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Professor Graham Martin, OAM, MBBS, FRANZCP, MD

Position:

Professor in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Queensland

Contact Details:

Tel: +61 3 3365
Fax: +61 3 3365
Email: g.martin@uq.edu.au

Profile:

Professor Graham Martin has been dedicated to suicide prevention since 1988. As a result of over 20 research projects into Early Detection and Prevention of Depression and Suicide, he was appointed to the Advisory Council of the Australian National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy and the Evaluation Working Group from 1994 -1999. More recently he has been appointed to the National Advisory Board for Suicide Prevention, is a member of the Evaluation Working Group for the ‘Mind Matters’ program, and the Advisory Board of Inspire Foundation’s ‘Reach Out!’ Program. He was National Chair for Suicide Prevention Australia from 1995 to 2001, led the team that developed the first Media and Suicide Resource Kit (‘Achieving the Balance’) for the Commonwealth Department of Health in 1998, and contributed to the national ‘LiFe’ Strategy documents as a member of the development group in 2000 and again with the rewrite in 2007. Graham is a member of the Queensland Expert Advisory Group on Suicide Prevention the Advisory Committee for the Queensland Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, and a board member for BoysTown Australia.

He has been interested in the role of music, television and the media since 1993, and has published work on a wide range of topics including celebrity suicide and its aftermath. More recently he has followed interests in self-injury as it relates to suicide, and spirituality and its role in preventing suicide. Professor Martin was one of the originators of the ‘Auseinet’ program from 1997, and was Director of the Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention until moving to Queensland in 2001. He remains actively involved with Auseinet as a board member and as Editor in Chief of the online journal AeJAMH – the Australian eJournal for the Advancement of Mental Health.

Graham was made a Life Member of Suicide Prevention Australia in 2004, a Gold Companion for the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund in 2005, awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2006, and recently awarded a ‘Jackstar’ award for his 10 years of contribution to Inspire Foundation’s Reach Out program.

Graham Martin is currently Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The University of Queensland, and Clinical Director of Royal Children’s Hospital and District Child and Youth Mental Health Service. He has over 70 peer reviewed academic published papers, and is one of the editors of “Mental Health Promotion and Young People; Concepts and Challenges” (McGraw Hill, Sydney), recently published in Italian and now translated into Korean.

Research Interests:

The current focus of research is:

  • Adolescent self injury
  • Adolescent suicide, its determinants and possible preventative programs;
  • Depression in young people
  • Burns rehabilitation in children and adolescents
  • Early detection of mental health problems and disorder
  • Mental health promotion
  • Attitudes in young people to Drugs and Alcohol

Publications:

Books

  1. Rowling, L., Martin, G. & Walker, L. (Eds.). (2004). La promozione della salute mentale e I giovani: Teorie e pratiche. Translated into Italian by Alessandro Grispini e Pompeo Martelli. Psicologia McGraw Hill, Milano, Italy. ISBN 88 386 2793-2.

Book Chapters

  1. Martin, G & Kay, T., (2004). On adolescence and having a parent with mental illness. In V. Cowling (Ed.), Children of Parents with Mental Illness. ACER, Melbourne. ISBN 0 86431 473 6
  2. *Martin G. (2004). Depression in Children. Chapter 28, in Mood Disorders, Recognition and Treatment. (Eds) Peter Joyce and Philip Mitchell. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney. ISBN 0 86840 447 0.
  3. *Martin G. (2004). La prevenzione del suicidio attraverso la promozione della salute mentale nell’arco della vito. I giovani sani e felici non si suicidano, vero? Chapter 13 in Rowling, L., Martin, G. & Walker, L. (Eds.), 2004. La promozione della salute mentale e I giovani: Teorie e pratiche. Translated into Italian by Alessandro Grispini e Pompeo Martelli. Psicologia McGraw Hill, Milano, Italy. ISBN 88 386 2793-2.
  4. Rowling, L. & Martin, G., (2004). La promozione della salute mentale e I giovani. I possimi dieci anni. Chapter 14 in Rowling, L., Martin, G. & Walker, L. (Eds.), 2004. La promozione della salute mentale e I giovani: Teorie e pratiche. Translated into Italian by Alessandro Grispini e Pompeo Martelli. Psicologia McGraw Hill, Milano, Italy. ISBN 88 386 2793-2.

Journal articles

  1. *Martin, G., Bergen, H., Roeger, L & Allison, S. (in press). Physical, Sexual and Emotional Abuse (multiple and discrete): Associations with internalising and externalising symptoms in community adolescents. Child Abuse and Neglect. Accepted October 2006.
  2. *Richardson, A., Bergen, H., Martin, G., Roeger, L. and Allison, S. (2005). Perceived academic performance as an indicator of risk of attempted suicide in young adolescents. Archives of Suicide Research, 9, 163-176.
  3. *Bergen, H., Martin, G., Allison, S. & Roeger, L. (2005). Perceived academic performance and alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use: longitudinal relationships in young community adolescents. Journal of Addictive Behaviours, 30, 1563-1573.
  4. *Martin, G., Richardson, A. S., Bergen, H. A., Roeger, L., & Allison, S. (2005). Perceived Academic Performance, Self-Esteem and Locus of Control as Indicators of Need for Assessment of Adolescent Suicide Risk: Implications for teachers. Journal of Adolescence, 27, 75-87.
  5. *Bergen, H., Martin, G., Richardson, A., Allison, S. & Roeger, L. (2004). Sexual Abuse, Antisocial Behaviour and Substance Abuse: Gender and Age Differences in Young Community Adolescents. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 38, 34–41.
  6. Tan, E., Hannah, D., Chant, D., Martin, G. (2004). Gundhu Adolescent Wing: providing adolescent beds in a rural acute mental health unit. Australasian Psychiatry, 12, 396-400.
  7. Martin, G., Bergen, H., Richardson, A., Allison, S. & Roeger, L. (2004). Profiles of Self-confessed fire-setters in a large community sample of young adolescents. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 38,148-154.
  8. *Martin, G., Bergen, H., Richardson, A., Allison, S. & Roeger, L. (2004). Sexual Abuse and Suicidality: Gender Differences in a Community Sample of Adolescents. Child Abuse and Neglect, 28, 491-503.
  9. Stathis, S. & Martin G. (2004). A Transdisciplinary Approach to Adolescent Forensic Mental Health. Australasian Psychiatry. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 38, 746-752.
  10. Martin, G., Bergen, H., Allison, S. & Roeger, L. (2004). Depression in young adolescents: Investigations using 2 and 3 factor versions of the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI). The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease., 192, 650-657.
  11. Allison, S., Stacey K., Dadds, V., Roeger, L., Wood, A. & Martin, G., (2003). What the family brings: Gathering evidence for strengths-based work. Journal of Family Therapy, 258, 263–284.
  12. *Bergen, H., Martin, G., Richardson, A., Allison, S. & Roeger, L. (2003). Sexual Abuse and Suicidal Behavior: A model constructed from a large community sample of adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 42, 1301-1309.

Conference Papers published in Proceedings

  1. *Martin, G. (2004). Public Health Approaches to Suicide Prevention: Is the Rhetoric of National Strategy more important than the Reality of Evidence in Shaping Effective programs (Abst.). 16th World Congress of the IACAPAP, Berlin, Germany.
  2. Blood RW, Pirkis J, Hickie I, & Martin G. (2003). The Pill That Killed: A case study of how Australian media frame health risk. ANZCA2003 conference. Online at http://www.bgsb.qut.edu.au/conferences/ANZCA03/Proceedings/default.htm
  3. Martin, G. (2003). The Prevention of Severe Conduct Disorder In Proceedings from a 2 day NZ National Conference Severe Conduct Disorder John Werry (Ed.), University of Auckland, NZ.
  4. Martin, G., Richardson, A., Bergen, H., Roeger, L. & Allison, S. (2003). Profiles of young adolescents in a large community sample who admit to graffiti. Australian Institute of Criminology. Conference presentation. Online at http://www.aic.gov.au
  5. Martin, G. (2002). Relapse prevention in child and adolescent practice. Contemporary Clinical Challenges in Psychiatry. Pfizer NeuroScience. Professional Communications (Australia) Pty Limited, Sydney.
  6. *Martin, G. (2002). Management of depression and suicide in general practice. In The Missing Link; Adolescent Mental Health in General Practice. University Program for General Practitioners, Merck, Sharp & Dome, Alpha Biomedical Communications, Sydney, ISBN 1-876101-08-3. 72-82.

Commissioned Reviews, Papers and Reports

  1. Martin, G., Best, D., Philips, N. & Sewell, J. (2007). Getting it Right. Hunter New England Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Review.
  2. Martin, G. (2006). The Department of Child Safety, Queensland Government. External Review of Process in Case Management (The Eastment Review).
  3. Martin, G., Kay, T., Swannell, S., Shortt A., Fischer, J., and Bergen H. (2006). Attitudes of Young People to Drugs and Alcohol. The Australian National Council on Drugs.
  4. Martin, G. & Kay, T. (2004). The National ‘Children of Parents with a Mental Illness (COPMI) program’. An Evaluation.
  5. Martin, G., Parham, J., O’Hanlon, A., Allerston, C. & Kay, T. (2004). Results of a National Consumer Survey and an Agency Survey regarding Remuneration for Consumer contributions to Mental Health Services. AUSEINET, Flinders University.
  6. Martin, G. (2003). Royal Children’s Hospital and Health Service District, Child and Family Therapy Unit (CFTU). Critical Incident Review. University of Queensland.
  7. Pearson, J & Martin G. (2003). Review of the Bayside Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS). University of Queensland.
  8. O'Hanlon, A., Ratnaike, D., Parham, J., Kosky, R. & Martin, G. (2002). Building capacity for mental health: A two and a half year follow-up of the Auseinet reorientation of services projects. Adelaide: Auseinet.