Fiona Shand
B Sc (hons) Psych; M Clin Psych, PhD
Fiona is a Senior Research Fellow at the Black Dog Institute and the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention, a clinical psychologist in private practice, and Research Director of the LifeSpan project, a large, multi-level model of community wide suicide prevention being rolled out in five regions.
Fiona holds a NHMRC TRIP fellowship to further the implementation of improvements to care following a suicidal crisis. Her other research spans e-mental health interventions for at-risk populations, Indigenous suicide prevention, and health service research. Her team has completed the first Australian randomised controlled trial of a suicide prevention intervention with Aboriginal youth, using an app to deliver therapy.
Research areas:
- Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people
- Suicidal behaviour(suicidal ideation, suicidal risk, suicide attempt)
- Interventions
- Settings (workplaces, mental health services, education, communities)
Available for:
- Research opportunities
- Funding
- Innovative approaches to suicide prevention
- Collaboration with Australian suicide prevention services, programs and resources
Notable Research
The iBobbly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander app project: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
Shand F, O'Moore K, Ridani R, Mackinnon A, Reda B, Hoy M, Heard T, Duffy L, Shanahan M, Jackson Pulver L, Christensen H
Trial (accepted)
View at
www.blackdoginstitute.org.au
Experience of health care services after a suicide attempt: Results from an online survey. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
Shand F, Batterham PJ, Chan JK, Pirkis J, Spittal MJ, Woodward A, Christensen H
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2018 Dec;48(6):779-787. doi: 10.1111/sltb.12399
View at
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Improving patient care after a suicide attempt
Shand F, Vogl L, Robinson J
Australasian Psychiatry; 1-4; 2018.
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journals.sagepub.com
Development of the RAFT (Reconnecting after a suicide attempt) SMS brief contact intervention
Larsen M, Shand F, Morley K, Batterham P, Petrie K, Reda B, Christensen H
JMIR Mental Health, 2017, 4(4):e56. doi: 10.2196/mental.7500.
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mental.jmir.org
Community mental health care after self harm: A retrospective cohort study, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
Spittal M, Shand F, Christensen H, Brophy L, Pirkis J.
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 51(7), 727–735. https://doi.org/10.1177/0004867416676366
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journals.sagepub.com
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.