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Overview

Helen Herrman is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a significant focus on mental health. Their research spans a range of topics including mental health treatment and access, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum.

Their principal fields of study include Psychology, with 104 publications, and several subfields such as Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Health.

Helen Herrman's recent papers cover a variety of contemporary mental health issues:

  • "The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Associated Control Measures on the Mental Health of the General Population" (2022) published in Annals of Internal Medicine
  • "Suicide prevention in childhood and adolescence: a narrative review of current knowledge on risk and protective factors and effectiveness of interventions" (2021) in Asia-Pacific Psychiatry
  • "The Horyzons project: a randomized controlled trial of a novel online social therapy to maintain treatment effects from specialist first-episode psychosis services" (2021) in World Psychiatry
  • "Transforming mental health systems globally: principles and policy recommendations" (2023) in The Lancet
  • "Intimate partner violence and child outcomes at age 10: a pregnancy cohort" (2021) in Archives of Disease in Childhood

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Herrman include Sue Cotton, Patrick D. McGorry, Kate Filia, Jana M Menssink, and Debra Rickwood.

Herrman's work appears regularly in several publication venues, including:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Asia-Pacific Psychiatry
  • World Psychiatry
  • BJPsych Open
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

In addition to journal articles, Helen Herrman has authored at least one book published by Springer Nature titled "Mental Health and Illness of Women" (2020).

Best Publications

  • The world health organization quality of life assessment (WHOQOL) - position paper from the world health organization

    W. Kuyken;J. Orley;M. Power;H. Herrman

  • The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development.

    Vikram Patel;Shekhar Saxena;Crick Lund;Crick Lund;Graham Thornicroft

  • What is resilience

    Helen Herrman;Donna E Stewart;Natalia Diaz-Granados;Elena L Berger

  • Social determinants of mental disorders and the Sustainable Development Goals: a systematic review of reviews

    Crick Lund;Crick Lund;Carrie Brooke-Sumner;Carrie Brooke-Sumner;Florence Baingana;Emily Claire Baron

  • Promoting mental health: concepts, emerging evidence, practice: a report of the World Health Organization, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse in collaboration with the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation and the University of Melbourne.

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  • Caring for relatives with serious mental illness: the development of the Experience of Caregiving Inventory.

    G I Szmukler;P Burgess;H Herrman;A Benson

  • Psychotic disorders in urban areas: an overview of the Study on Low Prevalence Disorders

    Assen Jablensky;John McGrath;Helen Herrman;David Castle

  • Interpreting the WHOQOL-Bref: Preliminary Population Norms and Effect Sizes.

    Graeme Hawthorne;Helen Herrman;Barbara Murphy

  • Quality of life and mental illness. Reflections from the perspective of the WHOQOL.

    John Orley;Shekhar Saxena;Helen Herrman

  • The association between chronic illness, multimorbidity and depressive symptoms in an Australian primary care cohort

    Jane M. Gunn;Darshini R. Ayton;Konstancja Densley;Julie F. Pallant

  • Reducing the global burden of depression: a Lancet-World Psychiatric Association Commission.

    Helen Herrman;Helen Herrman;Christian Kieling;Patrick McGorry;Richard Horton

  • Social media and suicide prevention: a systematic review.

    Jo Robinson;Georgina Cox;Eleanor Bailey;Sarah Hetrick

  • The Participatory Zeitgeist: an explanatory theoretical model of change in an era of coproduction and codesign in healthcare improvement.

    Victoria Palmer;Wayne Weavell;Rosemary Callander;Donella Piper

  • Mental health system in China: history, recent service reform and future challenges.

    Jin Liu;Hong Ma;Yan-Ling He;Bin Xie

  • Longitudinal investigation of depression outcomes in primary care in six countries: the LIDO Study. Functional status, health service use and treatment of people with depressive symptoms

    H. Herrman;D. L. Patrick;P. Diehr;M. L. Martin

  • Long-term course of hospitalization for schizophrenia: Part I. Risk for rehospitalization.

    William W. Eaton;Preben Bo Mortensen;Helen Herrman;Hugh Freeman

  • The EPPIC follow-up study of first-episode psychosis: longer-term clinical and functional outcome 7 years after index admission.

    Lisa P. Henry;G. Paul Amminger;Meredith G. Harris;Hok Pan Yuen

  • Demographic and clinical correlates of comorbid substance use disorders in psychosis: multivariate analyses from an epidemiological sample

    David J. Kavanagh;Geoffrey Waghorn;Geoffrey Waghorn;Linda Jenner;David C. Chant;David C. Chant

  • Road to full recovery: Longitudinal relationship between symptomatic remission and psychosocial recovery in first-episode psychosis over 7.5 years

    M Álvarez-Jiménez;JF Gleeson;LP Henry;SM Harrigan

  • What factors are associated with resilient outcomes in children exposed to social adversity? A systematic review.

    Deirdre Gartland;Elisha Riggs;Sumaiya Muyeen;Rebecca Giallo

  • Quality of life assessment in people living with psychosis.

    Helen Herrman;Graeme Hawthorne;Rosemary Thomas

  • The association between chronic illness, multimorbidity and depressive symptoms in an Australian primary care cohort.

    Gunn Jm;Ayton Dr;Densley K;Pallant Jf

Frequent Co-Authors

John Gleeson
John Gleeson Australian Catholic University
Sidney Bloch
Sidney Bloch University of Melbourne
Andrew Mackinnon
Andrew Mackinnon University of New South Wales
Kelsey Hegarty
Kelsey Hegarty University of Melbourne
Henry J. Jackson
Henry J. Jackson University of Melbourne
Fiona Mensah
Fiona Mensah University of Melbourne
Simon M Rice
Simon M Rice University of Melbourne
Cathrine Mihalopoulos
Cathrine Mihalopoulos Deakin University
Linda Harrison
Linda Harrison Charles Sturt University
Elizabeth Waters
Elizabeth Waters University of Melbourne

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