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1668
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127

Overview

Sidney Bloch is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has a scholarly focus on health-related fields, with particular involvement in the study of ethics, mental health, and medical practice.

Their research spans several main fields of study, including:

  • Health Professions
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Medicine

Sidney Bloch's work further delves into specialized subfields such as:

  • General Health Professions
  • Philosophy
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Medical Terminology

The key topics that dominate their research portfolio include:

  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
  • Medical Research and Practices
  • Medical and Pharmaceutic Studies
  • Counseling Practices and Supervision
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues

Sidney Bloch has contributed to academic literature particularly in renowned journals with repeated publications in:

  • Australasian Psychiatry
  • The Lancet Psychiatry

Some of their recent publications include:

  • Pathogenic language in psychiatric practice and how to combat it, 2020, Australasian Psychiatry
  • The 30th anniversary of the code of ethics of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists-a worthy milestone, 2022, Australasian Psychiatry
  • The road less travelled, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Position statements of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists: An historical perspective, 2023, Australasian Psychiatry

Throughout their career, Sidney Bloch has collaborated with multiple frequent co-authors, among them:

  • Felicity Kenn
  • Izaak Lim
  • Nick Haslam
  • Stephen A. Green
  • David Heyd

Best Publications

  • Caring for relatives with serious mental illness: the development of the Experience of Caregiving Inventory.

    G I Szmukler;P Burgess;H Herrman;A Benson

  • Therapeutic factors in group psychotherapy

    Sidney Bloch;Eric Crouch

  • Cognitive-existential group psychotherapy for women with primary breast cancer: a randomised controlled trial.

    David W Kissane;Sidney Bloch;Graeme Crawford Smith;Patricia Pauline Miach

  • Psychiatric disorder in women with early stage and advanced breast cancer: a comparative analysis.

    David W. Kissane;Brenda Grabsch;Anthony Love;David M. Clarke

  • Supportive‐expressive group therapy for women with metastatic breast cancer: survival and psychosocial outcome from a randomized controlled trial

    David W Kissane;Brenda Grabsch;David Murray Clarke;Graeme Crawford Smith

  • Family focused grief therapy: a randomized, controlled trial in palliative care and bereavement.

    David W Kissane;Maria McKenzie;Sidney Bloch;Chaya Moskowitz

  • Psychological morbidity and quality of life in Australian women with early-stage breast cancer: a cross-sectional survey

    David W Kissane;David M Clarke;Jillian Ikin;Sidney Bloch

  • Psychosocial adjustment of female partners of men with prostate cancer: a review of the literature.

    Jeremy Couper;Sidney Bloch;Anthony Love;Michelle Macvean

  • Psychological morbidity in the families of patients with cancer

    David W. Kissane;Sidney Bloch;W. Ivon Burns;Dean McKenzie

  • Psychological morbidity and quality of life in women with advanced breast cancer: a cross-sectional survey.

    Brenda Grabsch;David Murray Clarke;Anthony W Love;Dean Philip McKenzie

  • Effect of Cognitive-Existential Group Therapy on Survival in Early-Stage Breast Cancer

    David W. Kissane;Anthony Love;Allison Hatton;Sidney Bloch

  • The Melbourne Family Grief Study, I: Perceptions of family functioning in bereavement.

    David W. Kissane;Sidney Bloch;David L. Dowe;Ray D. Snyder

  • Cognitive‐Existential Group Therapy for Patients with Primary Breast Cancer — Techniques and Themes

    David W Kissane;Sidney Bloch;Patricia Miach;Graeme Crawford Smith

  • A method for the study of therapeutic factors in group psychotherapy.

    Sidney Bloch;Janet Reibstein;Eric Crouch;Pauline Holroyd

  • Counting on citations: a flawed way to measure quality.

    Garry Walter;Sidney Bloch;Glenn Hunt;Karen Fisher

  • The Melbourne Family Grief Study, II: Psychosocial morbidity and grief in bereaved families

    David W. Kissane;Sidney Bloch;Patrick Onghena;Dean P. McKenzie

  • Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change: An Empirical Analysis, 2nd ed

    Sidney Bloch

  • The Effect of Group Music Therapy on Quality of Life for Participants Living with a Severe and Enduring Mental Illness

    Denise Grocke;Sidney Bloch;David Castle

  • Russia's political hospitals: The abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union

    Sidney Bloch;Peter Reddaway

  • Psychosocial morbidity associated with patterns of family functioning in palliative care: baseline data from the Family Focused Grief Therapy controlled trial

    David W Kissane;Maria McKenzie;Dean Philip McKenzie;Andrew B Forbes

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Kissane
David W. Kissane University of Notre Dame Australia
Helen Herrman
Helen Herrman University of Melbourne
Dean Philip McKenzie
Dean Philip McKenzie Monash University
David J. Castle
David J. Castle University of Tasmania
Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom Stanford University
Yuelin Li
Yuelin Li Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Christian Gold
Christian Gold University of Vienna
Nick Haslam
Nick Haslam University of Melbourne
Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan University of Waikato

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