Professor Joseph Ciarrochi

PROFESSOR,
Social, Personal & Developmental Psychology (SoSSP

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PhD University of Pittsburgh
BA Youngstown State University

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Social, Personal & Developmental Psychology (SoSSP

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Email:	J.Ciarrochi@uws.edu.au
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Location:	24.G.37 Bankstown
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Biography

You can learn more about me at acceptandchange.com

Iam an active researcher with numerous national competitive grants. I study resilience, a group of character traits that help people to deal flexibly with setbacks and lead a healthy, productive, and fulfilling life. I seek to address three questions.

How do we measure resilience?
How does resilience develop and change?
How do we promote resilience?

Examples of positive traits include emotional intelligence, social intelligence, intellectual ability, will-power, and stress management skill. I have over 80 international journal articles, books, and book chapters . My work on emotional intelligence is amongst the most highly cited in the EI area. I currently have over 1 million dollars in competitive funding to investigate the causes of well-being and interpersonal effectiveness

I have published research on mindfulness, acceptance, values and other core processes that are linked to resilience and well-being.

RESEARCH INTERESTS.

My work focuses on aspects of reslience that are potentially modifiable and that have been hypothesized to promote well-being and performance.

Identifying character strengths that promote social well-being (e.g., relationship satisfaction, low antisocial behavior), emotional well-being (e.g., happiness, low depression), physical well-being (e.g., physical health and activity), and performance (e.g., grades).
Designing and Evaluating interventions to reduce suffering, promote vitality, and promote social effectiveness (in a variety of contexts, including organizations, adolescents, and cancer groups).
Identifying the developmental causes and consequences of character
Contextual Behavioral Science topics, including those related to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Relational Frame Theory

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2011-2014) (This fellowship recognizes that the quality of my track record is very high compared to other Associate Professors. It covers most of my salary and equipment needs).
I have been influential. For example, my H-Index is at 34 (http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=b1ke7xYAAAAJ&hl=en)
I am chief-editor of the new Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
Eight books
Over 85 peer reviewed articles

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

I oversee a large longitudinal study involving 3000 adolescents in high schools located in the Illawara and far north Queensland.
I run a program called Imagine, which involves providing emotional intelligence training to student leaders from 18 participating high schools and then encouraging them to return to their home school and put prosocial interventions into play (e.g., an anti-bullying campaigns).
I regularly conduct well-being and stress management workshops for the public
In evidence of my International Reputation, I have been elected president of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, an organization that is approximately 5000 strong and located largely in the U.S. and Europe. (http://contextualpsychology.org/)

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Publications

Journal Articles

Williams, K., Ciarrochi, J. and Heaven, P. (2012), 'Inflexible parents, inflexible kids : a 6-year longitudinal study of parenting style and the development of psychological flexibility in adolescents', Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 14.
Ciarrochi, J., Heaven, P. and Skinner, T. (2012), 'Cognitive ability and health-related behaviors during adolescence : a prospective study across five years', Intelligence, 8.
Heaven, P. and Ciarrochi, J. (2012), 'When IQ is not everything : intelligence, personality and academic performance at school', Personality and Individual Differences, 5.
Ciarrochi, J. (2012), 'Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for psychological adjustment after traumatic brain injury : reporting the protocol for a randomised controlled trial', Brain impairment, 17.
Ciarrochi, J. (2012), 'Religious values and the development of trait hope and self-esteem in adolescents', Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 13.
Ciarrochi, J. (2012), 'Reflection impulsivity in adolescent cannabis users : a comparison with alcohol-using and non-substance-using adolescents', Psychopharmacology, 12.
Ciarrochi, J. (2012), 'Revisiting the link between low verbal intelligence and ideology', Intelligence, 4.

Research

You can learn more about me at acceptandchange.com

I am an active researcher with numerous national competitive grants. My research focuses on understanding and developing social and emotional functioning. I have over 80 international journal articles, books, and book chapters . My work on emotional intelligence is amongst the most highly cited in the EI area. I currently have over 1 million dollars in competitive funding to investigate the causes of well-being and interpersonal effectiveness

I have published research on mindfulness, acceptance, values and other core processes that promote well-being and effectiveness.