Rate My Professor Clara Murray

Her academic interests center on adult attachment, compassion-focused therapy, mindfulness, and emotionally focused couple therapy. She researches the adaptation and evaluation of therapy approaches to improve adjustment, self-management, and relationship outcomes following acquired brain injury, alongside pedagogical advances in professional psychology training. Key publications include 'Attachment avoidance, thought suppression, self-compassion and depression: Testing a serial mediation model' (PLoS One, 2021, with Jacobs, Rock, and Clark), 'The relationship between early maladaptive schemas and interpersonal problems: A meta-analytic review' (Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 2020, with Janovsky, Rock, Thorsteinsson, and Clark), 'Structure, validity and cut-off scores for the APA Emerging Measure of DSM-5 Social Anxiety Disorder Severity Scale (SAD-D)' (Journal of Depression and Anxiety, 2021, with Rice, Schutte, and Rock), and 'Predictors of cognitive impairment in an early stage Parkinson's disease cohort' (Movement Disorders, 2014, with Hu et al.). She contributed a chapter on 'Compassion focused therapy for neurological conditions' in Psychological Therapies in Acquired Brain Injury (2019, with Ashworth). Murray earned the Best Poster Presentation award at the Australasian Society for Social & Affective Neuroscience Annual Conference in 2019 for her work on 'Imaging Detached Mindfulness: A pilot fMRI study.' As an experienced clinical psychologist specializing in neurorehabilitation and adjustment to neurodisability, she teaches PSYC505 Clinical Psychological Assessment, integrating neuropsychological assessment with psychological formulation. She is registered with the Psychology Board of Australia as a clinical psychologist (PSY0002093312), a member of the Australian Psychological Society, Fellow of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists, and Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society.