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Dr Elizabeth Pizarro-Campagna Name: Dr Elizabeth Pizarro-Campagna
Senior Lecturer (Psychology)
Phone
+613 9953 3110
Fax
+613 9953 3205
Organisational Area
Faculty of Health Sciences
Department
School of Behavioural and Health Sciences (VIC)
Location
Melbourne
The Daniel Mannix Building(Bldg.403 - 8-14 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065)-Level 5-Room5.38
Biographical Information

Elizabeth is an academic in the School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Psychology Discipline. She coordinates the Master of Professional Psychology program, provides research and clinical supervision to students completing the Master of Clinical Psychology and the Master of Educational and Developmental Psychology programs, and provides research supervision to psychology honours students. Elizabeth has worked as a psychologist since 2006, and has dual endorsements in clinical, and educational and developmental psychology. In 2019 she completed her PhD at ACU, in collaboration with Orygen&rsquos Helping Young People Early (HYPE) research team, on the socioemotional functioning of young people with borderline personality disorder. She is an ECR and has research interests and collaborations with a focus on understanding psychological and transdiagnostic factors, such as social cognition and emotion regulation, that are associated with mental health and functional outcomes in typically developing adolescents and clinical populations (borderline personality disorder, chronic pain).

 

Publications
  • Lim, C. J., Pizarro-Campagna, E., Havighurst, S. S., Zhang, X., Radovini, A., & Kehoe, C. E. (2023). The role of parent and peer emotion socialization and emotion regulation in the development of internalizing problems in adolescents. Mental Health & Prevention, 30, 200278. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mhp.2023.200278
  • Pizarro-Campagna, E., Terrett, G., Jovev, M., Rendell, P. G., Henry, J. D., & Chanen, A. M. (2023). Cognitive reappraisal impairs negative affect regulation in the context of social rejection for youth with early-stage borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 37(2), 156-176. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2023.37.2.156 
  • Pizarro-Campagna, E., Terrett, G., Jovev, M., Rendell, P. G., Henry, J. D., & Chanen, A. M. (2020). Rapid facial mimicry responses are preserved in youth with first presentation borderline personality disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 266, 14-21. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.01.097
  • Terrett, G., Mercuri, K., Pizarro-Campagna, E., Hugrass, L., Curran, H. V., Henry, J. D., & Rendell, P. G. (2019). Social cognition impairments in long-term opiate users in treatment. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 026988111987598. doi:10.1177/0269881119875981
Research
My researach intersts include:
  • The normal development of socioemotional functioning across the lifespan. I have a particular interest in the development of emotion regulation and social cognition in young people from early adolescence through young adulthood.
  • Socioemotional functioning in clinical populations. I have a particular interest in emotion regulation and social cognition across different clinical populations, and different stages of disorder, from onset through to chronic presentations. Current clinical populations of interst include, borderline personality disorder and chronic pain.
Experience

Lecturer (2019-current), Australian Catholic University

  • Course Coordinator, Master of Professional Psychology program 

Psychologist (current), private practice

  • Psychological assessment and treatment of children, young people and their families.
  • Psychological assessment and treatment of adults presenting with comorbid chronic pain and chronic mental health issues.
  • Clinical supervision of psychologists and provisional psychologists (5+1 pathway).

Psychologist (casual, 2018-2019), St Vincent's Hospital, Barbara Walker Centre for Pain Management

  • Psychological assessment and treatment of individuals presenting with chronic pain conditions.

Sessional academic (2016-2018), Australian Catholic University: 

  • Individual and group supervision of master students completing the Master of Psychology (Educational and Developmental) and Master of Professional Psychology programs
  • Lecturer in the Master of Psychology (Educational and Developmental) program, Learning Difficulties Assessment and Intervention

Psychologist (group facilitator, 2015-2016), Mindful, Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne

  • Facilitation of the Tuning in to Teens(TM) parenting program

Psychologist (2012-2015), Headspace Sunshine

  • Psychological assessment and treatment of young people aged 12-25 years

Psychologist (2006-2013), Child and Adolescent Psychology Service, Dianella Community Health (now DPV Health)

  • Psychological assessment and treatment of children aged 0-16
  • Pathways to Good Health Program- was involved in the multidisciplinary assessment of children transitioning into out of home care
  • Facilitation of the Tuning in to Kids(TM) group parenting program

Psychologist (2009), Lewis & Lewis

  • School-based assessments of children's cognitive ability, academic achievement, and functional needs

Project Manager (2006-2008), Mindful, Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne

  • Project management of the Tuning in to Teens(TM) pilot research study. 

Research Assistant (2005), Mindful, Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne

  • Research assistant on the Tuning in to Kids(TM) research project
Professional Memberships
  • Clinical and Educational and Developmental Psychologist, Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA), Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
  • Board approved supervisor, Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA), Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
  • Member, Australian Psychological Society
 

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