Anne Sved-Williams

APrf Anne Sved-Williams

School of Medicine

College of Health

Anne Sved Williams MBBS FRANZCP Dip Psychother. TITLEHOLDER.Anne Sved Williams currently works at the Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide. Anne does research in the treatment of mentally ill mothers and their families, with a particular interest in borderline personality disorder and advocacy. Her most recent publication is 'Perinatal and infant mental health: Further fruitful twists of Rubik’s cube'.

My research is mainly in the field of perinatal borderline personality disorder (PBPD).  In particular, we have been evaluating the benefits of a new program we have initiated - Mother-Infant Dialectical Behaviour therapy and there are many spin-off projects available with this research.  In addition my work with mothers with PBPD has led me to see there are many many gaps in the literature around PBPD as it has been highly under-researched eg in comparison to postnatal depression despite a significant prevalence

Date Position Institution name
2019 - ongoing Senior Consultant Psychiatrist Womens and Childrens Health Network, South Australia
2019 - ongoing Associate Professor University of Adelaide
2005 - 2008 Psychiatric consultant South Australian Divisions of General Practice
1995 - 2019 Director Women's and Children's Hospital

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2019 Award Ann Morgan Literary Prize, , 2019 Australian Association of Infant Mental Health (Vic Branch) Australia -
2019 Recognition Australasian Marce Society Medallist, 2019 Australasian Marce Society Australia -
2012 Award Member of Order of Australia Australian Government Australia -

Year Citation
2024 Rimmington, D., Roberts, R., Sawyer, A., & Sved-Williams, A. (2024). Dissociation in mothers with borderline personality disorder: a possible mechanism for transmission of intergenerational trauma? A scoping review.. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 11(1), 7-1-7-24.
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2024 Giles, A., Sved Williams, A., Webb, S., Drioli-Phillips, P., & Winter, A. (2024). A thematic analysis of the subjective experiences of mothers with borderline personality disorder who completed Mother-Infant Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: a 3-year follow-up. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 11(1, article no. 25), 25-1-25-15.
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2023 May, A., Balzan, R., Williams, A. S., Wade, T. D., & Paranjothy, S. M. (2023). Interventions for perinatal borderline personality disorder and complex trauma: a systematic review. Archives of Women S Mental Health, 26(3), 295-309.
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2023 Osborne, J., Mattiske, J., Winter, A., & Sved Williams, A. (2023). Reflective functioning and mother–infant relationships among mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder post‐therapy. Infant Mental Health Journal, 44(5), 679-690.
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2022 Williams, A. S., Osborn, A., Yelland, C., & Hollamby, S. (2022). Correction to: Changing intergenerational patterns of emotional dysregulation in families with perinatal borderline personality disorder (Archives of Women's Mental Health, (2021), 24, 4, (641-648), 10.1007/s00737-021-01119-2). Archives of Women S Mental Health, 25(3), 675-678.
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2022 Beaumont, T., Sved-Williams, A., & Hill, R. (2022). “A service we know was missing”: bridging the gap between referral to admission for women with moderate-severe perinatal mental health disorders at an Australian psychiatric mother-baby unit. Australasian Psychiatry, 30(6), 712-717.
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2022 Francis, J. L., Sawyer, A., Roberts, R., Yelland, C., Drioli‐Phillips, P., & Sved Williams, A. E. (2022). Mothers with borderline personality disorders' experiences of mother–infant dialectical behavior therapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 79(5), 1245-1260.
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2021 Sved-Williams, A., Osborn, A., Yelland, C., & Hollamby, S. (2021). Changing intergenerational patterns of emotional dysregulation in families with perinatal borderline personality disorder. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 24(4), 641-648.
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2021 Brann, P., Culjak, G., Kowalenko, N., Dickson, R., Coombs, T., Sved Williams, A., . . . Burgess, P. (2021). The interrater reliability of a routine outcome measure for infants and pre-schoolers aged under 48 months: Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Infants. Bjpsych Open, 7(3), e85.
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2021 Brann, P., Culjak, G., Kowalenko, N., Dickson, R., Coombs, T., Burgess, P., . . . Hoyland, M. (2021). Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Infants field trial: Concurrent validity. Bjpsych Open, 7(4), 8 pages.
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2019 Galbally, M., Sved-Williams, A., Kristianopulos, D., Mercuri, K., Brown, P., & Buist, A. (2019). Comparison of public mother–baby psychiatric units in Australia: similarities, strengths and recommendations. Australasian Psychiatry, 27(2), 112-116.
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2019 Hill, R., Law, D., Yelland, C., & Sved Williams, A. (2019). Treatment of postpartum psychosis in a mother-baby unit: do both mother and baby benefit?. Australasian Psychiatry, 27(2), 121-124.
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2019 Geerling, I., Roberts, R. M., & Sved Williams, A. (2019). Impact of infant crying on mothers with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder: A qualitative study. Infant Mental Health Journal, 40(3), 405-421.
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2019 Sved Williams, A. (2019). What’s new in perinatal psychiatry?. Australasian Psychiatry, 27(2), 109-110.
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2019 Fletcher, R., Campbell, L., Sved Williams, A., Rawlinson, C., Dye, J., Baldwin, A., . . . StGeorge, J. (2019). SMS4 perinatal parents: designing parenting support via text messages for mothers with severe mental illness (SMI) and their partners. Advances in Mental Health, 17(1), 85-95.
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2018 Sved Williams, A. (2018). Perinatal and infant mental health: Further fruitful twists of Rubik’s cube. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 52(4), 313-315.
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2018 Apter, G., & Sved Williams, A. E. (2018). Infants of emotionally dysregulated or borderline personality disordered mothers: Issues and management in primary care. Australian journal of general practice, 47(4), 200-203.
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2018 Sved Williams, A. E., Yelland, C., Hollamby, S., Wigley, M., & Aylward, P. (2018). A New Therapeutic Group to Help Women with Borderline Personality Disorder and Their Infants. Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 24(5), 331-340.
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2017 Sved Williams, A. E. (2017). Perinatal and infant mental health in Australia: Moving forward towards REAL prevention and early intervention - can we do it?. Australasian Psychiatry, 25(3), 274-276.
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2017 Williams, A., & Apter, G. (2017). Helping mothers with the emotional dysregulation of borderline personality disorder and their infants in primary care settings. Australian Family Physician, 46(9), 669-672.
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2016 Connerty, T. J., Roberts, R., & Sved Williams, A. (2016). Managing Life, Motherhood and Mental Health After Discharge from a Mother–Baby Unit: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. Community Mental Health Journal, 52(8), 954-963.
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2016 Gradisar, M., Jackson, K., Spurrier, N., Gibson, J., Whitham, J., Sved-Williams, A., . . . Kennaway, D. (2016). Behavioral interventions for infant sleep problems: a randomized controlled trial. Pediatrics, 137(6), e20151486-1-e20151486-10.
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2015 Yelland, C., Girke, T., Tottman, C., & Williams, A. S. (2015). Clinical characteristics and mental health outcomes for women admitted to an Australian Mother– Baby Unit: a focus on borderline personality disorder and emotional dysregulation?. Australasian Psychiatry, 23(6), 683-687.
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2013 Williams, A. S. (2013). Commentary: The more things change⋯. Australasian Psychiatry, 21(3), 213-215.
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2013 Kowalenko, N. M., Mares, S. P., Newman, L. K., Sved Williams, A. E., Powrie, R. M., & van Doesum, K. T. M. (2013). Family matters: infants, toddlers and preschoolers of parents affected by mental illness. The Medical Journal of Australia, 199(3), S14-S17.
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2011 Lange, R., & Sved-Williams, A. (2011). Linking adults' problems with children's pain: Legal, ethical and clinical issues. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 18(2), 232-239.
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2011 Sved-Williams, A., Sougleris, C., & Howell, C. (2011). How acceptable are one-off consultations for consumers? Further information on Item 291. Australasian Psychiatry, 19(1), 70-73.
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2010 Sved-Williams, A., & Poulton, J. (2010). Primary care mental health consultation-liaison: a connecting system for private psychiatrists and general practitioners. Australasian Psychiatry, 18(2), 125-129.
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2010 Sved-Williams, A. (2010). Clinical Teach-In: Challenges of working with infants of severely mentally ill mothers. INFANT MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL, 31(3), 71.
2007 Sved-Williams, A. (2007). Antidepressants in pregnancy and breastfeeding. Australian Prescriber, 30(5), 125-127.
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2007 Sved-Williams, A., & Roxburgh, H. (2007). Counselling in graphics - Visual aids for distressed patients and their doctors. Australian Family Physician, 36(1-2), 57-60.
2007 Buist, A., Ellwood, D., Brooks, J., Milgrom, J., Hayes, B. A., Sved-Williams, A., . . . Bilszta, J. (2007). National program for depression associated with childbirth: the Australian experience. Best Practice and Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 21(2), 193-206.
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2006 Sved-Williams, A., & Poulton, J. (2006). Supporting mental health in the community: new systems for general practice. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 12(2), 105-112.
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2006 Sved-Williams, A., Dodding, C., Wilson, I., Fuller, J., & Wade, V. (2006). Consultation-liaison to general practitioners coming of age: the South Australian psychiatrists' experience. Australasian Psychiatry, 14(2), 206-211.
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2005 Wilhelm, K., Peel, G., Sutton, V., Finch, A., & Sved-Williams, A. (2005). Small groups for supporting GPs' professional development in mental health disease--an evaluation.. Australian Family Physician, 34(9), 791-794.
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2004 Williams, A. S. (2004). Medical practitioners and their families as patients. Australasian Psychiatry, 12(1), 18-22.
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2003 Sved-Williams, A. (2003). Family therapy and infant mental health: natural partners. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 24(1), 26-32.
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2001 Sved Williams, A. (2001). Early parent-infant attachment: What can the GP do to help?. Medicine Today, 2(9), 71-77.
1998 Williams, A. S. (1998). A group for the adult daughters of mentally ill mothers: Looking backwards and forwards. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 71(1), 73-83.
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1996 Barber, R., & Sved Williams, A. (1996). Psychiatrists working in primary care: A survey of general practitioners' attitudes. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 30(2), 278-286.
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1996 Stamp, G., Sved-Williams, A., & Crowther, C. (1996). Predicting postnatal depression among pregnant women. Birth, 23(4), 218-223.
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1995 Stamp, G., Sved-Williams, A., & Crowther, C. (1995). Evaluation of antenatal and postnatal support to overcome postnatal depression: a randomized, controlled trial. Birth, 22(3), 138-143.
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1994 Williams, A. S., & Shaw, K. (1994). Supervision: The supervisor's perspective. Australasian Psychiatry, 2(1), 11-15.
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1994 Shaw, K., & Williams, A. S. (1994). Supervision: The trainee's perspective and a proposed curriculum. Australasian Psychiatry, 2(2), 49-54.
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1992 Sved-Williams, A. E. (1992). Phobic reactions of mothers to their own babies. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 26(4), 631-638.
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1991 Sved‐Williams, A. E., Burnett, P., & Hawker, F. (1991). When Strategic Approaches get Stuck: Maps out of the Mire. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 12(1), 9-16.
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1989 SVED‐WILLIAMS, A. (1989). Letters. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 10(4), 254.
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- Sved Williams, A., & Jonsson-Harrison, M. (2018). Using Picture-Story Books to Help Families Understand Turbulent Parental Emotions in Families with Small Children. Journal of Parent and Family Mental Health, 3(3), e1009.
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Year Citation
2016 Milgrom, J., Ericksen, J., & Sved-Williams, A. (2016). Impact of parental psychiatric illness on infant development. In A. -L. Sutter-Dallay, N. -C. Glangeaud-Freudenthal, A. Guedeney, & A. Riecher-Rossler (Eds.), Joint Care of Parents and Infants in Perinatal Psychiatry (pp. 47-78). Switzerland: Springer.
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2014 Morrell, C. J., Cubison, J., Ricketts, T., Williams, A. S., & Hall, P. (2014). Training Health-Care Professionals for the Assessment and Management of Perinatal Depression and Anxiety. In Identifying Perinatal Depression and Anxiety Evidence Based Practice in Screening Psychosocial Assessment and Management (pp. 210-227). Wiley.
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2008 Sved-Williams, A. (2008). Increasing knowledge, increasing hope for infants?. In A. Williams, & V. Cowling (Eds.), Infants of Parents with Mental Illness (pp. 1-12). Australia: Australian Academic Press Pty Ltd.
2008 Sved-Williams, A., Ellershaw, S., Mader, L., & Seyfang, M. (2008). Working With Severely Mentally Ill Mothers and Their Infants in a Mother-Baby Inpatient Unit. In A. Williams, & V. Cowling (Eds.), Infants of Parents with Mental Illness (pp. 176-194). Queensland: Australian Academic Press Pty Ltd.
2004 Sved-Williams, A. (2004). Infants of mothers with mental illness. In Vicki Cowling (Ed.), Children of parents with mental illness 2 - Personal and clinical perspectives (pp. 17-40). 19 Prospect Hill Road, Camberwell, Melbourne, Vic 3124: ACER Press.

Year Citation
2018 Jureidini, E., Sved-Williams, A., & Yelland, C. (2018). EXPERIENCE OF NEW MOTHERS WITH BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER COMPLETING A MOTHER-INFANT DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOUR THERAPY GROUP: AN INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS. In AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY Vol. 52 (pp. 89-90). SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD.
2016 Gradisar, M., Jackson, K., Spurrier, N., Gibson, J., Whitham, J., Sved-Williams, A., . . . Kennaway, D. (2016). A randomised controlled trial of behavioural treatments for infant sleep problems: effects on sleep, infant and maternal stress, and attachment. In JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH Vol. 25 (pp. 138). Bologna, ITALY: WILEY-BLACKWELL.
2005 Buist, A., Barnett, B., Sved-Williams, A., & Kowalenko, N. (2005). Perinatal and infant mental health symposium. In AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY Vol. 39 (pp. A124). SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD.

Year Citation
2024 May, A., Balzan, R., E, S. W. A., & Wade, T. (2024). The Validity and Reliability of the Self-Report Zanarini Rating Scale for Borderline Personality Disorder in University Students.
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Research Grants
Title of Grant Investigators Funding Organisation (incl. ARHRF) Total Funding Years Comments
Urgent Psychiatric Advice, South Australia Dr Victoria Wade, Dr Anne Sved Williams Department of Health and Aging (DoHA) $388,937 2004-5 Telephone and one-off consultation service
New Urgent Psychiatric Advice, South Australia Dr Victoria Wade, Dr Anne Sved-Williams DoHA $123,475     Evaluation of the use of Item 291 by psychiatrists
GP-PASA 291 Dr Victoria Wade, Dr Anne Sved Williams Department of Health, South Australia (DoH) $54 500          months August 2005-August 2006  
Perinatal and Infant Mental Health in the Community (PIMHIC) Dr Anne Sved Williams SA Department of Health Human Services Research and Innovation Program (HRSIP)

$325575.40 total

$279000 from HSRIP, matching funds other organisations

27435

 May 2004-August 2006 Teaching program for GPs and other primary health care workers: intended for SA but now taken to WA, NT and ACT
Primary care mental health consultation-liaison between GP and psychiatrist: consumer and carer evaluation Dr Anne Sved-Williams, Dr Cate Howell, Dr Tori Wade, Prof Nigel Stocks, Robert Burke, Lyn English Rotary Evaluation Grant $59,945 March 2007-March 2008 Consumer and Carer views of one-off consultations
Diagnosis and outcome in a mother-baby unit Anne Sved Williams

Lane Bequest

(for research at Glenside Hospital South Australia)

 $75000 (funding given for this project and the next one jointly) 2010-2012  
Development of a parenting capacity instrument for women with schizophrenia Anne Sved Williams, Kathryn Knights, Ros Powrie

Lane Bequest

(for research at Glenside Hospital)

      

1. Diagnosis and outcome in a mother-baby unit

2. Development of an outpatient group for women with borderline personality disorder along with their infants, using a dialectical behavior therapy model

 Anne Sved Williams Lane Bequest $106000 2012-2015  
Ongoing development of an outpatient group for women with borderline personality disorder along with their infants, using a dialectical behavior therapy model Anne Sved Williams Hopscotch Foundation $200,000 2015-2020  

 

1. Certificates of perinatal and infant mental health available through Womens and Childrens Health Network

2.  Annual Helen Mayo House Conference

3. Multiple community sites in South Australia and interstate as invited speaker

Date Role Board name Institution name Country
2019 - ongoing Advisory Board Member Doctors Health South Australia DHSA Australia
2001 - ongoing Board Member Australasian Psychiatry - -

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2013 - 2015 President Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health - -
2013 - 2015 President Marce Society for Perinatal Mental Health - -

Date Role Membership Country
1992 - ongoing Member Australian Infant Mental Health Association Australia
1988 - ongoing Member Child Psychiatry Faculty, RANZCP -

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