
Donnah Anderson- PhD (psychology); BA Hons (psychology); Dip Prof Couns.
- Senior Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, Port Macquarie, Australia
Donnah Anderson
- PhD (psychology); BA Hons (psychology); Dip Prof Couns.
- Senior Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, Port Macquarie, Australia
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Introduction
Current institution
Charles Sturt University, Port Macquarie, Australia
Current position
- Senior Lecturer
Additional affiliations
December 2012 - February 2016
December 2012 - present
Publications
Publications (29)
Abstract
This research tested and extended a laboratory-derived model of the origins of attitude
certainty using a real attitude object: Teaching children with attention-deficit/
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In Study 1, an experiment manipulated the
amount of information, thought, and consistency of information delivered to pre-service
teachers (...
Objective
To evaluate the effectiveness of Royal Far West allied health telehealth services to support the health and well‐being of children affected by the bushfires.
Setting
In response to the 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires, Royal Far West (RFW) implemented the Community Recovery Services (CRS) targeting the health and well‐being of affected c...
Therapeutic residential care (TRC) is a mode of delivering out‐of‐home care (OOHC) that can help meet the needs of some of Australia's most vulnerable young people and their families. TRC programmes aim to support young people to develop positive relationship experiences in a safe and stable environment. Given that TRC is a relatively new model of...
Childhood trauma can result in developmental and psychosocial problems leaving teachers struggling to manage the effects of students’ trauma and potentially leading to increased burnout. The present study investigated whether teachers’ attitudes towards teaching trauma-affected students and prior experience with trauma predicted teacher burnout. Fi...
Many mental illnesses have onset during adolescence, and if untreated may have long-term negative outcomes. Parents and school counsellors can assist adolescents by monitoring for mental illness and facilitating appropriate support. The present study investigated parents’ mental health literacy (MHL), preferred views of school counsellor roles, and...
Although ‘child safety’ is now a national policy priority in Australia, there is little research exploring the practices in schools that contribute to children and young people’s felt sense of safety and wellbeing. Drawing on a mixed-method Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery project, this article presents findings from interviews with scho...
Children’s right to participate, at least in rhetoric, is well recognised, but what this means and the associated benefits in schools are less clear. This article synthesises findings of a large mixed-methods Australian study comprising policy analysis, qualitative interviews with students, teachers and policymakers, and the development of a Studen...
Recent years have seen increased attention paid to both student participation and wellbeing at school. Little research to date has investigated the extent to which participation is associated with wellbeing, let alone which specific elements of participation may predict wellbeing. This paper reports the quantitative phase of a mixed-methods study i...
Child safety is now a national policy priority in Australia. Extensive enquiries and reviews have escalated legislative and policy responses focused on developing, maintaining and monitoring “child safe” organisations. The recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse point to the importance of cultural...
Keeping children safe from harm is a national policy priority in Australia. Extensive inquiries and reviews have highlighted institutions' persistent failures to respond ethically and appropriately to child abuse and its life‐long impacts on survivors. Policy efforts now reflect considerable emphasis on safeguarding children, including through the...
In the past few years there has been a growing interest in student participation at school, and in whether participation is connected with student wellbeing or with academic success. One problem when studying student participation is that it seems to mean different things to different people. For some people it is just about students attending scho...
Much has now been written on student participation at school. Yet a lack of conceptual clarity, contestation over purpose and benefits, and uncertainty about how to culturally embed and effectively facilitate participation in school contexts continue to pose considerable challenges. This article reports the qualitative findings from a large‐scale,...
Introduction:
The Personal Helpers and Mentors (PHaMs) service is a non-clinical, community-based Australian Government initiative aimed at increasing opportunities for recovery for people whose lives are severely affected by mental illness. Using a strengths-based recovery model, PHaMs caseworkers support and mentor people 'at risk of falling thr...
Drawing on attitude theories from social psychology, we conducted a
survey of Australian pre-service (n = 327) and in-service (n = 127) teachers’
attitudes about teaching children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD). This paper reports a content analysis of beliefs, affect and
behaviours towards teaching children with ADHD and quan...
In Australia and internationally, the well-being of children and young people is a core focus of social policy, with a growing imperative to locate well-being within the sphere of education. However, the term ‘well-being’ remains ambiguous and the implementation of educational approaches to promote and improve it appears fragmented and ad hoc. In A...
Contemporary approaches to managing student behaviour in schools increasingly seek to identify and support underlying social, emotional and learning issues. Inherent in this shift is acknowledgement of the inextricable links between behaviour and wellbeing. Arguably, the most effective approaches to behaviour management reflect key determinants of...
The wellbeing of children and young people remains a concern internationally and an increasing focus of policy, programmes, and teacher professional development in schools. Supporting wellbeing is now central to the realisation of children’s rights, evidenced by an expanding literature linking children’s participation and their wellbeing. As promis...
Research Findings: Emotional and social competence are critical to a child’s current and future well-being. A. D. Paterson et al. (2012) studied a sample of mothers and proposed that an adult’s approach to the socialization of a child’s emotions can be summarized in his or her parenting style as measured by the Emotion-Related Parenting Styles (ERP...
Objective
To describe impacts and outcomes associated with the Personal Helpers and Mentor's (PHaMs) service in a rural Australian town.DesignA descriptive analysis of longitudinal data, uncontrolled pre-test and post-test caseworker ratings, and retrospective pre-test/post-test self-ratings and feedback comments were collected from convenience sam...
You can access this report and others from the project here: https://www.scu.edu.au/centre-for-children-and-young-people/our-research/improving-approaches-to-wellbeing-in-schools/
Recent years have witnessed increasing consensus about the importance of children
and young people's participation in relevant and appropriate research activities, and
a corresponding growth in the involvement of children in research. However, there
has been little clarity, guidance or universal agreement amongst researchers (and other
key stakehol...
Knowledge of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and attitudes toward teaching children with ADHD are compared across stages of Australian teachers' careers. Relative to pre-service teachers with (n = 218) and without (n = 109) teaching experience, in-service teachers (n = 127) show more overall knowledge of ADHD, more knowledge of char...
The aim of the study was to examine the link between the nature of attributions made by partners about behaviours modulated by hearing loss, and overall relationship satisfaction. Forty-three hearing-impaired males and 23 hearing-impaired females together with their partners, each rated the hearing-impaired person's hearing ability, their own relat...
The aim of the study was to examine the link between the nature of attributions made by partners about behaviours modulated by hearing loss, and overall relationship satisfaction. Forty-three hearing-impaired males and 23 hearing-impaired females together with their partners, each rated the hearing-impaired person's hearing ability, their own relat...