Andrew Lewis

Position: Director of Academic Operations, Professor
Discipline: Institute of Health and Wellbeing
Location: Berwick Campus, Level 2
Phone: 5122 5555
Email: aj.lewis@federation.edu.au

Qualifications

Registered Psychologist with endorsement in Clinical and Counselling Psychology, Board approved supervisor, AHPRA, 2005

Post Graduate Diploma of Psychology, Deakin University – 2002

Doctor of Philosophy – Monash University – 2000

Bachelor of Social Work – 1996

Bachelor of Arts (Hons, Class 1) – University of Sydney - 1994

Biography

Andrew Lewis is Professor and Director of Academic Operations for the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at Federation. Previously he was Professor and Director of Clinical Psychology at Murdoch (2016-2022), and a Research Academic and Associate Professor at Deakin (2007-2015) and a founding member of the Mental Health Strategic Research Cluster at Deakin University.

In addition to his research track record, Lewis is a practicing clinical psychologist and has worked as a clinician in the mental health system with children and adolescents for over twenty years. He is a registered supervisor with the Psychology Board of Australia.

Andrew regularly reviews papers for leading journals in his area such as Lancet Public Health, Behaviour and Brain Science, Clinical Psychology; Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry;  Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice and Child and Adolescent Mental Health.  In 2009. Andrew was selected to undertake Deakin University’s 2 year Research Leadership program and in 2010 worked at the Division of Psychology at University College London as a visiting Research Fellow.

Areas of expertise

Much of Professor Lewis’ research is focused on developmental vulnerability to mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, substance use and psychotic disorders developing and testing models intrauterine environment. He is interested in translating work on the aetiology of mental disorders into effective clinical interventions for children and adolescents.

Andrew has written over 200 publications of which 110 are peer reviewed journal articles listed in Scopus. His publications include 20 book chapters and three clinical treatment manuals. He has also published three edited books - one on clinical assessment (Lewis, et al 2010) and most recently Attachment and Addiction as a Frontiers of Psychiatry Special Edition Ebook, leading the editorial process for 23 papers and 92 authors in a publication now viewed over 250 000 times.

Andrew has been awarded over $6.5 million in competitive grants by funding bodies including ARC and the NH&MRC and by State and national government funding from beyondblue and WA Dept of Justice.

Research interests

  • Child and Adolescent mental health
  • Psychological therapies
  • Clinical training for Psychologists
  • Developmental models of mental disorders
  • Depression, Anxiety and Substance abuse in adolescence
  • Philosophy of Science and Psychology

Supervision

Andrew has completed doctoral supervision of over 20 candidates and currently supervises numerous Doctoral students at Federation as well as completing supervision of over 50 Masters and Honours students.

He is available to supervise in his areas of expertise.

Publications

Books

  • Lewis. A., Gould. E., Habib, C. & King, R. (2010). Integrative Assessment in Clinical Psychology. Australian Academic Press: Brisbane.  ISBN: 9781921513589.
  • Lewis, A.J., Unterrainer, H.F., Galbally, M., Schindler, A. (Editors) (2020) Addiction and Attachment Ebook published by Frontiers in Psychiatry,
  • Galbally, M. Snellen, M.  Lewis, A.J. (Eds.). (2014). Psychopharmacology and Pregnancy - Treatment Efficacy, Risks, and Guidelines. London: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-54562-7 (Also in Japanese Translation).

Book chapters

  1. Lewis, A.J., Galbally. M., (2018) Pregnancy. Sage Encyclopaedia of Human Lifespan Development. Ed Marc Bornstein, Sage Press.
  2. Power, J., Galbally, M., & Lewis, A. (2016). Psychotropic Medication in Pregnancy: Focus on Child Outcomes Pediatric Neurotoxicology (pp. 107-125): Springer, Cham
  3. Lewis, A.J, Bertino, M., Knight  T., Toumbourou J., (2015), Consumer feedback in Adolescent Mental Health, in Adolescent Mental Health: Connections to the Community Edited by Areej Hassan Apple Academic Press 2015 p. 297–316. DOI: 10.1201/b18222-19
  4. Lewis, A. J. (2015) Clinical psychology in Australia: addressing the population’s mental health needs through integrative science and professional training. Kishor Vaidya (Editor) Psychology for the Curious, Why Study Psychology? (ISBN 978-1-925128-01-7)
  5. Lewis, A. J. (2015). Genes, environment and behaviour. In M. Passer & R. Smith (Eds.). Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour, 1st, 2nd and 3rd, Edition. Sydney: McGraw-Hill Education.
  6. Galbally, M., Lewis, A. J., & Snellen, M. (2014). Introduction: Pharmacological Treatments of Mental Disorders in Pregnancy Psychopharmacology and Pregnancy (pp. 1-4): Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
  7. Lewis, A.J. (2014). Depression in pregnancy and child development: understanding the mechanisms of transmission. In M. Galbally, M. Snellen, A.J. Lewis (Eds.). Psychopharmacology and Pregnancy - Treatment Efficacy, Risks, and Guidelines. Heidelberg: Springer.
  8. Galbally, M., Lewis, A.J., Gentile, S., Walker, S. & Buist, A. (2012). The biology of fetal exposure to serotonin reuptake inhibitors: Implications for neurodevelopment. In L.J. Migne & J.W. Post (Eds.). Antidepressants: Pharmacology, Health Effects and Controversy (pp. X), Hauppauge, NY: Nova Biomedical.
  9. Lewis, A.J. (2010). The clinical assessment of a patient with Borderline Personality Disorder. In A.J. Lewis, E. Gould, C. Habib, C, R. King (Eds.). Integrative Assessment in Clinical Psychology (pp. X). Brisbane: Australian Academic Press.
  10. Phelps, N., & Lewis, A.J. (2010). The assessment and treatment of a child with an attachment disorder. In A.J. Lewis. E. Gould, C. Habib, R. King (Eds.). Integrative Assessment in Clinical Psychology (pp. X). Brisbane: Australian Academic Press.
  11. Lewis. A.J., Gould. E., Habib, C., King., R., (2010). Integrative clinical psychology: Linking assessment and treatment. In A.J. Lewis. E. Gould, C. Habib, R. King (Eds.). Integrative Assessment in Clinical Psychology Australian Academic Press: Brisbane.
  12. Lewis, A.J. (2008). Neuropsychological deficit and psychodynamic defense models of schizophrenia: Towards an integrated psychotherapeutic model. In J. Gleeson, H. Krstev, E. Killackey (Eds.). Psychotherapies for the Psychoses: Theoretical, Cultural, and Clinical Integration. London: Routledge Books.
  13. Badiou, A., Feltham, O. Clements. J., Lewis A.J. et. al. (2002). Ontology and politics: An interview with Alain Badiou. In J. Clements and O. Feltham, (Eds.). Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return of Philosophy (pp. 169-194). London: Continuum Books.
  14. Lewis, A.J., Rodriguez, L. & Williams, M. (2001). Au sujet de l’histoire de la fonction didactique en psychanalyse (On the history of psychoanalytic training). In C. Leger. L’effet Didactique en Psychanalyse(pp. 61-66). Paris: Ecole Psychanalytique du champ lacanien.
  15. Lewis, A.J., Rodriguez, L. & Williams, M. (2000). Quel désir est en jeu dans la passe, (What desire is at play in the assessment of training called ‘the pass’) In Passes et Impasses Dans L’expérience Psychanalytique: Actes du Rendez-vous international. (pp.39-45) Paris: Forums du champ freudienne.
  16. Lewis, A.J. (1997). Logical time in the act of the analyst. In K. Baker (Ed.). Antithesis: Criticism, Culture and Theory (pp. 285-302). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
  17. Lewis, A.J., Tonkin, C. et.al. (1996). Catching up with the past: A discussion with the Samuel Weber. In A. Cholodenko (Ed.). Mass Mediauras .Sydney: Power Publications.

Recent Refereed journal articles

  1. Kunkler C.,Lewis, A.J. Almeida R.(2022) Methamphetamine Exposure During Pregnancy: A Meta-Analysis of Child Developmental Outcomes- Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews  
  2. Lewis, A.J Locke, V., Heritage, B., Seddon S., (2022) Trainee therapist personality and the rating of cognitive-behavioural and dynamic-interpersonal therapy processes. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy.
  3. Galbally, M., Lappas, M., Mark, P., De Klott, R.E., Watson, S., Lewis A.J.  (2022) Exploring sex differences in fetal programming for childhood emotional disorders, Psychoneuroendocrinology. Accepted 6th April 2022. PNEC-D-21-00658R3
  4. Galbally, M, Watson, S., Spigset, O., Lappas, M., Walker, S., Lewis A. J. (2022) Examining differences in placental efficiency following exposure to antidepressants and current depression: Findings from an Australian pregnancy cohort study. Placenta, 119 . pp. 44-51.
  5. Galbally, M, Watson, S., van IJzendoorn, M.H., Tharner, A., Luijk, M. Lewis, A. J (2022) Maternal trauma but not perinatal depression predicts infant-parent attachment. Archives of Women's Mental Health. 2022 Feb;25(1):215-225. doi: 10.1007/s00737-021-01192-7.
  6. MacMillan, K, Lewis, A. J., Watson, S.,  Bourke, D., (2021) Maternal social support, depression and emotional availability in early mother-infant interaction: Findings from a pregnancy cohort. Journal of Affective Disorders, 292 . pp. 757-765.
  7. MacMillan, K, Lewis, A. J., Watson, S., Jansen, B. (2021) Maternal trauma and emotional availability in early mother-infant interaction: Findings from the Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Well-being Study (MPEWS) cohort. Attachment and Human Development, 23 (6). pp. 853-875.
  8. Galbally, M, Watson, S., van IJzendoorn, Tharner, M, De Kloet, E.R, van Rossum, E.F, Lewis, A.J. Prenatal Predictors of Childhood Anxiety Disorders: an exploratory study of the role of attachment organization, Development and Psychopathology (Accepted 28th Aug 2021).
  9. Watts, G., Lewis. A.J., Serfaty, I. (2021) ‘Bumps in the Road’: A pilot study of a therapeutic technique for the integration of unresolved family discourse, Frontiers of Psychology, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.635574
  10. Aran, P., Lewis, A.J., Watson, S.J., Galbally, M. Major Depression and Generalised Anxiety Disorder: An Analysis of the Effects of Remission Status and Comorbidity on Mother-Infant Emotional Availability in the Perinatal Period, Journal of Clinical Psychology (accepted 20th July 2021, early view.)
  11. Aran, P., Lewis, A.J., Watson, S.J., Galbally, M. A Psychometric Study of the Emotional Availability Scales: Construct Validity and Measurement Invariance Between Depressed and Nondepressed Mother-Infant Dyads, Psychological Assessment, 34 (1). pp. 70-81
  12. Power, J, van IJzendoorn, M, Lewis, A.J, Galbally, M. (2021) Maternal Perinatal Depression and Child Executive Function: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Affective Disorders, 291 . pp. 218-234.
  13. Galbally, M., Watson, S.J., Keelan, J.A., Spigset, O., Lewis, A. (2021) The relationship between oxytocin blood concentrations and antidepressants over pregnancy and the postpartum,  Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 109, 110218,.
  14. Galbally, M., Watson, S.J., Boyce, P., Anglin, R., McKinnon, E., Lewis, A.J.  (2021) Maternal diet, depression and antidepressant treatment in pregnancy and across the first 12 months postpartum in the MPEWS pregnancy cohort study: Perinatal diet, depression and antidepressant use. Journal of Affective Disorders, 288, pp. 74-82.
  15. Galbally, M., Watson, S.J., Lappas, M., de Kloet, E.R., van Rossum, E., Wyrwoll, C., Mark, P., Lewis, A.J.  (2021) Fetal programming pathway from maternal mental health to infant cortisol functioning: The role of placental 11β-HSD2 mRNA expression Psychoneuroendocrinology, 127, 105197,
  16. Aran, P., Lewis, A.J., Watson, S.J., Nguyen, T., Galbally, M.  (2021) Emotional availability in women with bipolar disorder and major depression: A longitudinal pregnancy cohort study Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry,  https://doi.org/10.1177/0004867421998796
  17. Lewis, A.J., Unterrainer, H.F., Galbally, M., Schindler, A.  (2020) Editorial: Addiction and Attachment Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, art. no. 612044,.
  18. MacMillan, K.K., Lewis, A.J., Watson, S.J., Power, J., Galbally, M.  (2020) Maternal psychosocial predictors of pacifier use in a mother-infant interaction task: An observational study from the MPEWS pregnancy cohort Infant Behavior and Development, 61, art. no. 101505,.
  19. Galbally, M., Watson, S.J., Keelan, J., MacMillan, K.K., Power, J., IJzendoorn, M.V., Lewis, A.J. (2020) Maternal perinatal depression, circulating oxytocin levels and childhood emotional disorders at 4 years of age: The importance of psychosocial context Journal of Psychiatric Research, 130, pp. 247-253.
  20. Cowderoy, G., Power, J., Lewis, A., Watson, S., Galbally, M. (2020) The impact of maternal perinatal depression on exposure to reading and screen time for their infants: pilot findings from the MPEWS Study Australasian Psychiatry, 28 (5), pp. 559-562.