STAFF PROFILE
Dr. Kyli Hedrick
Position:
Lecturer
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|Health and Biomedical Sciences
Email:
kyli.hedrick@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Bundoora East
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Dr Kyli Hedrick is a registered psychologist, lecturer, and public health researcher, who has worked alongside people from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds, in a range of roles and settings, for over 20 years. Both her practice and research interests lie at the intersection of health and human rights. Kyli's PhD (Centre for Mental Health; Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, the University of Melbourne) investigated the epidemiology of self-harm among asylum seekers in both detained and community-based populations. In addition to working as a Counsellor/Advocate in a specialist trauma service (Foundation House) for survivors of torture for a period of 5 years, she has worked as a psychology, counselling, and criminology lecturer for over 10 years. Kyli is also the Founder and Director of a small private practice for people from immigrant, refugee, and asylum seeking backgrounds, located in Melbourne's inner west. From 2017 to 2019, Kyli was a member of a national Mental Health Expert Panel where she conducted independent mental health assessments and provided psychological reports for asylum seekers medically transferred to Australia from offshore immigration detention. She holds an honorary appointment with the Justice Health Unit (Centre for Health Equity; Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, the University of Melbourne).
Psychologist, lecturer, and researcher in the Discipline of Psychology, at RMIT's School of Health and Biomedical Sciences.
- PhD, University of Melbourne
- MAppPsych (Community Psychology), Victoria University
- BA Hons (Psych), Flinders University
- PGDip (Psych), Flinders University
- GDip (SocSci), La Trobe University
- BA, La Trobe University
Professional memberships and fellowships
- Member, Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Member, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)
- Director, Community-Minded Psychological Services
- Honorary research fellow, Justice Health Unit, Centre for Health Equity; Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, the University of Melbourne
- Hedrick, K.,Armstrong, G.,Coffey, G.,Borschmann, R. (2020). An evaluation of the quality of self-harm incident reporting across the Australian asylum seeker population according to World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines In: BMC Psychiatry, 20, 1 - 10
- Hedrick, K.,Armstrong, G.,Coffey, G.,Borschmann, R. (2020). Self-harm among asylum seekers in Australian onshore immigration detention: How incidence rates vary by held detention type In: BMC Public Health, 20, 1 - 10
- Hedrick, K.,Armstrong, G.,Coffey, G.,Borschmann, R. (2020). Temporal variations in the distribution of self-harm episodes and methods across the Australian asylum seeker population: An observational study In: PLoS Medicine, 17, 1 - 19
- Hedrick, K.,Armstrong, G.,Coffey, G.,Borschmann, R. (2019). Self-harm in the Australian asylum seeker population: A national records-based study In: SSM - Population Health, 8, 1 - 9
- Hedrick, K. (2017). Getting out of (self-) harm's way: A study of factors associated with self-harm among asylum seekers in Australian immigration detention In: Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 49, 89 - 93
- Okimoto, T.,Wenzel, M.,Hedrick, K. (2013). Refusing to apologize can have psychological benefits (and we issue no mea culpa for this research finding) In: European Journal of Social Psychology, 43, 22 - 31