Activities:

The Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression began in 1979 at Prince Henry Hospital, a teaching hospital of the UNSW. The idea was to have a group of clinicians and researchers in the same area, so that clinicians would learn scientific method and researchers would learn what was clinically important. The Unit moved to St Vincent's Hospital, still part of the School of Psychiatry UNSW, in 1986.

The clinical programs began with the programmed treatment of people with panic disorder and agoraphobia, and social phobia and avoidant personality disorder. We added treatment of OCD and GAD in 1989, body dysmorphic disorder in 1994 and depression comorbid with anxiety in 1999. In 1994 the clinicians wrote `The Treatment of Anxiety Disorders' the second edition of which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002. The research program has been largely in epidemiology and health policy. The Tolkien II report was published in 2007 and Climate.tv series of knowledge transfer programs were fully developed in 2007. The scope is best judged by our publications over the last twenty years.

Edited by Gavin Andrews MD, UNSW, 2007
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