Dr Vivienne Chisholm
Senior Lecturer - Psychology
Programme Leader - MSc Health Psychology
Telephone: +44 (0)131 474 0000
E-mail: vchisholm@qmu.ac.uk
Summary Biography
Vivienne Chisholm is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Queen Margaret University and Programme Leader of the MSc Health Psychology Programme. She is also a Stage 2 Trainer for students, undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology. She teaches in areas pertaining to developmental psychology and psychological issues relating to child health at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has supervised, and is currently supervising, doctoral and PhD students undertaking research across a broad range of topics. These include theory of mind and peer relations, cognitive function and nutrition, psychological adjustment in parents of children with a chronic illness, the use of a computer-based interactive table for children with Asperger’s syndrome, psychological predictors of weight gain in small children and stress and coping in the workplace.
Current / Recent Research Projects
Vivienne Chisolm's research activities have involved three broad areas:
1) theoretically-driven work looking at general developmental processes in infancy and early childhood
2) investigation of measurement and assessment strategies in research and applied contexts
3) applied research with atypical populations. She is especially interested in the application of developmental theories to issues pertaining to child health and development. Her earlier work in this area concerned attachment and peer relations in children with Down syndrome. More recently, her research has concerned chronic illness adjustment in early childhood with particular emphasis on emotional and cognitive self-regulation and the role of parent-child interactions. Her research here is largely multidisciplinary in its focus and is based on alliances with healthcare professionals (such as clinical psychologists, dieticiens and paediatricians) working in the higher education and health service sectors.
Research Interests
- Attachment relations in atypical and typically developing children
- Communicative approaches to social development
- The use of observational techniques in child health research
- The application of developmental theories and research to issues in child health
- Peer relations
Funded research projects
Vivienne has received funding for major projects from agencies such as the Chief Scientist Office (CSO), Health Department, Scottish Executive (Promoting compliance in young children with diabetes) and the Ministry of Community and Social Services Research Grants Programme, Ontario, Canada ( Security of attachment and children with Down syndrome in the integrated school structure: a longitudinal study & Stability of attachment security classification among young children with Down syndrome). Smaller projects (≤£10, 000) have been funded by Lothian Health Board, National Health Service, Scotland (Maximising the teaching experience in outpatients from trainee, trainer and family perspectives) and Queen Margaret University (Survey of brief intelligence testing).
Professional membership and activities
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Chartered Health Psychologist (British Psychological Society)
- Member of the European Society of Developmental Psychology
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Selected publications
Reddy, V ., Chisholm, V. , Forrester, D., Conforti, M., & Maniatopoulou, D. (2007). Facing the perfect contingency: Interactions with the self at 2 and 3 months. Infant Behavior and Development, 30, 195-212.
Chisholm, V. , Atkinson, L., Donaldson, C., Kelnar, C., Noyes, K. & Payne, A. (2007). Predictors of treatment adherence in young children with type 1 diabetes. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 57, 482-493.
Thompson, A.P., LoBello, S.G., Atkinson, L., Chisholm, V. & Ryan, J.J. (2004). A survey of brief intelligence testing in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and United States. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 286-290.
Chisholm, V. (2003). The adjustment to diabetes of school-age children with psychological adjustment problems. British Journal of Health Psychology , 8, 335-358.
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Selected Conference Presentations
Atkinson, L., Chisholm, V., Blackwell, J., Potts, J., Milligan, K., & Bayrami, L. (2002). Developmental functioning and maternal sensitivity as predictors of aggression in children with Down syndrome. International Society for the Study in Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Ottawa, Canada.
Chisholm, V., Atkinson, L., Donaldson, C., Noyes, K., Payne, A. & Talbot, E. (2004). Collaborative problem-solving as an intervention strategy for promoting treatment adherence in young children with Type 1 diabetes. Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society, Division of Health Psychology, Edinburgh.
Chisholm, V., Donaldson, C., Atkinson, L., Payne, A., Kelnar, C. & Noyes, K. (2003). Parenting and compliance in young children with diabetes. Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society, Division of Health Psychology, Stafford, England.
Chisholm, V. (2003).
Diabetes in preadolescence. Annual conference of the Faculty of Clinical Health Psychology (British Psychological Society), York.
Chisholm, V., Donaldson, C., Talbot, E., Atkinson, L., Kelnar, C., Noyes, K. & Payne, A. (2003).
Young children with diabetes. Diabetes: Research Perspectives. Institute for Health Research, University of Bradford, Bradford.
Chisholm, V., Donaldson, C., Talbot, E., Atkinson, L., Kelnar, C., Noyes, K. & Payne, A. (2002).
A developmental approach to the study of compliance in young children with diabetes. Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society (Developmental Section), Brighton, England
Thompson, A.P., Atkinson, L., LoBello, S., Parker, K., Ryan, J.J., & Chisholm, V. (1999; poster).
A survey of the use of brief intelligence tests in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and United States. Australian Psychological Society Annual Conference, Hobart, Australia.
Online publications at QMU eResearch site
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