Beyond Blue provides information and support for people with depression and anxiety. beyondblue.org.au
This Way Up has online self-help and therapist-guided treatment programs for a range of conditions including anxiety, depression, chronic pain, PTSD, and more.
Psychology Tools contains useful information and tools (e.g. self-assessment questionnaires, exercises, worksheets, etc) for clients on a range of mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, etc.psychologytools.com
Centre for Clinical Interventions contains useful information and tools for clients and carers on a range of mental health issues: CCI
eMHPrac is an Australian Government website providing a range of online mental health resources including brochures, factsheets, videos, webinars, modules, and more.
Sport Psychology Resources
What is Sport Psychology and How Can it Help? A short talk by renowned sport psychologist Martin Haggar: youtube.com
The Centre for Performance Psychology is a USA Universities initiative that offers free online resources to coaches, parents, athletes, and performers: centerforperformancepsychology.com
The Association for Applied Sport Psychology is a USA site that contains some useful information for athletes on key sport psychology techniques. appliedsportpsych.org
Finding Mastery is the website of Dr Michael Jervais. It contains a free performance psychology podcast, and offers performance psychology interventions via online courses.
The Nine Mental Skills of successful athletes. An overview of nine key mental skills successful athletes typically use. sportpsych.org
Here is copy of the 9 mental skills questionnaire which you can complete yourself to assess your strengths and weaknesses.
Pain Management Resources
Pain Management Network from the Agency for Clinical Innovation contains information and strategies for managing chronic pain.
Pain Australia website contains lots of referral information, pain management links, and pain management strategies.
The Australian Pain Society website has lots of information, links to services in Australia, and pain management strategies.
Pain Health is an initiative of the WA Government and the University of Western Australia. It contains information, referral services, and management strategies for a range of chronic pain conditions.
This a 2022 interview with Dr Howard Schubner discussing some new approaches to treating chronic pain.
Here is a video of the 2018 Koadlow Lecture by Prof Lorimer Mosely on chronic pain and ways to manage it.
Selected publications by Dr Cathcart
Snowden, M & Cathcart, S. Neural mechanisms of empathic responding: A transcranial Direct Current Stimulation study. Social Neuroscience (online ahead of print). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2016.1273133
A Garrick, AS Mak, S Cathcart, PC Winwood, AB Bakker, K Lushington (2018) Teachers’ priorities for change in Australian schools to support staff well-being. The Asia-Pacific Education
Researcher 26, 117-126
ME Snowdon, S Cathcart (2018) tDCS potentiation provides no evidence for a link between right dorsal–lateral prefrontal cortical activity and empathic responding. Social Neuroscience
13 (2), 190-201
A Garrick, AS Mak, S Cathcart, PC Winwood, AB Bakker, K Lushington (2018) Non‐work time
activities predicting teachers’ work‐related fatigue and engagement: An effort‐recovery
approach. Australian Psychologist 53 (3), 243-252
Flood, A, G Waddington, S Cathcart (2017) Examining the relationship between endogenous pain modulation capacity and endurance exercise performance Research in Sports Medicine,
1-13
Flood, A, G Waddington, K Thompson, S Cathcart (2017) Increased conditioned pain modulation in athletes. Journal of sports sciences 35 (11), 1066-1072
Flood, A, G Waddington, RJ Keegan, KG Thompson, S Cathcart (2017). The effects of elevated pain inhibition on endurance exercise performance PeerJ 5, e3028Flood, A., Waddington, G., & Cathcart, S. (2016). High-definition transcranial direct current stimulation enhances conditioned pain modulation in healthy volunteers: a randomized trial. The Journal of Pain, 17(5), 600-605.
Sillick, W. J., Stevens, B. A., & Cathcart, S. (2016) Religiosity and happiness: A comparison of the happiness levels between the religious and the nonreligious. The Journal of Happiness & Well-Being, 4(1), 115-127
Garrick, A., Winwood, P. C., Mak, A. S., Cathcart, S., Bakker, A. B., & Lushington, K. (2015). Prevalence and Organisational Factors of Psychological Injury Among Australian School Teachers. Australasian Journal of Organisational Psychology, 7, e5.
Cathcart, S., Galatis, N., Immink, M., Proeve, M., Petkov, J. (2014) Brief mindfulness-based meditation for chronic tension-type headache: A randomized controlled trial. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 42:1;1-15.
Cathcart, S. (2014) Mindfulness training for chronic joint pain. Alternative and Complementary Therapies 20 (4), 219-220
Cathcart, S. McGregor, M. & Groundwater, E. (2014) Mindfulness and flow in elite athletes. Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology 8 (2), 119 – 141
Cathcart, S. (2014) Where are we at with stress and headache? Austin J Psychiatry Behav Sci. 1 (3), 2-3
Garrick, A., Mak, A., Cathcart, S., Winwood, P., Bakker, A & Lushington, K. (2014) Psychosocial safety climate moderates the effects of daily job demands and recovery on fatigue and work engagement. Journal of occupational and organizational psychology 87 (4), 694-714
Sillick W & Cathcart S (2014). The mediating role of purpose in life in the relationship between religiosity and happiness. Mental Health, Religion & Culture 17 (5), 494-507
Della-Vedova, C. Cathcart, S. Dohnalek, A., Immink, M. & Hayball, J. (2013) Peripheral interleukin-1 Beta and Interleukin-18 levels are elevated in Chronic Tension-Type Headache. Pain Research & Management 18(6)301-306.
Cathcart, S., Barone, V., Immink, M., Proeve, M. (2013) Mindfulness training does not reduce generalized hyperalgesia in chronic headache. Journal of Pain Management 6(3)217-221.
Cathcart, S., Della-Vedova, C., Immink, M., Proeve, M & Hayball, J. (2013) Mindfulness training does not reduce inflammatory cytokine levels in chronic tension type headache. Journal of Pain Management 6(3)235-238.
Cathcart, S. & Bhullar, N. (2012) Pain sensitivity mediates the relationship between stress and headache intensity in Chronic Tension-Type Headache. Pain Research & Management 17(6):377-380.
Cathcart, S., Winefield A.H., Lushington, K. & Rolan, P. (2010) Stress and tension-type headache mechanisms. Cephalalgia 30(10): 1250-1267.
Cathcart, S., Winefield A.H., Lushington, K. & Rolan, P. (2010) Noxious inhibition of temporal summation is impaired in tension-type headache. Headache 50(3):403-412.
Cathcart, S., Petkov, J., Winefield A.H., Lushington, K. & Rolan, P. (2010) Central mechanisms of stress-induced headache. Cephalalgia 30(3): 285-295.
Cathcart, S., Winefield A.H., Rolan, P. & Lushington, K. (2009) Reliability of temporal summation and diffuse noxious inhibitory controls. Pain Research & Management 14(6): 433-438.
Cathcart, S. (2009) A neural hypothesis for stress-induced headache. Medical Hypotheses 73: 1011-1013.
Cathcart, S., Winefield A.H., Lushington, K. & Rolan, P. (2009) Effect of mental stress on cold pain in chronic tension-type headache sufferers. Journal of Headache and Pain 10 (5): 367-373.
Cathcart, S., Petkov, J. & Pritchard, D. (2008) Effects of induced stress on experimental pain sensitivity in Chronic Tension-Type Headache sufferers. European Journal of Neurology 15 (6): 552-558.
Cathcart, S. & Pritchard, D. (2008) Daily hassles and pain sensitivity in Chronic Tension-Type Headache Sufferers. Stress and Health 24 (2); 123-127.
Cathcart, S. & Pritchard, D. (2006) Reliability of pain threshold measurement in young adults. Journal of Headache and Pain 7 (1) 21-26
Materazzo, F. Cathcart, S. & Pritchard, D. (2001) Anger, depression and coping interactions in headache activity and adjustment: A controlled study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 49 (1) 69-75
Sachdev, P. Smith, J.S.. & Cathcart, S. (2001) Schizophrenia-like psychosis following traumatic brain injury: A chart-based descriptive and case control study. Psychosomatic Medicine 31: 231-239.
Sachdev, P. Brodaty, H. Cheang, D. & Cathcart, S. (2000) Hippocampus and amygdala volumes in elderly schizophrenic patients as assessed by magnetic resonance imaging. Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience 54 (1) 105-112
Cathcart, S. & Materazzo, F. (1999) Headache interference as a function of affect and coping: An artificial neural network analysis. Headache 39 (4); 270-274.
Cathcart, S. & Pritchard, D. (1999) Time series analysis of general arousal and headache activity in the natural environment. Headache 39 (3);213-217
Sachdev, P. Cathcart, S. Shnier, R. & Brodaty, H. (1999) The reliability and validity of signal hyperintensities on MRI by visual inspection and computerized measurement. Psychiatry Research 92:103-105.
Sachdev, P. Saharov, T. & Cathcart, S. (1999) The preventative role of antioxidants (Selegiline and vitamin E) in a rat model of dyskinesia. Biological Psychiatry 46:1672-1681
Sachdev, P. Brodaty, H. Rose, N. & Cathcart, S. (1999) Schizophrenia with onset after age 50 years: II Neurological, neuropsychological and MRI investigation. British Journal of Psychiatry 175:416-421
Cathcart, S. & Pritchard, D. (1998) Relationships between arousal related moods and episodic tension type headache: A biopsychological study. Headache 38 (3); 214-221