Qualifications and Memberships / Associations
Bachelor of Science (Psychology) Curtin University 2000
Bachelor of Science (Honours) Curtin University 2001
Supervisor – Graham Guest 2010 – 2012
EMDR Basic Training – Graham Taylor 2017
EMDR Accreditation 2018
Gemma is currently completing her Consultancy Training in EMDR 2020
EMDR Supervisor – Anthony (Tony) Smith 2017 – 2018
Supervisor – Graham Guest 2019 and 2020
Associate Member Australian Psychological Society (APS)
Associate Converge International
Member EMDR Association Australia (EMDRAA)
Member EMDR Interest Group APS
Comcare Accredited South Australia
Community Services
Goodwood Community Services Board Member 2012 – 2014
The Smith Family Student Mentor 2018
Trauma Recovery Network Member 2020
Publications
Psychological sense of community: An Australian Aboriginal experience
Brian Bishop, Simon Colquhoun, Gemma Johnson
12 December 2005
Abstract
Sense of community (SOC) is central to an individual’s psychological wellbeing (Sarason, 1974). Eleven participants, mainly from the North West of Western Australia, took part in semistructured interviews investigating Australian Aboriginal notions of community and SOC. Five key themes emerged from the data. These included: kinship structure, language groups, skin groups, education, and knowledge. It is argued that the themes of kinship structure, language groups, and skin groups described the Aboriginal social structure whereas the themes of education and knowledge described the maintenance of a SOC. The impact of this conclusion on the theoretical understanding of a psychological SOC was discussed using analogies to Tönnies’ (1957) distinction between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals.