Dr Darryl Maybery
Senior Lecturer
BA, Deakin University, 1989
B Sc (Hons), Deakin University, 1990
PhD, James Cook University, 2000
Darryl Maybery
Bio
Darryl is convenor of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences research and honours committees, Associate Director (Arts) of the Centre for Inland Health, consultant to VicHealth regarding evaluation of grant submissions and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Charles Sturt University. He has expertise in Program evaluation, Psychometrics, Research Methodology and Statistics, the development of electronic distance education material and the provision of courses and education material to rural and remote Australian mental health workforces. He has successfully supervised over 30 honours, Masters and Phd students to completion.
Over the last 15 years he has over 40 publications and 30 conference presentations and has successfully acquitted 15 research grants involving rural, urban and international collaborations totalling over $430,000. During this time a focal research area has been rural research into Primary Mental Health services and delivery. As the senior evaluator but in close collaboration with several colleagues he recently completed a major evaluation of the VicChamps project for children from families with a parental mental illness. This three year, ¾ of million dollar project involved multi sites, agencies and programs and was funded by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Beyondblue: the depression initiative and Victorian Mental Health.
Teaching
- Research methods and statistics in psychology
- Theories of psychological intervention
- Advanced clinical psychology
- Supervision of student research
Research
Research generally focuses on mental health and wellbeing. Areas of interest include:
- measurement of positive (uplift) and negative (hassle) daily events within Richard Lazarus's cognitive appraisal model of stress and emotion.
- primary mental health - includes working with community organisations (e.g. Primary Mental Health Practitioners, Divisions of General Practice) to establish primary intervention program need, assessment and/or evaluations.
- Research and evaluations of interventions in relation to children whose parents have a mental illness.
