Associate Professor Carol Hulbert

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Bachelor of Arts (Honours 1st Class) (University of Melbourne)

Masters of Arts (Clinical Psychology) (University of Melbourne)

PhD (University of Melbourne) 

Fellow, Australian Clinical Psychologists Association 

Carol is a clinical psychologist and researcher with extensive experience in public mental health, university settings and private clinical practice. She held the position of Director of Postgraduate Clinical Psychology Training Program at the University of Melbourne from 2005-2017. She previously held senior management and clinical positions in public mental health services, including as a Director of Allied Health and P4 Regional Senior Psychologist, and Research Manager and Consultant Psychologist at Spectrum Personality Disorder Service. 

Carol currently holds a position as an honorary fellow in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne and is a Fellow of the Australian Clinical Psychologists Association. She has 63 research publications, having contributed to the research and development of ground breaking psychological treatments for first episode psychosis and for adults and youth with borderline personality. 

Carol's current clinical psychology practice includes cognitive behavioural treatment of adults with mood and anxiety disorders, and of issues relating trauma, grief and loss experience, works stress and burnout. Her clinical work draws on Schema Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Mindfulness based interventions. She is registered as a supervisor with the Psychology Board of Australia and provides supervision to clinical psychologists, and organisational consultation to senior health professionals.

Publications 

1.Jackson, H., McGorry, P., Henry, L., Edwards, J., Hulbert, C., Henry, L., Harrigan, S., Dudgeon, P., Francey, S., Maude, D., Cocks, J., Killackey, E., & Power, P. (2005). A controlled trial of cognitively oriented psychotherapy for early psychosis (COPE) with four-year follow-up data. Psychological Medicine, 35, 1295-1306. 

2.Hulbert, C. & Thomas, R. (2010) Predicting self-injury in Borderline Personality Disorder: an investigation of the contribution of experiential avoidance. Journal of Personality Disorders. 

3.Bendall, S., Jackson, H.J., Hulbert, C.A. & McGorry, P.D. (2011). Childhood trauma and psychosis: An overview of the evidence and directions for clinical interventions. Family Matters, 89, 53-60.

4.Hulbert, C. Jennings, T. Jackson, H. J., Chanen, A. (2011) Attachment and early maladaptive schema as predictors of social functioning in youth with borderline personality pathology. Personality and Mental Health, 5, 209-221.

5. Andrewes, H.E., Hulbert, C.A. Susan M. Cotton, S.M., Betts, J., & Chanen, A.M. (2018) Patterns of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Their Relationship with Suicide Attempts in Youth with Borderline Personality Disorder, Archives of Suicide Research, 22:3, 465-478,