Barry Nurcombe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4126967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry Nurcombe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry |
| FAMILY NAME | Nurcombe |
| SIGNATURE | NURCOMBE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Psychologists as mental health case managers
The results of two independent surveys of professionals working in government- funded adult community mental health services were examined with a view to considering how psychologists rate their capacities as mental health case managers. Professional competency and personal efficacy self-report profiles for psychologists were compared with those of other professionals in related roles. The results obtained suggested that psychologists identified …
The Mental Health of Young People in Australia
Objective: To identify the prevalence of three mental disorders (Depressive Disorder, Conduct Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), the prevalence of mental health problems, the health-related quality of life of those with problems, and patterns of service utilisation of those with and without mental health problems, among 4–17-year-olds in Australia. To identify rates of health-risk behaviours among adolescents with mental heal…
Recovered memories of child sexual abuse and liability
Recovered memories of child sexual abuse and liability
This article considers the social and scientific dimensions of the phenomenon of recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. The authors analyze how those dimensions have influenced the courts in dealing with claims arising from recovered memories. In particular, the article takes up the vexed issue of the liability of therapists who have allegedly induced false memories. As elsewhere, comparative legal analysis is used to attempt to describe a…
Culture conflict and coping in a group of aboriginal adolescents
Children of the Dispossessed
Children of the Dispossessed
The effects of the bereiter-englemann program on the development of creativity
The Ethics of Preschool Intervention
The present paper examines the question of intervention in the learning process of disadvantaged children by presenting a description of programmes and results from the experimental preschool at Bourke, N.S.W. The preschool attempts to provide the children with a choice of linguistic codes by teaching them the characteristics of elaborated formal English. The programme does not replace the restricted code but builds on it. Results are presented w…
Classification ability in aboriginal children
(1973). Classification ability in aboriginal children: A re-evaluation. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 246-249
An assessment of the reliability of the peabody picture vocabulary test
(1972). An assessment of the reliability of the peabody picture vocabulary test. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 167-169
Intervention in cultural deprivation
Action research
(1970). Action research: A pre-school for rural aborigines and europeans. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 243-248
Cultural deprivation and language defect project enrichment of childhood
(1970). Cultural deprivation and language defect project enrichment of childhood. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 249-259
A hunger for stimuli
Sex training and traditions in Arnhem Land
The idiot savant
Amazing feats of memory have always attracted attention. A few musicians, mathematicians, chess players, and stage performers have taken advantage of this talent, and are still remembered for their astounding performances (Scholes, 1950; Pritchard, 1940). More remarkable still are the special talents which have been reported in persons who are otherwise backward, and who have been described as Idiots Savant. With the emphasis on accurate etiologi…
A hunger for stimuli
Children of the Dispossessed
Cultural deprivation and language defect project enrichment of childhood
(1970). Cultural deprivation and language defect project enrichment of childhood. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 249-259
Sex training and traditions in Arnhem Land
Intervention in cultural deprivation
Action research
(1970). Action research: A pre-school for rural aborigines and europeans. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 243-248
The Ethics of Preschool Intervention
The present paper examines the question of intervention in the learning process of disadvantaged children by presenting a description of programmes and results from the experimental preschool at Bourke, N.S.W. The preschool attempts to provide the children with a choice of linguistic codes by teaching them the characteristics of elaborated formal English. The programme does not replace the restricted code but builds on it. Results are presented w…
An assessment of the reliability of the peabody picture vocabulary test
(1972). An assessment of the reliability of the peabody picture vocabulary test. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 167-169
The idiot savant
Amazing feats of memory have always attracted attention. A few musicians, mathematicians, chess players, and stage performers have taken advantage of this talent, and are still remembered for their astounding performances (Scholes, 1950; Pritchard, 1940). More remarkable still are the special talents which have been reported in persons who are otherwise backward, and who have been described as Idiots Savant. With the emphasis on accurate etiologi…
Action research
(1970). Action research: A pre-school for rural aborigines and europeans. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 243-248
Cultural deprivation and language defect project enrichment of childhood
(1970). Cultural deprivation and language defect project enrichment of childhood. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 249-259
A hunger for stimuli
Sex training and traditions in Arnhem Land
Intervention in cultural deprivation
An assessment of the reliability of the peabody picture vocabulary test
(1972). An assessment of the reliability of the peabody picture vocabulary test. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 167-169
Classification ability in aboriginal children
(1973). Classification ability in aboriginal children: A re-evaluation. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 246-249
The effects of the bereiter-englemann program on the development of creativity
The Ethics of Preschool Intervention
The present paper examines the question of intervention in the learning process of disadvantaged children by presenting a description of programmes and results from the experimental preschool at Bourke, N.S.W. The preschool attempts to provide the children with a choice of linguistic codes by teaching them the characteristics of elaborated formal English. The programme does not replace the restricted code but builds on it. Results are presented w…
Children of the Dispossessed
Culture conflict and coping in a group of aboriginal adolescents
Children of the Dispossessed
Recovered memories of child sexual abuse and liability
Recovered memories of child sexual abuse and liability
This article considers the social and scientific dimensions of the phenomenon of recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. The authors analyze how those dimensions have influenced the courts in dealing with claims arising from recovered memories. In particular, the article takes up the vexed issue of the liability of therapists who have allegedly induced false memories. As elsewhere, comparative legal analysis is used to attempt to describe a…
The Mental Health of Young People in Australia
Objective: To identify the prevalence of three mental disorders (Depressive Disorder, Conduct Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), the prevalence of mental health problems, the health-related quality of life of those with problems, and patterns of service utilisation of those with and without mental health problems, among 4–17-year-olds in Australia. To identify rates of health-risk behaviours among adolescents with mental heal…
Psychologists as mental health case managers
The results of two independent surveys of professionals working in government- funded adult community mental health services were examined with a view to considering how psychologists rate their capacities as mental health case managers. Professional competency and personal efficacy self-report profiles for psychologists were compared with those of other professionals in related roles. The results obtained suggested that psychologists identified …
Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Criminology (3 works)