Paediatric social work research group
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Associate Professor
Brigid Jordan+61 3 93454144
Research Overview
Research in our group is focused on understanding the relationship between early life stress – as a result of serious illness and hospital experience or significant family stress and social disadvantage – and the health and mental health of infants and young children and their families. Our research has a strong focus on clinical and translational outcomes in paediatric social work and infant mental health.
Staff
- Ms Ashley Depasquale, Research Assistant
- Tamera Clancy, PhD student
- Nichola Coombs, PhD student and Research Co-ordinator
- Libby Ferguson, PhD student
- Nicole Tokatlian, PhD student (on leave).
Collaborators
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Centre,Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Faculty of Economics, University of Melbourne
- Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Research Publications
Hickey, L., Anderson, V., Hearps, S., & Jordan, B. Family appraisal of paediatric acquired brain injury: A social work clinical intervention trial. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 2018,1-8.
Hickey, L., Anderson, V., Heaprs, S., & Jordan, B. Family forward: A social work clinical trial promoting family adaptation following paediatric acquired brain injury. Brain Injury, 201832(7).
Tseng, Y.P., Jordan, B., Borland, J., Coombs, N., Cotter, K., Hill, A., & Kennedy, A. The first twelve months in the Early Years Education Program: An initial assessment of the impact on children and their primary caregivers. Changing the Trajectories of Australia's Most Vulnerable Children, Report No. 2 (March 2018).
McGauran, M., Jordan, B., Beijers, R., Janssen, I., Franich-Ray, C., de Weerth, C., & Cheung, M. Long-term alternation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in children undergoing cardiac surgery in the first 6 months of life. The International Journal on the Biology of Stress, 2017,20(5), 505-512.
Tseng, Y., Jordan, B., Borland, J., Clancy, T., Coombs, N,. Cotter, K., Hill, A., & Kennedy, A. Participants in the Trail of the Early Years Education Program , Changing the Trajectories of Australia’s most Vulnerable Children Report No. 1. Australian Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne, June 2017.
Hickey, L., Anderson, V., & Jordan, B. Family forward: Promoting family adaptation following pediatric acquired brain injury. Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation, 2016,15(3-4), 179-200.
Douglas, T., Jordan, B., Priddis, L., Anderson, V., Sheehan, J., Kane, R., Massie, J., Branch Smith, C., & Shields L., Protocol for a study of the psychosocial determinants of health in early childhood amongst children with cystic fibrosis. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2015, 71(7):1704-16.
Kosta L, Harm L, Franich-Ray C, Anderson V, Northam E, Cochrane A, Menahem A, Jordan B. Parental experiences of their infant's hospitalisation for cardiac surgery. Child: Care, Health & Development 2014; 41(6), 1057---65.
Jordan B, Franich-Ray C, Albert N, Anderson V, Northam E, Cochrane A, Menahem S. Erly mother-infant relationships after cardiac surgery in infancy. Arch Dis Child 2014; 99, 641--5.
Jordan B, Anderson V, Albert N, Cochrane A, Menahem A. Maternal report of infant emotional wellbeing following their infant's hospitalization for neonatal cardiac surgery. Infant Mental Health Journal 2013; 34(4), 259--66.
Franich-Ray C, Bright MA, Anderson V, Northam E, Cochrane A, Menahem S, Jordan B. Trauma reactions in mothers and fathers after their infants cardiac surgery. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2013; 38(5), 494-505.
Bright MA, Franich-Ray C, Anderson V, Northam E, Cochrane A, Menahem S, Jordan B. Infant cardiac surgery and the father-infant relationship: Feelings of strength, strain and caution. Early Human Development 2013; 89; 593---9.
Miron D, Bisaillon C, Jordan B, Bryce G, Gauthier Y, St-Andre M, Minnis H. Whose rights count? Negotiating practice, policy and legal dilemmas regarding infant-parent contact when infants are in out of home care. Infant Mental Health Journal 2013; 34(2): 177--88.
Jordan B. Therapeutic play within infant-parent psychotherapy and the treatment of infant feeding disorders. Infant Mental Health Journal 2012; 33(3): 307-313.
Stock A, Chin L, Babl FE, Bevan C, Donath S, Jordan B. Postnatal depression in mothers bringing infants to the emergency department. Arch Dis Child 2013;
98(1): 36-40.
Jordan B. Therapeutic play within infant-parent psychotherapy and the treatment of infant feeding disorders. Infant Mental Health Journal 2012; 33(3): 307-313.
Jordan B. An overview of attachment theory. Community Paediatric Review 2009; 17(2): 1-6.
Jordan B. Focusing the lens: The infant’s point of view. Infant Mental Health Journal 2011; 32(6): 687-693.
Brown M, Heine R, Jordan B. Health and well-being in school-age children following persistent crying in infancy. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2009; 45(5): 25--62.
Jordan B, Heine R, Lubitz L, Meehan M, Catto-Smith AG. Effect of anti-reflux medication, placebo and infant mental health intervention on persistent crying: A randomized clinical trial. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2006; 42(1-2): 49-58.
Heine R, Jordan B, Lubitz L, Meehan M, Catto-Smith AG. Clinical predictors for pathological gastro oesophageal reflux. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2006; 42(3): 134---9.
Hiscock H, Jordan B. Problem crying in infancy. Medical Journal of Australia 2004; 181(9): 507---12
Jordan B. Infancy and domestic violence. Children Australia 2002; 27(4).
Jordan B. Reflux and irritability. Community Paediatric Review 2001; 10(2).
Salo F, Paul C, Morgan A, Jones S, Jordan B, Meehan M, Morse S, Walker A. Free to be Playful: Therapeutic work with Infants. Infant Observation Journal 1999; 3: 47-62.
Jones S, Jordan B. Written communication between child psychiatry staff and medical referrers. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 1993; 27(4): 683-685.
Jordan B. Gender and infant psychiatry. Infant Mental Health Journal 1992; 13(4): 28--95.