Dr Kate Witteveen
Lecturer (Counselling)
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
+61 7 334 66255
Researcher biography
Kate is a mental health academic and practitioner with particular interests in women's wellbeing and neurodiversity. Her recent research activities have focused on exploring the lived experiences of women with an adult diagnosis of ADHD, and she is currently engaged in a number of projects exploring various facets of those experiences, including the impact of hormones, the interplay between ADHD and trauma, and therapeutic approaches that are well-suited to supporting women with ADHD.
Publications
Book
O'Hara, Denis, Schirmer, Jim, Ellwood, Michael and Witteveen, Kate (2025). The practice of counselling and psychotherapy. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/109db44
Journal Articles
Witteveen, Kate and O'Hara, Denis (2025). Mentalisation, self-compassion, and the psychosocial impact of ADHD in adult women. Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia. doi: 10.59158/001c.141060
Schirmer, Jim, Ellwood, Michael W., Witteveen, Kate and O'Hara, Denis (2025). Are professional counsellors and psychotherapists prepared to make a greater contribution to the Australian mental health workforce? A comparison of training content and mental health standards. Advances in Mental Health, 23 (1), 126-139. doi: 10.1080/18387357.2024.2347434
Tehan, Hannah, Witteveen, Kate, Tolan, G. Anne and Tehan, Gerald (2019). Using dual-task methods to enhance cognitive performance in the acute phase of stroke: a proof of concept study. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 33 (5), 873-889. doi: 10.1080/13854046.2018.1529817
Burgoyne, Kelly, Witteveen, Kate, Tolan, Anne, Malone, Stephanie and Hulme, Charles (2017). Pattern understanding: relationships with arithmetic and reading development. Child Development Perspectives, 11 (4), 239-244. doi: 10.1111/cdep.12240
Tehan, Hannah, Witteveen, Kate, Tolan, G Anne, Tehan, Gerald and Senior, Graeme J (2017). Using Mahalanobis distance to evaluate recovery in acute stroke. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 33 (5), 577-582. doi: 10.1093/arclin/acx107
Long, Imogen, Malone, Stephanie A., Tolan, Anne, Burgoyne, Kelly, Heron-Delaney, Michelle, Witteveen, Kate and Hulme, Charles (2016). The cognitive foundations of early arithmetic skills: it is counting and number judgment, but not finger gnosis, that count. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 152, 327-334. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.08.005
Grieve, Rachel, Witteveen, Kate and Tolan, G. Anne (2014). Social media as a tool for data collection: examining equivalence of socially value-laden constructs. Current Psychology: developmental - learning - personality - social, 33 (4), 532-544. doi: 10.1007/s12144-014-9227-4
Grieve, Rachel, Witteveen, Kate, Tolan, G. Anne and Jacobson, Brett (2014). Development and validation of a measure of cognitive and behavioural social self-efficacy. Personality and Individual Differences, 59, 71-76. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.11.008
March, Evita, Grieve, Rachel, Marx, Eric and Witteveen, Kate (2013). More of a (wo)man offline? Gender roles measured in online and offline environments. Personality and Individual Differences, 55 (8), 887-891. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.07.018
Barletta, Jolm and Witteveen, Kate (2007). Pastoral care in hospitals: an overview of issues. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 13 (1), 97-105. doi: 10.1071/py07013
Conference Paper
Tolan, Georgina, Grieve, Rachel and Witteveen, Kate (2012). Predicting depression and anxiety: the role of emotional and cognitive processing styles. XXX International Congress of Psychology, Cape Town, South Africa, July 2012. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell.
Data Collection
Witteveen, Kate M. and O'Hara, Denis J. (2024). Mentalisation, self-compassion and psychosocial impact of ADHD in adult women.. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/14096c3
Research Reports
O'Hara, Denis J., Ellem, Kathy and Witteveen, Kate (2024). Evaluation of the National Counselling and Referral Service Counselling within Correctional Centres: executive summary and final report. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/8d16fc4
Schirmer, Jim, Witteveen, Kate and O'Hara, Denis (2021). Evidence of focused psychological strategies provided by counsellors and psychotherapists: a systematic scoping review. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/edfa455