ProfessorMichael Tarren-Sweeney

Professor

School of Health Sciences

  • Professor
    School of Health Sciences

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Specialized mental and relational health services for children in out-of-home care
    1 Jul 2025
    Patterson, Melanie
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A journey to Independence: Stabilising Factors for Young People Negotiating Their Way Out of ‘State Care’: A Qualitative Analysis
    1 Jun 2025
    Jaquiery, Nathan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Prospective, epidemiological investigations of speech and language difficulties among children growing up in statutory out-of-home care: Analyses of two population cohort datasets
    1 Apr 2025
    Bingham, Dana
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A Scoping Review of the Mental and Relational Health of Children in Kinship/Whānau Care
    1 Mar 2025
    Currie, Emily
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Emotion regulation difficulties in adolescents with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) or Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder (DSED) in a residential youth care setting
    1 Mar 2025
    Berg, Maya
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    17 Feb 2025 - 22 Jun 2025
    Epidemiology
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Constructs of fatherhood amongst those completing a mandated non-violence program: A qualitative study.
    1 Mar 2024
    Soares, Desiree
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Development of a measure of a child's perspective of their own problematic media use
    1 Mar 2024
    Kelly, Christopher
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Parents’ experiences of parenting interventions alongside child protection involvement
    1 Mar 2024
    Monk, Lauren
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Young Children’s Experiences of Caregiver Technoference in the Home and the Associated Emotional Impacts
    1 Mar 2024 - 30 May 2025
    Crossen, Sarah
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A systematic review of online parenting programmes and changes in co-parenting and parent-partner relationship quality.
    1 Mar 2023 - 17 Sep 2025
    Egodagamage, Ranmalee
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A systematic scoping review of attachment styles and difficulties of children in out-of-home care
    1 Mar 2023 - 1 Jul 2025
    Shields, Jen
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Speech and language difficulties among children and adolescents in foster care: Scoping review, and analysis of NSW longitudinal cohort
    1 Mar 2023 - 1 Apr 2024
    Bingham, Dana
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Effectiveness of mentalisation-based treatments provided to high-risk parents in reducing harmful parenting and improving child development and well-being
    27 Feb 2023
    Aqsa, Gul E
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Animal-assisted therapy for child trauma
    1 May 2022
    Hona, Joanne
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A scoping review of parenting and family-based interventions for severe and persistent conduct problems in children and adolescents aged 10-17.
    1 Mar 2021 - 18 Mar 2022
    Lee, Vera
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The effectiveness of parenting and family-based interventions for severe and persistent conduct problems in children and adolescents aged 10-17 : a scoping review
    1 Mar 2021 - 2 Mar 2022
    Watson, Samantha
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Treatment acceptability evaluation of a group Theraplay intervention with socially vulnerable children attending a Stand For Children (STAND) children’s village
    1 Mar 2021 - 25 Mar 2022
    Marrison, Emma
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A Qualitative Study of the Parenting Support Needs of Mothers Raised in Out-of-Home Care
    1 Mar 2020 - 1 Mar 2021
    Ussher, Jamie
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Children's perceptions and experiences of being sent to respite care for short-term stays
    1 Mar 2020 - 28 Jul 2021
    Kerr, Samuel
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    An investigation of the validity of Borderline Personality Disorder, Complex PTSD, and Developmental Trauma Disorder as diagnostic constructs for adolescents with complex trauma- and attachment-related psychopathology
    1 Mar 2019 - 1 Mar 2020
    Lawless, Jessica
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    New Zealand’s Home for Life policy : a qualitative study exploring perceptions of Home for Life parents
    1 Mar 2019 - 4 Feb 2021
    King, Georgia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The impact of foster carers’ expectations on placement success or failure
    1 Jan 2019
    Haysom, Zoe
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A systematic review of the psychosocial effects of birth family contact on children in out-of-home care.
    1 May 2018
    Damacastria, Kim
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    ). Shame regulation strategies in children: A systematic search and narrative review
    1 Mar 2018
    Cradwick, Elle