Research Interests
- Process research in family therapy
- Personal development of psychologists in training, supervision and professional practice
- Qualitative methodologies
- Family-based treatment of for anorexia nervosa
- Systemic approaches to challenging behaviour in intellectual disabilities
Current Positions
Senior Lecturer, Clinical Psychology Unit, Psychology Department, Sydney UniversityHonorary Senior Clinical Psychologist, Department of Psychological Medicine, Children’s Hospital, Westmead.
Coordinating Editor Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy
Honorary Associate, Division of Linguistics and Psychology, MacquarieUniversity
Accredited Non-RANZP Supervisor (Royal and New Zealand College of Psychiatry)
Credentialed Supervisor of Queensland Health
Credentialed Supervisor Psychology Registration Board
Private practice: Paul Rhodes Family Therapy Consultation, Training and Supervision
Chair: Intellectual Disability Collaborative Research Group
Credentialed Supervisor Psychology Registration BoardMemberships
- Association of Australian Family Therapy
- Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
- Australian Psychological Society
Professional Awards
2005 Quality Service Award, Children's Hospital at Westmead for development of the Eating Disorders Family-Based Treatment Team.2003 National Research Prize, Australasian Society for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability.
Current Research
Family TherapyComparing the Experience of Families Engaged in First and Second-Order Systemic Family Therapy Reflecting Teams Mitchell, Rhodes, Wallis & Wilson
The Effect of Family Therapy Internships on the Relational Life of the Clinical Psychology Intern Ng, Rhodes & Hunt
The Dialogical Self in Clinical Psychology Interns and Graduates: Comparing Therapy Room Experiences Burgess and Rhodes
Recovery From Chronic Anorexia Nervosa ? A Narrative Inquiry Dawson and Rhodes
Family of Origin Coaching as Supervision for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Clinicians: A Participatory Action Study Renshaw and Rhodes
The Role of Mentalization in Promoting Positive Outcomes for Children Living in Foster Care' James, Rhodes, Sng, Hunt
Family-Based Treatment of Eating Disorders
Does Hospital-Based Weight Restoration Prior to Outpatient Family Therapy Improve Outcomes for Child and Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa? A Retrospective Investigation of Current Treatment Outcomes Prior to a Proposed Randomised Control Trial.
Miskovic, Madden, Rhodes, Touyz & Rhodes,
NHMRC Research Grant, $528,000 awarded October 2006
i) Does inpatient weight restoration prior to outpatient family therapy improve outcomes in adolescent anorexia nervosa? A randomised control trial
Madden, Miskovic, Touyz, Kohn, Rhodes, Wallis and Clarke
ii) Mechanisms of Change in the Maudsley Model of family-Based Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa
Ellison, Rhodes, Baillie, Madden, Kohn, Wallis, Clarke
iii) Effects of Family-Based Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa on Familial Attachment Relationships
Wallis, Touyz, Rhodes.
Developmental Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Clinician’s Experience of Tertiary Systemic Consultation Program: A Participatory Action Study
Donnely, Rhodes, Whatson, Brearley, Hansson, Mora & Dikian
NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care Research Funding, $66,000
Publications
Rhodes, P. (2009). Beyond the Randomised Control Trial: Why We Need Process Research in Clinical Psychology. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. (manuscript submitted)
Rhodes P., Whatson L., Mora L., Hansson A., Dikian J. & Brearley K. (2009). Systemic Hypothesising for Challenging Behaviour: A Reflecting Team Approach. Manuscript submitted. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Rhodes, P. (2009) Challenging Behaviour and Change: Families, Family Therapy and the Wider System. In Dosseter, White & Whatson (Eds.). Mental health for Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disability: A Framework for Professional Practice. IP Communications: Vic
Hughes, S., Dixon, A., Hunt, C. & Rhodes, P. (2009) Siblings of Children with Anxiety: A Population at Risk ?. Manuscript Submitted. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
Rhodes, P., Sponiar, M., & Madden, S. (2009) Life threatening food avoidance in two nine year old girls: Re-thinking the Maudsley model. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry Vol. 14, No. 1, 63-70
Rhodes, P., Madden, S. & Brown, J. (2009). Parent to Parent Consultation in the Maudsley Model of Family-Based Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa: A Qualitative Study Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 35(2), 181-192.
Rhodes, P., (2009) Family therapy for anorexia nervosa: History, Current Practice and Future Directions. In Interventions for Body Image and Eating DisordersEvidence and Practice, Paxton, S & Hay, P. (Eds). IP Communications, Melbourne, Australia.
Rhodes, P., Wallis, A. Nge, C. (2008) Can You Teach Compassion? Context, 53:5, 44-55.
Rhodes, P. (2008) Amplifying Deviations in Family Interactions: Guidelines for Trainees.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 29:1, 34-39.
Rhodes, P., Madden, S., Brown, J. & Baillie A. (2008) Parent to Parent Consultation in the Maudsley Model of Family-Based Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa: A Randomised Control Trial. Journal of Family Therapy; 30: 92-104
Wallis A., Rhodes P., Kohn M. & Madden S. (2007). Five-years of family based treatment for anorexia nervosa: The Maudsley Model at the Children's Hospital at Westmead. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine & Health, 19(3), 277-83.
Guest Editor (2007), Special Research Edition, Australian and New Zealand Journal of
Family Therapy, 28: 4
Rhodes, P. (2005) Anorexia Suite. Journal of Poetry Therapy Vol.18 No.2
Rhodes, P., Gosbee, M., Madden, S. & Brown, J., (2005). Communities of Concern in the Family-Based Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa: Towards a Consensus in the Maudsley Model. European Eating Disorders Review, 13, 392-398
Dossetor, David R; Santhanam, Radhika; Rhodes, Paul; Holland, Tony J; Nunn, Ken P.(2005). Developmental Neuropsychiatry: A New Model of Psychiatry for Young People With and Without Intellectual Disability? Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Vol 10(3), 277-30
Rhodes, P., Brown, J., & Baillee, A., (2005). The Parents Versus Anorexia Scale: A brief measure of parental efficacy in the family-based treatment of anorexia. European Eating Disorders Review, 13, 399-405
Rhodes, P. & Madden, S (2005). Scientist practitioner family therapists, post-modern medical practitioners, and expert parents: Second order change at the Eating Disorders Program, Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Journal of Family Therapy, 27, 171-182 (2 Citation)
Rhodes, P. (2003) The Maudsley model of family-based treatment for anorexia nervosa: theory, practice and empirical support. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 24 (4), 191-198
Rhodes, P. (2003) Behavioural and family systemic intervention in developmental disabilities: Towards a contemporary and integrative approach. Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 28 (1), 51-64
Rhodes, P. (2002) Mainstreaming intellectual disability into the history of family therapy. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 23 (4), 211-214
Rhodes, P. (2002) Dancing with depression; Sequences and circular questions in family therapy. The Clinician, 2 (1), 51-5
Rhodes, P. (2001) Anxiety Disorders: Can they be a child’s way of protecting the
family ? The Clinician, 2 (1), 51-56
Conference Papers
Plenary: "The Dilemmas of Evidence-Based Practice in the Real World", Redbank Conference
2009, Sydney
Plenary: Family therapy process research: A new phase for the Maudsley Model ?
2009 AED International Conference on Eating Disorders, Cancun Mexico, April 2009
Invited Speaker: Can you teach compassion? Family therapy training at the Family Therapy Research Clinic, Children’s Hospital, Westmead. Australia and New Zealand Family Therapy Conference October 2008
Invited Speaker: Amplifying deviations in family therapy: Guidelines for trainees. Australia and New Zealand Family Therapy Conference2008
Life-threatening eating disorders in two nine-year old girls: Rethinking the Maudsley model. Australia and New Zealand Family Therapy Conference, 2007
Parent-to-parent consultation in the Maudsley model of family-based treatment for anorexia: A qualitative and quantitative study. The Academy of Eating Disorders International Conference on Eating Disorders, Barcelona, Spain, 2006.
Invited Speaker. Parent-to-parent consultation in family therapy for anorexia nervosa: Results of a qualitative study. Australian and New Zealand Family Therapy Conference, 2005.
The Implementation and Clinical Outcomes of Manualised Family Therapy at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Australia. The Academy of Eating Disorders International Conference on Eating Disorders, Montreal, Quebec, 2005 (Madden S., Wallis A., Rhodes P., Le T., Kohn M.)
Systemic organisational prerequisites for the implementation of the Maudsley model of family-based treatment for anorexia nervosa: the Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Australasian Academy for Eating Disorders Conference, 2005.
Family-Based Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa: Clinical Outcomes at 18 Months. Australasian Eating Disorders Academy Conference, 2004.
Scientist-Practitioner Family Therapists, Post-Modern Medical Practitioners, and Expert Parents: Second-Order Change in the Eating Disorders Program at the Children’s Hospital, Westmead. Australian and New Zealand Family Therapy Conference, 2004.
Family therapy for Eating Disorders. Redbank Family Therapy Conference 2004
The Maudsley model of family-based treatment for anorexia nervosa: Theory, practice, and empirical support. Australian and New Zealand Family Therapy Conference, 2003.
Family-based treatment of anorexia nervosa. NSW Adolescent Counsellors Conference, 2003.
Mainstreaming intellectual disability into the history of family therapy. Australian and New Zealand Family Therapy Conference, 2002.
Applying Post-Milan systemic therapy in developmental disabilities: A case series. Psychologists in Developmental Disabilities Conference, 2001.
Stories of hope and change: Family therapy through the life-span in
developmental disability. Social Workers in Developmental Disability Conference, 1999.
Family therapy in developmental disability: From the communicative to the homeostatic function of challenging behaviours. Psychologists in Developmental Disability Conference, 1998
Contextualising the treatment of self-injurious behaviour in residential group
homes: A case study. NSW Programming Conference, 1996.
A peer support model for adults with intellectual disability and significant emotional and behavioural disturbance. Australian Society for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability Conference, 1991