Dr. Lisa Kettler

Room 514, Hughes Building Phone +61 (08) 8303 5737 Fax +61 (08) 8303 3770 lisa.kettler@adelaide.edu.au Personal Page

Area of Research

Primary Mental Health Care.

Senior Appointments and Memberships

Member of Health, Disability and Lifespan Development Group

Registered Psychologist in South Australia.

Member, Australian Psychological Society.

Member, College of Clinical Psychologists, Australian Psychological Society.

Awards

Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) and Roche Products Prize for the best presentation on Cystic Fibrosis, awarded at the TSANZ Annual Scientific Meeting, 2003.

Frank Dalziel Prize for the best PhD thesis in psychology, 2003.

Nominee for PGSA Supervisor of the Year, 2003.

Psychology Research Interests

I have broad research interests in health psychology, developmental psychology and child clinical psychology. To date, most of my research in health psychology has related to treatment management in individuals with Cystic Fibrosis although more recently I have developed an interest in childhood obesity as well as mental health issues for people with chronic illness. As a child clinical psychologist I am very interested in both the nature of child psychopathology and the examination and development of psychological interventions to treat childhood emotional, family and behavioural difficulties. Interventions of particular interest are cognitive behavioural therapies and family therapies. I am interested also in the unique challenges faced by families in which members of a child’s extended family or kinship network take primary responsibility for the care of the child. I have additional interests in childhood social functioning, such as the issue of bullying in schools andin issues of healthy development more broadly.

Recent Key Publications

Kettler, L, Sawyer, SM, Winefield, HR and Greville, HW. (2002) Determinants of adherence in adults with cystic fibrosis.Thorax, 57: 459—464.

Invited Conference Presentations

Kettler, L. (2005) Choices for self-care – how adults with CF juggle the load. Paper presented in both a health professional’s and a lay-person’s stream of the 6 th Australian and New Zealand Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Adelaide, August 2005.

Kettler, L, (2005) Psychological therapies and their efficacy in CF. Paper presented at the 28 th European Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Crete, Greece, June 24 th .

Kettler, L. (2003) New directions for understanding adherence among adults with Cystic Fibrosis. Paper presented at the Fifth Australian and New Zealand Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Melbourne Australia, August 2003.

Conference Abstracts

Kettler, L., Wilson, J., Sawyer, S., Winefield, H. and Greville, H. (2003) Adherence to rhDNase is much better than adherence to vitamins in adults with CF. Paper 046, presented at the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide, Australia, Respirology, 8 (Supplement) A12.