Parent-Child Research Clinic

07/08/2023

Come join us at Macquarie University’s Personality and Its Disorders conference on Friday 25 August, where Prof Eva Kimonis, PhD students Silvana Kaouar and Campbell McDonogh, and former Honours student Lucy Koh will be presenting their research on callous-unemotional traits.

15/05/2023

We are proud to showcase the exceptional work of Lucy Koh at SSSP's Early Career Event. Her submission validated scores on a self-report parental warmth rating scale for understanding risk factors in the development of child conduct problems and limited prosocial emotions.

06/02/2023

Congratulations Natalie Goulter, former PhD student, for being awarded a 2023 APS Rising Star Award by the Association for Psychological Science! https://www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awards-and-honors/aps-rising-stars/news-rising-stars

Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars⭐!
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18/12/2022

Want to learn more about what callous-unemotional traits are, how early they emerge, how closely they relate to psychopathy and available treatment options?

Listen now to 'A kid can't be diagnosed as a psychopath. Why?', an ABC podcast episode by All in the Mind featuring our own clinic director, clinical psychologist and Professor Eva Kimonis.

Access the episode on your preferred podcast app, or online at this link:

As a toddler, Nicole's son was extremely aggressive. As he got older, his behaviour worsened. In our final episode of the year, we examine 'callous unemotional traits' — the early warning signs of psychopathy that emerge in childhood.

28/10/2022

The PCRC team are excited to announce a revamp of our website. You can find more information on our services as well as helpful parenting tip sheets, podcasts and more.

www.conductproblems.com

26/10/2022

Well done Dr Kristy Donnelly (Clinical Masters Candidate, Provisional Psychologist) for an excellent presentation and Dr Georgie Fleming (Lecturer, Clinical Psychologist) for her keynote address at the UNSW Forensic and Clinical Psychology Conference 2022.

26/10/2022

Congratulations to our Honours students, Lucy Koh and Antonia Boulton, for presenting your outstanding honours theses at the UNSW Honours Conference 2022.

Lucy Koh presented her results on the “Development and Validation of a Self-Report Parental Warmth Rating Scale”, and Antonia Boulton on “Disrupting Disruptive Behaviours: Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of Internet-delivered Positive Classroom Management Training (iPCMT) with NSW Primary School Teachers”.

23/08/2022

Congratulations UNSW PCRC team!

Ground-breaking Enhanced Parent-Child Interaction Therapy gives treatment hope for children with callous-unemotional traits with long-term, sustained improvements.

“This is the first trial that takes this group of kids and says, ‘we can make things better for them and keep them off that pathway down the track’.”

It’s the first clinic of its kind: purpose-built on primary school grounds to deliver a new therapy for children who display “callous unemotional traits”, a set of characteristics that can be an early warning sign for psychopathy.