
My Expertise
Clinical child psychology; callous-unemotional traits; psychopathy; conduct disorders; aggression; antisocial behaviour; assessment; early intervention; parenting interventions.
Fields of Research (FoR)
Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Ageing, Forensic Psychology, Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology)SEO tags
Biography
Eva R. Kimonis, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and Professor in Sydney, Australia. She is Director of the UNSW Parent-Child Research Clinic that specialises in providing state-of-the-art assessment and treatment for children...view more
Eva R. Kimonis, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She is Director of the UNSW Parent-Child Research Clinic that specialises in providing state-of-the-art assessment and treatment for children with oppositional-defiant, destructive, and aggressive behaviours. She received her Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in applied developmental psychology from the University of New Orleans, with specialisations in developmental psychopathology and forensic psychology. Prof Kimonis’s program of research focuses on the development, assessment, and treatment of callous-unemotional traits, empathy deficits, conduct disorders, and aggressive behaviour in youth. Her research has been published in top peer-reviewed journals in the fields of clinical, developmental, and forensic psychology, and she has authored several book chapters on antisocial behaviour in youth. She was awarded the 2023 Eric Taylor ‘Translational Research Into Practice’ Award from the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH), a Fulbright Scholar Grant from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, and the 2015 Distinguished Career Contributions Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy. Prof Kimonis is an experienced provider of parent management training interventions, and a certified therapist and Australia-wide trainer of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), which she adapted to target the unique deficits of children with conduct disorders and callous-unemotional traits.
My Research Supervision
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Areas of supervision
developmental psychopathology; child clinical psychology; forensic psychology; specifically the development, assessment, and treatment of callous-unemotional traits, conduct disorders, empathy deficits, and aggressive behaviour in youth.
Publications
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