Dr Jane Clark
Lecturer and Course Coordinator for Counselling, School of Health
Qualifications
PhD (Counselling), Masters Health Studies (Loss and Grief), Grad. Dip. Counselling (With Distinction), Dip. Counselling and Psychotherapy, B. Arts (Psychology). Registered Counselling Psychologist, MAPS, MCCP.
Contact
| Email: | jclark@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Pat O'Shane Building (C13) 312 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3681 (or +61 2 6773 3681 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3666 |
Dr Jane Clark is a registered psychologist who lectures in the Counselling Programme oand has a small private practice. She has worked in these two arenas for over 15 years and enjoys the balance they provide between the theory and practice of counselling.
Jane’s PhD, titled, "The Taboo of Client Suicide: Silenced Therapist Narratives”, explored how therapists’ stories in relation to their clients’ deaths became disenfranchised. In addition to the field of loss and grief, Jane’s areas of interest include:
- The interface between the personal and professional lives of therapists’ (and the stories they tell in relation to this)
- Working creatively in therapy
- The therapeutic relationship
- Therapist as the ‘therapeutic tool’
- Counsellor supervision
- Reflexive practice
Areas of Teaching
Jane teaches into the Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Practice, the Graduate Diploma in Counselling for Health and Social Care, the Master of Counselling and the Master of Clinical Counselling awards. She also provides lectures and tutorials on communication, counselling, supervision and self-care to nursing, social work and medical students.
Jane currently supervises post-graduate students at both the Masters and PhD level.
Publications
Clark, J.L. 2009, 'Clinical Supervision After Suicide: Panacea or Pretense?’, Psychotherapy in Australia, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 17 – 23.
Clark, J. & Hadfield, R. 1998, 'My pain, your pain, our pain: The experience of significant loss in rural communities and its significance for rural health professionals', Rural and Remote Scientifice Conference Proceedings, Toowoomba.
Conference Presentations
Clark, J. 2007, 'Clinical Supervision After Client Suicide: Panacea or Pretence?' Postgraduate Research Conference, School of Health, UNE, Armidale, Australia.
Clark, J. 2004, 'The Impact of Client Suicide on Therapists.' Postgraduate Research Conference, School of Health, UNE, Armidale, Australia.
Clark, J. 2003, 'The Use of Experiential Techniques in Professional Supervision', Workshop
National SCAPE Conference (May), Armidale, Australia.
Clark, J. and Moir-Bussy, A. 2003, 'Counselling with Soul: The Use of Creativity in Spiritual Healing' Workshop 10th Annual Suicide Prevention Australia National Conference (June). Brisbane, Queensland.
Clark, J. and Hadfield, R. 1998, 'My Pain, Your Pain, Our Pain: The Experience of Significant Loss in Rural Communities and its Significance for Rural Health Professionals.' Rural and Remote Scientific Conference, Toowoomba. (Paper published in conference proceedings).
Maurer, J. and Clark, J. 1997, 'Mentoring in the Professions: Are Psychologists Really Different?'
Annual International Seminar for Teacher Education, Faculty of education: Brock University, St Catherines, Ontario, Canada.