Dr Anthony Jorm
PhD, DSc
Primary Research Focus:
Suicide Prevention
Works with:
Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
Anthony (‘Tony’) Jorm is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on building the community’s capacity for prevention and early intervention with mental disorders. He is the author of 34 books or monographs, over 600 journal articles and over 30 chapters in edited volumes. He has been awarded a Doctor of Science for his research and elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He is Editor-in-Chief of Mental Health & Prevention and an Associate Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. Previous positions he has held include NHMRC Australia Fellow, Chair of the Research Committee of Australian Rotary Health and President of the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research. He has been listed in ISI HighlyCited.com as one of the most cited researchers in Psychology/Psychiatry.
Research areas:
- Adults
- Children or young people
- Mental health, mental ill health
- Interventions
- Settings (workplaces, mental health services, education, communities)
Available for:
- Research opportunities
- Funding
- Collaboration with Australian suicide prevention services, programs and resources
- Support for discussions about suicide
Notable Research
Associations of training to assist a suicidal person with subsequent quality of support: results from a national survey of the Australian public.
Jorm, A.F., Nicholas, A., Pirkis, J., Rossetto, A. & Reavley, N.J.
BMC Psychiatry. 2018 18,132.
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cross-cultural generalizability of suicide first aid actions: an analysis of agreement across expert consensus studies from a range of countries and cultures.
Jorm, A.F., Ross, A.M. & Colucci, E.
BMC Psychiatry. 2018 18, 58.
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Re-development of mental health first aid guidelines for supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders who are experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviour.
Armstrong, G., Ironfield, N., Kelly, C.M., Dart, K., Arabena, K., Bond, K., Reavley, N. & Jorm, A.F.
BMC Psychiatry. 2018 18, 228.
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Help-negation in suicidal youth living in Switzerland.
Dey, M. & Jorm, A.F.
European Journal of Psychiatry 2017 31, 17-22.
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Importance of messages for a suicide prevention media campaign: An expert consensus study.
Nicholas, A., Rossetto, A., Jorm, A., Pirkis J. & Reavley, N. (2018).
Crisis. 2018 39, 438-450.
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Please note: this is not a complete list of papers this researcher has contributed to. If the research you are interested in is not listed above, please contact the researcher for more information.
Dr Anthony Jorm
Primary Research Focus:
Suicide Prevention
Works with:
Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne