Dr David Hawes

Position: Lecturer

Office: 158, Transient Building
Ph: +61 2 9351 4068
Fax: +61 2 9351 2984
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Postal Address:
Clinical Psychology Unit (F12)

School of Psychology

University of Sydney

NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA

Teaching & Clinical Supervision

Doctorate of Clinical Psychology Program

PSYC6049 Child Psychological Disorders

PSYC6013 Clinical Internship 3 (Child & family therapy)

Honours program

Child Clinical Psychology (Special Fields Seminar)

RESEARCH & CLINICAL INTERESTS

As a clinical psychologist and researcher, much of my work revolves around disorders of childhood and family-based interventions. My research focuses on the developmental psychopathology of antisocial behaviour, and innovations in treatment approaches. I am interested in how parenting practices and child temperament interact, and how evidence of such processes can be used to inform the treatment and prevention of behavioural problems.

Child psychopathology & conduct problems

Parenting practices & behavioural parent training

Childhood psychopathy (callous-unemotional traits)

The neurobiology of antisocial behaviour

PUBLICATIONS

2007

Dadds, M. R., Hunter, K., Hawes, D. J., Frost, A. J., Vassallo, S., Bunn, P., Merz., & El

Masry, Y. (in press). A Measure of Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Children Using Parent Ratings. Child Psychiatry and Human Development.

Hawes, D. J. & Dadds, M. R. (2007). Stability and malleability of callous-unemotional

traits during treatment for childhood conduct problems. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 35(3), 347-355.

Hawes, D. J. (2007). In Defence of child’s play [Review of the book Play = Learning: How Play Movitates and Enhances Children’s Cogntiive and Social-Emotional Growth]. PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52 (19).

2006

Hawes, D. J., & Dadds, M. R. (2006). Assessing parenting practices through parent-report and direct observation during parent-training. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 15(5), 555-568.

Hawes, D. J. (2006). What children need and what school practitioners need to know [Review of the book Children’s Needs III: Development, Prevention, and Intervention]. PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 51 (37), Article 2.

Dadds, M. R., Perry, Y., Hawes, D. J., Merz, S., Riddell, A., Haines, D., Solak, E., & Abey, A. (2006). Look at the eyes! Overcoming impaired fear recognition in boys with psychopathic traits. British Journal of Psychiatry, 189, 3, 280-281.

Dadds, M. R., Whiting, C., & Hawes, D. J. (2006). Childhood cruelty to animals: differential associations with conduct problems-family conflict and child callous-unemotional Traits. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 21, 3, 411-429.

Dadds, M. R., & Hawes, D. J. (2006). Integrated family intervention for child conduct problems. Brisbane, Queensland: Australian Academic Press.

2005

Hawes, D. J., & Dadds, M. R. (2005). The treatment of conduct problems in children with callous-unemotional traits. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73(4), 737-741.

Hawes, D. J., & Dadds, M.R., (2005). Oppositional and conduct problems. In J. Hudson & R. Rapee (Eds.), Current thinking on psychopathology and the family (pp.73-91). New York: Elsevier.

Dadds, M. R., Fraser, J., Frost, A., & Hawes, D. (2005). Disentangling the underlying dimensions of psychopathy and conduct problems in childhood: A community study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73, 400-410.

2004

Hawes, D. J., & Dadds, M. R. (2004). Australian data and psychometric properties of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 38, 644-651.

Dadds, M. R., Hawes, D., Schaefer, B., & Vaka, K. (2004). Individual differences in imagery and reports of aversions. Memory, 12, 462-466.

GRANTS

2007

Dadds, MR., Hawes, DJ., Brennan, J., Falcov, A., Heriot, S., Sprague, T. & Urwin, R. (2007). Improving Identification and Treatment of Early-Onset Behaviour Disorders in Children. National Health and Medical Research Council. Project grant (‘A Healthy Start to Life for All Australians Strategic Award’). $472,043 (455372)

2006

Dadds, MR., Hawes, DJ., Brennan, J., Hay, D., & Urwin, R. (2006). Relating genetic, biological, and behavioural markers of early vulnerability in conduct problem children. National Health and Medical Research Council. Project grant. $421,875 (455439)

Hawes, DJ. (2006) Early career researcher scholarship for international travel. Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth. $2000

Dadds, MR., & Hawes, DJ. (2006). Emotion processing deficits in childhood: Risk for psychopathology and indications for clinical intervention. Australian Research Council. Linkage grant. $300,000

2005

Hawes, DJ. (2005) Royce Abbey postdoctoral fellowship for research in mental health. Australian Rotary Health Research Fund. $65,000

CONFERENCES

2007

Salmon, K., Wareham, P., Dadds, MR., Allen, J., & Hawes, DJ. (2007) Training parents of young children in emotion-rich discussion of shared past experiences: Implications for clinical interventions. British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference, London, UK, December 13.

Hawes, DJ., & Dadds, MR. (2007). Parent training and callous-unemotional traits: How does one affect the other in the treatment of young oppositional boys? 5th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy (WCBCT), Barcelona, Spain.

Allen, JL., Salmon, K., Dadds, MR., & Hawes, DJ. (2007) .Training parents of oppositional children in emotion talk about shared past events: Evaluation of an innovative language-based early intervention as an adjunct to parent training. 5th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy (WCBCT), Barcelona, Spain.

Merz, S., Dadds, MR., & Hawes, DJ. (2007) . Developmental changes in emotion recognition ability of children and adolescents low in empathy. 5th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy (WCBCT), Barcelona, Spain.

Dadds, MR., Perry, Y., Hawes, DJ., Merz, S., Salmon, K., & Leist, T. (2007). Look at the eyes! Attentional problems in how children read emotions are related to psychopathology. 5th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy (WCBCT), Barcelona, Spain.

Allen, J. L., Salmon, K., Dadds, M. R., & Hawes, D. J. (2007). (Poster) Training parents of oppositional children in emotion talk about shared past events. International Research Meeting: Temperament and Developmental Pathways to Psychopathology, Leuven, Belgium, June 2007.

2006

Hawes, DJ., & Dadds, MR. (2006). Stability and malleability of callous-unemotional traits during treatment for childhood conduct problems (Poster). 36^th European Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Therapy Congress (EABCT), Paris, France.

Brennan, J., Dadds, MR., Hawes, DJ. (2006). Can interventions to remedy Deviations in the Development of Social-Emotional Understanding in Childhood be an effective early intervention strategy? 11th NSW Rural Mental Health Conference, Orange, 29 November.

Hawes, DJ. (2006). Invited research presentation: The Role of developmental factors in conduct problem intervention: Future directions. Dept. Education (Pedagogical Sciences), University of Amsterdam, June 19.

2005

Hawes, DJ., & Dadds., MR. (2005). The treatment of conduct problems in children with callous-unemotional traits (Poster). 12^th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, New York, USA.

2003

Dadds, MR., & Hawes., DJ. (2003) Symposium: Pathways into and out of extreme antisocial behaviour in children. 11^th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Sydney, Australia.

2002

Hawes, DJ., & Dadds., MR. (2002). Symposium: Parent training interventions for families of conduct problem children with and without early psychopathic traits. 32nd European Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Therapy Congress (EABCT), Maastricht, Netherlands.

Hawes, DJ., Dadds., MR., & Fraser, J. (2002). Symposium: Parent training interventions for families of conduct problem children with and without early psychopathic traits. Third International Conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Brisbane, Australia.