Rate My Professor Clare Bell

Dr Clare Bell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Psychology within Griffith Health at Griffith University. As a registered Clinical Psychologist, she holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Griffith University, with her doctoral research examining anxiety in mothers and their children under the supervision of Dr Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck. She also possesses a B.Psych (Hons) from the School of Psychology at Griffith University, Gold Coast campus. Dr Bell serves as the Director of the Psychology and Life Promotion Clinics at Griffith University, managing clinical services and facilitating practical training opportunities. Her career at Griffith University includes progression from postgraduate studies to her current senior lecturing role, where she is located at the Psychology (M24) 1.24 office on the Mt Gravatt campus.

Dr Bell is deeply committed to enhancing clinical training for postgraduate psychology students, supervising higher degree research students and teaching courses relevant to clinical practice. Her research specializations encompass clinical psychology applications, including the impact of ADHD on investigative interviewing of youth by police, prevalence of insomnia and headaches among adult outpatients in psychology training clinics, and the role of maternal trait anxiety in child anxious reactivity. Notable publications include: Sullivan, D. P., Bell, C., Bonham, M. D., Boschen, M. J., & Martin, P. R. (2020). 'A retrospective chart review of adult insomnia and headaches in an Australian outpatient psychology training clinic: Prevalence and effects on psychological treatment response,' published in Clinical Psychologist; Cunial, K. J., Casey, L. M., Bell, C., & Kebbell, M. R. (2019). 'Police perceptions of training in interviewing youth with ADHD,' in International Journal of Police Science & Management; Cunial, K. J., Casey, L. M., Bell, C., & Kebbell, M. R. (2018). 'Police perceptions of the impact that ADHD has on conducting cognitive interviews with youth,' in Psychiatry, Psychology and Law; and Bell, C. M., & Waters, A. M. (2015). 'The impact of mothers’ trait anxiety on their expectations for and responses to their child’s anxious reactivity,' in Australian Journal of Psychology. These works contribute to understanding comorbidities in clinical settings and improving forensic practices with neurodiverse youth.