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Heather McDowell

Primary Position
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Consult Liaison Team and Late Effects Assessment Programme
Job Responsibilities
Research
Patient Care
Education/Training
Psychology
Short Synopsis of Professional Interests
I work on the Paediatric Consult Liaison Team (CLT) at a tertiary children's hospital (Starship) in Auckland, New Zealand. My work includes the Late Effects Assessment Programme (LEAP), of the Paediatric Haematology/Oncology service at Starship.
Address
Consult Liaison Team
Level 3 Starship Children’s Hospital, Private Bag 92024
Auckland 1142, New Zealand
eMAIL
HeatherM@adhb.govt.nz
Phone(s)
+64 21938 014
Keywords
Long-term follow up
resiliency
mental health assessment and intervention
psycho-social well-being
adolescent depression
Publications of Interest

Whittaker, R., Stasiak, K., McDowell, H., Doherty, I., Shepherd, M., Chua, S., Dorey, E., Parag, V., Ameratunga, S., Rodgers, A. and Merry, S. (2017), MEMO: an mHealth intervention to prevent the onset of depression in adolescents: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial. J Child Psychol Psychiatr. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12753

Thabrew H, McDowell H, Given K, Murrell K. (2017). Systematic review of screening instruments for psychosocial problems in children and adolescents with long-term physical conditions. Global Pediatric Health.

Lambie, I, Randell, I, McDowell, H. “Inflaming your neighbours”: Copycat Firesetting in Adolescents. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. DOI:10.1177/0306624X13492657  http://ijo.sagepub.com/content/58/9/1020

Slater C, Lambie I, McDowell H. 'Youth Justice Co-ordinators' perspectives on New zealands youth Justice Family Group Conference process. Journal of Social Work. Online 6 Oct. 2014. 

Yallop K, McDowell H, Koziol-McLain J, Reed PW. Self-reported psychosocial wellbeing of adolescent childhood cancer survivors. European Journal of Oncology Nursing.