Ian Lambie

Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 85012
Email: i.lambie@auckland.ac.nz
Room: 721.309 Tāmaki Campus

Ian worked for 10 years as a clinical psychologist before joining the University in 1990. He has worked with youth offenders for the past 20 years, specialising in adolescents who sexually offend, children who deliberately light fires and children displaying violent and antisocial behaviour. Ian is a member of the Ministry of Justice Independent Advisory Group on Youth Offending chaired by Chief Youth Court Judge, Judge Becroft and a member of the Ministry of Social Development advisory group on the treatment of conduct disorder. He is a member of the New Zealand Psychologists Board Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal and on the Film and Literature Review Board of Review, Officer of the Chief Censor, Department of Internal Affairs. In 2001 Ian received the New Zealand Psychological Society Public Interest Award for his longstanding community work with adolescent sexual offenders in New Zealand. In 2006 he was awarded the Ann Ballin Award from the New Zealand Psychological Society for services to Clinical Psychology in New Zealand. In 2005 Ian was the recipient of the Faculty of Science Deans Excellence Teaching Award. Ian is on the editorial board of the Journal of Sexual Aggression.

• Sexual offending in adolescents and adults
• Arson in children and adults
• Severe antisocial and violent behaviour in children and adolescents
• Child and adolescent mental health
• Programme evaluation

• Lambie, I., & Simmonds, L. (2010).  Raising teens today: Dealing with sex, drugs and homework. Random House.
• Lambie, I., & Stewart, M.  (2010). Workforce factors for psychologists in child and adolescent mental health services in New Zealand.  Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 15, 164–170.
• Somervell, J., & Lambie, I.  (2009). Wilderness therapy within an adolescent sexual  offender treatment programme: A qualitative study.  Journal of Sexual Aggression, 15, 161-177.
• Fortune, C., & Lambie, I.D.  (2006). Sexually abusive youth: A review of recidivism studies and methodological issues for future research.  Clinical Psychology Review, 26, 1078-1095.
• Lambie, I., & Seymour, F.  (2006). One size does not fit all: Future directions for the treatment of sexually abusive youth in New Zealand.  Journal of Sexual Aggression, 12 (2), 175-187.