Personal details
- Name
- Professor Robert Schweitzer
- Position(s)
- Professor
Faculty of Health,
School - Psychology and Counselling - IHBI Membership
Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI),
IHBI Health Projects,
IHBI Psych and Counc - HDHS - Discipline *
- Psychology
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 4617
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 0486
- r.schweitzer@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
-
Doctor of Philosophy (Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa), MA (Clin Psy)
- Professional memberships
and associations Society for Psychotherapy Research
Australian Clinical Psychology Association
Australian Psychological Society- Keywords
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Child abuse - reporting behaviour, Counselling and psychotherapy process, Psychotherapy outcome, Refugees, Suicide ideation & behaviour
* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Biography
Research interests
- Phenomenological, qualitative and quantitative, clinical psychology
- Psychotherapy process and outcome
- Refugee related issues
- Transcultural issues
- Schizophrenia – psychotherapeutic approaches
- Phenomenological psychology.
This information has been contributed by Professor Robert Schweitzer.
Teaching
Robert’s focus is on postgraduate teaching with responsibilities relating to clinical psychopathology, clinical interventions, psychodynamic theory, and psychotherapy process.
This information has been contributed by Professor Robert Schweitzer.
Publications
- Wong W, Schweitzer R, Khawaja N, (2018) Individual, pre-migration, and post-settlement factors in predicting academic success of adolescents from refugee backgrounds: A 12-month follow-up, Journal of International Migration and Integration p1095-1117
- Lysaker P, Gagen E, Moritz S, Schweitzer R, (2018) Metacognitive approaches to the treatment of psychosis: a comparison of four approaches, Psychology Research and Behavior Management p341-351
- Schweitzer R, Vromans L, Brough M, Asic-Kobe M, Correa-Velez I, Murray K, Lenette C, (2018) Recently resettled refugee women-at-risk in Australia evidence high levels of psychiatric symptoms: individual, trauma and post-migration factors predict outcomes, BMC Medicine p1-12
- Schweitzer R, Greben M, Bargenquast R, (2017) Long-term outcomes of Metacognitive Narrative Psychotherapy for people diagnosed with schizophrenia, Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice p668-685
- Banham J, Schweitzer R, (2016) Trainee-therapists are not all equal: Examination of therapeutic efficiency, effectiveness and early client dropout after 12 months of clinical training, Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice p148-162
- Schweitzer R, Van Wyk S, Murray K, (2015) Therapeutic practice with refugee clients: A qualitative study of therapist experience, Counselling and Psychotherapy Research p109-118
- Van Wyk S, Schweitzer R, (2014) A systematic review of naturalistic interventions in refugee populations, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health p968-977
- Bargenquast R, Schweitzer R, (2014) Metacognitive Narrative Psychotherapy for people diagnosed with schizophrenia: An outline of a principle-based treatment manual, Psychosis p155-165
- Schweitzer R, Brough M, Vromans L, Asic-Kobe M, (2011) Mental health of newly arrived Burmese refugees in Australia: Contributions of pre-migration and post-migration experience, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry p299-307
- Schweitzer R, Melville F, Steel Z, Lacheres P, (2006) Trauma, Post-Migration Living Difficulties, and Social Support as Predictors of Psychological Adjustment in Resettled Sudanese Refugees, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry p179-187
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- Developing Best Practice for Settlement Services for Refugee Women-at-Risk
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP140100609
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
- Refugee Women; Health And Wellbeing; Settlement
- Title
- Whole-Of-Family Treatment of Trauma in African Refugees: An Individual, Family and Community Approach
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP0776558
- Start year
- 2007
- Keywords
- Refugees; Bilingual; Health Psychology; Bicultural Therapy Model; Human Services; Transcultural Health
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Mechanisms of Change of Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Naturalistic Case Study of Significant Events
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Adjunct Professor Robert King - Bipolar Mood Disorders: The Relationship between Metacognitive Capacities, Associated Correlates, and Functional Status
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Kate Murray - Therapists Working With Trauma Exposed Clients: Identifying and Understanding Expressions of Vicarious Trauma
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Ronald Frey, Professor Jane Shakespeare-Finch - Reparative and Therapeutic Functions of Musical Narratives in Therapy with Adolescents from Refugee Backgrounds
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Michael Whelan
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Development of Guided Respiration Mindfulness Therapy: Manualization and Evaluation of Therapist Training and Clinical Outcomes in the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety (2017)
- The relationship between therapist outcome, therapist language and reflexivity amongst clients experiencing Major Depressive Disorder (2016)
- Therapist Reflective Functioning, Therapist Attachment and Therapist Effectiveness (2013)
- Desire in the winters pale: a hermeneutic interpretation of the experience of sexual desire in older age (2011)
- Parent and child experiences of childhood cancer: An interpretative phenomenological analysis approach (2009)
- Process and Outcome of Narrative Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder in Adults: Narrative Reflexivity, Working Alliance and Improved Symptom and Inter-personal Outcomes (2008)