Louise Newman

Improving perinatal sleep via a scalable cognitive behavioural intervention: findings from a randomised controlled trial from pregnancy to 2 years postpartum.

Bei Bei, Donna M Pinnington, Nina Quin, Lin Shen, Michelle Blumfield, Joshua F Wiley, Sean PA Drummond, Louise K Newman, Rachel Manber

Journal article  |  2021  |  Psychol Med

BACKGROUND: Sleep disturbance is common in gestational parents during pregnancy and postpartum periods. This study evaluated the f..

Subjective experiences of participating in an attachment-based early intervention parenting program

Sophie Li-Shan Tan, Lesley Stafford, Christina Bryant, Hannah Jensen, Angela Komiti, Louise Newman

Journal article  |  2021  |  CLINICAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

This qualitative study evaluated an attachment-based group parenting program that utilises mentalisation-based approach. The Build..

Feasibility of Enhancing Parenting in Cancer, a psychoeducational intervention for communicating with children about parental cancer

Lesley Stafford, Michelle Sinclair, Paula Rauch, Jane Turner, G Bruce Mann, Louise Newman, Claire E Wakefield, Leslie Gilham, Kylie Mason, Julia Cannell, Ruth Little, Penelope Schofield

Journal article  |  2021  |  PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY

Longitudinal data estimate that 1 in 353 Australian children under 12 experience parental cancer diagnosis; and this number is inc..

Cancer during pregnancy: A qualitative study of healthcare experiences of Australian women

Lesley Stafford, Michelle Sinclair, Katrin Gerber, Leah Collins, Louise Newman, Christobel Saunders, Angela Ives, Kylie D Mason, Michelle Peate, Jocelyn Lippey, Mark P Umstad, Kerry Shanahan, Ruth Little

Journal article  |  2021  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER CARE

OBJECTIVES: To identify features enhancing the quality of healthcare experiences for women with gestational cancer, and explore th..

A psychological group intervention for high-risk pregnant women: a protocol of a feasibility and acceptability study of the STAR Mums program

Clare Bellhouse, Angela Komiti, Meredith Temple-Smith, Jade Bilardi, Louise Newman

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE AND INFANT PSYCHOLOGY

BACKGROUND: In pregnancy, the attachment relationship between a mother and her baby begins to develop and women are more motivated..

Health professionals confront the intentional harms of indefinite immigration detention: an Australian overview, evaluation of alternative responses and proposed strategy

Michael Dudley, Peter Young, Louise Newman, Fran Gale, Rohanna Stoddart

Journal article  |  2020  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIGRATION HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

Purpose: Indefinite immigration detention causes well-documented harms to mental health, and international condemnation and resist..

Thinking about parents and infants - finding a home for perinatal and infant psychiatry

Louise Newman

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALASIAN PSYCHIATRY

OBJECTIVES: To describe current issues facing the field of perinatal and infant psychiatry, the issues involved in developing serv..

Pervasive refusal syndrome in child asylum seekers on Nauru

Louise Newman, Beth O'Connor, Vernon Reynolds, George Newhouse

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALASIAN PSYCHIATRY

OBJECTIVES: Between 2013 and 2019, an estimated 200 children seeking asylum in Australia were detained on the island of Nauru. In ..

Evaluation of early relational disturbance in high-risk populations: Borderline personality disorder features, maternal mental state, and observed interaction

Vesna Newman-Morris, Katrina Simpson, Kylie M Gray, Natasha Perry, Adrian Dunlop, Louise K Newman

Journal article  |  2020  |  INFANT MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL

Despite the longstanding theoretical association in the attachment literature between maternal trauma history and disturbances in ..

Training maternal and child health nurses in early relational trauma: An evaluation of the MERTIL workforce training

Elizabeth M Clancy, Jennifer McIntosh, Anna T Booth, Jade Sheen, Matthew Johnson, Tanudja Gibson, R Nicolas Bennett, Louise Newman

Journal article  |  2020  |  NURSE EDUCATION TODAY

BACKGROUND: Parents who experience relational trauma may inadvertently create contexts of care that undermine secure beginnings to..