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Contact Details

Email
fiona.mathieson@otago.ac.nz
Position
Associate Professor
Department
Department of Psychological Medicine (Wellington)
Qualifications
MA(Applied)(Well) PhD(Otago) DipTchg FNZCCPsych
Research summary
Clinical Psychology

Research

Areas of Interest:

  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
  • Brief interactions in primary care study
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Metaphors in therapy
  • Therapist Competence Assessment

My current research interests include the adaption, for Māori of a brief intervention in primary care for sub-threshold mental health syndromes; the development of competence during cognitive behaviour therapy training and the use of metaphor in psychotherapy.

Publications

Mathieson, F., Stubbe, M., & Jordan, J. (2024). Meaning through metaphors in CBT. Proceedings of the 44th National Conference of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy (AACBT). (pp. 170-171). AACBT. Retrieved from https://www.aacbt.org.au/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

McKenzie, S. K., Mathieson, F., Das, T., Genuchi, M. C., & Oliffe, J. L. (2024). Understanding men's lived experience of mental distress through metaphors. American Journal of Men's Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/15579883241260920 Journal - Research Article

Dowell, A., Stubbe, M., Dunlop, A., Fedchuk, D., Gardiner, T., Garrett, S., Gordon, S., Hilder, J., Mathieson, F., & Tester, R. (2024). Evaluating success and challenges of a primary care youth mental health programme using complexity, implementation science, and appreciative inquiry. Cureus, 16(4), e58870. doi: 10.7759/cureus.58870 Journal - Research Article

Das, T., Mathieson, F., & McKenzie, S. (2023, January). "Tunnelling into blackness": Metaphors men use to describe their lived experience with mental distress. Poster session presented at the University of Otago Summer Student Showcase, Wellington, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

Mathieson, F., Garrett, S., Stubbe, M., Hilder, J., Tester, R., Fedchuk, D., Dunlop, A., & Dowell, A. (2023). Therapist voices on a youth mental health pilot: Responsiveness to diversity and therapy modality. International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health, 20, 1834. doi: 10.3390/ ijerph20031834 Journal - Research Article

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