Research leaders

PhD, PGDipClinPsych, MA, BA

Associate Professor Sarah Bendall is a Senior Research Fellow at Orygen. She delivers, supervises and researches new psychological interventions for young people with complex mental health problems. Sarah is the lead investigator on the TRIPP study, a clinical trial of a psychological intervention to treat the symptoms of trauma in early psychosis in young people.

She is interested in young people’s experiences of mental health care and especially in developing and evaluating high quality mental health care for young people who have experienced childhood trauma.

Sarah lectures in clinical psychology and regularly trains mental health professionals in cognitive behavioural therapy for early psychosis and trauma and psychosis.