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Professional Affiliations:
Registered Psychologist
Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society
Member of the Colleges of Clinical, Health, and Organisational Psychologists
Teaching:
Course co-ordinator for Adult Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology courses, Master of Psychology (Clinical), Health Psychology 3017 (undergraduate)
Program Coordinator, Master of Psychology (Health) starting 2008
Postgraduate Coordinator, Discipline of Psychiatry
Supervision of research theses in Honours Psychology, and at Masters and Doctoral levels (clinical and health psychology, medicine, public health)
Research:
Psychosocial support in breast cancer, including via the internet and through groups; family care-giving in chronic illness & disability (pain, schizophrenia, cystic fibrosis, ageing); social supports and help-giving practices (lay and professional); emotional work; work stress in human service professionals, and its management and prevention; psychological development in adulthood, including the effects of unemployment and underemployment, parenting skills training, beliefs about medicines; psychological treatments for high prevalence disorders (eg anxiety & depression) in general practice settings
Key Publications:
Helen R Winefield, 2006. Support provision and emotional work in an Internet support group for cancer patients, Patient Education and Coujnseling, 62, 193-197.
Winefield HR & Chur-Hansen A, 2004. Integrating psychologists into primary mental health care in Australia. Families, Systems, and Health 22, 294-305.
Winefield HR, Coventry BJ and Lambert V, 2004. Setting up a health education website: Practical advice for health professionals. Patient Education and Counseling 53, 175-182.
Winefield HR, Coventry BJ, Lewis MA & Harvey EJ, 2003. Attitudes of breast cancer patients to support groups. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology 21, 39-54.
Winefield, HR and Chur-Hansen A, 2003. Working with a Multidisciplinary Staff. In L M Cohen, D McChargue, & F Collins (eds) The Health Psychology Handbook: Practical Issues for the Behavioral Medicine Specialist. Thousand Oaks, Sage, pp 28-41.
Contact Details:
School of Psychology, (Room 506, Hughes Building), University of Adelaide,
South Australia 5005.
Telephone: +61 8 8303 3172
Facsimile: +61 8 8303 3770
Discipline of Psychiatry, Room 4-50, Eleanor Harrald Building, Royal Adelaide
Hospital.
Telephone: +61 8 8222 5153
Facsimile: +61 8 8222 2865
Email: helen.winefield@adelaide.edu.au
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