Dr Sarah Fortune
| Position | Honorary Senior Lecturer |
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| Department | Department of Psychological Medicine (Dunedin) |
| Qualifications |
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| Research summary | Suicide prevention |
| Memberships |
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| Clinical | Sarah has twenty years clinical experience working with children, adolescents, and their whanau in both inpatient and outpatient settings |
Research
Sarah Fortune is an academic clinical psychologist with an enduring clinical and research interest in suicide prevention.
Sarah's research experience spans three main areas:
- Psychological therapies and clinical interventions for suicide prevention
- Service user experiences of self-harm services, and clinical staff attitudes towards people who harm themselves
- Public health approaches to suicide prevention including the epidemiology of suicidal behaviours across the lifespan
Publications
Fortune, S. A., & Hawton, K. (2018). Culture and mental disorders: Suicidal behaviour. In D. Bhugra & K. Bhui (Eds.), Textbook of cultural psychiatry. (2nd ed.) (pp. 256-274). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316810057
Cottrell, D. J., Wright-Hughes, A., Collinson, M., Boston, P., Elsler, I., Fortune, S., … Farrin, A. J. (2018). Effectiveness of systemic family therapy versus treatment as usual for young people after self-harm: A pragmatic, phase 3, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Lancet Psychiatry, 5, 203-216. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30058-0
Fortune, S., Cottrell, D., & Fife, S. (2016). Family factors associated with adolescent self-harm: A narrative review. Journal of Family Therapy, 38(2), 226-256. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.12119
Wright-Hughes, A., Graham, E., Farrin, A., Collinson, M., Boston, P., Eisler, I., Fortune, S., … Cottrell, D. (2015). Self-Harm Intervention: Family Therapy (SHIFT), a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of family therapy versus treatment as usual for young people seen after a second or subsequent episode of self-harm. Trials, 16(1), 501. doi: 10.1186/s13063-015-1007-4
Denny, S., de Silva, M., Fleming, T., Clark, T., Merry, S., Ameratunga, S., … Fortune, S. A. (2014). The prevalence of chronic health conditions impacting on daily functioning and the association with emotional well-being among a national sample of high school students. Journal of Adolescent Health, 54(4), 410-415. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2013.09.010
Fortune, S. A., & Hawton, K. (2018). Culture and mental disorders: Suicidal behaviour. In D. Bhugra & K. Bhui (Eds.), Textbook of cultural psychiatry. (2nd ed.) (pp. 256-274). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316810057
Chapter in Book - Other
Cottrell, D. J., Wright-Hughes, A., Collinson, M., Boston, P., Elsler, I., Fortune, S., … Farrin, A. J. (2018). Effectiveness of systemic family therapy versus treatment as usual for young people after self-harm: A pragmatic, phase 3, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Lancet Psychiatry, 5, 203-216. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30058-0
Journal - Research Article
Fortune, S., Cottrell, D., & Fife, S. (2016). Family factors associated with adolescent self-harm: A narrative review. Journal of Family Therapy, 38(2), 226-256. doi: 10.1111/1467-6427.12119
Journal - Research Article
Wright-Hughes, A., Graham, E., Farrin, A., Collinson, M., Boston, P., Eisler, I., Fortune, S., … Cottrell, D. (2015). Self-Harm Intervention: Family Therapy (SHIFT), a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of family therapy versus treatment as usual for young people seen after a second or subsequent episode of self-harm. Trials, 16(1), 501. doi: 10.1186/s13063-015-1007-4
Journal - Research Other
Denny, S., de Silva, M., Fleming, T., Clark, T., Merry, S., Ameratunga, S., … Fortune, S. A. (2014). The prevalence of chronic health conditions impacting on daily functioning and the association with emotional well-being among a national sample of high school students. Journal of Adolescent Health, 54(4), 410-415. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2013.09.010
Journal - Research Article
Noel, H., Denny, S., Farrant, B., Rossen, F., Teevale, T., Clark, T., … Fortune, S. (2013). Clustering of adolescent health concerns: A latent class analysis of school students in New Zealand. Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health, 49(11), 935-941. doi: 10.1111/jpc.12397
Journal - Research Article
Saunders, K. E. A., Hawton, K., Fortune, S., & Farrell, S. (2012). Attitudes and knowledge of clinical staff regarding people who self-harm: A systematic review. Journal of Affective Disorders, 139(3), 205-216. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2011.08.024
Journal - Research Article
Taylor, T. L., Hawton, K., Fortune, S., & Kapur, N. (2009). Attitudes towards clinical services among people who self-harm: Systematic review. British Journal of Psychiatry, 194, 104-110. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.107.046425
Journal - Research Other
Hawton, K., & Fortune, S. (2009). Suicidal Behavior and Deliberate Self-Harm. In M. Rutter, D. V. M. Bishop, D. S. Pine, S. Scott, J. Stevenson, E. Taylor & A. Thapar (Eds.), Rutter's child and adolescent psychiatry. (5th ed.) (pp. 648-669). Malden, MA: Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781444300895.ch40
Chapter in Book - Other
Fortune, S., Sinclair, J., & Hawton, K. (2008). Adolescents' views on preventing self-harm. Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, 43, 96-104. doi: 10.1007/s00127-007-0273-1
Journal - Research Article
Fortune, S., Sinclair, J., & Hawton, K. (2008). Help-seeking before and after episodes of self-harm: A descriptive study in school pupils in England. BMC Public Health, 8, 369. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-369
Journal - Research Article
Baker, D., & Fortune, S. (2008). Understanding self-harm and suicide websites: A qualitative interview study of young adult website users. Crisis, 29(3), 118-122. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910.29.3.118
Journal - Research Article
Fortune, S., Stewart, A., Yadav, V., & Hawton, K. (2007). Suicide in adolescents: Using life charts to understand the suicidal process. Journal of Affective Disorders, 100, 199-210. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2006.10.022
Journal - Research Article
Fortune, S. A. (2006). An examination of cutting and other methods of DSH among children and adolescents presenting to an outpatient psychiatric clinic in New Zealand. Clinical Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 11(3), 407-416. doi: 10.1177/1359104506064984
Journal - Research Article
Fortune, S., & Clarkson, H. (2006). The role of child and adolescent mental health services in suicide prevention in New Zealand. Australasian Psychiatry, 14(4), 369-373. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1665.2006.02306.x
Journal - Research Article
Fortune, S., Seymour, F., & Lambie, I. (2005). Suicide behaviour in a clinical sample of children and adolescents in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 34(3), 164-170.
Journal - Research Article
