Overview
Background
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.
Availability
- Dr Fiona Maccallum is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Science (Psychology), University of New South Wales
- Masters (Coursework) of Psychology (Clinical), University of New South Wales
- Doctor of Philosophy of Psychology, University of New South Wales
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales
Research interests
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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.
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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
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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. .
Works
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2022
Journal Article
Self-identity processing and grief: The role of avoidance and flexibility
Maccallum, Fiona (2022). Self-identity processing and grief: The role of avoidance and flexibility. Personality and Individual Differences, 189 111478, 111478. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111478
2022
Journal Article
Machine yearning: how advances in computational methods lead to new insights about reactions to loss
Malgaroli, Matteo, Maccallum, Fiona and Bonanno, George A. (2022). Machine yearning: how advances in computational methods lead to new insights about reactions to loss. Current Opinion in Psychology, 43, 13-17. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.05.003
2022
Journal Article
Social trust and the discounting of gains and losses in prolonged grief
Maccallum, Fiona and Bonanno, George A. (2022). Social trust and the discounting of gains and losses in prolonged grief. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 147, 148-153. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.01.002
2021
Other Outputs
Sharper Minds 2021 Pilot 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.
2021
Journal Article
An exploration of gender and prolonged grief symptoms using network analysis
Maccallum, F., Lundorff, M., Johannsen, M., Farver-Vestergaard, I. and O'Connor, M. (2021). An exploration of gender and prolonged grief symptoms using network analysis. Psychological Medicine, 53 (5) PII S0033291721003391, 1-8. doi: 10.1017/s0033291721003391
2021
Journal Article
Depression, anxiety and post-traumatic growth among bereaved adults: a latent class analysis
Li, Jie, Sun, Yihua, Maccallum, Fiona and Chow, Amy Y. M. (2021). Depression, anxiety and post-traumatic growth among bereaved adults: a latent class analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 11 575311, 575311. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.575311
2021
Book Chapter
Normal and pathological mourning: attachment processes in the development of prolonged grief
Maccallum, Fiona (2021). Normal and pathological mourning: attachment processes in the development of prolonged grief. Attachment: the fundamental questions. (pp. 289-295) edited by Ross A. Thompson, Jeffry A. Simpson and Lisa J. Berlin. New York, NY USA: The Guilford Press.
2020
Journal Article
Valid ICD-11 PGD scales and structured clinical interviews needed
O'Connor, Maja, Larsen, Lene, Joensen, Biretha V., Boelen, Paul A., Maccallum, Fiona, Komischke-Konnerup, Katrine and Bryant, Richard A. (2020). Valid ICD-11 PGD scales and structured clinical interviews needed. Frontiers in Psychology, 11 1120, 1120. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01120
2020
Journal Article
Expressive flexibility and anxiety
Maccallum, Fiona, Tran, Sophia and Bonanno, George A. (2020). Expressive flexibility and anxiety. Journal of Affective Disorders, 281, 935-940. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.11.028
2019
Journal Article
An investigation of approach behaviour in prolonged grief
Maccallum, Fiona and Bryant, Richard A. (2019). An investigation of approach behaviour in prolonged grief. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 119 103405, 103405. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2019.05.002
2019
Journal Article
A network approach to understanding quality of life impairments in prolonged grief disorder
Maccallum, Fiona and Bryant, Richard A. (2019). A network approach to understanding quality of life impairments in prolonged grief disorder. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 33 (1) jts.22383, 106-115. doi: 10.1002/jts.22383
2018
Journal Article
The Context Sensitivity Index (CSI): measuring the ability to identify the presence and absence of stressor context cues
Bonanno, George A., Maccallum, Fiona, Malgaroli, Matteo and Hou, Wai Kai (2018). The Context Sensitivity Index (CSI): measuring the ability to identify the presence and absence of stressor context cues. Assessment, 27 (2), 261-273. doi: 10.1177/1073191118820131
2018
Journal Article
Prolonged grief and attachment security: a latent class analysis
Maccallum, Fiona and Bryant, Richard A. (2018). Prolonged grief and attachment security: a latent class analysis. Psychiatry Research, 268, 297-302. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2018.07.038
2018
Journal Article
Symptoms of persistent complex bereavement disorder, depression, and PTSD in a conjugally bereaved sample: a network analysis
Malgaroli, Matteo, Maccallum, Fiona and Bonanno, George A. (2018). Symptoms of persistent complex bereavement disorder, depression, and PTSD in a conjugally bereaved sample: a network analysis. Psychological Medicine, 48 (14), 1-10. doi: 10.1017/S0033291718001769
2018
Journal Article
Symptoms of prolonged grief and posttraumatic stress following loss: a latent class analysis
Maccallum, Fiona and Bryant, Richard A. (2018). Symptoms of prolonged grief and posttraumatic stress following loss: a latent class analysis. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 53 (1), 000486741876842-67. doi: 10.1177/0004867418768429
2018
Journal Article
Erratum: Correction. Treating Prolonged Grief Disorder: A 2-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial (The Journal of clinical psychiatry (2017) 78 9 (1363-1368) PII: 18lcx12157)
Bryant, Richard, Kenny, Lucy, Joscelyne, Amy, Rawson, Natasha, Maccallum, Fiona, Cahill, Catherine, Hopwood, Sally and Nickerson, Angela (2018). Erratum: Correction. Treating Prolonged Grief Disorder: A 2-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial (The Journal of clinical psychiatry (2017) 78 9 (1363-1368) PII: 18lcx12157). The Journal of clinical psychiatry, 79 (1). doi: 10.4088/JCP.18lcx12157
2017
Journal Article
Predictors of treatment response for cognitive behaviour therapy for prolonged grief disorder
Bryant, Richard A., Kenny, Lucy, Joscelyne, Amy, Rawson, Natasha, Maccallum, Fiona, Cahill, Catherine and Hopwood, Sally (2017). Predictors of treatment response for cognitive behaviour therapy for prolonged grief disorder. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 8 (sup6) 1556551, 1556551. doi: 10.1080/20008198.2018.1556551
2017
Journal Article
Treating prolonged grief disorder: a 2-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial
Bryant, Richard A., Kenny, Lucy, Joscelyne, Amy, Rawson, Natasha, Maccallum, Fiona, Cahill, Catherine, Hopwood, Sally and Nickerson, Angela (2017). Treating prolonged grief disorder: a 2-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 78 (9), 1363-1368. doi: 10.4088/JCP.16m10729
2017
Journal Article
Do Multiple Health Events Reduce Resilience When Compared With Single Events?
Morin, Ruth T., Galatzer-Levy, Isaac R., Maccallum, Fiona and Bonanno, George A. (2017). Do Multiple Health Events Reduce Resilience When Compared With Single Events?. Health Psychology, 36 (8), 721-728. doi: 10.1037/hea0000481
2017
Journal Article
Networks of Loss: Relationships Among Symptoms of Prolonged Grief Following Spousal and Parental Loss
Maccallum, Fiona, Malgaroli, Matteo and Bonanno, George A. (2017). Networks of Loss: Relationships Among Symptoms of Prolonged Grief Following Spousal and Parental Loss. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 126 (5), 652-662. doi: 10.1037/abn0000287
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Fiona Maccallum is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Fractured Selves: The Relationship Between Self-Identity and Moral Injury
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Blake McKimmie
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Doctor Philosophy
Occupational moral injury in healthcare: key predictors of ongoing distress and psychological, social, and behavioural outcomes
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Blake McKimmie
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Doctor Philosophy
Neural substrates of complex trauma
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Julie Henry, Dr Lena Oestreich
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Doctor Philosophy
Evaluating Complex PTSD versus PTSD in Internally Displaced Populations of Conflict-Affected Areas in Northwest Ethiopia: Implications for Policy and Practice
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lena Oestreich
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Doctor Philosophy
Mental health literacy and help-seeking behaviour among first year university students
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Zoe Walter, Professor Genevieve Dingle
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Doctor Philosophy
The Final ACT - Quality of Life for Palliative Patients and their Families, the role of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Kenneth Pakenham
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Doctor Philosophy
Beyond Bereavement: A mixed-methods examination of safety, feasibility, acceptability, experience, and therapeutic potential of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for Prolonged Grief Disorder
Associate Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
The Final ACT - Quality of Life for Palliative Patients and their Families, the role of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Kenneth Pakenham
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Doctor Philosophy
The Final ACT - Quality of Life for Palliative Patients and their Families, the role of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Kenneth Pakenham
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
The Final ACT - Quality of Life for Palliative Patients and their Families, the role of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Kenneth Pakenham
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
A mixed methods study of receiver behaviour in speaking up healthcare communication.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Honorary Professor Bernadette Watson
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