Katherine Lawrence is an Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist with the School of Psychological Sciences and the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Katherine is the Course Convenor of the PhD (Clinical Psychology) program and leads the Child, Youth, Family Clinic at the Turner Clinics that provides specialist clinical services to the community and clinical training to postgraduate psychology students.
Katherine is an experienced practitioner and clinical educator with over 16 years of experience working with children, youth and families across community, hospital, and research settings in Australia and the UK. She is a specialist in the treatment of childhood anxiety and working with parents to support the mental health and well-being of young people. Katherine has over 10 years of experience in supervising psychology trainees on placement and has provided specialist training to postgraduate psychology programs at Oxford University and the University College of London and courses run by the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre and the Improved Access to Psychological Therapies initiative. At Monash, she leads the training of intervention skills for both the clinical psychology and clinical neuropsychology postgraduate programs. Katherine has cultivated industry connections with leading hospitals and health services, and guided other clinical training programs nationally and internationally on best-practice approaches to clinical training.
Experience
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2012–2022Associate Professor & Clinical Psychologist, Monash University
Education
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2009Monash University, Doctor of Psychology (Clinical)
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2003Swinburne University, Bachelor of Psychology (Honours)
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2002Swinburne University, Bachelor of Applied Psychology (Psychology & Psychophysiology
Publications
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2022Acceptability of an enhanced transdiagnostic CBT intervention for adults with anxiety disorders who are parenting an anxious child, Clinical Psychologist
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2022Children's Perspectives of an Enhanced cognitive-behavioral treatment for child–parent dyads with anxiety disorders, Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
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2022Enhanced cognitive-behavioral treatment for anxiety disorders in children of clinically anxious parents: Two case studies, Clinical Case Studies
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2022Preliminary validation of a new competency tool for evaluating assessment skills in professional psychology trainees, Training and Education in Professional Psychology
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2021Feasibility and acceptability of an enhanced cognitive behavioural therapy programme for parent–child dyads with anxiety disorders: a mixed-methods pilot trial protocol, Pilot and Feasibility Studies
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2021Short-term outcomes of the Therapist-assisted Online Parenting Strategies intervention for parents of adolescents treated for anxiety and/or depression: A single-arm double-baseline trial, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
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2021Assessing clinical competencies using the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) in psychology training, Clinical Psychologist
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2020A tailored online intervention to improve parenting risk and protective factors for child anxiety and depression: Medium-term findings from a randomized controlled trial, Journal of Affective Disorders
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2020Parental self-efficacy for reducing the risk of adolescent depression and anxiety: Scale development and validation , Journal of Research on Adolescence
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2020The readiness of Australian health care students to encounter patients experiencing partner abuse, Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Grants and Contracts
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2015A web based parenting intervention to prevent adolescent depression and anxiety disorders: A randomised controlled trial
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Australian Rotary Health
Professional Memberships
- Australian Clinical Psychology Association
- Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy
- Melbourne, Australia
- @DrKALawrence
- Article Feed
- Joined
