Professor Helen Winefield

Room 506, Hughes Building Phone +61 (08) 8303 3172 Fax +61 (08) 8303 3770 helen.winefield@adelaide.edu.au Personal Page

Program Coordinator Master of Psychology (Health)

Area of Research

Health, Disability and Lifespan Development

Senior Appointments and Memberships

Registered Psychologist in South Australia.

Director, Health, Disability and Lifespan Development Research Group

Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society.

Member of the APS Colleges of Clinical, Health, and Organisational Psychologists.

Chair of the SA Branch of the APS 2003-2006.

APS national Program Development and Accreditation Advisory Group.

Psychology Research Interests

Psychosocial support for cancer patients including via the internet and through support groups.

Family care-giving in chronic illness & disability (pain, schizophrenia, cystic fibrosis, ageing).

Work stress in human service professionals and its management and prevention, emotional work, measurement of quality of work performance, multi-disciplinary collaboration in health care.

Psychological development in youth and adulthood, including unemployment, parenting skills, work-home balance.

Psychological treatments for high prevalence disorders such as anxiety & depression in general practice settings; integrated primary mental health care services.

Recent Key Publications

Winefield, H.R. (2006) Support provision and emotional work in an internet support group for cancer patients. Patient Education and Counseling , 62, 193-197.

Winefield, H.R. (2004) Developing and evaluating training and teaching. In S. Michie and C. Abraham (Eds.) Health Psychology in Practice. London: Blackwell. Pp. 317-336.

Winefield, H. (2003) Work stress and its effects in general practitioners. In Dollard, M., Winefield, A.H. and Winefield, H.R. (Eds) Occupational stress in the service professions. London: Taylor & Francis (pp. 187-207).

Winefield, H.R. and Chur-Hansen, A. (2003) Working with a Multidisciplinary Staff. In L. M. Cohen, D. McChargue, & F. Collins (Eds) The Health Psychology Handbook: Practical Issues for the Behavioral Medicine Specialist. Thousand Oaks, Sage. (pp. 28-41).

Winefield, HR, Coventry, B.J. and Lambert, V. (2004). Setting up a health education website: Practical advice for health professionals. Patient Education and Counseling, 53, 175-182.