Alison Calear

Alison Calear (née Neil) is an Australian academic who is a Professor at the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University. She studies youth mental health and the prevention of anxiety, depression and suicide.

Alison Calear
Born
Alison Neil
Alma materAustralian National University
Scientific career
InstitutionsAustralian National University
ThesisThe YouthMood Project : an evaluation of the MoodGYM program with an adolescent school-based population (2009)

Education

Calear's doctoral research developed a program for adolescent mental health.[1] She studied the efficacy of school-based prevention programs to prevent anxiety and depression.[2]

Research and career

Calear works on youth mental health and suicide prevention.[3][4] Suicide is one of the leading causes of death for young people in Australia, and Calear has looked to understand the origins of this phenomenon. She evaluated a peer-leadership program, Sources of Strength,[5] which promotes help-seeking behaviour amongst young people. It has been delivered to peer-leaders across twenty high schools in the United States. She evaluated the program in Australia, as well as another specialist program Silence is Deadly,[6] which encourages young men and boys to discuss their feelings.

In 2011, Calear was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council fellowship.[7] She was awarded the Australian Institute of Policy and Science Tall Poppy Award in 2012, which honoured her research efforts in youth mental health.[8] She studied the role of online interventions in preventing anxiety.[8] During the COVID-19 pandemic, she investigated the impact of COVID-19 on community mental health.[9] She found that parents and caregivers who were responsible for their children's home schooling experienced high levels of psychological distress.[10][11]

Selected publications
  • Alison L. Neil; Helen Christensen (April 2009). "Efficacy and effectiveness of school-based prevention and early intervention programs for anxiety". Clinical Psychology Review. 29 (3): 208–215. doi:10.1016/J.CPR.2009.01.002. ISSN 0272-7358. PMID 19232805. Wikidata Q22252270.
  • Aliza Werner-Seidler; Yael Perry; Alison L. Calear; Jill M. Newby; Helen Christensen (February 2017). "School-based depression and anxiety prevention programs for young people: A systematic review and meta-analysis". Clinical Psychology Review. 51: 30–47. doi:10.1016/J.CPR.2016.10.005. ISSN 0272-7358. PMID 27821267. Wikidata Q28075710.
  • Alison L Calear; Helen Christensen (31 July 2009). "Systematic review of school-based prevention and early intervention programs for depression". Journal of Adolescence. 33 (3): 429–438. doi:10.1016/J.ADOLESCENCE.2009.07.004. ISSN 0140-1971. PMID 19647310. Wikidata Q33489185.

References
  1. Calear, Alison L (2009). The YouthMood Project: an evaluation of the MoodGYM program with an adolescent school-based population (Thesis). OCLC 515793404.
  2. Neil, Alison L; Christensen, Helen (March 2007). "Australian school‐based prevention and early intervention programs for anxiety and depression: a systematic review". Medical Journal of Australia. 186 (6): 305–308. doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb00906.x. ISSN 0025-729X. PMID 17371212. S2CID 18580357.
  3. Director (Research Services Division). "Professor Alison Calear". researchers.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  4. "Alison Calear". Black Dog Institute. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  5. Lievre, Kimberley Le (2017-06-16). "ANU rolls out Sources of Strength suicide prevention program to Canberra schools". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  6. Calear, Alison L.; Morse, Alyssa R.; Batterham, Philip J.; Forbes, Owen; Banfield, Michelle (April 2021). "Silence is Deadly: A controlled trial of a public health intervention to promote help‐seeking in adolescent males". Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 51 (2): 274–288. doi:10.1111/sltb.12703. ISSN 0363-0234. PMID 33876483. S2CID 233310129.
  7. "Associate Professor Alison Calear, BAppPsych (Hons), PhD". Life in Mind Australia. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  8. "Dr Alison Calear". AIPS. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  9. "Expert - Alison Calear | Australian Academy of Science". www.science.org.au. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  10. "Home-schooling parents experienced psychological distress". www.myscience.org. 2022-01-28. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  11. Dawel, Amy; Shou, Yiyun; Smithson, Michael; Cherbuin, Nicolas; Banfield, Michelle; Calear, Alison L.; Farrer, Louise M.; Gray, Darren; Gulliver, Amelia; Housen, Tambri; McCallum, Sonia M.; Morse, Alyssa R.; Murray, Kristen; Newman, Eryn; Rodney Harris, Rachael M. (2020). "The Effect of COVID-19 on Mental Health and Wellbeing in a Representative Sample of Australian Adults". Frontiers in Psychiatry. 11: 579985. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2020.579985. ISSN 1664-0640. PMC 7573356. PMID 33132940.
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