User:Graham Edward Douglas Martin

Background

Graham Edward Douglas Martin was born on April 8th 1944 at a Twickenham, Middlesex, UK nursing home. The apocryphal story is that he was born under a bed during a V2 bomb raid over London. His mother, Louie Evelyn (‘Eve’ née May, 1919-1970) was the daughter of Harold May (1895-1921; Trooper 3095, 1st Life Guards) and Louisa née Barrett (1888-1945). Harold saw action at Ypres in France, was gassed and repatriated, only to die from tuberculosis at the age of 26, 2 weeks before the birth of his son Harold May (1921-1987, later the father of Brian May of ‘Queen’). Eve trained at Clerk’s College in London, and was to become a fine needlewoman (like her mother), a landscape painter and sculptress. Sadly, a lifelong smoker, she died at the age of 50 from Lung Cancer. Graham’s father George Edward Martin (‘Ted’, 1919-2011) was the oldest of 7 children. His mother Alice (née Reynolds, 1898-1994) served as a nurse with the Women’s Royal Army Corp in WW1, and his father Clifton William Martin (1900-1991) served with the Royal Naval Air Service in WW1, and the RAF in WW2. Bill Martin was a flight instructor, having his own flying school in Sussex between the wars. He authored the first book on air navigation (‘Martin’s Air Navigation’, The Eversley Press,1936) later used in training by the RAF. Ted had a long career in the Royal Air Force. At 21, he was with the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France, and rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940. Initially in Radio, he trained in Radar, reaching the rank of Squadron Leader. After retirement, he worked for Bristol Aircraft Corporation. In his leisure time he too was an artist, painting exquisite watercolours well into his 90s.

Family Life

Graham met his wife Janet (née Hughes, 1944-) at ballroom dancing classes at the age of 14. They both attended grammar schools in Kent, and were members of the Birchington Junior Drama Club for 4 years, where they were part of one-act plays successful in winning Kent County Council Youth Drama competitions. This experience underpinned a lifelong interest in Theatre and the Arts. Janet and Graham were married in 1965, and have 3 surviving children. A daughter (Harriet) died tragically in 1976, aged 3. They have 5 grandchildren. Janet qualified with a BSc. from Bedford College, London University (1965), subsequently becoming a clinical biochemist. She later studied Nutrition and Dietetics at Flinders University of South Australia (BND, 1988). She has been an Accredited Practicing Dietitian (APD) with a special interest in swallowing disorders (Dysphagia), and is an author (‘Good Looking, Easy Swallowing’ 1994; ‘A Kitchen Manual for Preparation of Modified Texture Diets’ 2013, ‘Super Foods for Small Appetites’ 2014, ‘Frozen in Time’ (in preparation)).

Career

Graham studied Medicine at King’s College and King’s College Hospital, in his final year winning both the Robert Bentley Todd Prize for Medicine and the White Prize for Psychiatry (1967). He gained his London University MBBS in 1968, as well as the Conjoint Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (LRCP)/ Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS), doing 6 months each in Accident and Emergency and then the Professorial Unit in Medicine to gain General Medical Council registration. After a Senior House Officer year in Adult Psychiatry at King’s, and then 6 months of Obstetrics at Margate Hospital, he completed the Diploma in Obstetrics for Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (D.Obst.RCOG, 1970) and became a General Practitioner in Birchington on Sea, Kent, from April 1970 to December 1974. During this time, he gained Membership of the College of GPs and a Diploma in Psychological Medicine (DPM, RCPsych, 1974). Migrating to Australia with his family in 1974, Graham returned to full time study of psychiatry in the South Australian Psychiatry Training Program, gaining his Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 1980 (FRANZCP). After further training in Family Therapy under Dr. Jeffrey Gerard and Mr. Michael White at Adelaide Children’s Hospital, and 4 years in private practice in North Adelaide, Graham became Clinical Director of a vibrant, innovative and award-winning service (Southern Child and Adolescent Mental Health) based at Flinders Medical Centre (1986-2001). Graham was awarded his Doctorate in Medicine from Flinders University of South Australia in 1999 for his thesis ‘Toward The Early Detection Of Suicidal Behaviours In Young People’, and an Associate Professorship in 2001. In 2001, Graham moved to Queensland to take up the position of Professor and Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the University of Queensland Department of Psychiatry, and Clinical Director for the Brisbane Royal Children’s Hospital Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS). Graham retired from the University of Queensland in 2014, but continued part time clinical practice with a mixed community clinic (‘Go2 Human Performance’) until 2016.

Boards and Associations

Professor Martin has been dedicated to research in, and program development for, suicide prevention since 1987, a member of the International Association for Suicide Prevention since 1997, and an invited member of the International Association for Suicide Research since 2004. He was a Member of the Advisory Council Australian National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy and Evaluation Working Group (1994-99), writing team for the Australian Suicide Prevention Strategy (2000, 2007), National Advisory Council for Suicide Prevention (2003-2008), and a National Advisor on Suicide Prevention to the Australian Government (2009-12). He was Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA) chairman (1995-2001), convening 6 national suicide prevention conferences, led the team developing the first Media and Suicide Resource Kit (‘Achieving the Balance’, 1998), and became a Life Member of SPA in 2004. Professor Martin only latterly gave up the chair of the Research Advisory Committee for ‘RUOK?’, Board membership of Mates in Construction, the Inspire Foundation, and the Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research (UQ). He remains a member of the Lifeline Research Advisory Board.

Awards and Honours

Professor Martin was recognised in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday Honours List with the Medal of the Order of Australia for his services to Psychiatry in the development of services in Child and Youth Mental Health, and for Suicide Prevention. In the same year he was awarded a Gold Companion Award for services to Australian Rotary Health Research Foundation. In 2007, he received a ‘Jackstar’ award for 10 years contribution to Inspire Foundation’s ‘ReachOut’ program. He was awarded the Suicide Prevention Australia ‘Lifetime Contribution to Suicide Prevention Research’ award (2008), and the ‘Lifetime Contribution to Suicide Prevention’ (2014).

Innovation

In 1997, with Dr. Sheila Clark, and Dr. Paul Beckinsale, Professor Martin created a program of suicide prevention training for GPs called ‘Keep Yourself Alive’ (KYA), organising 150 2-day seminars for GPs and an equal number for community health personnel, covering every state and territory of Australia, and training over 8000 professionals. Over 3500 video ‘train-the-trainer’ kits for KYA were distributed in Australia, the kits containing 4 videos, 2 prize-winning audiotapes and an instruction manual for running workshops. KYA won ‘The Australian’ / ‘Australian Publishers Association’ Award for Educational Excellence’ (TAFE and Tertiary category) for the complete ‘Keep Yourself Alive’ Education Kit (videos available on YouTube.com).

Also in 1997, with Professor Robert Kosky, Professor Martin was an originator of the Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention program (Auseinet, 1997-2009), and Director until 2001. Given previous experience in developing journals (‘Interface’, ‘The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy’), he developed the ‘Australian eJournal for the Advancement of Mental Health’ (now the online journal ‘Advances in Mental Health’) and was Editor until 2014.

Professor Martin chaired the Queensland Mental Health Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention committee until he developed paralysis from Transverse Myelitis at Christmas 2009.

Graham has taken great pride in being a board member for ‘Mates in Construction’, an industry leader in suicide prevention for building trades, the model now disseminated to ‘Mates in Mining’, and ‘Mates in Energy’.

In 2005, with a grant from the American Foundation, he collaborated with Professor Philip Hazell on a 2-yr randomized controlled trial of group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with self-harming adolescents. He has been involved in research, publication, and development of, programs for non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) since 2007. He has presented on self-injury and its correlates at more than 25 conferences and seminars, and in Media (https://www.sbs.com.au/shows/secretsofthehumanbody/tab-listings/page/i/4/h/The-Silent-Epidemic/) (http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/08/10/3290152.htm) (http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/personal-story-highlights-battle-with-self-harm/4157800), and has contributed to over 40 scientific research papers on Non-suicidal Self-injury in international journals. Discovering that 40% of first year University students had at some stage self-injured, and 12% were actively self-injuring to cope with emotional turmoil, Professor Martin instituted a series of University based surveys to consider the key prevention issue of ‘Why people give up self-injury?’ This line of enquiry, with the help of Honours and Doctoral students in Psychology, has resulted in extensive publication in international journals.

Students

Professor Martin has been an enthusiastic supporter of students gaining experience in research practice. From 1987 he supported medical student research studies at Flinders University, and since 2001 at the University of Queensland he has been a supervisor for 25 students completing their Honours in Psychology research studies, as well as 15 students completing Masters and PHD studies.

Invited presentations

Professor Martin has always been in demand as a speaker to service and mental health organisations (30-40 per annum), as well as a media commentator. His list of invited presentations includes Julian Katz Orator, Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, RANZCP, 1996; Barton Pope Lecturer, Mental Health Week, South Australia, 1996; Flinders Medical Centre Invited Public Lecture, 1998 (Depression and Suicide in Young People; Solving the Puzzle); Flinders Medical Centre Invited Public Lecture, 2000 (Attention Deficit Disorder); Dean’s Lecture Flinders University School of Medicine, 2001; Dignan-Stephens Orator, Royal Children’s Hospital Brisbane, 2002; Alby Jones Medallist and Orator, Australian Council of Educators, 2003; The Inaugural Wilson Family lecturer, 2004; and, the opening Keynote speaker at the 2007 IACAPAP Congress in Melbourne. He was the Invited Opening Keynote in 2009 for the World Suicide Prevention Day in Seoul Korea, and in September 2010 was the Invited Opening Keynote and 2-day workshop presenter for the 40th anniversary of Samaritans of Singapore, which coincided with World Suicide Prevention Day 2010. Most recently Professor Martin gave the Opening Keynote Address to the Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA) 25th Anniversary Conference in Brisbane in 2017 (“Mind The Gaps: On Relationships, Resilience and Respect”).

Publications

Professor Martin has over 250 research-based journal publications registered on Researcher ID and ORCID related to prevention and early intervention of suicide in young people, and Non-suicidal Self-injury. Over the last 5 years Prof. Martin’s citations have averaged approximately 500 per year.

Books Martin, G. (accepted for publication, July 2018). ‘A little book of Mindful Haiku’. Austin Macauley Publishers, London, England.

Martin, G., 2014. ESSAYS on Prevention in Mental Health. Family Concern Publications, Brisbane, Queensland. 324pp. ISBN 978-0-9875603-9-1 (available from https://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au/)

Martin, G., 2014. Sensual Haiku. Family Concern Publications, Brisbane, Queensland. ISBN 978-0-9875603-2-2. (Available from https://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au/)

Martin, G., 2013. Taking Charge; a Journey of Recovery. Family Concern Publications, Brisbane, Queensland. ISBN 978-0-9808207-8-2. (This records the early stages of his battle with Transverse Myelitis, a spinal condition of unknown origin.) (Available from https://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au/)

In addition, Prof. Martin is a co-author for a number of other widely disseminated booklets and manuals:

Martin, G., Swannell, S., Hasking, P. & McAllister, M., 2014. Seeking Solutions to Self-injury: A Guide for Family Doctors. Centre for Suicide Prevention Studies. Discipline of Psychiatry. The University of Queensland. ISBN 978-0-9875603-6-0. (Available from https://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au/)

Martin, G., Swannell, S., McAllister, M., & Hasking, P., 2014. Seeking Solutions to Self-injury: A Guide for Emergency Staff. Centre for Suicide Prevention Studies. Discipline of Psychiatry. The University of Queensland. ISBN 978-0-9808207-6-8. (Available from https://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au/)

Martin, G., Hasking, P., Swannell, S., McAllister, M. & Kay, T., (2013). Seeking Solutions to Self-injury: A Guide for Young People SECOND EDITION. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. ISBN 978-0-9875603-3-9 (available from https://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au/)

Martin, G., Hasking, P., Swannell, S. & McAllister, M., (2013). Seeking solutions to self-injury: A guide for parents and families. SECOND EDITION. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. ISBN 978-0-9875603-4-6 (available from https://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au/)

Martin, G., Hasking, P., Swannell, S., Lee, M., McAllister, M., Griesbach, K., 2013. Seeking Solutions to Self-injury: A Guide for School Staff. ‘What can you do if you are not the Counsellor? SECOND EDITION. Centre for Suicide Prevention Studies. Discipline of Psychiatry. The University of Queensland. ISBN 978-0-9875603-1-5 (available from https://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au/)

Hasking, P., Martin, G., Berger, E., Andrews, V. & Swannell, S., 2014. Adolescents Coping with Emotional Problems (Final Research Report for Schools) Monash University and the University of Queensland, Australia. ISBN: 978-0-9875603-5-3.

Martin, G., Swannell, S., Harrison, J., Hazell, P. & Taylor, A., 2010. The Australian National Epidemiological Study of Self-Injury (ANESSI). Discipline of Psychiatry. The University of Queensland. Brisbane, Australia. ISBN 978-0-9808207-0-6. Available as a download in .pdf format from (available from https://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au/)

Martin, G. & Page, A., 2009. National Suicide Prevention Strategies: a Comparison. Centre for Suicide Prevention Studies, Discipline of Psychiatry. The University of Queensland. ISBN 978-0-9808207-9-9. Commissioned review, DOHA, Canberra. (available from https://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au/)

Sheehan, N., Martin, G., Krysinska, K. & Kilroy, K., 2009. Sustaining Connection: Towards a Cultural Strengths Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community, Spiritual, Social and Emotional Wellbeing. Centre for Suicide Prevention Studies, Discipline of Psychiatry. The University of Queensland, Brisbane. ISBN 978-0-9808207-3-7 Downloadable as a pdf (available from https://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au/)

Krysinska, K., Martin G. & Sheehan N., 2009. Identity, Voice, Place: A Framework for Suicide Prevention for Indigenous Australians based on a Social and Emotional Wellbeing Approach. Discipline of Psychiatry. The University of Queensland, Brisbane. ISBN 978-0-9808207-1-3. Available in Soft Cover, or downloadable in pdf format from (https://www.familyconcernpublishing.com.au)

Rowling, L., Martin, G. & Walker, L. (Eds.), 2008. Mental Health Promotion and Young People: Concepts and Practice. Korean Language Edition (Translator: Kwak, Young Sook) McGraw-Hill, Seoul, Korea. ISBN 978-89-92141-29-1-93510.

Rowling, L., Martin, G. & Walker, L. (Eds.), 2004. La promozione della salute mentale e I giovani: Teorie e pratiche. Translated into Italian by Alessandro Grispini e Pompeo Martelli. Psicologia McGraw Hill, Milano, Italy. ISBN 88 386 2793-2.

Rowling, L., Martin, G. & Walker, L. (Eds.), 2001. Mental Health Promotion and Young People: Concepts and Practice. McGraw Hill, Sydney. ISBN 0-074-71048-6.

External Links

Professor Martin’s citations can be found at (https://scholar.google.com.au/). A list of published works can be found at Researcher ID (http://www.researcherid.com/Home.action) or Orcid (https://orcid.org/). Professor Martin has a professional biography at The University of Queensland (http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1070)

(Graham Edward Douglas Martin (talk) 06:37, 6 August 2018 (UTC))