Jai Carmichael

My PhD research aims to validate a transdiagnostic model of emotional dysfunction after traumatic brain injury. I am trained in neuropsychological syndromes, assessment, and rehabiltiation, developmental neuropsychology, functional neuroanatomy, models of cognition, psychopathology, psychopharmacology, and cognitive and behaviour therapies. I have completed supervised clinical placements delivering neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation across community adult and youth psychiatric clinics, a community paediatric neurodevelopmental clinic, and a community adult acquired brain injury rehabilitation service. I am passionate about psychosocial recovery after acquired brain injury, quantitative models of psychopathology, mental health and suicide prevention, teaching, supervision, mentoring.

• Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (2020-2023)
• Kevin Walsh Award, for most outstanding Honours/Masters student at the ASSBI-NZRA Conference (2019)
• Stella Crossley Prize, for highest aggregate mark in second-year core Psychology units (2016)
• Monash Scholarship for Excellence and Equity (2015-2018)

Carmichael, J., Hicks, A. J., Spitz, G., Gould, K. R., & Ponsford, J. (2021). Moderators of gene-outcome associations following traumatic brain injury. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 130, 107-124.

Carmichael, J. J., Hicks, A. J., Gould, K. R., Feeney, T. J., Analytis, P., & Ponsford, J. L. (2021). ‘We struggle and muddle.’A qualitative study exploring community ABI therapists’ experiences of using, training in and implementing behaviour interventions. Brain Impairment, 22(1), 34-49.

Carmichael, J. J., Gould, K. R., Hicks, A. J., Feeney, T. J., & Ponsford, J. L. (2020). Understanding Australian community ABI therapists’ preferences for training in and implementing behaviour interventions: A focus on Positive Behaviour Support. Brain Impairment, 21(2), 191-207.

Carmichael, J., Spitz, G., Gould, K. R., Ponsford, J. Validating a transdiagnostic model of psychopathology following traumatic brain injury. Conference on Transdiagnostic Approaches to Mental Health; 2021 September 24th, Manchester, England (online)

Carmichael, J., The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale does not reliably differentiate anxiety and depression: A bifactor analysis in a large traumatic brain injury cohort. Victorian College of Clinical Neuropsychologists Student Research Symposium; 2021 September 14th, Melbourne, Australia

Carmichael J., Hicks, A. J., Ponsford, J. Genetic moderation following traumatic brain injury: What is it, why does it occur, and how do we address it? 6th Pacific Rim Conference; 2021 July 4th, Melbourne, Australia

Carmichael, J., Gould, K., Hicks, A., Feeney, T., Ponsford, J. Readiness of community ABI therapists to learn and implement Positive Behaviour Support: A mixed-methods study. ASSBI-NZRA Inaugural Trans-Tasman Conference; 2019 May 4th, Wellington, New Zealand

Completed student supervision:

2021, Honours: Reconceptualising the Factor Structure of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) in Traumatic Brain Injury: Assessing the Dominance of a General Distress Factor (first-class honours, top 10% of cohort)

2021, Honours: The Contribution of Genetic Polymorphisms to Emotional Distress in the Early Years Following Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (first-class honours)

• Behavioral Brain Research

E: jai.carmichael@monash.edu

Twitter: @jai_carmichael_

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kpiDvjYAAAAJ&hl=en

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jai-Carmichael