Rate My Professor Terry Lewin

Terry Lewin is a Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health, at the University of Newcastle. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales. As a research psychologist, he possesses extensive expertise in research design, data management, and statistical analysis, with over 45 years engaged in psychosocial and clinical mental health research. His professional career commenced as a tutor and postgraduate student in the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales from 1976 to 1982. He then served as Professional Officer in the Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Newcastle, School of Medicine and Public Health, from 1983 to 1998. From 1998 to 2017, Lewin held the position of Research Manager at Hunter New England Mental Health, associated with the Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research and the MH-READ Unit. Following retirement from full-time employment at the end of 2017, he continues as a part-time Research Affiliate with the MH-READ unit and maintains his conjoint academic appointment.

Lewin's research specializations include psychiatric epidemiology, psychosis studies such as patterns of service use and costs of schizophrenia, early psychosis interventions, suicide and deliberate self-harm, psycho-oncology, measurement of personality disorders, mental illness among offenders, treatment of mental illness and substance use comorbidity, evaluations of cognitive behavioral therapy interventions for depression, substance abuse, smoking cessation, and lifestyle factors, cognitive assessment studies, rural mental health, and mental health service evaluations. He has produced approximately 200 research publications, with notable works including 'A Multi-component Workplace intervention to address mental health in mining' (2017), 'DEPTh: randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioral therapy for young people at ultra high risk for psychosis' (2014), 'Randomised controlled trial of CBT for co-existing depression and alcohol problems: 6-, 12-, 24-and 36-month outcomes' (2011), 'A 10-year Multisite Evaluation of an Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Employment Program Based in an Australian Community Mental Health Service' (2025), and 'Effectiveness of the Hunter Way Back Support Service: An historical controlled trial of a brief non-clinical after-care program for hospital-treated deliberate self-poisoning' (2022). Lewin reviews manuscripts for journals such as Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Research, and Early Intervention in Psychiatry, and participates in community consultative committees including the Donaldson/Abel Community Consultative Committee.