About Us

 
 

Professor Sarah Egan- Principal Investigator

 

enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Sarah conducts research into online cognitive behavioural interventions co-designed with young people to improve mental health through a focus on processes including grief and perfectionism and has worked as a Clinical Psychologist for over 25 years.

Profile: Sarah Egan, Researcher | enAble Institute - Curtin University | OvercomingPerfectionism

 

Christopher Hall- Co-Investigator

 

Chief Executive Officer, Grief Australia. Christopher is an expert in grief and loss and has worked as a Psychologist in the area of grief and loss including young people for over 3 decades.

Profile: CEO Blog Home Grief Australia
 

 

Dr Hayden Wilson- Co-Investigator

 

Director of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, WA Country Health Service, Australia. Hayden is the Chief Psychiatrist for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in WA rural and remote areas and also director of a private child and adolescent mental health clinic.

Profile: (36) Hayden Wilson | LinkedIn

 

Sian Pauley-Gadd- Research Assistant

 

enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.

Profile: Sian is completing a PhD in mental health and has worked as a research assistant with Professor Myers-Franchi on co-designed research with adolescents.

PROFESSOR Lauren Breen- CO-Investigator

 

enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Lauren is an internationally recognised expert in grief and loss, including in young people and is a registered Psychologist.

Profile: Lauren Breen, Researcher | enAble Institute - Curtin University

 

Professor Bronwyn Myers-Franchi- Co-Investigator

 

enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Bronwyn conducts research into evidence-based approaches co-designed with young people and communities and has worked as a Clinical Psychologist for over 25 years.

Profile: Bronwyn Myers-Franchi | enAble Institute (curtin.edu.au)

 

Tom Callaghan- Research Assistant

 

enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.

Profile: Tom is completing the final year of a Master of Clinical Psychology degree, has worked in clinical practice in mental health, and as a research assistant with Professor Egan engaging in co-design workshops with young people and publishing research.

 

Dr Amy O’Brien- Web Designer and Research Assistant

 

enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.

Profile: Amy conducted PhD research into online co-designed cognitive behavioural intervention with adolescents, has worked as a Clinical Psychologist with young people and young adults, and published numerous papers, including on internet interventions for mental health which were co-designed with adolescents.

 

Elizabeth Bills – Research Assistant

 

enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.

Profile: Elizabeth is completing the final year of a Master of Clinical Psychology degree, has worked in clinical practice in youth mental health, and as a research assistant with Professor Egan, publishing research on mental health in adolescents.

 

International Expert Advisory Committee:

 

Youth Advisory Committee

We thank our Youth Advisory Committee of 15 young people with lived experience of grief who helped to create this website, and are co-producing the study throughout all stages, as joint researchers along with the academic team.

Nicholas Payne- lived Experience Lead COordinator

enAble Institute and School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.

Profile: Nicholas is in the final year of study in Psychology and has worked on several projects bringing lived experience expertise on grief in young people, with Professors Egan and Breen.

Shravan Raghav – Lived experience co-ordinator

Independent lived experience consultant, Chennai, India.

Profile: Shravan has a degree in Psychology and has worked for several years in youth community mental health. Shravan has also worked on projects and published research co-designed with international youth mental health lived experience experts with Professor Egan.



Professor Paul Boelen

 
 

Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Profile: Paul Boelen - Clinical PsychoPathology Lab - Utrecht University (uu.nl)

Dr Michael Duffy

School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast, UK.

Profile: Michael Duffy — Queen's University Belfast (qub.ac.uk)

 

Associate Professor Maarten Eisma

Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Profile: Maarten Eisma — the University of Groningen research portal (rug.nl)

 

Professor Jennifer Wild

Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK and Phoenix Australia, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Profile: Jennifer Wild — Department of Experimental Psychology (ox.ac.uk)

 

Dr Kirsten Smith

Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK.

Profile: Kirsten Smith — Department of Experimental Psychology (ox.ac.uk)

David Trickey

 
 

Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Honorary Lecturer, University College London, UK.

Profile: https://davidtrickey.com

Acknowledgements:

We thank our international advisory committee members for helping to create the program and also acknowledge the following publications that contributed to the evidence-based strategies in the program:

  •  Boelen, P. A., Lenferink, L. I. M., & Spuij, M. (2021). CBT for prolonged grief in children and adolescents: A randomized clinical trial. American Journal of Psychiatry, 178(4), 294-304. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20050548

  •  Duffy, M., & Wild, J. (2023). Living with a loss: a cognitive approach to prolonged grief disorder – incorporating complicated, enduring and traumatic grief. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 51, 645-658. https://doi.10.1017/S1352465822000674

  •  Eisma, M.C., Boelen, P.A., van den Bout, J., Stroebe, W., Schut, H.A.W., Lancee, J., & Stroebe, M.S. (2015). Internet-based exposure and behavioral activation for complicated grief and rumination: A randomized controlled trial. Behavior Therapy, 46, 729- 748.

  •  Lenferink, L.I.M., Eisma, M.C., Buiter, M.Y., deKeijser, J., & Boelen, P.S. (2023). Online cognitive behavioral therapy for prolonged grief after traumatic loss: a randomized waitlist-controlled trial. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 52(5), 508-522. https://doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2023.2225744

  •  Murray, H., & El-Leithy, S. (2023). Loss. In Working with Complexity in PTSD: A Cognitive Therapy Approach (pp 167-178). Oxford, UK: Routledge.

  •  Wild, J., Duffy, M., & Ehlers, A. (2023). Moving forward with the loss of a loved one: treating PTSD following traumatic bereavement with cognitive therapy. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 16, e12. https://doi.10.1017/s1754470X23000041