Dr Leigh Roeger
BA (Hons), PhD
Email: leigh.roeger@flinders.edu.au
Ph: +61 8 8204 6295
Fax: +61 8 8276 3305
Current position
Senior Research Fellow,
Coordinator, Primary Health Care, Research, Evaluation and Development Program
Teaching activities
Graduate Entry Medical Program (Epidemiology and Biostatistics)
Supervision and mentorship to postgraduate students
Research interests
Research design and methods
Epidemiology and biostatistics
Child and adolescent mental health
The development and application of evidence based health treatments
Publications: (selected publications from 2001)
Chambers, H., Amos, J., Allison, S., & Roeger, L. (2006). Parent and child therapy: An attachment based intervention for children with challenging behaviours. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 27(2),68-74.
Richardson, A., Martin G., Bergen, H., Roeger, L., & Allison, S. (2005). Perceived academic performance, self-esteem and locus of control as indicators of need for assessment of adolescent suicide risk: implications for teachers. Journal of Adolescence, 28(1), 75-87.
Bergen, H. A., Martin, G., Roeger, L., & Allison, S. (2005). Perceived academic performance and alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use: Longitudinal relationships in young community adolescents. Addictive Behaviors, 30, 1563-1573.
Richardson, A. S., Bergen, H. A., Martin, G., Roeger, L., & Allison, S. (2005). Perceived academic performance as an indicator of risk of attempted suicide in young adolescents. Archives of Suicide Research, 9(2), 163-176.
Roeger, L. (2005), The measurement of adolescent depression. Adelaide: Institute of International Education. ISBN 1-920736-09-3.
Martin, G., Bergen, H. A., Richardson, A. S., Allison, S., & Roeger, L. (2004). Correlates of firesetting in a community sample of young adolescents. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 38, 148-154.
Martin, G., Bergen, H. A., Richardson, A. S., Roeger, L & Allison, S. (2004). Sexual abuse and suicidality: gender differences in a large community sample of adolescents. Child Abuse and Neglect, 28, 491- 503.
Bergen, H., Martin G., Richardson, A., Roeger, L., & Allison, S. (2004). Sexual abuse, antisocial behaviour and substance abuse: Gender and age differences in young community adolescents. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 38, 34-41.
Martin, G., Bergen, H. A., Roeger, L & Allison, S. (2004). Depression in young adolescents: Investigations using 2 and 3 factor versions of the Parental Bonding Instrument. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 192, 650-657.
Allison, S., Stacey, K., Dadds, V., Roeger, L., Wood, A., & Martin, G. (2003). What the family brings: gathering evidence for strengths-based work. Journal of Family Therapy, 25(3), 263-284.
Martin G., Bergen, H., Richardson, A., Roeger, L., & Allison, S. (2003). Sexual abuse and suicidality: Gender differences in a large community sample. Journal of the AmericanAcademy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42(11), 1301-1309.
Stacey, K., Allison, S., Dadds, V., Roeger, L., Wood, A., & Martin, G. (2002). The relationship between change and satisfaction: Parents' experiences in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 23(2), 79-89.
Allison, S., Roeger, L., Martin, G., & Keeves, J. (2001). Gender differences in the relationship between depression and suicidal ideation in young adolescents. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 35, 498-503.
Stacey, K., Allison, S., Dadds, V., Roeger, L., Wood, A., & Martin, G. (2001). Maintaining the gains: What worked in the year after brief family therapy. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 22(4), 181-188.
Stacey, K., Allison, S., Roeger, L., Dadds, V., Wood, A., & Martin, G. (2001). Maintaining the gains after brief family therapy: Parents' descriptions of what worked in the year after therapy. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 22(4), 338-310.
Roeger, L., Allison, S., Martin, G., Dadds, V., & Keeves, J. (2001). Adolescent depressive symptomatology: Improve schools or help students? Australian Journal of Psychology, 53(3), 134-139.