Dr Julie Majella Bower
Honorary Research Fellow
School of Education
Julie can also be contacted on julie.bower@emotionalhealthinschools.com.au
Researcher biography
Julie's research interests include: strengths-based case management in adolescence; prevention and intervention approaches; assessment of risk and protection in vulnerable youth; social and emotional well-being in adolescence; evidence-based resources for adolescent development; positive youth development; teacher well-being and innovative measures of emotional states of teachers and students in the classroom.
Dr Julie Bower is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Education. She conducts applied research in secondary schools to understand the social and emotional processes that keep students at school and engaged in learning. Her work is based in a positive youth development framework, focusing on the strengths of adolescents at risk and working in close partnership with schools to assist these students to reach their potential. She is interested in developing real-time measures of emotion in a classroom setting, assessment of both risk and protection in vulnerable youth; prevention and intervention approaches; social and emotional well-being in adolescence; evidence-based resources for adolescent development; and school-wide approaches for social and emotional well-being of students and teachers.
Julie Bower has over 29 years experience in the education sector, 21 of those in educational research and more recently, over the past 12 years in the development of the Mindfields® Program, The CAT-RPM, the t* (Teacher Emotions App) and the Mindful Practice for Teachers Program. She is now an educational consultant in Emotional Health in Schools. Julie’s experience in the field of education encompasses the areas of research project management, development of evidence-based resources, social and emotional wellbeing, cognitive behavioural interventions and strengths-based strategies for teacher and student well-being.
Publications
Books
Carroll, A., Ashman, A., Bower, J. and Hemingway, F. (2005). Mindfields - empowering young people to change their lives: training workbook. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Carroll, A., Ashman, A., Bower, J. and Hemingway, F. (2005). Mindfields - empowering young people to change their lives: facilitators manual. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Book Chapters
Carroll, Annemaree and Bower, Julie (2021). Innovative approaches to measure and promote emotion regulation in the classroom from a science of learning perspective. Learning under the lens: applying findings from the science of learning to the classroom. (pp. 93-111) edited by Annemaree Carroll, Ross Cunnington and Annita Nugent. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429027833-7
Carroll, Annemaree, Bower, Julie M., Ashman, Adrian F. and Lynn, Sasha (2017). Early secondary high school: a Mindfield® for social and emotional learning. Social and emotional learning in Australia and the Asia-Pacific: perspectives, programs and approaches. (pp. 335-352) edited by Erica Frydenberg, Andrew J. Martin and Rebecca J. Collie. Gateway East, Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-3394-0_18
Bower, Julie and Carroll, Annemaree (2015). Facts about students at risk of delinquency. Education for inclusion and diversity. (pp. 365-366) edited by Adrian Ashman. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Pearson Australia.
Carroll, Annemaree, Hemingway, Francene, Bower, Julie, Ashman, Adrian, Houghton, Stephen and Durkin, Kevin (2014). Impulsivity in juvenile delinquency: differences among early-onset, late-onset, and non-offenders. Criminal Psychology. (pp. ---) edited by David Canter. New York, NY, USA: SAGE Publications Library of Criminology.
Bower, Julie M. and Carroll, Annemaree (2014). Getting hooked on sports or the arts. Adolescence: Spaces and Places. (pp. 83-94) New York NY United States: Nova Science Publishers.
Bower, Julie M. and Carroll, Annemaree (2012). Students at risk of delinquency. Education for inclusion and diversity. (pp. 360-361) edited by Adrian Ashman and John Elkins. Frenchs Forest, Australia: Pearson.
Carroll, Annemaree, Bower, Julie, Hemingway, Francene and Ashman, Adrian (2007). Mindfields : A self-regulatory intervention for young people at risk who want to change their lives. The millennial adolescent. (pp. 59-64) edited by Nan Bahr and Donna Pendergast. Camberwell, Vic., Australia: ACER Press.
Journal Articles
Carroll, Annemaree, Bower, Julie M., Chen, Holly, Watterston, Jim and Ferguson, Angela (2022). Schoolwide approaches for promoting social and emotional well-being in Australian school contexts: focus group interviews with system and school stakeholders. American Journal of Education, 129 (1), 109-138. doi: 10.1086/721798
Carroll, Annemaree, Hepburn, Stevie-Jae and Bower, Julie (2022). Mindful practice for teachers: relieving stress and enhancing positive mindsets. Frontiers in Education, 7 954098. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2022.954098
Bourgeois, Amanda, Carroll, Annemaree and Bower, Julie (2022). Exploring the emotions of disadvantaged adolescents in the classroom: Development of the S2* emotion application. Frontiers in Education, 7. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2022.959673
Fynes-Clinton, Samuel, Sherwell, Chase, Ziaei, Maryam, York, Ashley, O’Connor, Emma Sanders, Forrest, Kylee, Flynn, Libby, Bower, Julie, Reutens, David and Carroll, Annemaree (2022). Neural activation during emotional interference corresponds to emotion dysregulation in stressed teachers. npj Science of Learning, 7 (1) 5, 5. doi: 10.1038/s41539-022-00123-0
Carroll, Annemaree, Forrest, Kylee, Sanders-O’Connor, Emma, Flynn, Libby, Bower, Julie M., Fynes-Clinton, Samuel, York, Ashley and Ziaei, Maryam (2022). Teacher stress and burnout in Australia: examining the role of intrapersonal and environmental factors. Social Psychology of Education, 25 (2-3), 1-29. doi: 10.1007/s11218-022-09686-7
Carroll, Annemaree, Sanders-O’Connor, Emma, Forrest, Kylee, Fynes-Clinton, Samuel, York, Ashley, Ziaei, Maryam, Flynn, Libby, Bower, Julie Majella and Reutens, David (2021). Improving emotion regulation, well-being, and neuro-cognitive functioning in teachers: a matched controlled study comparing the mindfulness-based stress reduction and health enhancement programs. Mindfulness, 13 (1), 123-144. doi: 10.1007/s12671-021-01777-4
Carroll, Annemaree, York, Ashley, Fynes-Clinton, Sam, Sanders-O'Connor, Emma, Flynn, Libby, Bower, Julie M., Forrest, Kylee and Ziaei, Maryam (2021). The downstream effects of teacher well-being programs: improvements in teachers' stress, cognition and well-being benefit their students. Frontiers in Psychology, 12 689628, 689628. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689628
Carroll, Annemaree, Flynn, Libby, O'Connor, Emma Sanders, Forrest, Kylee, Bower, Julie, Fynes-Clinton, Samuel, York, Ashley and Ziaei, Maryann (2020). In their words: listening to teachers' perceptions about stress in the workplace and how to address it. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 49 (4), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/1359866X.2020.1789914
Bower, Julie M. and Carroll, Annemaree (2017). Capturing real-time emotional states and triggers for teachers through the teacher wellbeing web-based application t*: a pilot study. Teaching and Teacher Education, 65, 183-191. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2017.03.015
Carroll, Annemaree, Bower, Julie M. and Muspratt, Sandy (2017). The conceptualization and construction of the self in a social context—social connectedness scale: a multidimensional scale for high school students. International Journal of Educational Research, 81, 97-107. doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2016.12.001
Bower, J. M., van Kraayenoord, C. and Carroll, A. (2015). Building social connectedness in schools: Australian teachers' perspectives. International Journal of Educational Research, 70, 101-109. doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2015.02.004
Bower, J. M., Carroll, A. and Ashman, A. (2015). Development and application of the CAT-RPM report for strengths-based case management of at-risk youth in schools. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 19 (1), 36-52. doi: 10.1080/13603116.2014.902123
Bourgeois, Amanda, Bower, Julie and Carroll, Annemaree (2014). Social networking and the social and emotional wellbeing of adolescents in Australia. Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 24 (2), 167-182. doi: 10.1017/jgc.2014.14
Bower, Julie M., Carroll, Annemaree and Ashman, Adrian (2014). The development and validation of the Contextualized Assessment Tool for Risk and Protection Management (CAT-RPM). Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 32 (2), 107-122. doi: 10.1177/0734282913497782
Carroll, Annemaree, Ashman, Adrian, Bower, Julie and Hemingway, Francene (2013). Readiness for change: case studies of young people with challenging and risky behaviours. Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 23 (1), 49-71. doi: 10.1017/jgc.2012.17
Bower, J. and Carroll, A. (2013). Square pegs - round holes: Embracing diversity for social and emotional wellbeing. QGCA Connections, 32 (2), 3-5.
Carroll, Annemaree, Ashman, Adrian, Hemingway, Francene, Bower, Julie and Houghton, Stephen (2012). A preliminary evaluation of Mindfields: a self-regulatory cognitive behavioural program for school-aged adolescent offenders. Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 29 (2), 81-94. doi: 10.1017/edp.2012.12
Carroll, Annemaree, Hemingway, Francene, Ashman, Adrian and Bower, Julie (2012). Establishing the psychometric properties of an interactive, self-regulation assessment battery for young offenders. Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 22 (1), 102-121. doi: 10.1017/jgc.2012.7
Bower, Julie M., Carroll, Annemaree and Ashman, Adrian F. (2012). Adolescent perspectives on schooling experiences: The interplay of risk and protective factors within their lives. International Journal of Educational Research, 53, 9-21. doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2011.12.003
Carroll, Annemaree, Houghton, Stephen, Wood, Robert, Unsworth, Kerrie, Hattie, John, Gordon, Lisa and Bower, Julie (2009). Self-efficacy and academic achievement in Australian high school students: The mediating effects of academic aspirations and delinquency. Journal of Adolescence, 32 (4), 797-817. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2008.10.009
Carroll, A., Houghton, S., Wood, R., Perkins, C. and Bower, J. (2007). Multidimensional self-concept: Age and gender differences in Australian high school students involved in delinquent activities. School Psychology International, 28 (2), 237-256. doi: 10.1177/0143034307078106
Carroll, Annemaree, Hemingway, Francene, Bower, Julie, Ashman, Adrian, Houghton, Stephen and Durkin, Kevin (2006). Impulsivity in juvenile delinquency: Differences among early-onset, late-onset and non-offenders. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35 (4), 519-529. doi: 10.1007/s10964-006-9053-6
Thesis
Julie Bower (2011). The Development and Validation of the Contextualised Assessment Tool for Risk and Protection Management (CAT-RPM). PhD Thesis, School of Education, The University of Queensland.
Research Report
Ashman, A. F., Carroll, A., Bower, J. and Williams, C. (2007). Adapting emergency interventions. Queensland: Queensland Fire and Rescue Services.
Audio Document
Carroll, A., Ashman, A., Bower, J. and Hemingway, F. (2005). Mindfields - empowering young people to change their lives: six session. The University of Queensland.
Generic Document
Carroll, A., Ashman, A., Bower, J. and Hemingway, F. (2005). Mindfields - empowering young people to change their lives: an interactive and evaluative screening tool. The University of Queensland.