Dr Adam Gerace

Academic Status

College of Nursing and Health Sciences

adam.gerace@flinders.edu.au

Health Sciences Building

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Adam holds Academic Status in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. He was a Senior Research Fellow at Flinders University from 2009-2017, and is currently a Senior Lecturer at Central Queensland University.

Adam’s background is in social and forensic psychology, and his research interests are in the areas of perspective taking and empathy, and inpatient psychiatric hospitalisation (including therapeutic relationships, restraint, and absconding).

Qualifications

2009: PhD (Psychology), University of South Australia.

2003: BPsych(Hons), University of South Australia.

Honours, awards and grants

2010: Australian Psychological Society (APS) Psychology of Relationships Interest Group Thesis Award.

2010: Tony Winefield PhD Thesis Prize in Psychology, for the best thesis by a PhD student in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy (University of South Australia) in 2009.

2004: Australian Postgraduate Award (APA).

Research expertise

Nursing

Psychology

Research interests

perspective taking and empathy, social perception, restraint of psychiatric inpatients, absconding.

Supervisory interests

Absconding

Absconding behaviour of psychiatric patients

Empathy and self-reflection

Forensic issues in mental health

Mental health nursing