Rate My Professor A/ Warren Bartik

Associate Professor A/ Warren Bartik is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of New England (UNE), where he also serves as Psychology Clinic Director in the School of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Health. He earned his PhD from UNE, receiving the Chancellor’s Doctoral Research Medal for his thesis on the impact of suicide on young people in rural Australia, completed full-time starting in 2011 as part of the Collaborative Research Network for mental health and well-being in rural and regional communities. Additional qualifications include a Master of Clinical Psychology from Charles Sturt University, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Newcastle, and Psychology Honours from the University of Sydney. Prior to academia, Bartik accumulated over 15 years of experience with local area health services and NSW Mental Health, focusing on supporting the mental health of rural young people, including suicide prevention. Appointed Clinic Director of the UNE Psychology Clinic in early 2014, he led its relocation to the Tablelands Clinical School in 2017, tripling student placements and establishing it as a key regional treatment and assessment facility co-located with the UNE Medical Centre. He advanced to Senior Lecturer in the Clinical Psychology Program in 2020 and holds fellowships as a Fellow of the Clinical College of the Australian Psychological Society and Psychology Board Approved Supervisor.

Bartik’s research specializations include mental health of rural young people, suicide bereavement and youth suicide, early psychosis and suicide, mental health responses to climate change and bushfires, first episode psychosis, technology approaches for mental health care in rural Australia, and competency supervision in mental health service delivery. He has presented at international conferences in Beijing, Chennai, and Oslo, and served as guest co-editor for the Advances in Mental Health Journal in 2015. Key publications encompass Frankham et al. (2024) on childbirth self-efficacy and birth-related PTSD; Graham et al. (2024) on interventions for suicide-bereaved youth; Marshall et al. (2021) on smartphone psychological therapy during COVID-19 in Frontiers in Psychology; Marshall et al. (2019) on evidence-based apps for anxiety and depression in Frontiers in Psychiatry; and Bartik et al. (2020) on youth suicide bereavement risk in Crisis. His contributions advance knowledge translation for real-world mental health impacts in rural and remote communities.