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Overview

Ellen Townsend is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and has a research profile focused primarily on psychology, with a significant emphasis on clinical and social psychology. Their publication record includes 119 works related to psychology, with subfields such as clinical psychology (83 publications), social psychology (20), general health professions (15), applied psychology (12), and psychiatry and mental health (10).

Their research topics cover a range of critical areas including suicide and self-harm studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health treatment and access, COVID-19 and mental health, digital mental health interventions, insect and pesticide research, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Frequent publication venues where Ellen Townsend's work appears include:

  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • PLoS ONE
  • EClinicalMedicine
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Key areas of collaboration have involved co-authors who frequently appear alongside Ellen Townsend in scholarly works, with notable collaborators including Keith Hawton, Navneet Kapur, Rory C. O'Connor, Sarah Cassidy, and Chris Hollis.

Recent papers contributed by Ellen Townsend illustrate their focus on suicide and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and self-harm in young populations. These include:

  • Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries (2021, The Lancet 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)
  • Mortality in children and adolescents following presentation to hospital after non-fatal self-harm in the Multicentre Study of Self-harm: a prospective observational cohort study (2020, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health)
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of victimisation and mental health prevalence among LGBTQ+ young people with experiences of self-harm and suicide (2021, PLoS ONE)

Best Publications

  • Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    David Gunnell;Louis Appleby;Ella Arensman;Keith Hawton

  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries.

    Jane Pirkis;Ann John;Sangsoo Shin;Marcos DelPozo-Banos

  • Psychiatric and personality disorders in deliberate self-harm patients.

    Camilla Haw;Keith Hawton;Kelly Houston;Ellen Townsend

  • Deliberate self harm: systematic review of efficacy of psychosocial and pharmacological treatments in preventing repetition

    Keith E. Hawton;E. Arensman;E. Townsend;S. Bremner

  • Psychosocial and pharmacological treatments for deliberate self harm

    Keith Ke Hawton;Ellen Townsend;Ella Arensman;David Gunnell

  • Effects of legislation restricting pack sizes of paracetamol and salicylate on self poisoning in the United Kingdom: before and after study.

    Keith Hawton;Ellen Townsend;Jonathan Deeks;Louis Appleby

  • Lithium for maintenance treatment of mood disorders.

    S. Burgess;J. Geddes;Keith E. Hawton;E. Townsend

  • Interventions for self‐harm in children and adolescents

    Keith Hawton;Katrina G. Witt;Tatiana L. Taylor Salisbury;Ella Arensman

  • Comorbidity of axis I and axis II disorders in patients who attempted suicide

    Keith E. Hawton;Kelly Houston;Camilla Haw;Ellen Townsend

  • Psychosocial interventions for self‐harm in adults

    Keith Hawton;Katrina G Witt;Tatiana L Taylor Salisbury;Ella Arensman

  • The efficacy of problem­solving treatments after deliberate self­harm: meta­ analysis of randomized controlled trials with respect to depression, hopelessness and improvement in problems

    E. Townsend;Keith E. Hawton;D. G. Altman;E. Arensman

  • Is camouflaging autistic traits associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviours? Expanding the interpersonal psychological theory of suicide in an undergraduate student sample

    S. A. Cassidy;K. Gould;E. Townsend;M. Pelton

  • Psychosocial interventions following self-harm in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Keith Hawton;Katrina G Witt;Tatiana L Taylor Salisbury;Tatiana L Taylor Salisbury;Ella Arensman

  • Substances used in deliberate self-poisoning 1985-1997: trends and associations with age, gender, repetition and suicide intent.

    E. Townsend;Keith E. Hawton;Linton Harriss;E. Bale

  • Impulsivity and self-harm in adolescence: a systematic review

    Joanna Lockwood;David Daley;Ellen Townsend;Kapil Sayal

  • Baby knows best? The impact of weaning style on food preferences and body mass index in early childhood in a case–controlled sample

    Ellen Townsend;Nicola J Pitchford

  • 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

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  • Expertise in musical sight reading : A study of pianists

    Andrew J. Waters;Ellen Townsend;Geoffrey Underwood

  • Epidemiology and trends in non-fatal self-harm in three centres in England, 2000–2012: findings from the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England

    Galit Geulayov;Navneet Kapur;Pauline Turnbull;Caroline Clements

  • Mortality in children and adolescents following presentation to hospital after non-fatal self-harm in the Multicentre Study of Self-harm: a prospective observational cohort study

    Keith Hawton;Keith Hawton;Liz Bale;Fiona Brand;Fiona Brand;Ellen Townsend

  • Examining consumer behavior toward genetically modified (GM) food in Britain.

    Alexa Spence;Ellen Townsend

  • Correlates of Relative Lethality and Suicidal Intent among Deliberate Self-Harm Patients

    Camilla Haw;Keith Hawton;Kelly Houston;Ellen Townsend

Frequent Co-Authors

Panos Vostanis
Panos Vostanis University of Leicester
Eamonn Ferguson
Eamonn Ferguson University of Nottingham
Sarah Cassidy
Sarah Cassidy University of Nottingham
David Daley
David Daley University of Nottingham
Roger T. Webb
Roger T. Webb University of Manchester
Paul L. Plener
Paul L. Plener Medical University of Vienna
Rory C. O'Connor
Rory C. O'Connor University of Glasgow
Guy M. Goodwin
Guy M. Goodwin University of Oxford
Jacqui Rodgers
Jacqui Rodgers Newcastle University
Jon Arcelus
Jon Arcelus University of Nottingham

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