Stephanie completed her Bachelor of Science (Psychology and Psychophysiology) degree in 2007 at Swinburne University and a Graduate Diploma in Psychology at RMIT in 2009. She completed her fourth year in Psychology with a thesis entitled “The Relationship between Personality and Drinking Motives in Young Adults.” Stephanie joined NARI in 2010 as a Research Assistant in the Public and Preventative Health division where she has been involved in a number of projects including a project looking at person-centred care as well as a study designed to identify suitable cognitive screening tools to assess older people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds. She is currently working in the Service Development and Evaluation division and is involved in a project looking at telephone support for people with COPD as well as a study looking at the benefit a choir intervention has on people with dementia.
Current Research Projects
- Telephone Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for the treatment of depression and anxiety associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial.
- Participation, Purpose and Performance: A Choir Intervention for People with Dementia.
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