Our work is fully described in the following articles:

'Cultural Deprivation and Language Defect. Australian Psychologist, 1970.

Action Research: A Preschool for Rural Aborigines and Europeans. Australian Psychologist, 1970 * Intervention in Cultural Deprivation: The Comparative Success of a Preschool Experiment. Australian Psychologist, 1971. * The Question of Aboriginal Intelligence: The First Three Years of the Bourke Preschool Experiment. Medical Journal of Australia, 1973. * While in Bourke, which is on the beautiful Darling River, I caught some little freshwater shrimp and took them back to Sydney, where I kept them in an aquarium.  After observing these cute creatures for some months, as the weather warmed, their behaviour changed and they mated, displaying remarkable behaviour which had not previously been observed.  This story appeared in:

Reproductive Behaviour in Captive Freshwater Shrimp Machrobrachium Australiense Holthius.   Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1973

While in Sydney I married and we returned to Tucson where I worked for a while with the Model Indian Preschool at the Department of Education at the U of A.  This fascinating job took me to most of the Native American preschools around Arizona.  After a couple of years there i transferred to La Frontera Centre in South Tucson and worked there as a psychologist, for several years.  Our first child Kate was born during this time.

Returning to Adelaide, Australia in 1978, our second child Carrie was born.    I found a position in research at the Flinders Medical Centre.  We were studying stress in families.  The results were published in the following paper:

Personality and Other Factors Affecting Stress in Families. Australian Journal of Family Therapy, 2:2. 1981.

The findings from this research caught my interest and I continued, with support from the Dibden Research Unit at Glenside Hospital, to pursue various lines of enquiry.  What caught my interest was the claim, at the time was that married women scored higher than married men in neuroticism, and therefore marriage was bad for women.  Somehow, this conclusion seemed somewhat awry to me.  The following papers resulted:

Factors Correlated with Neuroticism Scores for Married Women. Journal of Marriage and the Family,  May 1982.

Wives Higher Neuroticism Scores: Some more relevant Factors. J. Personality and Individual Differences.  1985. Mental Health in Marriage: The Roles of Need for Affiliation, Sensitivity to Rejection and Other Factors. (American) Journal of Clinical Psychology 1986.

About 1983 I began working for the State Government of S. Australia as a Senior Clinical Psychologist (specializing in childhood and family problems), first at Port Augusta and later at Elizabeth South, near Adelaide.

Shortly before retiring,  in 1990 I spent another year associated with a  Flinders Medical Centre research group where I was able to publish the following paper:

Sleep Difficulties, Pain and other Correlates. Journal of Internal Medicine (formerly Acta Medica Scandanavica), 1991.

* These articles were reproduced in "The Psychology of Aboriginal Australians". Editor George Kearny, 1972 and also in "Child Development", Editor D.J. Pallant, 1975.

I suppose once you get used to writing articles, it gets to be a bit of a habit, so shortly after retirement I wrote up our family history in

Illawarra Ancestors and Relatives.  This is a family history of the Morrows, Moffitts, Armstrongs and related families as they lived in the Illawarra region in the 19th century.   1994

As my father encouraged in me a love of woodwork, while I was working at Port Augusta,  I joined the Pichi Richi Railway  in Quorn, South Australia where I volunteer as a carriage builder, rebuilding and restoring beautiful old wooden carriages for their tourist trains. My two daughters and their friends spent many happy hours up there with me, during their school holidays.  See us at https://www.pichirichirailway.org.au/

I have also been part of the executive team on the Carl Jung Society in Adelaide, during the early 1990s  My time at the Jung Institute in Zurich, prior to attending the U. of A.  was an important part of my psychological journey.

I also served as the Senior Project Coordinator where I helped students obtain internships for their third trimester. I am now in my third year within the BASIS network, but am now the College Counselor and Senior Project Coordinator at BASIS Ahwatukee. I also have the great joy of teaching one section of AP Psychology. I love being able to share my experiences of working in Dr. Dave Sbarra's research lab, my internship with Dr. Julie Feldman, or my TA experience in Dr. John Allen's. Psych101 course. I absolutely love what I do and I am so grateful for the experiences I had within the Psychology department at the UofA. 

Whilst pursuing my thesis research, I presented a poster at the National Council for Family Relationships (NCFR) Conference in 2012 and was accepted for a symposium presentation the following year. After graduation, I got married to a military service member (that research came in handy!) and experienced three permanent change of stations with my military husband, but continued to work on this project with my mentors. We prepared a manuscript, submitted for publication, were invited to revise and resubmit, and eventually were accepted.

Recently, the article was published in the Journal of Family Studies (http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/d49SfrrXAegN4YuYv3N8/full)

It is incredibly rewarding to see this project through to the end and I'm grateful for the opportunities afforded to me through the University of Arizona Honors Psychology program and guidance offered by my FSHD mentors and Psych advisor, Dr. Mehl.

The VASNHS serves 58,000 Veterans yearly, providing a broad range of inpatient care and over 798,000 visits. VASNHS will be closely affiliated with the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Medicine. In addition to the Chief and Assistant Chief, Behavioral Health Service, the Service has 26 psychiatrists, 28 psychologists, 33 Social Workers, 1 Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor, 2 Physician Assistants, 6 APRNs, 2 Psychology Technicians, 7 Peer Support Specialists and 14 administrative staff. The activities of the Behavioral Health Service are organized around various clinical units. All units support a complex integration of clinical, training and research activities. 

I am also eternally grateful that my doctorate was free and I was fully scholarshiped. I was given externships and teaching positions to support myself while pursuing my doctorate.  I pursued an internship at UTMB at Galveston in 1979, worked as a Psychologist on a children's residential unit and settled in to work for 19 years as a VA psychologist where I could pursue clinical, training and research interests. I presented at APA Annual Conventions in areas of training, PTSD and domestic violence. I served on APA's  Psychologists in Public Service Board of Directors and was an APA site visitor for Accreditation of Psychology Internships.  In addition to serving Veterans on a variety of units both inpatient and outpatient,  I was the Director of Psychology Internship Training at the VA for a number of years. Following my time at the VA, I worked for 15 years as a Psychological Consultant for the NJ DDS; this is the NJ managed SSA disability program. I recently retired from the NJ DDS and have been hired as a contractor for an SSA Regional Office as a Psychological Consultant. I have had a varied and stimulating career and have been fortunate to work with many talented people.

I managed to fit in a spunky boy when I was 43 years old and he is completing his engineering degree at Lehigh University.  I have been fortunate to have been able to work at what I love doing and was trained for, and am again grateful the the U of A Dept. of Psychology for giving me the basis for a wonderful career.  Thank-you University of Arizona and the Psychology Department!