Dr Fiona Maccallum

Senior Lecturer (Clinical Psych)

School of Psychology
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
f.maccallum@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 56257

Overview

Fiona is a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology with research interests in grief & loss, trauma emtion regulation and anxiety. Her work is mechanism focussed. She applies experimental and longitudinal methods including experience sampling to better understand the pyschological processes that contribute to resilence and development of psychopathology. Her work is also focussed on improving supports for those struggling with grief and trauma.

Fiona completed her Master of Psychology(Clnical) and PhD at UNSW and undertook a postdoctoral fellowship in the Loss, Trauma and Emotion Lab at Teachers College, Columbia University. She also has experience working as a clinician in public health and private practice.

Research Interests

  • Autobiographical and self-identity process in clinical disorders
    Understanding the mechanism underlying clinical dysfunctions in autobiographical remembering and future-related imaginings. This line of research investigates how manipulating autobiographical recall, future imaginings, and self-identity constructs impact on mood, decision making and current functioning.
  • Grief and loss
    This line of research is focused on understanding the psychological mechanisms that underlie adaption and difficulties adapting to bereavement and other losses. This includes cognitive, emotional, and behavioural mechanisms such as appraisals, distress tolerance and approach-avoidance responses. Prolonged grief responses. Improving treatment outcomes and understanding mechanisms of change. Longitudinal predictors of adjustment following potentially traumatic events
  • Emotion regulation
    This line of research is focused on understanding the mechanisms that contribute to emotion regulation outcomes. This includes the role of attachment processes (in adults), context specificity in emotion regulation and emotion regulation in daily life: using experience sampling methodology to understand real time emotion regulation. .

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales
  • Doctor of Philosophy of Psychology, University of New South Wales
  • Masters (Coursework) of Psychology (Clinical), University of New South Wales
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Science (Psychology), University of New South Wales

Publications

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • (2023) Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Book Chapter

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Barnier, Amanda J., Bryant, Richard A., Campbell, Leah, Cox, Rochelle, Harris, Celia, Hung, Lynette, Maccallum, Fiona and Sharman, Stefanie J. (2005). Memory on the beach: an Australian memory (and hypnosis) laboratory. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/s10339-005-0013-y

Other Outputs

  • Dingle, G., Williams, E., Alhadad, S. S. J., Beckman, E., Bentley, S., Fooken, J., Gomersall, S. R., Hides, L., Ludlow, T., Maccallum, F., McKimmie, B.M., Rossa, K., Smith, S. S., Walter, Z.C and Wright, O. (2023). Sharper Minds 2022 Report.

  • Dingle, G.A., Hodges, J., Hides, L., McKimmie, B., Gomersall, S., Beckman, E., Birch, S., Smith, S., Zurynski, Y., Maccallum, F., Bentley, S., Wright, O., Walter, Z. and Alhadad, S. (2021). Sharper Minds 2021 Pilot Report.

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

Completed Supervision