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Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 32 Citations 4,385 66 World Ranking 3958 National Ranking 704

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Psychiatry
  • Internal medicine
  • Law

Ellen Townsend mainly investigates Psychiatry, Suicide prevention, Psychosocial, Suicide attempt and Odds ratio. Her study in Mood disorders and Anxiety is carried out as part of her studies in Psychiatry. Her study connects Injury prevention and Suicide prevention.

Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Meta-analysis, Clinical trial, Harm and MEDLINE. Ellen Townsend integrates Suicide attempt and Clinical psychology in her studies. The study incorporates disciplines such as Placebo, Randomized controlled trial and Physical therapy in addition to Odds ratio.

Her most cited work include:

  • Deliberate self harm: systematic review of efficacy of psychosocial and pharmacological treatments in preventing repetition (369 citations)
  • Psychiatric and personality disorders in deliberate self-harm patients. (367 citations)
  • Effects of legislation restricting pack sizes of paracetamol and salicylate on self poisoning in the United Kingdom: before and after study. (305 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Her primary scientific interests are in Suicide prevention, Psychiatry, Injury prevention, Human factors and ergonomics and Harm. Her work on Suicidal ideation as part of general Suicide prevention study is frequently linked to Occupational safety and health, Mental health, Clinical psychology and Psychotherapist, bridging the gap between disciplines. She combines subjects such as Nightmare and Anxiety with her study of Clinical psychology.

In general Psychiatry study, her work on Psychosocial, Psychological intervention, Depression and Mood disorders often relates to the realm of Suicide attempt, thereby connecting several areas of interest. Her Psychosocial study incorporates themes from Odds ratio, Randomized controlled trial, MEDLINE and Clinical trial. Ellen Townsend interconnects Mental illness and Protocol in the investigation of issues within Harm.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Suicide prevention (38.68%)
  • Psychiatry (33.02%)
  • Injury prevention (25.47%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • Harm (18.87%)
  • Mental health (18.87%)
  • Suicide prevention (38.68%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Ellen Townsend focuses on Harm, Mental health, Suicide prevention, Psychiatry and Clinical psychology. Her Harm research integrates issues from Impulse and Protocol. Her studies deal with areas such as PsycINFO, Government, Criminology and Demography as well as Mental health.

Her study in Human factors and ergonomics extends to Suicide prevention with its themes. Psychosocial and Psychological intervention are subfields of Psychiatry in which her conducts study. Ellen Townsend usually deals with Clinical psychology and limits it to topics linked to Anxiety and Sensation seeking, Developmental psychology and Cognition.

Between 2018 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • Key ethical questions for research during the COVID-19 pandemic. (21 citations)
  • Is Camouflaging Autistic Traits Associated with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours? Expanding the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide in an Undergraduate Student Sample (18 citations)
  • 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 (13 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Internal medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Law

Her primary areas of study are Mental health, Demography, Pandemic, Randomized controlled trial and Depression. Her Mental health study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Key and Proportional hazards model. Her research in Demography intersects with topics in Prospective cohort study and Standardized mortality ratio, Cohort.

Throughout her Pandemic studies, Ellen Townsend incorporates elements of other sciences such as Research ethics, Government, Cause of death, Interrupted Time Series Analysis and 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak. The Randomized controlled trial study combines topics in areas such as Psychological intervention, Systematic review, MEDLINE and Psychosocial. Her Depression study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Young adult and Intervention.

This overview was generated by a machine learning system which analysed the scientist’s body of work. If you have any feedback, you can contact us here.

Best Publications

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

Keith E. Hawton;E. Arensman;E. Townsend;S. Bremner.
BMJ (1998)

614 Citations

Psychiatric and personality disorders in deliberate self-harm patients.

Camilla Haw;Keith Hawton;Kelly Houston;Ellen Townsend.
British Journal of Psychiatry (2001)

605 Citations

Psychosocial and pharmacological treatments for deliberate self harm

Keith Ke Hawton;Ellen Townsend;Ella Arensman;David Gunnell.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2015)

410 Citations

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.
BMJ (2001)

395 Citations

Lithium for maintenance treatment of mood disorders.

S. Burgess;J. Geddes;Keith E. Hawton;E. Townsend.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2001)

347 Citations

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

Keith E. Hawton;Kelly Houston;Camilla Haw;Ellen Townsend.
American Journal of Psychiatry (2003)

289 Citations

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.
Psychological Medicine (2001)

274 Citations

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.
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (2001)

216 Citations

Interventions for self‐harm in children and adolescents

Keith Hawton;Katrina G. Witt;Tatiana L. Taylor Salisbury;Ella Arensman.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2015)

209 Citations

Psychosocial interventions for self‐harm in adults

Keith Hawton;Katrina G Witt;Tatiana L Taylor Salisbury;Ella Arensman.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2016)

197 Citations

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