Daphne Hewson PhD

Daf recently retired from a position as Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Macquarie University on the PG Diploma of Applied Psychology (Psychology registration) programs and the Master of Social Health (specialist strands in Drugs and Alcohol, Child Protection, Indigenous Health, Psychology registration).   She was previously Director of the Clinical Psychology program at Macquarie University She adopts a narrative approach, specialising in supervision, grief and trauma, motivational interviewing, and drug and alcohol counselling.  

Daf designed the Board’s supervision workshops and conducted the train-the-trainer workshop early in 2006 to prepare a team of Psychologists to present the workshops during 2006 and 2007.   Over the last 20 years she has presented many supervision workshops around Australia and NZ including specialist packages for NSW Health and NZ Ministry of Education.  Her Supervision Triangle and the Supervision Structure diagrams can be downloaded from her website: www.dhewson.com.

Supervision publications:

Hewson, D. (1999) Empowerment in Supervision.  Feminism and Psychology, 9 (4) 406-409.

Conti, J., Hewson, D. and Isben, J.  (2001) Power, voice and connection.  In Alison Bartlett and Gina Mercer (eds.) Practising Postgraduate Pedagogy. Open University Press.

Hewson (2002) Supervision of Psychologists: A Supervision Triangle.  In M.McMahon & W. Patton (eds.), Supervision in the Helping Professions: A Practical Approach, Pearson Education, Sydney.

Christine Senediak

Senior Clinical Psychologist with 25 years experience working as a clinician, supervisor and educator. She currently works part time at a mental health education state-wide institution and in private practice providing specialist medico-legal reports, clinical supervision, consultation and training.  She supervises extensively in mental health and provides consultation to a number of drug and alcohol and mental health services within New South Wales.  She also has extensive experience working in cross cultural mental health with a specific interest in cross cultural mental health and systemic therapy. In previous positions within the Health Service she has worked in hospital and community health settings working in multidisciplinary teams. She is currently working towards completing her PhD in the area of clinical supervision. She has been awarded three scholarships, the most recent in 2002 being a Churchill Fellowship and has travelled overseas to undertake specialist training in family therapy and cross cultural mental health studies.  She trains extensively in clinical supervision and in 2006-2007 was an accredited trainer for the NSW Psychologist’s Registration Board Intern Clinical Supervisor training program.  She has also provided training for the ACT Psychologist’s Registration Board in 2007-2008.

Craig Gonsalvez PhD

Associate Professor Gonsalvez is Director of Clinical Training, University of Wollongong and is Chair of Course Approvals Committee for the Clinical College of the Australian Psychological Society.  He designed and coordinated the clinical supervision course for the Doctor of Psychology (Clinical) course at the University of Wollongong (2003-2008).  He has served on scientific committees at conferences on clinical supervision and has been invited to speak on clinical supervision at international conferences. He has also presented multiple workshops on clinical supervision including at APS National Conferences.  

Dr. Gonsalvez has in excess of 30 scientific publications, including papers on clinical supervision. He was recently invited to be Guest Editor to the special section on clinical supervision, Australian Psychologist.  Peer-reviewed publications in Clinical Supervision:

Gonsalvez, C. J., Oades, L., & Freestone, J.  (2002). The objectives-based approach to clinical supervision: Towards integration and empirical evaluation.  Australian Psychologist, 37 (1), 68-77.

Gonsalvez, C. & Freestone, J. (2007). Field supervisors' evaluations of clinical trainees: Are they reliable and valid? Australian Psychologist, 43 (1), 23-32.

Gonsalvez, C. J., & McLeod, H. (2008).Toward the science-informed practice of clinical supervision: The Australian Context. Australian Psychologist 43, 79-87.

Gonsalvez. C. J. (2008). Clinical supervision: Introduction to the special section.  Australian Psychologist 43, 76-78.

Chris Willcox

Chris is a senior clinical psychologist at the Centre for Psychotherapy, Head of Discipline (Psychology) Hunter New England Mental Health, conjoint senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Newcastle and a psychotherapy educator for the Hunter New England psychiatry training program.

His primary clinical focus is the provision of psychotherapeutic interventions for people with personality disorders, in particular, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder.

He has an ongoing interest in the provision of supervision and consultation both at a registration supervision level and to those working with complex mental health presentations.

As a university conjoint, he provides research supervision and has lectured on personality disorders, DBT, group interventions, risk assessment/management, human sexuality and counseling.
 

Manuela Habicht PhD

As a clinical and forensic psychologist who works private practice, Dr Habicht also holds an academic title of Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. She is an Accredited Children's Court Clinician with the Attorney General's Department (NSW), studies towards a B. Law degree and writes court reports for different purposes (pre-sentence, family, child protection, mental health and worker's compensation). While Dr. Habicht has a strong assessment focus, she initially ventured off into psychodynamic psychotherapy prior to being trained in CBT, IPT and DBT. Dr. Habicht is trained in EMDR and Clinical Hypnosis as well. She has been the first psychologist in QLD who passed the supervisor accreditation 18 months ago.

Habicht, M H (2005) Psychodynamic Supervision  - Improvement of Clinical Practice or Risk Management Tool In A.D. Thomas, N. Dayan, A.B. Bernardo, R. Roth (Eds.) Helping Others Grow , Proceedings of the 60th Annual Convention, International Council of Psychologists, July 1-5, 2002, Manila, Philippines, (pp. 177-190) Aachen: Shaker Publishing. 

Habicht, M H (2005) The Working Alliance -A Non-Model Bound Approach To Clinical Supervision In A.D. Thomas, N. Dayan, A.B. Bernardo, R. Roth (Eds.) Helping Others Grow , Proceedings of the 60th Annual Convention, International Council of Psychologists, July 1-5, 2002, Manila, Philippines, (pp. 212-230). Aachen: Shaker Publishing. 

Habicht, M. (2001). Psychodynamic Supervision – Improvement of Clinical Practice or Risk Management Tool, ERIC CASS (Clearinghouse accession number CG030879, Eric No ED452460) 

Habicht, M. & Perry, S. (2000), Book Review of the Successful Internship: Transformation and Empowerment, International Psychologist, 40, 3-4, pp. 58-60.

Habicht, M. & Perry, S. (2000). Book review of Successful Internship: Transformation and Empowerment, http://membernet.com.au/membernet/frame_knowledge.htm, 20.05.00

Habicht, M.H., Psychodynamic Supervision – Improvement of Clinical Practice or Risk Management Tool, 60^th Annual International Council of Psychologists Convention, July 2002, Manila, Philippines.

Habicht, M.H., Approaches to Developing Therapist Advanced Alliance Skills - Workshop, 60^th Annual International Council of Psychologists Convention, July 2002, Manila, Philippines.