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Professor Alison Garton

Honorary Professor

Staff Member Details
Email: a.garton@ecu.edu.au

Alison is an Honorary Professor within the School of Arts and Humanities.

Qualifications

  • MA Honours, Scotland.
  • Doctor of Philosphy, England, 1982.

Research Outputs

2015

Book Chapters

  • Garton, A. (2015). Competence, Capabilities and Ethical Practice. Ethics and Professional Practice for Psychologists (54-64). Cengage Learning.

2009

Book Chapters

  • Garton, A., Pratt, C. (2009). Cultural and Developmental Predispositions to Literacy. The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy (501-517). Cambridge University Press.
  • Rosenwald, T., Garton, A., O'Connor, M. (2009). Well-being and identity of adolescent and adult intercountry adoptees and non-adopted migrants in Western Australia. Other people’s children: Adoption in Australia (257-273). Australian Scholarly Publishing.

Journal Articles

  • Fawcett, L., Garton, A., Dandy, J. (2009). Role of motivation, self-efficacy and parent support in adolescent structured leisure activity participation. Australian Journal of Psychology, 61(3), 175-182.

2008

Journal Articles

  • Fawcett, L., Garton, A., Dandy, J. (2008). Influences of parents and peers in adolescent leisure activities. The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 25(1), 32-47.

2007

Book Chapters

  • Garton, A. (2007). Learning Through Collaboration: Is there a Multicultural Perspective?. Culture, Motivation and Leaning: A Multicultural Perspective (195-215). Information Age Publishing.
  • McFarlane, J., Garton, A. (2007). Editing and Proofreading Skills. Supervising Doctorates Downunder: Keys to effective supervision in Australia and New Zealand (87-95). ACER Press.

2006

Book Chapters

  • Garton, A. (2006). The origins and development of scientific psychology in Australia. Psychology:IUPsyS Global Resource (11pages). Psychology Press.

Journal Articles

  • Holsgrove, JV., Garton, A. (2006). Phonological and syntactic processing and the role of working memory in reading comprehension among secondary school students. Australian Journal of Psychology, 58(2), 111-118.
  • Garton, A., Harvey, R. (2006). Does social sensitivity influence collaborative problem solving in children? A preliminary investigation. The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 23(2), 5-16.

2005

Journal Articles

  • Fawcett, L., Garton, A. (2005). The effect of peer collaboration on children's problem-solving ability. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 75(2), 157-169.
  • Garton, A., Gringart, E. (2005). The development of a scale to measure empathy in 8- and 9-year old children. Australian Journal of Education and Development Psychology, 5, 17-25.

2004

Books

  • Garton, A. (2004). Exploring cognitive development: The child as problem solver. Blackwell Publishing.

Book Chapters

  • Garton, A., Pratt, C. (2004). Reading stories. Handbook of children's literacy (213-228). Kluwer Academic.
  • Garton, A. (2004). Psychology in Australia. Handbook of international psychology (437-452). Brunner-Routledge.

Journal Articles

  • Garton, A., Harvey, R., Price, C. (2004). The influence of perceived family environment on adolescent leisure participation. Australian Journal of Psychology, 56(1), 18-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049530410001688083.

2003

Book Chapters

  • Garton, A. (2003). Cognitive development. Internation Handbook of Educational Research in the Asia-Pacific Region (365-377). Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Journal Articles

  • Davidson, G., Garton, A., Joyce, M. (2003). Survey of ethics education in Australian University Schools and Departments of Psychology. Australian Psychologist, 38(3), 216-222.

2001

Journal Articles

  • Garton, A., Pratt, C. (2001). Peer assistance in children's problem solving. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19, 307-318.

Research Projects

  • Optimising school nurse involvement in youth based tobacco control programs, Healthway (WA Health Promotion Foundation), Healthway - Grant, 2005 ‑ 2013, $441,398.
  • Language Difficulties, Anxiety and Behaviour: A guide for parents., Telstra, Grant, 2003 ‑ 2005, $45,000.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

No data available

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy: Electroconvulsive therapy: An assessment of experience: Knowledge and attitudes of clinical psychologists in Western Australia.
  • Doctor of Philosophy: Alcohol and drug related offences: Determining predictive factors for reducing re-offending
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The well-being and identities of 14- to 26-year-old intercountry adoptees and their non-adopted migrant peers in Western Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy, A case study investigation of the development and treatment of alter personalities in a patient with dissociative identity disorder.
  • Doctor of Psychology, Individual family, social support and stress factors affecting university students' generalised self-efficacy beliefs.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Structure strategy use in children's comprehension of expository texts
  • Doctor of Psychology, "A way through" journey to the centre of your life - the map of loss.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, School's out: Adolescent 'leisure' activities, influences and consequences.

Co-principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Demystification and reconceptualization of the intricate web of metacognition.

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Perceptions about goal setting, academic behaviours, academic performance, and psychological distress of university-bound secondary students.
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