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Dr Anthony Dillon
- Academic Qualifications
- Honours and Awards
- Grants and Current Projects
- Selected Publications
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Dr Anthony Dillon gradutaed with a PhD from the Centre for Positive Psychology and Education in 2011. His teaching and research focus on alternative conceptualisations of mental health (particularly ADHD), statistics and psychometrics, applied psychology, and Indigenous health. His PhD centres on an investigation of the factors that predict parents’ acceptance or rejection of the ADHD diagnosis of their child.
Academic Qualifications
Bsc(Hons) (USQ), MTrainDev (Griffith), PhD (UWS)
Honours and Awards
Yarramundi Scholarship
Grants and Current Projects
Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development Grant (Australian Research Council) for Measurement matters: analysis of potential methodological and discrimination biases in assessments of medication treatments for ADHD, and stakeholder views (2011-2012)
Selected Publications
Bodkin-Andrews, G., Dillon, A. & Craven, R. G. (2010) Bangawarra'Gumada - Strengthening the spirit: Causal modelling of academic self-concept and patterns of disengagement for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian students. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 39(1), 24-39.
Dillon, A., Craven, R. G. & Yeung, A. S. (2011) The Role of Self-Concept in Understanding why People Accept the Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Refereed Paper presented at the Sixth Global SELF International Biennial Conference, July 2011, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada.
Dillon, A., Craven, R. G. & Yeung, A. S. (2011) Controversies Surrounding the Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Poster presented at the Sixth Global SELF International Biennial Conference, July 2011, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada.
Bodkin-Andrews, G. H., O’Rourke, V., Dillon, A., Craven, R. G. & Yeung, A. S. (2009) Explaining Away Aboriginality: Causal modelling of Academic Self-Concept and Disengagement for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian Students. Refereed Paper presented at the Fifth Global SELF International Biennial Conference, 13 - 15 January 2009. United Arab Emirates University : Al Ain.
Dillon, A., Craven, R. G. & Yeung, A. S. (2009) Controversies Surrounding the Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Poster presented at the Fifth Global SELF International Biennial Conference, 13 - 15 January 2009. United Arab Emirates University : Al Ain.
Dillon, A., Craven, R. G. & Yeung, A. S. (2009) The Role of Self-Concept in Understanding why People Accept the Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Refereed Paper presented at the Fifth Global SELF International Biennial Conference, 13 - 15 January 2009. United Arab Emirates University : Al Ain.
