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Danuta Wasserman

Danuta Wasserman

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31213
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National Ranking
283

Overview

Danuta Wasserman is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a significant focus on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's published work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment

Their frequent publication venues reflect a specialized interest within psychiatry and mental health fields, with most works appearing in:

  • European Psychiatry (14 publications)
  • World Psychiatry (12 publications)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology (4 publications)
  • Asia-Pacific Psychiatry (3 publications)
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (3 publications)

Among notable recent papers are:

  • "Adaptation of evidence-based suicide prevention strategies during and after the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, World Psychiatry
  • "Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries," 2022, EClinicalMedicine
  • "Suicide prevention in childhood and adolescence: a narrative review of current knowledge on risk and protective factors and effectiveness of interventions," 2021, Asia-Pacific Psychiatry
  • "The term "physical distancing" is recommended rather than "social distancing" during the COVID-19 pandemic for reducing feelings of rejection among people with mental health problems," 2020, European Psychiatry
  • "Principles of mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, European Psychiatry

Danuta Wasserman collaborates frequently with other researchers including Vladimir Carli, Marco Sarchiapone, Christina W. Hoven, Gergö Hadlaczky, and Romuald Brunner.

The researcher has also contributed to book publications, including a recent title published by TemaNord in 2024 titled "Prevention of suicide and suicide attempts in the Nordic countries."

Best Publications

  • Suicide prevention strategies: a systematic review.

    John J Mann;Alan Apter;Jose Bertolote;Annette Beautrais

  • Suicide prevention strategies revisited: 10-year systematic review

    Gil Zalsman;Gil Zalsman;Keith Hawton;Danuta Wasserman;Kees van Heeringen

  • Attempted suicide in Europe: rates, trends and sociodemographic characteristics of suicide attempters during the period 1989-1992. Results of the WHO/EURO Multicentre Study on Parasuicide

    Armin Schmidtke;Unni Bille-Brahe;Diego DeLeo;Ad Kerkhof

  • Physical activity in European adolescents and associations with anxiety, depression and well-being

    Elaine M. McMahon;Paul Corcoran;Grace O’Regan;Helen Keeley

  • The Association between Pathological Internet Use and Comorbid Psychopathology: A Systematic Review.

    V. Carli;T. Durkee;Danuta Wasserman;G. Hadlaczky

  • School-based suicide prevention programmes: the SEYLE cluster-randomised, controlled trial

    Danuta Wasserman;Christina W. Hoven;Camilla Wasserman;Camilla Wasserman;Melanie Wall

  • Adolescent subthreshold-depression and anxiety: psychopathology, functional impairment and increased suicide risk

    Judit Balázs;Mónika Miklósi;Ágnes Keresztény;Christina W. Hoven

  • Psychiatric Diagnoses and Suicide: Revisiting the Evidence

    José Manoel Bertolote;Alexandra Fleischmann;Diego De Leo;Danuta Wasserman

  • Parasuicide in Europe: the WHO/EURO multicentre study on parasuicide. I. Introduction and preliminary analysis for 1989.

    S. Platt;U. Bille-Brahe;A. Kerkhof;A. Schmidtke

  • Effectiveness of brief intervention and contact for suicide attempters: a randomized controlled trial in five countries

    Alexandra Fleischmann;José Manoel Bertolote;Danuta Wasserman;Diego De Leo

  • Prevalence of pathological internet use among adolescents in Europe: demographic and social factors

    Tony Durkee;Michael Kaess;Vladimir Carli;Peter Parzer

  • Life-time prevalence and psychosocial correlates of adolescent direct self-injurious behavior: a comparative study of findings in 11 European countries.

    Romuald Brunner;Michael Kaess;Peter Parzer;Gloria Fischer

  • Suicide attempts, plans, and ideation in culturally diverse sites: the WHO SUPRE-MISS community survey.

    José Manoel Bertolote;Alexandra Fleischmann;Diego De Leo;Jafar Bolhari

  • Clinicopathological significance of psychotic experiences in non-psychotic young people: evidence from four population-based studies

    Ian Kelleher;Helen Keeley;Paul Corcoran;Fionnuala Lynch

  • The European Psychiatric Association (EPA) guidance on suicide treatment and prevention.

    Danuta Wasserman;Zoltan Rihmer;D. Rujescu;M. Sarchiapone

  • Mental Health First Aid is an effective public health intervention for improving knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour: A meta-analysis

    Gergö Hadlaczky;Sebastian Hökby;Anahit Mkrtchian;Vladimir Carli

  • Childhood trauma and psychosis in a prospective cohort study: cause, effect, and directionality

    Ian Kelleher;Helen Keeley;Paul Corcoran;Hugh Ramsay

  • Pathological Internet use among European adolescents: psychopathology and self-destructive behaviours

    Michael Kaess;Tony Durkee;Romuald Brunner;Vladimir Carli

  • Attempted and completed suicide in older subjects: results from the WHO/EURO multicentre study of suicidal behaviour

    Diego De Leo;Walter Padoani;Paolo Scocco;David Lie;David Lie

  • Suicide : An Unnecessary Death

    Danuta Wasserman

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Sarchiapone
Marco Sarchiapone University of Molise
Christina W. Hoven
Christina W. Hoven Columbia University
Airi Värnik
Airi Värnik Tallinn University
Michael Kaess
Michael Kaess University of Bern
Alan Apter
Alan Apter Reichman University
Romuald Brunner
Romuald Brunner Heidelberg University
Diego De Leo
Diego De Leo Griffith University
Julio Bobes
Julio Bobes University of Oviedo
Paul Corcoran
Paul Corcoran University College Cork
Merike Sisask
Merike Sisask Tallinn University

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