Professor Frank Deane is Director of the Illawarra Institute for Mental Health and Head of Postgraduate Studies in the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong. He trained as a clinical psychologist at Massey University in New Zealand and practiced in the USA for 6 years before returning to New Zealand, where he completed his PhD and became a Senior Lecturer at Massey University.  Frank moved to the University of Wollongong in 1998 to be the Director of Clinical Psychology programs and continues to teach in the clinical programs. He provides clinical supervision in both individual and group formats. Frank has broad research interests related to understanding what determines help-seeking for mental health problems and factors that lead to better treatment outcomes for both mental health and alcohol or other drug problems. He is also interested in research on clinical training, supervision and coaching. He has conducted research evaluating the effectiveness of different coaching models at increasing transfer of training and improving fidelity among staff delivering recovery oriented services for people with severe and persistent mental illnesses (e.g., Deane et al., 2014; Williams, Deane et al., 2016). He is particularly interested in the provision of feedback during supervision (e.g., Gonsalvez, Deane & Caputi, 2016; Gonsalvez, Wahnon & Deane, 2017) and the potential role of e-technology to enhance those processes (Deane et al., 2015).

Recent Publications:

Gonsalvez, C., Wahnon, T., & Deane, F. P. (2017). Goal-setting, feedback, and evaluation practices reported by clinical supervisors. Australian Psychologist, 52, 21-10.http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ap.12175

Gonsalvez, C., Deane, F. P., & Caputi, P. (2016). Consistency of supervisor and peer ratings of assessment interviews conducted by psychology trainees. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 44(5), 516-529. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2015.1068927

Williams, V., Deane, F. P., Oades, L., G., Crowe, T. P., Ciarrochi, J., & Andresen, R. (2016). A cluster-randomised controlled trial of values-based training to promote autonomously held recovery values in mental health workers. Implementation Science, 11, 13.  DOI: 10.1186/s13012-015-0363-5

Deane, F. P., Gonsalvez, C., Blackman, R., Saffioti, D., & Andresen, R. (2015). Issues in the development of e-supervision in professional psychology: A review. Australian Psychologist, 50, 241-247.

Deane, F. P., Andresen, R., Crowe, T. P., Oades, L., Ciarrochi, J., & Williams, V. (2014). A comparison of two coaching approaches to enhance implementation of a recovery-oriented mental health service model. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 41(5), 660-667.  doi: 10.1007/s10488-013-0514-4