The Voices Clinic at Swinburne has released a number of publications to advance the understanding, treatment and research into the mental condition of hearing voices and similar experiences.

  • Toh, W. L., Thomas, N., Rossell, S. L. (2024). The phenomenology of visual and other non-auditory hallucinations in affective and non-affective psychosis: a mixed methods analysis. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 212(4), 205-212. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000001750  
  • Smith, L., Rossell, S. L., Thomas, N., & Toh, W. L. (2024). Intersections of phenomenology, voice beliefs and distress in bipolar disorder: a comparison with schizophrenia. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 52(1), 78-92. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465823000395  
  • Hayward, M., Bibby-Jones, A.-M., Thomas, N., Paulik, G., Mutanda, D., & Berry, C. (2024). Multi-modal hallucinations across diagnoses: what relationships do they have with voice-related distress? Schizophrenia Research, 265, 58-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2023.04.005
  • Merrett, Z., Castle, D., Thomas, N., Toh, W. L., Broadbear, J., Beatson, J., Rao, S., & Rossell, S. L. (2022). Comparison of the phenomenology of hallucination and delusion characteristics in people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia. Journal of Personality Disorders. 36(4), 413–430.
  • Kusztrits, I., Toh, W. L., Thomas, N., Larøi, F., Meyer, D., Hirstein, M., & Rossell, S. (2022). From core schemas about the self and others to voice phenomenology: anxiety and depression affect voice hearers differently. Psychology and Psychotherapy, 95 (2), 493–507. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12384  
  • Montagnese, M., Leptougros, P., Fernyhough, C., Waters, F., Larøi, F., Jardri, R., McCarthy-Jones, S., Thomas, N., Dudley, R., Taylor, J.-P., Collerton, D., & Urwyler, P. (2021). A review of multimodal hallucinations: Categorisation, assessment, theoretical perspectives and clinical recommendations. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 47, 237-248. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa101
  • Toh, W. L., Thomas, N., & Rossell, S. L. (2021). Comparing primary voice-hearers with and without hallucinations in other sensory modalities. Psychopathology, 54, 214-220. https://doi.org/10.1159/000517455
  • Badcock, J., Brand, R., Thomas, N., Hayward, M., & Paulik, G. (2021). Multimodal versus unimodal auditory hallucinations in clinical practice: clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes. Psychiatry Research, 297, Article 113754. https://doi.org/10/1016/j.psychres.2021.113754
  • Toh, W. L., Thomas, N., Hollander, Y., & Rossell, S. L. (2020). On the phenomenology of auditory verbal hallucinations in affective and non-affective psychosis. Psychiatry Research, 290, Article 113147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113147
  • Toh, W. L., Thomas, N., Robertson, M., & Rossell, S. L. (2020). Characteristics of non-clinical hallucinations: A mixed-method analysis of auditory, visual, tactile and olfactory hallucinations in a primary voice-hearing cohort. Psychiatry Research, 289, Article 112987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112987
  • Larøi, F., Thomas, N., Aleman, A., Fernyhough, C., Deamer, F., & McCarthy-Jones, S. (2019). The ice in voices: Understanding negative content in auditory verbal hallucinations. Clinical Psychology Review, 67, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2018.11.001
  • Pienkos, E., Giersch, A., Hansen, M., Humpston, C., McCarthy-Jones, S., Mishara, A., … Thomas, N., & Rosen, C. (2019). Hallucinations beyond voices: A conceptual review of the phenomenology of altered perception in psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 45 (suppl. 1), S24-S34. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sby057
  • Toh, W. L., Castle, D., Thomas, N., Badcock, J., & Rossell, S. L. (2016). Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) in mood disorders: Analysis of the 2010 Survey of High Impact Psychosis (SHIP) data. Psychiatry Research, 243, 238–245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2016.06.035
  • Toh, W. L., Thomas, N., & Rossell, S. L. (2015). Auditory verbal hallucinations in bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder: A systematic review. Journal of Affective Disorders, 184, 18–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2015.05.040
  • McCarthy-Jones, S., Thomas, N., Strauss, C., Dodgson, G., Jones, N., Woods, A., Brewin, C. R., Hayward, M., Stephane, M., Barton, J., Kingdon, D., & Sommer, I. E. (2014). Better than mermaids and stray dogs? Subtyping auditory verbal hallucinations and its implications for research and practice. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 40 (suppl. 4), s275–s284.  https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbu018
  • McCarthy-Jones, S., Trauer, T., Mackinnon, A., Sims, E., Thomas, N., & Copolov, D. (2014). A new phenomenological survey of auditory verbal hallucinations: Evidence for subtypes and implications for theory and practice. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 40, 231–235. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbs156
  • Smith, L., Rossell, S. L., Thomas, N., & Toh, W. L. (2024). Intersections of phenomenology, voice beliefs and distress in bipolar disorder: a comparison with schizophrenia. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 52(1), 78-92. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465823000395  
  • Böge, K., Pollex, F., Bergmann, K., Hahne, I., Zierhut, M. M., Mavituna, S. Thomas, N., Hahn, E. (2022). Mindfulness, psychological flexibility, and self-compassion in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a cross-sectional study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, Article 959467. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.959467  
  • Kusztrits, I., Toh, W. L., Thomas, N., Larøi, F., Meyer, D., Hirstein, M., & Rossell, S. (2022). From core schemas about the self and others to voice phenomenology: anxiety and depression affect voice hearers differently. Psychology and Psychotherapy, 95 (2), 493–507. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12384  
  • Scott, M., Rossell, S. L., Toh, W. L., & Thomas, N. (2021). Understanding the role of self in auditory verbal hallucinations using a self-discrepancy paradigm. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 94, 268-285. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12276
  • Brand, R., Bendall, S., Hardy A., Rossell, S. L., Meyer, D., & Thomas, N. (2020). Moment-to-moment associations between posttraumatic stress symptoms and auditory hallucinations in the flow of daily life. Psychiatry Research, 285, Article 112838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112838
  • Scott, M., Rossell, S. L., Toh, W. L., & Thomas, N. (2020). The relationship between mood symptoms and auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) content in affective, non-affective and non-clinical voice hearers. Psychiatry Research, 294, Article 113500. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113500
  • Scott, M., Rossell, S. L., Meyer, D., Toh, W. L., & Thomas, N. (2020). Childhood trauma, attachment and negative schemas in relation to negative auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) content.  Psychiatry Research, 290, Article 112997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112997
  • Rossell, S. L., Thomas, N., & Waters, F. (2016). Advancing our understanding of hallucinations. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 42, 1096-1097. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbw089
  • Thomas, N., Rossell, S. L., & Waters, F. (2016). The changing face of hallucination research: The International Consortium on Hallucination Research (ICHR) 2015 meeting report. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 42, 891–895. https://doi.org/10/1093/schbul/sbv183
  • McLeod, H. J., Thomas, N., Rossell, S. L., & Gumley, A. (2016). Emotional processes in understanding and treating psychosis. In R. Menzies, M. Kyrios, & N. Kazantzis (Eds.), Innovations and future directions in the behavioural and cognitive therapies. Stamford Valley, Australia: Australian Academic Press. ISBN: 978-1-922-11770-0 (paperback).
  • Thomas, N. (2015). A model for the development of acceptance and mindfulness–based therapies: Preoccupation with psychotic experiences as a treatment target. In B. Gaudiano (Ed.), Incorporating acceptance and mindfulness into the treatment of psychosis: Current trends and future directions. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0-199-99721-3
  • Fielding-Smith, S., Hayward, M., Strauss, C., Fowler, D., Paulik, G., & Thomas, N. (2015). Bringing the “self” into focus: Conceptualising the role of self-experience for understanding and working with distressing voices. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, e1129. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01129
  • Thomas, N., Farhall, J., & Shawyer, F. (2015). Beliefs about voices and schemas about self and others in psychosis. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 43, 209–223. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465813000817
  • Goldstone, E., Farhall, J., Thomas, N., & Ong, B. (2013). The role of metacognitive beliefs in the proneness to hallucinations and delusions: An analysis across clinical and non-clinical populations. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 52, 330–346.  https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12020
  • Shawyer, F., Thomas, N., Morris, E. M. J., & Farhall, J. (2013). Theory on voices. In E. M. J. Morris, L. C. Johns, & J. E. Oliver (Eds.), Acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness for psychosis (pp. 12–32). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118499184.ch2
  • Bell, I. H., Eisner, E., Allan, S., Cartner, S., Torous, J., Bucci, S., & Thomas, N. (2024). Methodological characteristics and feasibility of ecological momentary assessment studies in psychosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 50(2), 238-265. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbad127
  • Ibrahim, N., Newby, C., Thomas, N., & Slade, M. (2022). Measuring recovery in Arabic countries: translation of the Self-Efficacy for Personal Recovery Scale. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 68 (7), 1428–1434. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640211028604
  • Brand, R., Thomas, N., & Murray, G. (2020). The assessment of people with psychotic and bipolar disorders. In M. Sellbom & J. Suhr (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of clinical assessment and diagnosis. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108235433.026
  • Rossell, S. L., Schutte, M. J. L., Toh, W. L., Thomas, N., Strauss, C., Linszen, M. M. J., … Sommer, I. E. C. (2019). The Questionnaire for Psychotic Experiences (QPE): an examination of validity and reliability. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 45 (suppl. 1), S56-65. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sby148
  • Strauss, C., Hugdahl, K., Waters, F., Hayward, M., Bless, J. J., Falkenberg, L. E., … Thomas, N. (2018). The Beliefs About Voices Questionnaire—Revised: A factor structure from 450 participants. Psychiatry Research, 259, 95-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.09.089
  • Thomas, N. (2015). What have we learnt about how to capture and measure the outcomes of psychological therapies for voices? In M. Hayward, C. Strauss, & S. McCarthy-Jones (Eds.), Psychological approaches to understanding and treating auditory hallucinations. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315753829
  • Farhall, J., Shawyer, F., Thomas, N., & Morris, E. M. J. (2013). Clinical assessment and assessment measures. In E. M. J. Morris, L. C. Johns, & J. E. Oliver (Eds.), Acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness for psychosis (pp. 47–63). Chichester, England: Wiley–Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118499184.ch4
  • Newman, E., Halperin, S., Thomas, N., & Greco, M. (2024). Understanding the provision of psychological interventions for psychosis in an Australian mental health service: a mixed methods study. Australian Psychologist, 59(2), 101-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/00050067.2023.2276707
  • Thomas, N., & Morris, K. (2023). Using acceptance and commitment therapy within a functional analysis informed therapy for hearing voices. In J. A. Díaz-Garrido, R Zúñiga-Costa, H Laffite-Cabrera, & E. M. J. Morris (Eds.), Psychological interventions for psychosis: towards a paradigm shift. Springer (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27003-1_15
  • Smith, L. C., Mariegaard, L., Vernal, D. L., Christensen, A. G., Albert, N., Thomas, N., … Nordentoft, M. (2022). The CHALLENGE Trial: the effects of a virtual reality-assisted exposure therapy for persistent auditory hallucinations versus supportive counselling in people with psychosis: study protocol for a randomised clinical trial. Trials, 23, Article 773. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06683-1  
  • Feary, N., Brand, R., Williams, A., & Thomas, N. (2022). “Like jumping off a ledge into the water”: A qualitative study of trauma-focused imaginal exposure for hearing voices. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory Research and Practice, 95 (1), 277–294. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12372
  • Böge, K., Thomas, N., & Jacobsen, P. (2021). Is mindfulness for psychosis harmful? Deconstructing a myth. British Journal of Psychiatry, 218, 71-72. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.165  
  • Böge, K., Hahne, I., Bergmann, N., Wingenfeld, K., Zierhut, M., Thomas, N., Ta, T. M. T., Bajbouj, M., & Hahn, E. (2021). Mindfulness-based group therapy for in-patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of a rater-blinded randomized controlled trial. Schizophrenia Research, 228, 134-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2020.12.008
  • Brand, R., Bendall, S., Hardy, A., Rossell, S. L., & Thomas, N. (2021). Trauma-focused imaginal exposure for auditory hallucinations: A case series. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 94, 408-425. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12284
  • Brand, R., Hardy, A., Bendall, S., & Thomas, N. (2020). A tale of two outcomes: remission and exacerbation in the use of trauma-focussed imaginal exposure for trauma-related voice-hearing. Key learnings to guide future practice. Clinical Psychologist, 24, 195-205. https://doi.org/10.1111/cp.12202
  • Moore, E., Williams, A., Bell, I. H., & Thomas, N. (2020). Client experiences of blending a coping-focused therapy for auditory verbal hallucinations with smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment and intervention. Internet Interventions, 19, Article 100299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2019.100299
  • Paulik, G., Thomas, N., Glasshouse, E., & Hayward, M. (2020). Being a scientist-practitioner in the field of psychosis: Experiences from voices clinics. In J. Badcock & G. Paulik (Eds.), A clinical introduction to psychosis: Foundations for clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists. (pp. 615–636). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-815012-2.00026-2
  • Bell, I. H., Rossell, S. L., Farhall, J., Hayward, M., Lim, M. H., Fielding-Smith, S. & Thomas, N. (2020). Pilot randomised controlled trial of a brief coping-focused intervention for hearing voices blended with smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment and intervention (SAVVy): feasibility, acceptability and preliminary clinical outcomes. Schizophrenia Research, 216, 479-487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2019.10.026
  • Böge, K., Karadza, A., Fuchs, L., Ehlen, F., Ta, T.M.T., Thomas, N., Bajbouj, M., & Hahn, E. (2020). Mindfulness-based interventions for inpatients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a mixed methods approach. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, Article 600. https://doi.org/ 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00600
  • Louise, S., Rossell, S. L., & Thomas, N. (2019). The acceptability, feasibility and preliminary outcomes of an individual mindfulness intervention for hearing voices. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 47, 200-216. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465818000425
  • Bell, I. H., Fielding-Smith, S., Hayward, M., Rossell, S. L., Lim, M. H., Farhall, J., & Thomas, N. (2018). Smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment and intervention in a coping-focused intervention for hearing voices (SAVVy): Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 19, 262. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2607-6
  • Louise, S., Fitzpatrick, M., Strauss, C., Rossell, S. L., & Thomas, N. (2018). Mindfulness- and acceptance-based interventions for psychosis: Our current understanding and a meta-analysis. Schizophrenia Research, 192, 57-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2017.05.023
  • Bell, I. H., Fielding-Smith, S., Rossell, S. L., Hayward, M., Farhall, J., Lim, M. H., Thomas, N. (2018). Smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment and intervention in a blended coping-focused therapy for distressing voices: Development and case illustration. Internet Interventions, 14, 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2018.11.001
  • Brand, R., McEnery, C., Bendall, S., Rossell, S. L., & Thomas, N. (2018). Do trauma-focused psychological interventions have an effect on psychotic symptoms? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Schizophrenia Research, 195, 13-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2017.08.037  
  • Louise, S., Rossell, S. L., Toh, W. L., Scott, M., & Thomas, N. (2018). Does mindfulness help people adapt to the experience of hearing voices? Psychiatry Research, 270, 329-334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.09.013
  • Shawyer, F., Farhall, J., Thomas, N., Hayes, S. C., Gallop, B., Copolov, D., & Castle, D. (2017). A randomised controlled trial of acceptance and commitment therapy for psychosis. British Journal of Psychiatry, 210, 140-148. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.116.182865
  • Bell, I. H., Lim, M. H., Rossell, S. L., & Thomas, N. (2017). Systematic review of ecological momentary assessment and intervention in the treatment of psychotic disorders. Psychiatric Services, 68, 1172-1181. https://doi.org/10/1176/appi.ps.201600523
  • Brand, R., Rossell, S. L., Bendall, S., & Thomas, N. (2017). Can we use an interventionist-causal paradigm to untangle the relationship between trauma, PTSD and psychosis? Frontiers in Psychology, 8, e306. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00306
  • Hayward, M., Jones, A. M., Bogen-Johnston, L., Thomas, N., & Strauss, C. (2017). Relating therapy for distressing voices: A pilot randomized controlled trial. Schizophrenia Research, 183, 137-142. https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.schres.2016.11.019  
  • McCarthy-Jones, S., Thomas, N., Dodgson, G., Fernyhough, C., Brotherhood, E., Wilson, G. & Dudley, R. (2015). What have we learnt about the ability of cognitive behavioural therapy to help with voice hearing? (pp. 78-99). In M. Hayward, C. Strauss, & S. McCarthy-Jones (Eds.), Psychological approaches to understanding and treating auditory hallucinations. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315753829
  • Thomas, N. (2015). What have we learnt about how to capture and measure the outcomes of psychological therapies for voices? In M. Hayward, C. Strauss, & S. McCarthy-Jones (Eds.), Psychological approaches to understanding and treating auditory hallucinations. London, England: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315753829
  • Thomas, N. (2015). What’s really wrong with cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis? Frontiers in Psychology, 6, e323. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00323
  • Strauss, C., Thomas, N., & Hayward, M. (2015). Can we respond mindfully to distressing voices? A systematic review of the evidence for engagement, acceptability, effectiveness and mechanisms of change for mindfulness-based interventions for people distressed by hearing voices. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, e1154. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01154
  • Thomas, N., Paulik, G., Louise, S., Farhall, J., & Hayward, M. (2015). What have we learnt from behavioural and coping interventions for voices? In M. Hayward, C. Strauss, & S. McCarthy-Jones (Eds.), Psychological approaches to understanding and treating auditory hallucinations. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315753829
  • Thomas, N., Hayward, M., Peters, E., van der Gaag, M., Bentall, R. P., Jenner, J. M., ... McCarthy-Jones, S. (2014). Psychological therapies for auditory hallucinations (voices): Current status and key research directions. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 40 (suppl. 4), s202–s212. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbu037
  • Hayward, M., Berry, K., McCarthy-Jones, S., Strauss, C., & Thomas, N. (2014). Beyond the omnipotence of voices: Further developing a relational approach to hearing voices. Psychosis, 6, 242–252. https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2013.839735
  • Thomas, N., Shawyer, F., Castle, D., Copolov, D., Hayes, S., & Farhall, J. (2014). A randomised controlled trial of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for psychosis: Study protocol. BMC Psychiatry, 14, e198. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-14-198
  • Thomas, N., Morris, E. M. J., Shawyer, F., & Farhall, J. (2013). Acceptance and commitment therapy for voices. In E. M. J. Morris, L. C. Johns, & J. E. Oliver (Eds.), Acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness for psychosis (pp. 95–111). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118499184.ch7
  • Farhall, J., & Thomas, N. (2013). Cognitive and behavioural therapies for psychosis. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 47, 508–511. https://doi.org/10.1177/0004867413483370
  • Thomas, N., Rossell, S., Farhall, J., Shawyer, F., & Castle, D. (2011). Cognitive behavioural therapy for auditory hallucinations: Effectiveness and predictors of outcome in a specialist clinic. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 39, 129–138. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465810000548
  • McLeod, B., Meyer, C., Meyer, D., Nunan, C., Murray, G., Farhall, J. & Thomas, N. (2022). Do recovery-oriented messages improve self-efficacy and positive emotions amongst people with lived experience of psychosis? Experimental investigation. Psychology and Psychotherapy, 95 (4), 1003–1017. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12415
  • Peck, C. E., Lim, M. H., Purkiss, M., Foley, F., Hopkins, L., & Thomas, N. (2020). Development of a lived experience based digital resource for a novel model of digitally assisted peer support for young people experiencing psychosis. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, Article 635. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00635
  • McLeod, B., Meyer, D., Murray, G. M., Foley, F., Jones, N., & Thomas, N. (2019). Self-stigma, peer contact and recovery in people with persisting psychotic disorders. British Journal of Psychiatry Open, 5, Article e98. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2019.72
  • Williams, A., Fossey, E., Farhall, J., Foley, F., & Thomas, N. (2018). Recovery after psychosis: Qualitative study of service user experiences of peer videos on a recovery-oriented website. JMIR Mental Health, 20(5), Article e37. https://doi.org/10.2196/mental.9934
  • de Jager, A., Rhodes, P., Hayward, M., Beavan, V., Holmes, D., McCabe, K., Thomas, N., Lampshire, D., & McCarthy-Jones, S. (2016). Investigating the lived experience of recovery in people who hear voices. Qualitative Health Research, 26, 1409–1423. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732315581602
  • Thomas, N., Farhall, J., Foley, F., Leitan, N., Villagonzalo, K. A., Ladd, E., ... Kyrios, M. (2016). Promoting personal recovery in people with persisting psychotic disorders: Development and pilot study of a novel digital intervention. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 7, e196 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00196
  • Thomas, N., Farhall, J., Foley, F., Rossell, S. L., Castle, D., Ladd, E., … Kyrios, M. (2016). Randomised controlled trial of a digitally assisted low intensity intervention to promote personal recovery in persisting psychosis: SMART-Therapy study protocol. BMC Psychiatry, 16, e312. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-1024-1
  • Daya, I., & Thomas, N. (2015). Peace-mongering: Building collaboration between consumers, clinicians, families and the community sector at the 2013 World Hearing Voices Congress. In K. Kellehear, A. Lane, M. Cassaniti, B. Tooth, C. Chapman, S. Robertson ... R. Astbury (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th TheMHS Mental Health Services Conference 2014 (“What we share makes us strong”). Balmain: Australia: TheMHS.
  • Dent-Pearce, L., Daya, I., Karagounis, J., & Thomas, N. (2015). Integrating peer work with a specific therapeutic target: Experiences from the Voice Exchange program. In K. Kellehear, A. Lane, M. Cassaniti, B. Tooth, C. Chapman, S. Robertson ... R. Astbury (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th TheMHS Mental Health Services Conference 2014 (“What we share makes us strong”). Balmain: Australia: TheMHS.
  • Thomas, N., Farhall, J., Foley, F., Farnan, S., Ladd, E., Leitan, N., Nunan, C., & the SMART Research Group (2015). Using the Internet to integrate peer stories and self-management resources into mental health services. In K. Kellehear, A. Lane, M. Cassaniti, B. Tooth, C. Chapman, S. Robertson ... R. Astbury (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th TheMHS Mental Health Services Conference 2014 (“What we share makes us strong”). Balmain: Australia: TheMHS.
  • Corstens, D., Longden, E., McCarthy-Jones, S., Waddingham, R., & Thomas, N. (2014). Emerging perspectives from the Hearing Voices Movement: Implications for therapeutic and research practice. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 40 (suppl. 4), s285–s294. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbu007
  • Farhall, J., Castle, D., Constantine, E., Foley, F., Kyrios, M., Rossell, S. L., … Thomas, N. (2023). Implementing a digital personal recovery resource in routine mental health practice: Feasibility, acceptability and outcomes. Journal of Mental Health, 32 (3), 567–574. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2022.2118688  
  • Thomas, N., McDonald, C., de Boer, K., Brand, R., Nedeljkovic, M., Seabrook, L. (2021). Review of the current empirical literature on using videoconferencing to deliver individual psychotherapies to adults with mental health problems [Invited paper]. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory Research and Practice, 94, 854–883. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12332
  • Venville, A., O’Connor, S., Rosechlein, H., Ennals, P., McLoughlan, G., & Thomas, N. (2021). Mental health service user and worker experience of psychosocial support via telehealth through the COVID-19 pandemic: qualitative study. JMIR Mental Health, 8 (8), Article e29671. https://doi.org/10.2196/29671
  • Arnold, C., Farhall, J., Villagonzalo, K. A., Sharma, K., & Thomas, N. (2021). Engagement with online psychosocial interventions for psychosis: A review and synthesis of relevant factors. Internet Interventions, 25, Article 10041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2021.100411
  • de Boer, K., Muir, S. D., Silva, S. S. M., Nedeljkovic, M., Seabrook, E., Thomas, N., & Meyer, D. (2021). Videoconferencing psychotherapy for couples and families: a systematic review. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. 47 (2), 259–288. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12518
  • Seabrook, E., Little, G., Foley, F., Nedeljkovic, M., & Thomas, N. (2020). A practical guide to video mental health consultation. Mental Health Online. https://tinyurl.com/mho-video-guide
  • Arnold, C., Williams, A., & Thomas, N. (2020). Engaging with a web-based psychosocial intervention for psychosis: qualitative study of user experiences. JMIR Mental Health, 7, Article e16730. https://doi.org/ 10.2196/16730
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The clinic conducts a broad range of research on new therapies, on understanding the experience of voices, and on causes, mechanisms and recovery.

We collaborate with Voices Vic and with other international experts on hearing voices.

The research we conduct can involve a range of different methods including interviews, focus groups, questionnaires, computerised tasks and brain imaging.

If you’re interested in participating in research about hearing voices, you can join our research participant registry.
 

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The Voices Clinic has extended its online service and is now operating all appointments using secure online videoconferencing. Referrals do not require a Mental Health Care Plan and can be accepted from any health professional or community mental health worker. 

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The Voices Clinic Online offers specialist online video consultation. To make a self-referral, please call +61 3 9214 4840 and leave your contact details or email voicesclinic@swinburne.edu.au to find out about the clinic. 

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