Research Administrator
DipTch, BEd
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Anna Hunt is a Research Administrator with the Youth Mental Health team.
Anna’s background is in teaching. She completed a Diploma of Teaching (Early Childhood Education) in 1983 at the Western Australian College of Advanced Education (now Edith Cowan University) and a Bachelor of Education (Special Needs) in 2004 at the University of Notre Dame Fremantle. Anna worked for many years as an Early Childhood teacher with a focus on children with special needs.
Anna began work at the Telethon Kids Institute in 2009 with the Looking at Language team, and from 2011 to 2017 worked with the Autism Team. From 2017 to 2019 Anna worked as a Research Assistant on the Altitudes East West project, which is a trial of an online intervention for carers of young people with psychosis.
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August 2021
Selective attention to threat, anxiety and glycaemic management in adolescents with type 1 diabetes
Previous research has established that adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) experience more anxiety symptoms than their healthy peers and are also more likely to develop an anxiety disorder. Research in cognitive psychology has found that selective attention favouring the processing of threatening information causally contributes to elevated levels of anxiety; however, this process has not been investigated in the context of T1D.
Diabetes (Type 1) Published research Diabetes and Obesity Youth Mental Health -
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