Position:

Lecturer,  School of Psychology, University of Adelaide, since 2003
Registered Psychologist, currently practicing through the Highbury Family Practice Unit

Contact Details:

Office: Room 514, Level 5, Hughes Building
Phone: +61 (08) 8303 5737
Fax: +61 (08) 8303 3770
email: lisa.kettler@psychology.adelaide.edu.au

Academic and Clinical Qualifications:

BA(Hons), University of Adelaide, 1991
Registered as a Psychologist in South Australia, 1992
MAppPsych, University of Adelaide, 1994
PhD, University of Adelaide, 2003

Professional Memberships:

Member, Australian Psychological Society
Member, College of Clinical Psychologists, Australian Psychological Society
Registered as a Psychologist in South Australia

Clinical Experience:

Prior to commencing my academic career, I worked for ten years as a clinical psychologist in the Public Sector in South Australia. I have worked in child protection, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and in adult health psychology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. I also maintained a private practice in clinical psychology for four years.

Research Interests:

Early childhood development, including parent-child relationships, resilience and attachment

Child and Adolescent Mental Health, including anxiety, depression, attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder and other problems in children

Psychological treatments for children, including family therapy and attachment interventions.

Child protection

Health Psychology, particularly as it relates to children and adolescents.

Adherence to Treatment in Chronic Illness. I completed my PhD in this area and have ongoing projects underway.

Research Affiliations:

Member, Healthy Development Adelaide
Member,  ARC Future Generation Network and Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY)

Examples of projects recently and currently supervised.

 Honours (2003, 2004 and 2005)

• Factors affecting adherence to medical treatments by residents in aged-care facilities. (Kerry Haarsma)
  
• Perceived risk and health behaviour change in the relatives and friends of heart attack victims. (Melanie Gledhill)
  
• An exploration into how cognitions and health beliefs impact on cervical screening uptake in women. (Heidi Walsh)
  
• Motivational effects of an exercise intervention program on Aboriginal women (Victoria Jolley)
  
• Leadership and social status among school aged children. (Carla Pinchbeck)
  
• Stress in primary school teachers. (Nyssa Christensen)
  
• Factors affecting treatment outcome in opioid dependence substitution treatment: the influence of mood and withdrawal (Matt Nikic)
  
• The relationship between perceived time pressure and the mental health and wellbeing of primary caregivers of children with chronic disability (Jillian Maitland)
  
• The relationship between pain catastrophising, psychopathology and muscle tension in female dyspareunia: implications for treatment. (Christina Veprek)
  
• Early childhood resilience and family protective factors: emotion regulation as an underlying process (Kate Papandrea)
• Friendship quality, trait anxiety and shyness in pre-adolescence: the effect of puberty and the mediating influence of self-esteem (Nicola Camporeale)
  

Masters (2004, 2005, 2006)

• Evaluation of the effectiveness of an intervention to increase personal resilience among children with specific learning difficulties (Kimberly Wells)
  
• Cognitive function, symptomatology and quality of life in schizophrenia (Kara Savilla)
  
• Asthma and depression in a general population sample: is there value in considering both physiological and psychological measures of asthma severity (Kiaran Thorpe)
• Illness perceptions and treatment beliefs of adolescents with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and cystic fibrosis and their role in adherence to treatment regimens. (Lexie Ashforth)
• Attachment in the child-care setting. (Karen Davies)
• Grandparents raising their grandchildren - the social and emotional impact on grandparents and their grandchildren (Emer Dunne)
• Sexual abuse and trauma: implications in adulthood (Nadia Del Col)
  

PhD

Commenced in 2004

• Optimism and problem solving  in children. (Edwina Farrall)
  
• Interventions to address indirect aggression in girls / bystander interventions to reduce schoolyard bullying (Ann-Marie Wordley)
  

Commenced in 2005

• Perceptions of challenging children - how do teachers, mental health care workers, child care workers and foster carers manage, interpret and influence challenging behavious in children in their care (Sara McLean)
  
• Children of parents with mental illness - grief and children's understanding and interpretation of mental illness (Brooke Ferguson)
  
• Psychological factors affecting obesity in children (Nadia Corsini)
• A conversation analysis approach to understanding evidential interviews conducted with children who have been sexually abused (Kathy Fogarty)
• Time pressure in carers of children with disabilities (Angela Crettenden)

Commenced in 2006

• Hopeful thinking in children (Anthony Venning)
• Educational resilience (Jordan Roberts)
• The development of Theory of Mind in normally developing children and children with Autism (Yasmin Heseen)
• Psychological and developmental consequences of  Ecstasy use among young people (Lynlea Simmonds, HDA scholar)
  

Papers and publications:

Kettler, L.J., Sawyer, S.M.,  Winefield, H.R. and  Greville, H.W. (2002). Determinants of adult adherence to treatment in cystic 
	fibrosis. Thorax, 57, 459-464.

Dunne, E.G. & Kettler, L.J. (2006). Social and emotional issues of children in kinship foster care and the stresses on kinship carers. 
	Children Australia, 31, 22-29.

Kettler, L.J. Nikic, M.,  Newcombe, D. and Ali, R. (submitted) Factors affecting treatment outcome in substitution treatment for 
	opioid dependence: the influence of mood and withdrawal symptoms. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.

Papandrea, K., Miller-Lewis, L. and Kettler, L. (submitted) Early Childhood Psychological Resilience and Family Protective Factors: 
	Emotion Regulation as an Underlying Process. Child Development.

Farrall, E., Kettler, L. and Taplin, J. (2006) Positive Affect in Childhood and Adolescence: Do Cognitive Coping Styles mediate                     Age-related declines in Optimism? Paper presented at the 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece,             July 2006.

Winefield, H., Kettler, L and Sanders C. (2006) Process and outcomes in Systemic Family Therapy: the role of  the client’s request.             Paper presented at the 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece, July 2006.

<>Kettler, L., Sanders, C. and Winefield, H. (2006) Clinicians, Researchers and Academics: A Marriage Made in Heaven or a Recipe for         Disaster ? Paper presented at the Australian Psychological Society, College of Clinical Psychologists conference, Adelaide, June             2006.

Kettler, L., Wilson, J., Sawyer, S., Winefield, H. and Greville, H. (2003) Adherence to rhDNase is much better than adherence to                 vitamins in adults with CF. Paper presented at the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting,                 Adelaide, April 2003.

Kettler, L., Winefield, H., Sawyer, S. and Greville, H. (2003) Patients’ beliefs about treatment influence adherence. Paper presented at         the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide, April 2003.

Kettler, L., Winefield, H., Greville, H. and Sawyer, S. (2002) Adherence to Pulmozyme and vitamins in adults with Cystic Fibrosis: do             opinions about treatment matter? Paper presented at the 25^th Annual Congress of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society, Genoa,             Italy. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 1, Supplement 1. poster 346, pp39.  

Kettler, L., Winefield, H., Sawyer, S. and Greville, H. (2001) Understanding adherence to treatment in adults with Cystic Fibrosis.                 Paper presented at the 15^th Annual North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA. Pediatric Pulmonology,         Supplement 22. A:519.

Kettler, L., Winefield, H., Greville, H. and Sawyer, S. (2001) Understanding adherence to treatment in adults with Cystic Fibrosis.                 Paper presented at the 36^th Annual Australian Psychological Society Conference, Adelaide, Australia. Australian Journal of                 Psychology 153, 2001 Supplement, p~158.

Kettler, L., Winefield, H., Sawyer, S. and Greville, H. (2001) Treatment perceptions and adherence in adults with Cystic Fibrosis.                 Paper presented at the 4^th Australian and New Zealand Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Brisbane, Australia.

Kettler, L. and Winefield, H. (2000) Treatment adherence in adult cystic fibrosis: an Australian perspective. Paper presented at the 14^th         Conference of the European Health Psychology Society: Models of health and illness behaviour, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Teaching Committments:

Psychology 1A: Developmental Psychology  (7 lectures 2003 -)
Psychology 1B: Motivation and Emotion (7 lectures 2004 and 2005)
Psychology 2B: Language and Human Development (6 lectures, 2004 and 2005)
Psychology 3: Developmental Psychology (6 lectures, 2005 - )
Honours Psychology: Psychology and Law (1seminar, 2003 and 2004)
Master of Psychology (Clinical): Child Clinical Psychology (12 seminars 2003 -)
Master of Psychology (Clinical): Psychological Assessment (2 seminars 2004 -)
Master of Psychology (Clinical): Health Psychology (1 seminar, 2003 -)
Master of Psychology (Clinical): Internal placement supervisor (2003 -)
Master of Psychology (Clinical): Field placement supervisor (2004 -)
Supervision of Honours research theses (2003 -).
Supervision of Coursework masters research theses (2004 - ).
Supervision of PhD students (2004 -)