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Dr Loyola McLean

Associate Professor
Brain & Mind Research Institute, Sydney Medical School

Phone

+61 2 98403335

Email

loyola.mclean@sydney.edu.au

Loyola McLean is a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist and Psychotherapy Educator in public, private and academic practice. She holds appointments as: an Associate Professor with the BMRI, University of Sydney; a Psychotherapy Educator and the Psychotherapy Coordinator for the Sydney West and Greater Southern Psychiatry Training Network (WSLHD); a Faculty member of the Westmead Psychotherapy Program for Complex Traumatic Disorders, Discipline of Psychiatry, Sydney Medical School; an Honorary Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist with Royal North Shore Hospital. She is a certified Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) Coder. She applies an interdisciplinary biopsychosocial model to her research and clinical work, informed by attachment, neuroscience and the modern conceptions of the Self and Trauma in the Conversational Model. She is researching integrative body-mind medicine, psychotherapy, and spirituality to explore dis/organizing responses of self and systems to stress and illness and the emergence of recovery, resilience and post-traumatic growth. She is exploring how attachment can be integrated with other models to open up opportunities for better collaborative research, formulation and multimodal treatments. Her PhD examined the prothrombotic and inflammatory factors in linking depression and cardiovascular disease. Her projects or collaborations include: work in burns recovery and rehabilitation and an RCT of early EMDR post burns injury; the development of and recovery from chronic complex trauma and its various sequelae including psychosomatic disorders and personality Disorders; Type D personality in various health presentations; the role of attachment in eating disorders; incorporating the Adult Attachment Interview and its probes into psychosomatic research and mental health assessments; novel applications of the Conversational Model to psychiatry; process research in psychotherapy; psychotherapy education.

Research interests

Attachment and Neuroscience; Psychosomatics; Body-Mind Medicine; Formulation; Psychotherapy; Psychodynamic Psychotherapy; Integrative Medicine; Self-regulation; Stress System Disorders; Medical Education; Psychotherapy Education.

Teaching and supervision

Psychotherapy; Psychodynamic Psychotherapy; Attachment and Neuroscience; Formulation; Psychosomatics; Research Methods; Adult Attachment Interview; Supervision

Current projects

Psychosocial screening and outcome tracking in adult survivors of Severe Burn Injury: A mixed methods project

RCT of EMDR vs supportive counselling for acute trauma in adult survivors of Severe burn Injury

Attachment correlates, emotional and cognitive processing and HRV in patients with somatoform/conversion disorders

The implementation and evaluation of a trauma specific short-term Conversational Model Intervention for clients of the Northern Sydney Sexual Assault Service: team skill-building, culture change and fostering recovery

The Feeling Safer Project: applying the Conversational Model to acute and brief psychiatric care (Collaboration with Blacktown Acute Mental Health Team)

Heart Rate variability Biofeedback as part of integrated treatment in chronic complex trauma

Themes

Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health, Neurosciences and Mental Health

Keywords

Autonomic nervous system, Behavioural neuroscience, Cardiovascular diseases, Post-traumatic stress disorders, Psychiatry

Approaches

Growth & Development, Pathogenesis, Treatment/Intervention

Clinical speciality

Psychiatry

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Analysis of the dynamics of communicative musicality and their relationship with understanding and use of the conversational model of psychotherapy	Clint Marlborough MARLBOROUGH
The Lived Experience of Functional Neurological Disorder	Andrea SZASZ

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Book Chapters

McLean, L. (2015). Attachment theory. In P Boyce, A Harris, J Drobny, L Lampe, V Starcevic, and R Bryant (Eds.), The Sydney Handbook of Anxiety Disorders, (pp. 129-136). Sydney: University of Sydney.
McLean, L., Korner, A. (2014). Dreaming the (lost) self in psychotherapy: beings in bodyspacetime in collision, confusion and connection. In Loyola McLean, Lisa Stafford and Mark Weeks (Eds.), Exploring Bodies in Time and Space, (pp. 251-261). Freeland, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
McLean, L. (2013). The Pilgrim Road Goes On: Psychotherapy and Spirituality Continue to Journey Together towards Healing and Human Flourishing. In John L. Hocheimer, William S. Schmidt (Eds.), Spirituality in the 21st Century: Explorations, (pp. 143-165). Oxford, United Kingdom: Interdisciplinary Press.

Journals

Cleary, M., West, S., Kaji Thapa, D., Hungerford, C., McLean, L., Johnston-Devin, C., Kornhaber, R. (2024). A Scoping Review of Equine-Assisted Therapies on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Autistic Children and Adolescents: Exploring the Possibilities. Issues in Mental Health Nursing. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., Johnston-Devin, C., Kornhaber, R., McLean, L., Hungerford, C. (2024). Collateral Damage: The Impacts of School Exclusion on the Mental Health of Parents Caring for Autistic Children. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 45(1), 3-8. [More Information]
Gutkin, M., Kanaan, R., McLean, L., Cartoon, J., Brown, R. (2024). Making meaning: The experience of Shared Individual Formulation Therapy in adults with functional neurological disorder. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., McLean, L., Johnston-Devin, C., Kornhaber, R., Hungerford, C. (2024). When the Education System and Autism Collide: An Australian Qualitative Study Exploring School Exclusion and the Impact on Parent Mental Health. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 45(5), 468-476. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., McLean, L., Hunt, G., Hungerford, C., Kornhaber, R. (2023). A scoping review of autism and the way it changes the presentation of suicidal thoughts and behavior compared to the general population. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 44(4), 282-301. [More Information]
Yeates, S., Korner, A., McLean, L. (2023). A Systematic Review and Narrative Analysis of the Evidence for Individual Psychodynamically Informed Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. [More Information]
Jeyasingam, N., McLean, L., Mitchell, L., Wand, A. (2023). Attitudes to ageing amongst health care professionals: a qualitative systematic review. European Geriatric Medicine, 14(5), 889-908. [More Information]
Lele, K., McLean, L., Peisah, C. (2023). Beyond burnout I: Doctors health services and unmet need. Australasian Psychiatry, 31(2), 139-141. [More Information]
Lele, K., McLean, L., Peisah, C. (2023). Beyond burnout II: A case series of doctors seen in a new publicly funded doctors’ mental health service. Australasian Psychiatry, 31(2), 142-146. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., McLean, L. (2023). From ‘Refrigerator Mothers’ to Empowered Advocates: The Evolution of the Autism Parent. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 44(1), 64-70. [More Information]
Johnston-Devin, C., Mulvogue, J., Kornhaber, R., McLean, L., Cleary, M. (2023). Pain and Mental Health. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 44(1), 79-82. [More Information]
Leung, K., McCarthy, C., McLean, L. (2023). Post-traumatic stress disorder in doctors: Origins, approach and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy. Australasian Psychiatry, 31(2), 136-138. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., McLean, L., Kornhaber, R., Hungerford, C. (2023). Two Halves of the Same Whole: A Framework to Integrate Autism and Mental Health Services. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 44(2), 93-103. [More Information]
Taylor, J., Stratton, E., McLean, L., Richards, B., Glozier, N. (2022). How junior doctors perceive personalised yoga and group exercise in the management of occupational and traumatic stressors. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 98(1161), E10. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., Hunt, G., McLean, L., Hungerford, C., Kornhaber, R. (2022). How people with autism access mental health services specifically suicide hotlines and crisis support services, and current approaches to mental health care: A scoping review. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 43(12), 1093-1106. [More Information]
Orlik, S., Barnes, C., Karageorge, A., You, D., McLean, L., Proctor, M., Kornhaber, R., Nash, L. (2022). Transforming the journey together: Baseline findings from a longitudinal, co-designed study on psychiatry trainee experiences of training and wellbeing. Australasian Psychiatry, 30(3), 391-397. [More Information]
Collings, S., Conley Wright, A., McLean, L., Buratti, S. (2022). Trauma-informed Family Contact Practice for Children in Out-of-home Care. British Journal of Social Work, 52(4), 1837-1858. [More Information]
Holt, R., McLean, L. (2021). Australian Psychotherapy for Trauma Incorporating Neuroscience: Evidence- and Ethics-Informed Practice. Neuroethics, 14, S295-S309. [More Information]
Schafer, C., Kornhaber, R., McLean, L., Ingham, V., Cleary, M. (2021). Health Professionals in the Disaster Recovery Space. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 42(4), 401-404. [More Information]
Gutkin, M., Brown, R., McLean, L., Streimer, J., Kanaan, R. (2021). Shared Individual Formulation Therapy (SIFT): an open-label trial of a new therapy accommodating patient heterogeneity in functional neurological disorder. Journal of Neurology, 268(12), 4882-4889. [More Information]
Gutkin, M., McLean, L., Brown, R., Kanaan, R. (2021). Systematic review of psychotherapy for adults with functional neurological disorder. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 92(1), 36-44. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., Hunt, G., McLean, L., Kornhaber, R. (2020). A Qualitative Systematic Review of Caregivers’ Experiences of Caring for Family Diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 41(8), 667-683. [More Information]
Cleary, M., Kornhaber, R., Visentin, D., West, S., Neil, A., Kezelman, C., McLean, L. (2020). Before, during and after: Trauma-informed care in burns settings. Burns, 46(5), 1170-1178. [More Information]
Alchin, D., McLean, L., Korner, A. (2020). Love in the time of Corona. Australasian Psychiatry, 28(5), 521-523. [More Information]
Cleary, M., Schafer, C., McLean, L., Visentin, D. (2020). Mental Health and Well-Being in the Health Workplace. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 41(2), 172-175. [More Information]
Taylor, J., McLean, L., Korner, A., Stratton, E., Glozier, N. (2020). Mindfulness and yoga for psychological trauma: systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 21(5), 536-573. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., Kornhaber, R., Visentin, D., Neil, A., Haik, J., Kezelman, C., McLean, L. (2020). Moving the lenses of trauma — Trauma-informed care in the burns care setting. Burns, 46(6), 1365-1372. [More Information]
Taylor, J., McLean, L., Richards, B., Glozier, N. (2020). Personalised yoga for burnout and traumatic stress in junior doctors. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 96(1136), 349-357. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., Kornhaber, R., McLean, L. (2020). Response: A trauma-informed model of care for self-immolation survivors and their families. Burns, 46(7), 1708. [More Information]
Kozlowska, K., Chung, J., Cruickshank, B., McLean, L., Scher, S., Dale, R., Mohammad, S., Singh-Grewal, D., Prabhuswamy, M., Patrick, E. (2019). Blood CRP levels are elevated in children and adolescents with functional neurological symptom disorder. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 28(4), 491-504. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., Rickard, G., McLean, L., Wiechula, R., Lopez, V., Cleary, M. (2019). Burn care and rehabilitation in Australia: health professionals' perspectives. Disability and Rehabilitation, 41(6), 714-719. [More Information]
Proctor, M., Cleary, M., Kornhaber, R., McLean, L. (2019). Christians with chronic complex trauma and relationally focused spiritual difficulties: A conversational model perspective. Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 21(2), 77-110. [More Information]
Balu, D., McLean, L. (2019). Conversations of Care: A Narrative Review of Collaborative Care Systems for Foster and Kinship Care. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 40(2), 228-241. [More Information]
Taylor, J., McLean, L., Korner, A., Glozier, N. (2019). Direct and indirect psychological impacts of shark-bite events. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 53(1), 27-36. [More Information]
Holt, R., Kornhaber, R., Kwiet, J., Rogers, V., Shaw, J., Law, J., Proctor, M., Vandervord, J., Streimer, J., Visentin, D., McLean, L., et al (2019). Insecure adult attachment style is associated with elevated psychological symptoms in early adjustment to severe burn: A cross-sectional study. Burns, 45(6), 1359-1366. [More Information]
Cleary, M., Foong, A., Kornhaber, R., McLean, L., Visentin, D. (2019). Interprofessional Collaborations for Improved Health Care. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 40(12), 1045-1048. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., Foong, A., McLean, L., Kornhaber, R. (2019). Mental Health of Refugee Children: A Discursive Look at Causes, Considerations and Interventions. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 40(8), 665-671. [More Information]
Cleary, M., Visentin, D., West, S., Say, R., McLean, L., Kornhaber, R. (2018). Acid burn attacks: Looking beneath the surface. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74(8), 1737-1739. [More Information]
Cleary, M., Visentin, D., West, S., Andrews, S., McLean, L., Kornhaber, R. (2018). Bringing research to the bedside: Knowledge translation in the mental health care of burns patients. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27(6), 1869-1876. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., McLean, L., Kezelman, C., Karacsony, S., Kornhaber, R. (2018). Connecting past and present: Nurses' role in identifying signs of child sexual abuse in adults and supporting survivors. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27(6), 1587-1591. [More Information]
Halovic, S., Korner, A., McLean, L., Chapman, C., Haliburn, J., Stevenson, J., Butt, D., Graham, P., Malloch, S., Phillips, T., Meares, R. (2018). Development of the CoMTAS Conversational Model Therapy Adherence Scale. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 46(4), 511-536. [More Information]
Korner, A., McLean, L., Haliburn, J., Bains, J., Stevenson, J., Halovic, S., Williamson, M., Graham, P. (2018). Holding The Space, Protecting the Personal. Australasian Journal of Psychotherapy, 36(1), 8-21.
Moloney, B., Cameron, I., Baker, A., Feeney, J., Korner, A., Kornhaber, R., Cleary, M., McLean, L. (2018). Implementing a Trauma-Informed Model of Care in a Community Acute Mental Health Team. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 39(7), 547-553. [More Information]
McLean, L., Kornhaber, R., Holt, R., West, S., Kwiet, J., Visentin, D., Cleary, M. (2018). Introducing a Conversational Model Therapy Approach as a Team Model of Care: The Clinician Experience in a Sexual Assault Service. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 39(10), 821-828. [More Information]
Stevenson, J., Haliburn, J., Korner, A., Halovic, S., McLean, L. (2018). Mobilizing self through short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy: a preliminary report. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 32(4), 351-367. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., McLean, L., Betihavas, V., Cleary, M. (2018). Resilience and the rehabilitation of adult spinal cord injury survivors: A qualitative systematic review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74(1), 23-33. [More Information]
Cleary, M., Visentin, D., West, S., Foong, A., McLean, L., Kornhaber, R. (2018). Suicide by charcoal burning: a digital age phenomenon. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74(7), 1443-1445. [More Information]
Chen, R., Gillespie, A., Zhao, Y., Xi, Y., Ren, Y., McLean, L. (2018). The efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in children and adults who have experienced complex childhood trauma: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(APR), 1-11. [More Information]
Foong, A., Arthur, D., West, S., Kornhaber, R., McLean, L., Cleary, M. (2018). The mental health plight of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in detention. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75(2), 255-257. [More Information]
Mujezinovic, A., Kwiet, J., Kornhaber, R., Holt, R., Streimer, J., Vandervord, J., Rogers, V., Shaw, J., Law, J., Cleary, M., McLean, L. (2018). Type-D Personality and Elevated Psychological Symptoms In Early Adjustment of Severe Burn Injury Patients. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 39(4), 337-343. [More Information]
McLean, L., Chen, R., Kwiet, J., Streimer, J., Vandervord, J., Kornhaber, R. (2017). A clinical update on posttraumatic stress disorder in burn injury survivors. Australasian Psychiatry, 25(4), 348-350. [More Information]
Korner, A., McLean, L. (2017). Conversational model psychotherapy. Australasian Psychiatry, 25(3), 219-221. [More Information]
Kumar, S., McLean, L., Nash, L., Trigwell, K. (2017). Incorporating active learning in psychiatry education. Australasian Psychiatry, 25(3), 304-309. [More Information]
Skinner, L., McLean, L. (2017). The Conversational Model and Child and Family Counselling: Treating Chronic Complex Trauma in a Systemic Framework. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 38(2), 211-220. [More Information]
Kozlowska, K., Cruz, C., Davies, F., Brown, K., Palmer, D., McLean, L., Scher, S., Williams, L. (2016). The Utility (or Not) of Self-Report Instruments in Family Assessment for Child and Adolescent Conversion Disorders? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 37(4), 480-499. [More Information]
Kozlowska, K., Walker, P., McLean, L., Carrive, P. (2015). Fear and the Defense Cascade: Clinical Implications and Management. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 23(4), 263-287. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., Wilson, A., Abu-Qamar, M., McLean, L., Vandervord, J. (2015). Inpatient peer support for adult burn survivors-A valuable resource: A phenomenological analysis of the Australian experience. Burns, 41(1), 110-117. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., McLean, L., Baber, R. (2015). Ongoing ethical issues concerning authorship in biomedical journals: an integrative review. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 10, 4837-4846. [More Information]
Kozlowska, K., Palmer, D., Brown, K., McLean, L., Scher, S., Gevirtz, R., Chudleigh, C., Williams, L. (2015). Reduction of Autonomic Regulation in Children and Adolescents With Conversion Disorders. Psychosomatic Medicine, 77, 356-370. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., de Jong, A., McLean, L. (2015). Rigorous, robust and systematic: Qualitative research and its contribution to burn care. An integrative review. Burns, 41(8), 1619-1626. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., Wiechula, R., McLean, L. (2015). The effectiveness of collaborative models of care that facilitate rehabilitation from a traumatic injury: a systematic review. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 13(8), 190-210. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., Wiechula, R., McLean, L. (2015). The effectiveness of collaborative models of care that facilitate rehabilitation from a traumatic injury: a systematic review protocol. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 13(4), 100-113. [More Information]
McLean, L., Rogers, V., Kornhaber, R., Proctor, M., Kwiet, J., Streimer, J., Vandervord, J. (2015). The patient-body relationship and the "lived experience" of a facial burn injury: A phenomenological inquiry of early psychosocial adjustment. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 8, 377-387. [More Information]
Kuiper, S., McAulay, C., McLean, L., Malhi, G. (2015). The relationship between bipolar disorders, anxiety, and trauma - implications for clinical practice. Australasian Psychiatry, 23(4), 378-381. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., Wilson, A., Abu-Qamar, M., McLean, L. (2014). Adult burn survivors' personal experiences of rehabilitation: An integrative review. Burns, 40, 17-29. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., Wilson, A., Abu-Qamar, M., McLean, L. (2014). Coming to terms with it all: Adult burn survivors' 'lived experience' of acknowledgement and acceptance during rehabilitation. Burns, 40(4), 589-597. [More Information]
Kuiper, S., McLean, L., Fritz, K., Lampe, L., Malhi, G. (2013). Getting depression clinical practice guidelines right: time for change? Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica. Supplementum, 128(Suppl444), 24-30. [More Information]
Kuiper, S., McLean, L., Malhi, G. (2013). To BD or not to BD: functional neuroimaging and the boundaries of bipolarity. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 13(1), 75-87. [More Information]
McLean, L. (2011). On narratives and conversations. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 45(9), 788-788. [More Information]
Morel-Kopp, M., McLean, L., Chen, Q., Tofler, G., Tennant, C., Maddison, V., Ward, C. (2009). The association of depression with platelet activation: evidence for a treatment effect. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 7(4), 573-581. [More Information]
Flower, R., Kamhieh, S., McLean, L., Bode, L., Ludwig, H., Ward, C. (2008). Human Borna disease virus infection in Australia: Serological markers of infection in multi-transfused patients. A P M I S Supplementum, 116(124), 89-93. [More Information]
McLean, L., Tennant, C., Ward, C., Berry, G., Maddison, V., Chen, W., Morel-Kopp, M. (2005). Is fibrinogen a mediating risk factor between depression and cardiovascular disease? Preliminary results of a longitudinal case-control study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 39(Supplement 1, Point 309), A120-A121.
Tennant, C., McLean, L. (2001). The impact of emotions on coronary heart disease risk. Journal Of Cardiovascular Risk, 8, 175-183. [More Information]

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Conferences

Kozlowska, K., McLean, L. (2006). Attachment based psychotherapy: A workshop for psychotherapists, child and family psychiatrists, and clinicians working with abuse and trauma. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 40th Congress: Psychiatry in a Changing World, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.
Kozlowska, K., McLean, L. (2005). Towards a simpler model of psychodynamic assessment and formulation using ABCD - Psychotherapy (attachment based collaborative diagnosis-psychotherapy). The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 40th Congress: Psychiatry in a Changing World, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.

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2024

Cleary, M., West, S., Kaji Thapa, D., Hungerford, C., McLean, L., Johnston-Devin, C., Kornhaber, R. (2024). A Scoping Review of Equine-Assisted Therapies on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Autistic Children and Adolescents: Exploring the Possibilities. Issues in Mental Health Nursing. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., Johnston-Devin, C., Kornhaber, R., McLean, L., Hungerford, C. (2024). Collateral Damage: The Impacts of School Exclusion on the Mental Health of Parents Caring for Autistic Children. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 45(1), 3-8. [More Information]
Gutkin, M., Kanaan, R., McLean, L., Cartoon, J., Brown, R. (2024). Making meaning: The experience of Shared Individual Formulation Therapy in adults with functional neurological disorder. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., McLean, L., Johnston-Devin, C., Kornhaber, R., Hungerford, C. (2024). When the Education System and Autism Collide: An Australian Qualitative Study Exploring School Exclusion and the Impact on Parent Mental Health. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 45(5), 468-476. [More Information]

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2023

Cleary, M., West, S., McLean, L., Hunt, G., Hungerford, C., Kornhaber, R. (2023). A scoping review of autism and the way it changes the presentation of suicidal thoughts and behavior compared to the general population. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 44(4), 282-301. [More Information]
Yeates, S., Korner, A., McLean, L. (2023). A Systematic Review and Narrative Analysis of the Evidence for Individual Psychodynamically Informed Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. [More Information]
Jeyasingam, N., McLean, L., Mitchell, L., Wand, A. (2023). Attitudes to ageing amongst health care professionals: a qualitative systematic review. European Geriatric Medicine, 14(5), 889-908. [More Information]
Lele, K., McLean, L., Peisah, C. (2023). Beyond burnout I: Doctors health services and unmet need. Australasian Psychiatry, 31(2), 139-141. [More Information]
Lele, K., McLean, L., Peisah, C. (2023). Beyond burnout II: A case series of doctors seen in a new publicly funded doctors’ mental health service. Australasian Psychiatry, 31(2), 142-146. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., McLean, L. (2023). From ‘Refrigerator Mothers’ to Empowered Advocates: The Evolution of the Autism Parent. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 44(1), 64-70. [More Information]
Johnston-Devin, C., Mulvogue, J., Kornhaber, R., McLean, L., Cleary, M. (2023). Pain and Mental Health. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 44(1), 79-82. [More Information]
Leung, K., McCarthy, C., McLean, L. (2023). Post-traumatic stress disorder in doctors: Origins, approach and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy. Australasian Psychiatry, 31(2), 136-138. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., McLean, L., Kornhaber, R., Hungerford, C. (2023). Two Halves of the Same Whole: A Framework to Integrate Autism and Mental Health Services. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 44(2), 93-103. [More Information]

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2022

Taylor, J., Stratton, E., McLean, L., Richards, B., Glozier, N. (2022). How junior doctors perceive personalised yoga and group exercise in the management of occupational and traumatic stressors. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 98(1161), E10. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., Hunt, G., McLean, L., Hungerford, C., Kornhaber, R. (2022). How people with autism access mental health services specifically suicide hotlines and crisis support services, and current approaches to mental health care: A scoping review. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 43(12), 1093-1106. [More Information]
Orlik, S., Barnes, C., Karageorge, A., You, D., McLean, L., Proctor, M., Kornhaber, R., Nash, L. (2022). Transforming the journey together: Baseline findings from a longitudinal, co-designed study on psychiatry trainee experiences of training and wellbeing. Australasian Psychiatry, 30(3), 391-397. [More Information]
Collings, S., Conley Wright, A., McLean, L., Buratti, S. (2022). Trauma-informed Family Contact Practice for Children in Out-of-home Care. British Journal of Social Work, 52(4), 1837-1858. [More Information]

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2021

Holt, R., McLean, L. (2021). Australian Psychotherapy for Trauma Incorporating Neuroscience: Evidence- and Ethics-Informed Practice. Neuroethics, 14, S295-S309. [More Information]
Schafer, C., Kornhaber, R., McLean, L., Ingham, V., Cleary, M. (2021). Health Professionals in the Disaster Recovery Space. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 42(4), 401-404. [More Information]
Gutkin, M., Brown, R., McLean, L., Streimer, J., Kanaan, R. (2021). Shared Individual Formulation Therapy (SIFT): an open-label trial of a new therapy accommodating patient heterogeneity in functional neurological disorder. Journal of Neurology, 268(12), 4882-4889. [More Information]
Gutkin, M., McLean, L., Brown, R., Kanaan, R. (2021). Systematic review of psychotherapy for adults with functional neurological disorder. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 92(1), 36-44. [More Information]

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2020

Cleary, M., West, S., Hunt, G., McLean, L., Kornhaber, R. (2020). A Qualitative Systematic Review of Caregivers’ Experiences of Caring for Family Diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 41(8), 667-683. [More Information]
Cleary, M., Kornhaber, R., Visentin, D., West, S., Neil, A., Kezelman, C., McLean, L. (2020). Before, during and after: Trauma-informed care in burns settings. Burns, 46(5), 1170-1178. [More Information]
Alchin, D., McLean, L., Korner, A. (2020). Love in the time of Corona. Australasian Psychiatry, 28(5), 521-523. [More Information]
Cleary, M., Schafer, C., McLean, L., Visentin, D. (2020). Mental Health and Well-Being in the Health Workplace. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 41(2), 172-175. [More Information]
Taylor, J., McLean, L., Korner, A., Stratton, E., Glozier, N. (2020). Mindfulness and yoga for psychological trauma: systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 21(5), 536-573. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., Kornhaber, R., Visentin, D., Neil, A., Haik, J., Kezelman, C., McLean, L. (2020). Moving the lenses of trauma — Trauma-informed care in the burns care setting. Burns, 46(6), 1365-1372. [More Information]
Taylor, J., McLean, L., Richards, B., Glozier, N. (2020). Personalised yoga for burnout and traumatic stress in junior doctors. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 96(1136), 349-357. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., Kornhaber, R., McLean, L. (2020). Response: A trauma-informed model of care for self-immolation survivors and their families. Burns, 46(7), 1708. [More Information]

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2019

Kozlowska, K., Chung, J., Cruickshank, B., McLean, L., Scher, S., Dale, R., Mohammad, S., Singh-Grewal, D., Prabhuswamy, M., Patrick, E. (2019). Blood CRP levels are elevated in children and adolescents with functional neurological symptom disorder. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 28(4), 491-504. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., Rickard, G., McLean, L., Wiechula, R., Lopez, V., Cleary, M. (2019). Burn care and rehabilitation in Australia: health professionals' perspectives. Disability and Rehabilitation, 41(6), 714-719. [More Information]
Proctor, M., Cleary, M., Kornhaber, R., McLean, L. (2019). Christians with chronic complex trauma and relationally focused spiritual difficulties: A conversational model perspective. Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 21(2), 77-110. [More Information]
Balu, D., McLean, L. (2019). Conversations of Care: A Narrative Review of Collaborative Care Systems for Foster and Kinship Care. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 40(2), 228-241. [More Information]
Taylor, J., McLean, L., Korner, A., Glozier, N. (2019). Direct and indirect psychological impacts of shark-bite events. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 53(1), 27-36. [More Information]
Holt, R., Kornhaber, R., Kwiet, J., Rogers, V., Shaw, J., Law, J., Proctor, M., Vandervord, J., Streimer, J., Visentin, D., McLean, L., et al (2019). Insecure adult attachment style is associated with elevated psychological symptoms in early adjustment to severe burn: A cross-sectional study. Burns, 45(6), 1359-1366. [More Information]
Cleary, M., Foong, A., Kornhaber, R., McLean, L., Visentin, D. (2019). Interprofessional Collaborations for Improved Health Care. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 40(12), 1045-1048. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., Foong, A., McLean, L., Kornhaber, R. (2019). Mental Health of Refugee Children: A Discursive Look at Causes, Considerations and Interventions. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 40(8), 665-671. [More Information]

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2018

Cleary, M., Visentin, D., West, S., Say, R., McLean, L., Kornhaber, R. (2018). Acid burn attacks: Looking beneath the surface. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74(8), 1737-1739. [More Information]
Cleary, M., Visentin, D., West, S., Andrews, S., McLean, L., Kornhaber, R. (2018). Bringing research to the bedside: Knowledge translation in the mental health care of burns patients. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27(6), 1869-1876. [More Information]
Cleary, M., West, S., McLean, L., Kezelman, C., Karacsony, S., Kornhaber, R. (2018). Connecting past and present: Nurses' role in identifying signs of child sexual abuse in adults and supporting survivors. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27(6), 1587-1591. [More Information]
Halovic, S., Korner, A., McLean, L., Chapman, C., Haliburn, J., Stevenson, J., Butt, D., Graham, P., Malloch, S., Phillips, T., Meares, R. (2018). Development of the CoMTAS Conversational Model Therapy Adherence Scale. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 46(4), 511-536. [More Information]
Korner, A., McLean, L., Haliburn, J., Bains, J., Stevenson, J., Halovic, S., Williamson, M., Graham, P. (2018). Holding The Space, Protecting the Personal. Australasian Journal of Psychotherapy, 36(1), 8-21.
Moloney, B., Cameron, I., Baker, A., Feeney, J., Korner, A., Kornhaber, R., Cleary, M., McLean, L. (2018). Implementing a Trauma-Informed Model of Care in a Community Acute Mental Health Team. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 39(7), 547-553. [More Information]
McLean, L., Kornhaber, R., Holt, R., West, S., Kwiet, J., Visentin, D., Cleary, M. (2018). Introducing a Conversational Model Therapy Approach as a Team Model of Care: The Clinician Experience in a Sexual Assault Service. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 39(10), 821-828. [More Information]
Stevenson, J., Haliburn, J., Korner, A., Halovic, S., McLean, L. (2018). Mobilizing self through short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy: a preliminary report. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 32(4), 351-367. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., McLean, L., Betihavas, V., Cleary, M. (2018). Resilience and the rehabilitation of adult spinal cord injury survivors: A qualitative systematic review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74(1), 23-33. [More Information]
Cleary, M., Visentin, D., West, S., Foong, A., McLean, L., Kornhaber, R. (2018). Suicide by charcoal burning: a digital age phenomenon. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74(7), 1443-1445. [More Information]
Chen, R., Gillespie, A., Zhao, Y., Xi, Y., Ren, Y., McLean, L. (2018). The efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in children and adults who have experienced complex childhood trauma: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(APR), 1-11. [More Information]
Foong, A., Arthur, D., West, S., Kornhaber, R., McLean, L., Cleary, M. (2018). The mental health plight of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in detention. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75(2), 255-257. [More Information]
Mujezinovic, A., Kwiet, J., Kornhaber, R., Holt, R., Streimer, J., Vandervord, J., Rogers, V., Shaw, J., Law, J., Cleary, M., McLean, L. (2018). Type-D Personality and Elevated Psychological Symptoms In Early Adjustment of Severe Burn Injury Patients. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 39(4), 337-343. [More Information]

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2017

McLean, L., Chen, R., Kwiet, J., Streimer, J., Vandervord, J., Kornhaber, R. (2017). A clinical update on posttraumatic stress disorder in burn injury survivors. Australasian Psychiatry, 25(4), 348-350. [More Information]
Korner, A., McLean, L. (2017). Conversational model psychotherapy. Australasian Psychiatry, 25(3), 219-221. [More Information]
Kumar, S., McLean, L., Nash, L., Trigwell, K. (2017). Incorporating active learning in psychiatry education. Australasian Psychiatry, 25(3), 304-309. [More Information]
Skinner, L., McLean, L. (2017). The Conversational Model and Child and Family Counselling: Treating Chronic Complex Trauma in a Systemic Framework. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 38(2), 211-220. [More Information]

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2016

Kozlowska, K., Cruz, C., Davies, F., Brown, K., Palmer, D., McLean, L., Scher, S., Williams, L. (2016). The Utility (or Not) of Self-Report Instruments in Family Assessment for Child and Adolescent Conversion Disorders? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 37(4), 480-499. [More Information]

2015

McLean, L. (2015). Attachment theory. In P Boyce, A Harris, J Drobny, L Lampe, V Starcevic, and R Bryant (Eds.), The Sydney Handbook of Anxiety Disorders, (pp. 129-136). Sydney: University of Sydney.
Kozlowska, K., Walker, P., McLean, L., Carrive, P. (2015). Fear and the Defense Cascade: Clinical Implications and Management. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 23(4), 263-287. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., Wilson, A., Abu-Qamar, M., McLean, L., Vandervord, J. (2015). Inpatient peer support for adult burn survivors-A valuable resource: A phenomenological analysis of the Australian experience. Burns, 41(1), 110-117. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., McLean, L., Baber, R. (2015). Ongoing ethical issues concerning authorship in biomedical journals: an integrative review. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 10, 4837-4846. [More Information]
Kozlowska, K., Palmer, D., Brown, K., McLean, L., Scher, S., Gevirtz, R., Chudleigh, C., Williams, L. (2015). Reduction of Autonomic Regulation in Children and Adolescents With Conversion Disorders. Psychosomatic Medicine, 77, 356-370. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., de Jong, A., McLean, L. (2015). Rigorous, robust and systematic: Qualitative research and its contribution to burn care. An integrative review. Burns, 41(8), 1619-1626. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., Wiechula, R., McLean, L. (2015). The effectiveness of collaborative models of care that facilitate rehabilitation from a traumatic injury: a systematic review. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 13(8), 190-210. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., Wiechula, R., McLean, L. (2015). The effectiveness of collaborative models of care that facilitate rehabilitation from a traumatic injury: a systematic review protocol. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 13(4), 100-113. [More Information]
McLean, L., Rogers, V., Kornhaber, R., Proctor, M., Kwiet, J., Streimer, J., Vandervord, J. (2015). The patient-body relationship and the "lived experience" of a facial burn injury: A phenomenological inquiry of early psychosocial adjustment. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 8, 377-387. [More Information]
Kuiper, S., McAulay, C., McLean, L., Malhi, G. (2015). The relationship between bipolar disorders, anxiety, and trauma - implications for clinical practice. Australasian Psychiatry, 23(4), 378-381. [More Information]

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2014

Kornhaber, R., Wilson, A., Abu-Qamar, M., McLean, L. (2014). Adult burn survivors' personal experiences of rehabilitation: An integrative review. Burns, 40, 17-29. [More Information]
Kornhaber, R., Wilson, A., Abu-Qamar, M., McLean, L. (2014). Coming to terms with it all: Adult burn survivors' 'lived experience' of acknowledgement and acceptance during rehabilitation. Burns, 40(4), 589-597. [More Information]
McLean, L., Korner, A. (2014). Dreaming the (lost) self in psychotherapy: beings in bodyspacetime in collision, confusion and connection. In Loyola McLean, Lisa Stafford and Mark Weeks (Eds.), Exploring Bodies in Time and Space, (pp. 251-261). Freeland, United Kingdom: Inter-Disciplinary Press.

2013

Kuiper, S., McLean, L., Fritz, K., Lampe, L., Malhi, G. (2013). Getting depression clinical practice guidelines right: time for change? Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica. Supplementum, 128(Suppl444), 24-30. [More Information]
McLean, L. (2013). The Pilgrim Road Goes On: Psychotherapy and Spirituality Continue to Journey Together towards Healing and Human Flourishing. In John L. Hocheimer, William S. Schmidt (Eds.), Spirituality in the 21st Century: Explorations, (pp. 143-165). Oxford, United Kingdom: Interdisciplinary Press.
Kuiper, S., McLean, L., Malhi, G. (2013). To BD or not to BD: functional neuroimaging and the boundaries of bipolarity. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 13(1), 75-87. [More Information]

2011

McLean, L. (2011). On narratives and conversations. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 45(9), 788-788. [More Information]

2009

Morel-Kopp, M., McLean, L., Chen, Q., Tofler, G., Tennant, C., Maddison, V., Ward, C. (2009). The association of depression with platelet activation: evidence for a treatment effect. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 7(4), 573-581. [More Information]

2008

Flower, R., Kamhieh, S., McLean, L., Bode, L., Ludwig, H., Ward, C. (2008). Human Borna disease virus infection in Australia: Serological markers of infection in multi-transfused patients. A P M I S Supplementum, 116(124), 89-93. [More Information]

2006

Kozlowska, K., McLean, L. (2006). Attachment based psychotherapy: A workshop for psychotherapists, child and family psychiatrists, and clinicians working with abuse and trauma. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 40th Congress: Psychiatry in a Changing World, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.

2005

McLean, L., Tennant, C., Ward, C., Berry, G., Maddison, V., Chen, W., Morel-Kopp, M. (2005). Is fibrinogen a mediating risk factor between depression and cardiovascular disease? Preliminary results of a longitudinal case-control study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 39(Supplement 1, Point 309), A120-A121.
Kozlowska, K., McLean, L. (2005). Towards a simpler model of psychodynamic assessment and formulation using ABCD - Psychotherapy (attachment based collaborative diagnosis-psychotherapy). The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 40th Congress: Psychiatry in a Changing World, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.

2001

Tennant, C., McLean, L. (2001). The impact of emotions on coronary heart disease risk. Journal Of Cardiovascular Risk, 8, 175-183. [More Information]

Selected Grants

2023

Transforming the Journey Together: Exploring the experience of psychiatrytrainees using modified Adult Attachment Interviews (AAIs), Barnes C, McLean L, Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists/The RANZCP Psychotherapy Research Award

2017

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A mixed-methods study on the direct and indirect impacts on human behaviour following a shark/human related trauma, Glozier N, McLean L, Taylor J, Regional NSW/NSW Shark Management Strategy (SMS)

2015

Gender Dysphoria in Australian Children and Adolescents: Assessing Brain Structure and Function using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Kozlowska K, Korgaonkar M, Grieve S, Ambler G, Steinbeck K, Chudleigh C, Foster S, McLean L, DVC Research/HMR+ Implementation Fund - University
The implementation and evaluation of a trauma specific short-term Conversational Model Intervention for clients of the Northern Sydney Sexual Assault Service: team skill-building, culture change and fostering recovery, Hassanyi A, McLean L, Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD)/Ramsay Research and Teaching Fund Grant

2008

The foundation of a psychosocial database on recovery from burns injuries and a pilot longitudinal s, McLean L, Streimer J, Vandervord J, Northern Sydney and Central Coast Area Health Service/Research Support

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