School of Psychology

Dr. Simon Davies

Senior Lecturer Clinical Psychologist

BSc.(Hons), MPsych (Clinical), PhD University of Western Australia

RESEARCH:
I am interested in how children think, particularly children afflicted brain injury or neurological illness, with a view to inferring models of normal cognitive functioning.

ACTIVITIES:
As a practicing clinician, I see these children for psychological assessment and intervention. I am grounded in evidence-based assessment (EBA) and cognitive-behavioural theory (CBT), my orientation stemming from the belief that a scientific epistemology should underpin clinical psychology. 

TEACHING:
PSY562 Psychological Assessment: Theory, Processes and Methods
PSY431 Principles of Psychological Assessment
PSY212 Psychology: Measurement, Design and Analysis
Clinical Supervisor
Research Supervisor

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Journal Articles:

• Davies, S.R., Field, A., & Connor, C. (submitted 13/10/08). Copies of Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figures drawn by children with neuropsychological disorders: Association with every-day behavioural executive dysfunction and the development of accuracy and organisational skills. Developmental Neuropsychology.

• Bonney, K., Almeida, O.P., Flicker, L., Davies, S.R., Clarnette, R., Anderson, M., & Lautenschlager, N.T. (2006). Inspection time in non-demented older adults with subjective and objective cognitive impairment. Neuropsychologia, 44, 1452-1456. 

Abstracts:        

• Davies, S.R., Anderson, M., French, N., & Hagan, R. (2007). Differential cognitive outcomes of primary school-aged children born very preterm with extremely low birth weight: Differential deficits for executive functions 'The Abstracts of the 15th Biennial Australasian Human Development Association Conference', Australian Journal of Psychology, 59:1.

Conferences:                  

• Professional Development Seminar. Australian Psychological Society College of Clinical Psychologists W.A. Section (26 Jul, 2008). Thinking About Developmental Disorders.
  
  
• 2nd Biennial decog Conference: Clinical and Research Perspectives in Developmental Neuropsychology (The Developmental Cognitive Neuropsychology Research Unit, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW, 28-29 March. 2008) – General intelligence, goal-neglect, and the extremely low birth weight (ELBW) child.
  
  
• Australasian Human Development Conference (University of NSW, 5-8 July, 2007) – Differential cognitive outcomes of primary school-aged children born very preterm with extremely low birth weight: Differential deficits for executive functions.