Select Publications
Book Chapters
2024, 'Humanitarian Workers', in Trauma, Resilience, and Posttraumatic Growth in Frontline Personnel, pp. 184 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003292807-17
,2023, 'Engaged advocacy: A framework for inclusion of people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds in disability policy', in Research Handbook on Disability Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 305 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781800373655.00034
,2020, 'Community Interventions in Conflict Settings', in Beyond the Psychology Industry, Springer International Publishing, pp. 69 - 82, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33762-9_7
,Journal articles
2024, 'Longitudinal Protective Factors against Intimate Partner Violence for Women Born in Australia and Women from Refugee Backgrounds', Women, 4, pp. 317 - 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/women4030024
,2024, 'Readiness of Exercise Physiologists, Physiotherapists and Other Allied Health Professionals to Respond to Gender-Based Violence: A Mixed-Methods Study', Violence Against Women, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778012241257245
,2023, 'Effect of traumatic experiences and future threats on executive functioning and verbal fluency amongst Farsi-Dari speaking immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers', Psychiatry Research Communications, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psycom.2023.100146
,2023, 'Testing the effectiveness and acceptability of online supportive supervision for mental health practitioners in humanitarian settings: a study protocol for the caring for carers project', BMC Psychiatry, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-05246-1
,2023, 'Gender-Based Violence is a Blind Spot for Sports and Exercise Medicine Professionals', Sports Medicine, 53, pp. 1491 - 1493, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40279-022-01742-8
,2023, 'Sustainable mental health systems in northwest Syria after the earthquakes', The Lancet Psychiatry, 10, pp. e12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00098-6
,2023, 'Clinical Supervision across Australia, Türkiye, Syria, and Bangladesh: From WEIRD to WONDERFUL', Social Sciences, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci12030170
,2023, 'An online mental health informed physical activity intervention for emergency service workers and their families: A stepped-wedge trial', Digital Health, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076221149294
,2022, 'Exercise and PTSD Symptoms in Emergency Service and Frontline Medical Workers: A Systematic Review', Translational Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/TJX.0000000000000189
,2022, 'The mental health of Farsi-Dari speaking asylum-seeking children and parents facing insecure residency in Australia', The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100548
,2022, 'Feasibility of an online, mental health-informed lifestyle program for people aged 60+ years during the COVID-19 pandemic', Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 33, pp. 545 - 552, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hpja.538
,2022, '“In the beginning it was difficult but things got easier”: Service use experiences of family members of people with disability from Iraqi and Syrian refugee backgrounds', Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 20, pp. 33 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jppi.12424
,2022, 'Key characteristics of the refugee journey for Iraqi and Syrian family members who support someone with disability', Disability and Society, 38, pp. 1848 - 1870, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2022.2045189
,2021, 'The Association between Intimate Partner Violence, Depression and Influenza-like Illness Experienced by Pregnant Women in Australia', Women, 1, pp. 192 - 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/women1040017
,2021, 'The experiences of peer-facilitators delivering a physical activity intervention for emergency service workers and their families', Mental Health and Physical Activity, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mhpa.2021.100414
,2021, 'Dialogical inquiry: multivocality and the interpretation of text', Qualitative Research, 21, pp. 498 - 514, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794120934409
,2021, 'A mental health–informed physical activity intervention for first responders and their partners delivered using Facebook: Mixed methods pilot study', JMIR Formative Research, 5, pp. e23432, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/23432
,2021, 'Exploring the intersection of human rights, health, disability and refugee status: An arts-based approach', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 26, pp. 387 - 404, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2021.1882044
,2021, 'Self-Reported Physical and Mental Health of Informal Caregivers of Emergency Service Workers', Journal of Loss and Trauma, 26, pp. 507 - 518, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2020.1845020
,2020, '“To the Arabic community disability is not normal”: Understandings of disability among Iraqi and Syrian people from refugee backgrounds.', Journal of Refugee Studies, 34, pp. 2849 - 2870, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feaa111
,2020, 'COVID-19: An Australian Perspective', Journal of Loss and Trauma, 25, pp. 662 - 672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2020.1780748
,2020, 'Bushfires, COVID-19 and the urgent need for an Australian Task Force on gender, mental health and disaster', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 54, pp. 1135 - 1136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004867420954276
,2020, 'A Mental Health–Informed Physical Activity Intervention for First Responders and Their Partners Delivered Using Facebook: Mixed Methods Pilot Study (Preprint)', , http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.23432
,2020, 'Women and Stigma: A Protocol for Understanding Intersections of Experience through Body Mapping', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, pp. 5432 - 5432, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155432
,2020, 'Obesity, physical activity and sleep quality in patients admitted to a posttraumatic stress inpatient ward', Australasian Psychiatry, 28, pp. 270 - 273, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856220917075
,2020, 'Feeling states of people experiencing depression, anxiety, or comorbid depression and anxiety symptoms during a multi-day charity cycling ride: An ecological momentary assessment study', Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2019.02.004
,2020, 'Community Readiness in the Syrian Refugee Community in Jordan: A Rapid Ecological Assessment Tool to Build Psychosocial Service Capacity', American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 90, pp. 212 - 222, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ort0000404
,2020, 'The Impact of Childhood Adversity on Cognitive Development in Schizophrenia', Schizophrenia Bulletin, 46, pp. 140 - 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbz033
,2019, 'Mental health informed physical activity for first responders and their support partner: A protocol for a stepped-wedge evaluation of an online, codesigned intervention', BMJ Open, 9, pp. e030668, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030668
,2019, 'Physical activity as a psychosocial intervention among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: A rapid ecological community assessment', Intervention, 17, pp. 140 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/INTV.INTV_15_19
,2018, 'An ecological model of adaptation to displacement: individual, cultural and community factors affecting psychosocial adjustment among Syrian refugees in Jordan', Global Mental Health, 5, pp. e42 - e42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2018.30
,2018, 'Addressing occupational stress among medical staff in non-government controlled Northern Syria: Supporting resilience in a dangerous workplace', Torture : quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture, 28, pp. 104 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/torture.v28i3.111200
,2018, 'Special Issue: Community, Psychology and Family Therapy', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 39, pp. 281 - 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1327
,2018, 'Widespread Volumetric Reductions in Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Patients Displaying Compromised Cognitive Abilities', Schizophrenia Bulletin, 44, pp. 560 - 574, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbx109
,2018, 'O1.5. ICAM-1 IS INCREASED IN BRAIN AND PERIPHERAL LEVELS OF SOLUBLE ICAM-1 IS RELATED TO COGNITIVE DEFICITS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA', Schizophrenia Bulletin, 44, pp. S73 - S74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sby015.187
,2016, 'Cognitive subtypes of schizophrenia characterized by differential brain volumetric reductions and cognitive decline', JAMA Psychiatry, 73, pp. 1251 - 1259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.2925
,2016, 'Psychosocial concerns reported by Syrian refugees living in Jordan: Systematic review of unpublished needs assessments', British Journal of Psychiatry, 209, pp. 99 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.115.165084
,2015, 'Adjunctive raloxifene treatment improves attention and memory in men and women with schizophrenia', Molecular Psychiatry, 20, pp. 685 - 694, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/mp.2015.11
,2015, 'The impact of premorbid and current intellect in schizophrenia: Cognitive, symptom, and functional outcomes', npj Schizophrenia, 1, pp. 15043, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npjschz.2015.43
,2015, 'Understanding Psychological Responses to Trauma among Refugees : the Importance of Measurement Validity in Cross-cultural Settings', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 148, pp. 60 - 69
,2012, 'Matter Over Mind: A Randomised-Controlled Trial of Single-Session Biofeedback Training on Performance Anxiety and Heart Rate Variability in Musicians', PLoS ONE, 7, pp. e46597, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046597
,Conference Papers
2020, 'A MENTAL HEALTH INFORMED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY INTERVENTION DELIVERED ONLINE FOR FIRST RESPONDERS AND THEIR INFORMAL CARERS', in ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE, OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, pp. S72 - S72, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000546262400150&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2016, 'An Investigation of Brain Structural Abnormalities in Neurocognitive Subgroups of Schizophrenia', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, pp. 392S - 392S, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000432440805108&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2014, 'Adjunctive raloxifene treatment improves attention and memory in men and women with schizophrenia', in Molecular Psychiatry, Springer Nature, AZ, Phoenix, pp. 685 - 694, presented at 53rd Annual Meeting of the American-College-of-Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), AZ, Phoenix, 07 December 2014 - 11 December 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/mp.2015.11
,Conference Abstracts
2018, 'ICAM-1 IS INCREASED IN BRAIN AND PERIPHERAL LEVELS OF SOLUBLE ICAM-1 IS RELATED TO COGNITIVE DEFICITS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA', in SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, ITALY, Florence, Vol. 44, pp. S73 - S74, presented at 6th Biennial Conference of the Schizophrenia-International-Research-Society (SIRS), ITALY, Florence, 04 April 2018 - 08 April 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sby015.187
,2017, 'Increased Soluble ICAM-1 is Related to Verbal Memory, Reasoning and Processing Speed Deficits in Schizophrenia', in NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, CA, Palm Springs, Vol. 42, pp. S249 - S250, presented at 56th Annual Meeting of the American-College-of-Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) and Cognitive-Neuroscience-Society, CA, Palm Springs, 03 December 2017 - 07 December 2017, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000416846301215&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2015, 'ADJUNCTIVE RALOXIFENE TREATMENT IMPROVES ATTENTION AND MEMORY IN MEN AND WOMEN WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA', in SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, CO, Colorado Springs, Vol. 41, pp. S339 - S340, presented at 15th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (ICOSR), CO, Colorado Springs, 28 March 2015 - 01 April 2015, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000353548200898&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
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