Jon Jureidini

Dr Jon Jureidini

Research Leader - Robinson Research Institute

Adelaide Medical School

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Dr Jon Jureidini is a child psychiatrist at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide where he works with ill and disabled children and their families. He heads the University of Adelaide's: Critical and Ethical Mental Health (CEMH) research group within the Robinson Research Institute, and the Paediatric Mental Health Training Unit.

He heads the University of Adelaide's:

  • Critical and Ethical Mental Health research group (CEMH, ua.edu.au/cemh) within the Robinson Research Institute, carrying out critical appraisal, meta-research, teaching, and advocacy in order to promote safer, more effective and more ethical research and practice in mental health
  • Paediatric Mental Health Training Unit (PMHTU, adelaide.edu.au/pmhtu), providing training and support to GPs, allied health professionals, teachers and counsellors in non-pathologising approaches to primary care mental health.

PROJECT AVAILABLE: Making every contact count
Project description:  The Maternal Looking Guide (MLG) is a clinical tool for midwives to be used for early assessment and decision-making about the mother-infant relationship. 

Midwives are ideally placed to interact with a mother and her newborn and provide immediate and effective support.

There is a need to address the relatively low-risk but high prevalence of maternal anxiety and depression for the maternal-infant relationship in the first 1000 days with a feasible, low-cost intervention.

This project aims to:

•          validate the MLG on a larger population

•          confirm its negligible risk status 

•          expand the current MLG training package to encompass a simple intervention by the midwife with suitable mothers

•          measure the impact of that intervention on outcomes for the baby.

We will recruit and train 40 midwives from WCHN to administer the MLG. 

300 newly delivered first-time mothers will receive one of:

1.         care as usual (neither MLG nor intervention)

2.         assessment with the MLG by midwives, who are not yet trained in the intervention 

3.         assessment with the MLG, by midwives who have been trained in the intervention

Projects available for: HDR / Masters / Mphil

Location: Women’s and Children’s Hospital

Research project start:Semester 1 and 2

Special requirements: Police Clearance

Date Project Title Investigators Funding Body Amount
2015-2017

Driving health care efficiencies and patient care outcomes by improving communication in acute to primary transitions of care

 Della P, Slade D, Dhaliwal S, Dunston R, Walsh J, Jureidini J, et al. ARC Linkage Grant 480,000

2015-2017

   Jureidini J, Raven M, Tonkin A Financial Markets Foundation for Children  

2013-2014

 Evaluation of a group program for siblings Roberts R, Strohm K, Jureidini J, Giallo R,  Robb J Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation Grant 70,000
2011-2014 Effective clinical handover communication: improving patient safety, experiences and outcomes Slade D, Manias E, Battersby M, Scheeres H, Della P, Jureidini J et al. ARC Linkage grant 718,000

2008–2009

 SSRI use in pregnancy Mintzes B, Jureidini J Canadian Women's Health Network $CA12,000

2000–2003

 Narrative and Psychopathology: the role played by narrative in understanding patterns of development and breakdown in psycho–social functioning Jureidini J ARC Large Grant 80,000

2005–                   HeadStart (Child & Adolescent Mental Health Training for GPs)

2008–                  Making Meaning (Child & Adolescent Mental Health Training for teachers/counsellors)

Also see Paediatric Mental Health Training Unit (PMHTU, adelaide.edu.au/pmhtu).

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  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2018 Principal Supervisor Patterns, Predictors and Outcomes of Prescribed Psychotropic Drug Use in Australian Children and Adolescents Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Julie Marie Klau
    2018 Principal Supervisor Towards a New Paradigm for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Sheelah Margaret Mills

  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2010 - 2017 Principal Supervisor The Development of the Maternal Looking Guide, a Clinical Tool for Midwives to Assess Mothers' Interactions with their Newborns Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Patricia Mary O'Rourke
    2000 - 2004 Co-Supervisor Decentring Research: Reflecting On Reflecting Teams Master of Clinical Science Master Part Time Mr Andrew Tootell
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  • Board Memberships
    Date Role Board name Institution name Country
    2003 - ongoing Board Member Siblings Australia — Australia

  • Committee Memberships
    Date Role Committee Institution Country
    2013 - ongoing Member International Centre for Health Communication — —
    2012 - ongoing Member SA Formulary Committee — —
    2011 - ongoing Member SA Child Health Clinical Network Steering Committee — —
    2010 - ongoing Chair Australian-Palestinian Partnership for Education and Health — —
    2009 - ongoing Member Guidelines Working Party, Ethics Expert Advisory Committee, RACP — Australia
  • Position: Research Leader - Robinson Research Institute
  • Phone: 81619269
  • Email: jon.jureidini@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 8161 8480
  • Campus: Womens & Childrens Hospital
  • Building: WCH - Norwich Centre, floor 2
  • Org Unit: Paediatrics and Reproductive Health
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