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Dr. Pamela Snow, Senior Lecturer

Biography

Dr. Pamela Snow is located at the School of Rural Health at Lister House in Bendigo. She is both a psychologist and speech pathologist and her research interests cover various aspects of risk in childhood and adolescence, in particular the oral language skills of juvenile offenders, investigative interviewing of child witnesses, and alcohol and other drug education/prevention. Dr Snow convenes the Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma in Mental Health for Teaching Professions and also co-ordinates the Psychiatry component of MED4071 at the Bendigo Regional Clinical School.

Professional Activities

  • Registered Psychologist, State of Victoria
  • Member, Australian Psychological Society (Member, College of Health Psychologists; Committee Member, Bendigo Branch)
  • Member, Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
  • Member, Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and the Law.
  • Associate Member, US National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
  • Member, Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment (A.S.S.B.I.) 1982 - 2005. (President 1993-1995)
 Dr. Pamela Snow

Collaborations

  • Centre for Youth Drug Studies, Australian Drug Foundation
  • School of Psychology, Deakin University
  • School of Public Health, La Trobe University
  • Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children's Hospital
  • Transport Accidents Commission
  • Centre for Integrated Health Research, Edinburgh
  • Magill Youth Training Centre, Adelaide, SA
  • Juvenile Justice, Loddon-Mallee Region

Grant Support

  • Australian Research Council (Discovery Program)
  • Criminology Research Council
  • Department of Education, Science and Training
  • Department of Human Services
  • Department of Education and Training

Publications

Ward, B.L., Dickson-Swift , V., James, E.L., Snow, P.C. , Spark, J. & Verrinder, A. (in press) Incorporating research training into undergraduate pharmacy courses: A case study from Australia. Pharmacy Education.

Murfett, R., Powell, M.B., & Snow, P.C. (in press) The effect of intellectual disability on children’s adherence to a ‘story-telling’ framework during an investigative interview. Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability

Harris, S., James, E.L. & Snow, P.C. (in press). Pre-discharge occupational therapy home visits: Towards an evidence-base. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal.

Snow, P.C. & Powell, M.B. (2008) Oral language competence, social skills, and high risk boys: What are juvenile offenders trying to tell us? Children and Society 22, 16-28.

Douglas, J.M., Bracy, C.A. & Snow, P.C. (2007) Exploring the factor structure of the La Trobe Communication Questionnaire: Insights into the nature of communication deficits following traumatic brain injury. Aphasiology 21(12), 1181 – 1194.

Powell, M.B. & Snow, P.C. (2007) Recommendations for eliciting a disclosure of abuse from a young child. Australian Police Journal, 61(2), 76-80.

Douglas, J.M., Bracy, C.A. & Snow, P.C. (2007) Measuring perceived communicative ability after traumatic brain injury: Reliability and discriminant validity of the La Trobe Communication Questionnaire. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 22(1), 31-38.

Powell, M.B. & Snow, P.C. (2007) A guide to questioning children during the free-narrative phase of an interview about abuse. Australian Psychologist, 42(1), 57-65.

Lewis, C., Dickson-Swift, V., Talbot, L., & Snow, P. (2007) Regional tertiary students and living away from home: A priceless experience that costs too much? Australian Journal of Social Issues 42(4), 531-547.

James, E.L., Graham, M., Snow, P.C. , Ward, B. (2006) Teaching research and epidemiology to undergraduate students in the health sciences. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 30(6), 575 – 578.

Ward, B., Snow, P., Munro, G., Graham, M. & Dickson-Swift, V. (2006). “It starts with the parents and ends with the parents” The attitudes, knowledge and practices of metropolitan parents in relation to teenage alcohol use. Australasian Journal of Road Safety, 17(3), 20-28.

Snow, P. & Munro, G. (2006). Alcohol (mis)use in metropolitan amateur football clubs. Healthy Lifestyles Journal 53(2), 7-11.

Perrin, B. & Snow, P. (2006). Foot-care confidence in people with diabetes. Australasian Journal of Podiatric Medicine, 40(1), 3-8. Jointly published in British Journal of Podiatry, 9(1), 95-99.

Agnew, S. E., Powell, M.B., & Snow, P.C. (2006).  An examination of the questioning styles of police officers and caregivers when interviewing children with intellectual disabilities Legal & Criminological Psychology. 11(1), 35-53.

Graham, M., Ward, B., Munro, G., Snow, P. & Ellis, J. (2006).  Rural parents, teenagers and alcohol: What are parents thinking? Rural and Remote Health 6 (online), 383. Available from: http://rrh.deakin.edu.au

Snow, P.C. & Powell, M.B. (2005). What’s the story? An exploration of narrative language abilities in male juvenile offenders. Psychology, Crime and Law 11(3) 239-253.

Snow, P. & Powell, M. (2004). Interviewing juvenile offenders: The importance of oral language competence. Current Issues in Criminal Justice 16(2), 220-225.

Snow, P.C. & Powell, M.B. (2004) Developmental language disorders and adolescent risk: A public-health advocacy role for speech pathologists? Advances in Speech Language Pathology 6(4), 221-229.

Toumbourou, J.W., Williams, I.R., White, V.M., Snow, P.C. , Munro, G. & Schofield, P. (2004). Prediction of alcohol related harm from controlled drinking strategies and alcohol consumption trajectories. Addiction 99, 498-508.