Assoc Prof Fiona McDermott - Researcher Profile

Biography

Fiona works in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences at Monash University as an Associate Professor.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1989

Publications

Books

Meadows, G.N., Farhall, J., Fossey, E., Grigg, M.T., McDermott, F.M., Singh, B. (eds), 2012, Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, Oxford University Press, Australia.

Book Chapters

Meadows, G.N., Grigg, M.T., Singh, B., McDermott, F.M., 2012, Delivering mental health care, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 45-68.

McDermott, F.M., Meadows, G.N., Wadsworth, Y., Goh, J., Hunter, A., Kroschel, J., Callander, R.J., Fowke, T., 2012, Evaluation and the concept of quality in mental health care, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 199-236.

McDermott, F.M., Meadows, G.N., Happell, B., Farhall, J., Grey, F., Callander, R.J., McKenzie, P., Fossey, E., Sundram, S., Harvey, C., Favilla, A., McNab, C.E.L., Shawyer, F., Wadsworth, Y., 2012, Research in mental disorders and mental health practice, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 155-198.

McDermott, F.M., Meadows, G.N., Epstein, M., Olsen, A., Fossey, E., 2012, Society, mental health and illness, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 4-17.

Peters, L.A., McDermott, F.M., 2012, Surviving and thriving: the nurse-patient relationship in palliative care, in Palliative Care Nursing - principles and evidence for practice, eds Margaret O'Connor, Susan Lee, Sanchia Aranda, Ausmed Publications, Australia, pp. 31-41.

McDermott, F.M., Huppert, D., Blashki, G.A., Stone, L.E., Epstein, M., Olsen, A., Elsom, S., Meadows, G.N., Rosen, A., Singh, B.S., Ash, D., Turnbull, C., Bland, R., Fossey, E., Farhall, J., Tsismetsi, A., Nagel, T.M., Minas, H., Clarke, M., Leggatt, M., Cavill, M., 2012, The active participants in mental health services, in Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows; John Farhall; Ellie Fossey; Margaret Grigg; Fiona McDermott; Bruce Singh, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 267-318.

Favilla, A., Fossey, E., Happell, B., Harvey, C., McDermott, F., McNab, C.E.L., Meadows, G.N., Singh, B., Wadsworth, Y., 2007, Research in mental disorders and mental health practice, in Mental Health In Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, eds Graham Meadows, Bruce Singh and Margaret Grigg, Oxford University Press, Australia, pp. 132-166.

Journal Articles

O'Callaghan, C., McDermott, F.M., Hudson, P., Zalcberg, J., 2013, Sound continuing bonds with the deceased: the relevance of music, including preloss music therapy for eight bereaved caregivers, Death Studies [P], vol 37, issue 2, Routledge, USA, pp. 101-125.

Bawden, G., McDermott, F., 2012, Project Discovery: Social Work Research at Southern Health, Australian Social Work [P], vol 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 1-9.

Haines, T.P., Lee, D., O'Connell, B., McDermott, F.M., Hoffmann, T., 2012, Why do hospitalized older adults take risks that may lead to falls?, Health Expectations [P], vol 11, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford United Kingdom, pp. 1-17.

O'Callaghan, C., Hudson, P., McDermott, F., Zalcberg, J., 2011, Music among family carers of people with life-threatening cancer, Music and Medicine [P], vol 3, issue 1, Sage Publications, Inc., USA, pp. 47-55.

Green, D., McDermott, F., 2010, Social work from inside and between complex systems: perspectives on person-in-environment for today's social work, British Journal Of Social Work [P], vol 40, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 2414-2430.

McDermott, F., Hill, C., Morgan, A., 2009, Death and the dynamics of group life, Group Analysis [P], vol 42, issue 2, Sage Publications Ltd, UK, pp. 156-176.

Kissane, D.W., Grabsch, B., Clarke, D.M., Christie, G., Clifton, D., Gold, S.S., Hill, C., Morgan, A., McDermott, F., Smith, G.C., 2004, Supportive-expressive group therapy: the transformation of existential ambivalence into creative living while enhancing adherence to anti-cancer therapies, Psycho-Oncology, vol 13, issue 11, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester England, pp. 755-768.

Other

McDermott, F.M., 2009, The lives they left behind: suitcases from a state hospital attic, New Paradigm, Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria, Australia.