e-couch

The e-couch Team

Project Directors & Concept:

Professor Helen Christensen & Professor Kathy Griffiths

Project Development & Management:

Kylie Bennett & Anthony Bennett (IT)

Content

Principal Writers

Georgia Tayler MClinPsych
Georgia is a clinical psychologst in private practice. She is a member of the College of Clincial Psychologists of the Australian Psychological Society and an Associate Editor of Clinical Psychologist.

Kathy Griffiths BSc(Hons), PhD
Kathy is Director of the Depression & Anxiety Consumer Research Unit. She is a registered psychologist and has suffered from depression.

Helen Christensen BA(Hons), MPsychol, PhD
Helen is a Director of the Centre for Mental Health Research. She is a trained psychologist.

Interactive & graphical concepts

Kathy Griffiths & Helen Christensen

Additional writing

Janine Walker, Affrica Jenkins, Cathy Frazer, Kylie Bennett, Michelle Banfield, Jo Medway

IT Design & Production

Software design & development

Anthony Bennett

Web implementation

Kylie Bennett, Jola Samoc, Ada Tam

Graphic Design & Illustrations

Mickey Carney

Programming

Anthony Bennett, David Tulloh, Chris McCarthy

Flash programming

Sandra Lauer, Anthony Bennett, Kylie Bennett, Mickey Carney, Jola Samoc, Ada Tam, Cre8ive

Sound recording

Sandra Lauer, Anthony Bennett, Greg Battye

Voice-overs

Georgia Tayler, Tim Windsor, Fiona Hurley, Ben Lauer, Mona Lei, Sandra Lauer, Anthony Bennett, Kylie Bennett, Mickey Carney.

Scientific team

Professor Ken Kirkby (External project director) (University of Tasmania); Professor Justin Kenardy (University of Queensland); Professor Jeff Richards (dec), Dr Britt Klein, Dr David Austin (Monash University); Professor Ian Hickie (University of Sydney); Professor Andrew Mackinnon (ANU Centre for Mental Health Research); Professor David Hawking (CSIRO Enterprise Search).

University of TasmaniaThe University of Queensland The University of Sydney, Australia Monash University CSIRO The Australian National University

Acknowledgements

The e-couch team gratefully acknowledges the use of material provided to the site by the late Professor Jeff Richards (Panic stream), Professor Justin Kenardy (Panic stream), and Ms Affrica Jenkins and Dr Janine Walker (Physical Activity toolkit).

We also acknowledge the use of the Warpy Thoughts Questionnaire and the Depression Stigma Scale (Centre for Mental Health Research), and the Modified Life Events Questionnaire (Tennant and Andrews, Royal North Shore Hospital).

Chloe Groves, Kimberly Evans and Kelly Blewitt provided invaluable project management in the early stages of the project, and Jola Samoc cheerfully provided subsequent project support.

Funding

Australian Governmnent: Department of Health & Ageing

beyondblue: the national depression initiative

NHMRC Program Grant 179805

NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship 366781