Associate Professor Fiona Shand
B Sc (Hons) Psych; M Clin Psych, PhD
Fiona is an Associate Professor 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)
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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
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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.
Associate Professor Fiona Shand
Primary Research Focus:
Suicide Prevention
Works with:
Black Dog Institute