A/Prof Caroline Hunt PhD (University of New South Wales)

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D. (University of New South Wales), 1997
• M. Psychol. (Clinical) (Hons. Class 1) (University of New South Wales), 1987
• B.Sc. (Psychology) (Hons. Class 2.1) (University of New South Wales), 1984

Professional Qualifications

• Registered psychologist (Psychologists Registration Board of N.S.W.)
• Member, College of Clinical Psychologists (APS)

Current & Previous Appointments

Current Appointments

• Associate Professor, School of Psychology, University of Sydney
• Honorary Clinical Associate, Anxiety Disorders Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital
• Deputy President, Psychologists Registration Board of New South Wales
• Clinical Consultant, Macquarie University Anxiety Research Unit
• Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Psychiatry, UNSW

Previous Appointments

• 1992 - 1999: Lecturer, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales
• 1992 - 1999: Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Anxiety Disorders Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital
• 1994 - 1996: Membership Secretary, National Executive, APS College of Clinical Psychologists
• 1992 - 1995: NSW Institute of Psychiatry Research Scholar (part-time)
• 1992: Clinical Psychologist (part-time), Marrickville Community Health Centre, CSAHS.
• 1988 - 1992: Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety Disorders, St. Vincent's Hospital.
• 1990 - 1991: NSW Department of Health Research Scholar, Buckingham Mental Health Service, UK.
• 1990: DOIG Research Fellowship, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney.
• 1986 - 1987: Research Assistant, School of Psychiatry, UNSW.
• 1985 - 1987: Tutor (part-time), School of Psychology, UNSW.
• 1985: Research Assistant, School of Psychology, UNSW.

Teaching Experience

Postgraduate

• 1999 - present: Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney.
• 2001 - present: Director of Clinical Training: Responsible for co-ordination of the teaching programme of the Doctor of Clinical Psychology, University of Sydney.
• 1999 - 2001: Director of Clinical Training: Responsible for co-ordination of the teaching programme of the Master of Psychology, University of Sydney.
• 1992 - 1999: Lecturer, School of Psychiatry, UNSW.
• 1992 - 1999: Master of Psychological Medicine postgraduate programme: Responsible for day-to-day co-ordination of teaching programme, curriculum development, student assessment, teaching and supervision of research projects.
• 1996, 1997: Guest speaker, RACGP Training Programme
• 1992 - 1995: Lecturer, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, RANZCP Training Programme.
• 1992: Guest lecturer, Newcastle and Central Coast Psychiatry Training Programme.
• 1986-1987: Tutor, Master of Psychology Programme, School of Psychology, UNSW

Undergraduate

• 1992 - 1999: Lecturer, Undergraduate programme, School of Psychiatry, UNSW
• 1998: Guest lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Sydney
• 1997, 1998: Guest lecturer, School of Psychology, UNSW
• 1985 - 1987: Tutor (part-time), School of Psychology, UNSW

Research Interests

• Anxiety disorders across the lifespan
• School-based bullying

Research Experience

Grant Funding

• 2000 - 2004
  Hunt, Andrews & Crino. The effectiveness of an early intervention and prevention strategy for anxiety and depressive disorders. NH&MRC. $115,840.
• 2001
  Hunt & Crino. The effect of an education program on attitudes and beliefs about bullying and bullying behaviour in junior secondary students. Sydney University Sesqui New Staff Support Scheme. $15,000.
• 2003
  Hunt & Heriot. Evaluating a treatment program for childhood anxiety disorder with comorbid anger/aggression. Sydney University Sesqui Research and Development grant. $20,000.
• 2004
  Hunt, Rapee & Peters. The development of a self-report measure of school bullying. Sydney University Sesqui Near-Miss Grant. $60,000.
• 2004
  Heriot, Hunt & Dossetor. Pilot study of procedures for matching child characteristics to treatment choice with children having aggression and anxiety problems. Sesqui New Staff Support Scheme, $20,000.
• 2005
  Hunt, Rapee & Peters. The relationship between being bullied and anxiety and depressive symptoms in school children. University of Sydney Bridging Support Grant 2006. $36,300
• 2008-2010
  de Rosnay, Zadro & Hunt. Fitting in and making friends: The psycho-social underpinnings of children's adaptation to school. ARC Project grant.

Publications

Peer reviewed Journal Articles

• Andrews, G., Neilsen, M., Hunt, C., Stewart, G. & Kiloh, L. (1990) Diagnosis, personality and the long-term outcome of depression. British Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 13-18.
• Hunt, C. & Singh, M. (1991) Generalized anxiety disorder. International Review of Psychiatry, 3, 215-230
• Hunt, C. & Andrews, G. (1992) Measuring personality disorders: The use of self-report questionnaires. Journal of Personality Disorders, 6(2), 125-133.
• Hunt, C. & Andrews, G. (1992) Dropout rate as a performance indicator in psychotherapy. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 85, 275-278.
• Hunt, C. & Andrews, G. (1995) Comorbidity in the anxiety disorders: The use of a life-chart approach. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 29(6), 467-480.
• Andrews, G. & Hunt, C. (1998) Treatments that work in anxiety disorders. Medical Journal of Australia, 168, 628-634.
• Hunt, C. & Andrews, G. (1998) The long-term outcome of panic disorder and social phobia. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 12, 395-406.
• Hunt, C. (2000). The treatment of generalised anxiety disorder. Clinical Psychologist, 5, 41-48.
• Hunt, C., Shepherd, L. & Andrews, G. (2001). Do doctors know best? Comments on a failed trial. Medical Journal of Australia, 174, 144-146.
• Hunt, C., Issakidis, C, & Andrews, G. (2002) DSM-IV generalised anxiety disorder in the Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Well-Being. Psychological Medicine, 32, 649-659.
• Milton, S., Crino, R., Hunt., C. & Prosser, E. (2002). The effect of compliance-improving interventions on the cognitive-behavioural treatment of pathological gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies, 18, 207-229.
• Thompson, A.E., Hunt, C. & Issakidis, C. (2004). Why wait? Reasons for delay and prompts to seek help for mental health problems in an Australian clinical sample. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 39, 810-817.
• Hunt, C., Slade, T. & Andrews, G. (2004). Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder comorbidity in the National Survey of Mental Health and Well-Being. Depression and Anxiety, 20, 23-31.
• Nguy, L. & Hunt., (2004) C. Ethnicity and bullying: A study of Australian high school students. Educational and Child Psychology., 21, 78-94.
• Rooney, K., Hunt, C., Humphreys, L., Harding, D., Mullen, M. & Kearney, J. (2005). A test of the assumptions of the transtheoretical model in a post-traumatic stress disorder population. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 12, 97-111.
• Sawrika, P & Hunt, C. (2005). The relationship between mental health, cultural identity and cultural values in Non-English speaking background (NESB) Australian adolescents. Behaviour Change, 22, 97-113.
• Hunt, C. (2007). The effect of an education program on attitudes and beliefs about bullying and bullying behaviour in junior secondary school students. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 12, 21-26.
• Rooney, K., Hunt, C., Humphreys, L., Harding, D, Mullen, M & Kearney, J. (2007). Prediction of outcome for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder using constructs from the transtheoretical model of behaviour change. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 41, 590-597.
• Levy, K., Hunt, C., & Heriot, S. (2007). Treating Comorbid Anxiety and Aggression in Children. Journal of American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 46, 1111-1118.
• Hunt, C. & Sharpe, L. (2008). Within session supervision communication in the training of Clinical Psychologists. Australian Psychologist, 43, 121-126.
• Ho, K.P, Hunt, C. & Li, S. (2008). Patterns of help seeking behavior for anxiety disorders among the Chinese speaking Australian community. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidimiology. Accepted 22nd May 2008.
• McLeod, C., Heriot, S. & Hunt, C. (2008). Changing places. Resilience in children who move. Australian Journal of Education, 52, 168-182.
• Thompson, A., Issakidis, C. & Hunt, C. (2008). Predictors of the delay to first seek treatment for anxiety and mood disorders in an Australian clinical sample. Behaviour Change, 25, 71-84.
• Hunt, C., Andrews, G., Crino, R. Erskine, A & Sakashita, C. (2008). Randomised controlled trial of an early intervention program for adolescent anxiety disorders. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. Accepted 13th November, 2008.

Invited Journal Articles

• Hunt, C. (2000) The diagnosis and nature of generalized anxiety disorder. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 13, 157-161.
• Hunt, C (2002). The current status of the diagnostic validity and treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 15, 157-162.

Authored Books

• Andrews, G., Crino, R., Hunt, C., Lampe, L. & Page, A. (1994) The Treatment of Anxiety Disorders: Clinician Guides and Patient Manuals. Cambridge University Press: New York.
• Andrews, G., Creamer, M., Crino, R., Hunt, C., Lampe, L., & Page, A. (2002) The Treatment of Anxiety Disorders (2nd Ed.) New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Andrews, G., Hunt, C., & Jarry, M. (2002). Management of Mental Disorders (Chinese Edition). Shanghai: Shanghai Science & Technology Press.
• Andrews, G, Creamer, M., Crino, R., Hunt, C., Lampe, L. & Page, A. (2003). Trattamento dei disturbi d'ansia. Guide per il clinico e Manuali per chi soffre del disturbo. Torino: Centro Scientifico Editore.
• Andrews, G, Creamer, M., Crino, R., Hunt, C., Lampe, L. & Page, A. (2003). The Treatment of Anxiety Disorders: Clinician Guides and Patient Manuals. (Japanese edition). Tokyo: Seiwa Shoten Publishers.
• Andrews, G, Hunt, C., Jarry, M., Morosini, P., Roncone, R. & Tibaldi, G. (2004). Disturbi Mentali. Competenze di base, strumenti e tecniche per tutti gli operatori. Torino: Centro Scientifico Editore.
• Andrews, G, Creamer, M., Crino, R., Hunt, C., Lampe, L. & Page, A. (2004). The Treatment of Anxiety Disorders. Clinician Guides and Patient Manuals. (Chinese Edition). Taipei: Wu-Nan Book Inc.
• Andrews, G., Creamer, M., Crino, R., Hunt, C. Lampe, L., & Page, A. (2007). Psihoterapia Tulburarilsor Anxioase. Ghid Practic Pentru Terapeuti si Pacienti. Bucharest: Editura Polirom.

Book chapters

• Hunt, C. & Jarry, M. (1997). Anxiety disorders. In Beumont, P., Andrews, G., Boyce, P., & Carr, V. (Eds) Psychological Medicine: A Companion to Management of Mental Disorders. (pp. 256-263) Sydney: World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia, 2010.
• Andrews, G. & Hunt, C. (1999) The education of general practitioners in the management of mental disorders. In Tansella, M & Thornicroft, G. (eds.), Common Mental Disorders in Primary Care. Essays in Honour of Professor Sir David Goldberg. Routledge, London, (pp. 183 - 193).
• Hunt, C. (2000) The unmet need for treatment in panic disorder and social phobia. In: Andrews, G. & Henderson, S. (Eds.) Unmet need in Psychiatry. Problems, resources, responses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pp. 277 - 289).

Published conference proceedings

• Andrews, G., Crino, R., Hunt, C., Lampe, L. & Page, A. (1999) A list of essential psychotherapies. In Lopez-Ibor J.J., Lieh-Mak F., Visotsky, H.M. & Maj, M. (Eds.), One World, One Language - Paving the Way to Better Perspective for Mental Health. Proceedings of the X World Congress of Psychiatry, Madrid, August 23-28, 1996. Hogrefe & Huber: Gottingen, pp. 240-246.
• Crino, R. & Hunt C. (2000). Teaching psychological assessment and intervention to GPs [abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 52 (Suppl. 2000), 75.

Letters

• Hunt, C . & Andrews, G. (2001). Hindsight reveals room for improvement. Medical Journal of Australia, 174, 544.

Other publications

• Andrews, G., Crino, R., Hunt, C., Lampe, L. & Page, A. (1993) The recognition and treatment of anxiety disorders: Two videos. Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety Disorders, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney.
• Quality Assurance Project. (1990) The treatment of paranoid, schizotypal and schizoid personality disorders. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 24, 339-350.
• Quality Assurance Project. (1991) The treatment of borderline, narcissistic and histrionic personality disorders. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 25, 392-403.
• Quality Assurance Project. (1991) The treatment of avoidant, dependent and passive-aggressive personality disorders. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 25, 404-411.
• Quality Assurance Project. (1991) The treatment of antisocial personality disorder. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 25, 541-547.
• Treatment Protocol Project (1997). Management of Mental Disorders. World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia, 2010.

Review of publications

• Review of Andrews, Crino, Hunt, Lampe & Page (1994) in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1997, Vol 90.
• Review of Andrews, Crino, Hunt, Lampe & Page (1994) in Psychological Medicine, 1998, Vol 90.
• Review of Hunt, Shepherd & Andrews (2001) in British Medical Journal, 2001, 322, p440.

Conference Presentations

Invited papers in an international setting:

• Hunt, C. & Andrews, G. Unmet need in anxiety disorders. World Psychiatric Association, Section of Epidemiology and Community Psychiatry, Sydney. October 1997.

Session chair in an international setting:

• Hunt, C. & Rapee, R. School-based interventions for anxiety and depression in childhood and adolescence (Symposium) World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies July 2004, Kobe Japan.

Invited papers in Australia:

• Hunt, C. The nature and treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. [Keynote address]. Anxiety Disorders Foundation of Australia: Current Directions in Treatment and Research, Sydney. March 2001.
• Hunt, C. & Andrews, G. Models of service delivery: Anxiety disorders. TheMHS Conference Summer Forum, "Who should deliver services?" Sydney. January 2002.
• Hunt, C. & Andrews, G. Learning for Life: School based interventions in mental health. TheMHS Annual Mental Health Services Conference. Sydney. August 2002.
• Hunt, C. School-based interventions. [Invited symposium]. National Conference of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists, Sydney. October, 2004.
• Hunt, C. Andrews, G., Crino, R. & Erskine, A. The effectiveness of a school-based early intervention strategy for anxiety and depressive disorders: a 2-year follow-up. National Conference of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists, Sydney. October, 2004
• Hunt, C., Peters, L., Gaston, J. & Rapee, R. Factors associated with being bullied at school in children and adolescents presenting for treatment of anxiety disorders. National Conference of the AACBT, Sydney, Australia. October 2006.
• Hunt, C, Rapee R. & Peters, L. Being bullied: A specific risk factor for the development of anxiety? Early intervention and treatment of anxiety disorders in children symposium. Australasian Anxiety Disorders Conference. Sydney, Australia, May 2008.

Peer-reviewed papers presented at international conferences:

• Hunt, C. & Birrell, P. Implications for diagnosis and intervention of memory complaints in older adults. XXIV International Congress of Psychology, Sydney. September 1988
• Hunt, C. & Andrews, G. Vulnerability factor and long-term outcome after cognitive behavioural treatment of anxiety disorders. Fourth World Congress on Behaviour Therapy, Gold Coast. July, 1992.
• Hunt, C., Andrews, G., Crino, R. & Erskine, A. The effectiveness of a school-based early intervention strategy for anxiety and depressive disorders: a 2-year follow-up. World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies July 2004, Kobe Japan.
• Hunt, C. The effect of an education program on attitudes and beliefs about bullying and bullying behaviour in junior secondary school students. XXXV Annual Congress of the EACBT, Thessaloniki, Greece. September 2005
• Bowman, A. & Hunt, C. Predictors of poor recovery following unilateral vestibular loss. XXXV Annual Congress of the EACBT, Thessaloniki, Greece. September 2005.

Peer-reviewed papers presented at conferences in Australia:

• Hunt, C & Andrews, G. Dropouts as an indication of treatment effectiveness. Australian Society for Psychiatric Research Annual Scientific Meeting, Brisbane. December 1989.
• Hunt, C. Early warning signs of relapse in the anxiety disorders. Australian Behaviour Modification Association National Conference, Sydney. July 1991.
• Hunt, C. The treatment of generalized anxiety disorder: An integrative review. Australian Society for Psychiatric Research Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney. November, 1991.
• Hunt, C. & Andrews, G. Development of a workbook for community mental health. The Mental Health Services Conference, "Status quo to go", Sydney. September 1992.
• Hunt, C. & Andrews, G. The use of a life-chart method to assess comorbidity in the anxiety disorders. Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Gold Coast. September 1993
• Hunt, C. & Andrews, G. The use of a life-chart method to assess comorbidity in the anxiety disorders. Australian Society for Psychiatric Research Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney. September, 1993
• Hunt, C. An evaluation of methods for assessing clinical significance. Australian Society for Psychiatric Research Annual Scientific Meeting, Newcastle. November 1996
• Hunt, C, & Andrews, G. Long-term outcome of drop-outs from a specialist anxiety disorders clinic. Australian Association for Cognitive & Behaviour Therapy, Adelaide. April 1998.
• Hunt, C. & Andrews, G. Teaching psychological interventions to GPs: The experience of the Master of Psychological Medicine programme. National Conference of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists, Adelaide. April, 1998.
• Hunt, C. & Andrews, G. The education of general practitioners in the management of mental disorders. National Conference, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Sydney. November 1998.
• Hunt, C. & Andrews, G. Doctors know best: A lesson from a failed trial. Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney. December 1999.
• Hunt, C. & Crino, R. Teaching psychological assessment and intervention to GPs . National Conference of the Australian Psychological Society, Canberra. September 2000.
• Hunt, C., Andrews, G., Crino, R. & Erskine, A. Early intervention of anxiety disorder: the effectiveness of a wholly school-based approach. AACBT National Conference, Brisbane. July 2002.
• Levy, K. & Hunt, C. Fright and fight: Treatment for co-morbid childhood anxiety and aggression. Anxiety Practitioners Network Conference: Improving treatment through innovation. Sydney. October 2003