Research Background and Interests
James is a child and adolescent psychiatrist whose main focus of
research is broadly encapsulated under (i) child and adolescent
mental health and (ii) early psychosis.
He has extensive clinical and research experience in areas of
child and adolescent mental health including depression, anxiety,
aggression, self harm, developmental disorders and pharmacotherapy.
His research interests in early psychosis are prevention,
phenomenology and treatment options.
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Research Projects
James is currently engaged in a programme of research examining
psychotic-like experiences in otherwise healthy individuals, mental
health outcomes of bullying in adolescents, the role of cytokines
in adolescent depression, the outcomes of early intervention in
young children with autism and the outcomes of adolescents
experiencing their first episode of psychosis.
The programmes are a combination of clinical work with patient
samples and epidemiological studies in collaboration with large
mental health surveys and birth cohort studies.
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Key publications
Hollingworth, S.A., Nisse, L.M., Stathis, S.S., Siskind, D.J.,
Varghese, J.M. & Scott, J.G. "Australian national trends
in stimulant dispensing: 2002 - 2009" Australian / New
Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (2010)
Scott J, Varghese D, McGrath J. As the twig is bent, the tree
inclines: adult mental health consequences of childhood adversity.
Archives of General Psychiatry. 2010. 67(2):111-2.
Scott J, Welham J, Martin G, Bor W, Najman J, O'Callaghan M,
Williams G, Aird R, McGrath J. "Psychopathology during childhood
and adolescence predicts delusional-like experiences in adults: a
21 year birth cohort study." American Journal of Psychiatry 2009
166(5):567-74.
Scott J, Martin G, Bor W, Sawyer M, Clark J, McGrath J. "The
Prevalence and correlates of hallucinations in Australian
Adolescents: Results from a national survey". Schizophrenia
Research 2009, 107(2-3):179-85.
Dean, A., Duke, S., George, M. & Scott, J. (2007).
"Behavioural management leads to reduction in aggression in a child
and adolescent psychiatry unit." Journal of the American Academy of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2007 46(6):711-720.
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