh, M. (2002) An Introduction to Coaching Psychology. Workshop presented at the Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, September 2002, Royal Pines, Queensland Australia