Mr John Julian - Researcher Profile

Biography

John works in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences at Monash University as a Research Fellow and Senior Trainer at SPLASH at Southern Synergy Monash University.  He has special interests in training expereinced mental health staff and in research, in stress in the workplace for which he has developed a major new occupational mindfulness program.

In addition to this he has a half time private clinical practice. John has worked in the field for 34 years and specializes, clinically, in depression, anxiety, stress management and suicidality. John has developed extensive intermediate training packages on the topic of suicidality.

Related Links:

• Psych: Research Themes

Research & Supervision Interests

John has major interests in mindfulness and research into training and occupational mindfulness in the workplace.

Keywords

Stress reduction, stress management, anxiety, depression, Mindfulness and CBT therapies.

Qualifications

ARTS

Institution: La Trobe University

Year awarded: 1979

BSW

Institution: La Trobe University

Year awarded: 1979

Publications

Journal Articles

Brooker, J.E., Julian, J., Webber, L.S., Chan, J., Shawyer, F., Meadows, G.N., 2012, Evaluation of an occupational mindfulness program for staff employed in the disability sector in Australia, Mindfulness [P], vol 1, Springer, USA, pp. 1-15.

Graham, A., Julian, J., Meadows, G., 2010, Improving responses to depression and related disorders: Evaluation of a innovative, general, mental health care workers training program, International Journal of Mental Health Systems [E], vol 4, issue 25, BioMed Central Ltd, UK, pp. 1-13.

Conference Proceedings

Meadows, G.N., Gray, J.L., Julian, J., 2005, Working on working together: Stepped models for traning of the mental health workforce, THEMHS Conference Book of Abstracts, 31 August - 2 September, TheMHS, Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 84-85.

Grants

Title:

Cognitive-behaviourally aligned Learning for Mindful Stress Reduction Program (CALMSR).

Investigators:

Meadows, G, Julian, J

Funding:

(2010 - 2014). Department of Human Services (Victoria).