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 |
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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
Chapter in Book - Other
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
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
Journal - Research Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Other
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
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