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236

Overview

Helen L. Berry is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia. Their research spans multiple disciplines, prominently Psychology, Environmental Science, and Social Sciences, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to complex issues.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

  • Psychology
  • Environmental Science
  • Social Sciences

With subfields that deepen the scope of their research, these include:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • General Health Professions
  • Social Psychology
  • Health
  • Clinical Psychology

The topics in their publications focus predominantly on the intersection of environmental and mental health factors. Key topics are:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Homelessness and Social Issues

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Helen L. Berry include:

  • Francis Vergunst
  • Ying Zhang
  • Paul J. Beggs
  • Alice McGushin
  • Hilary Bambrick

Their work has appeared in several journals, with multiple publications in some venues. Notable frequent publication venues are:

  • The Medical Journal of Australia
  • European Psychiatry
  • Clinical Psychological Science
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Nature Climate Change

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Helen L. Berry include:

  • Climate Change and Children's Mental Health: A Developmental Perspective, 2021, Clinical Psychological Science
  • The 2020 special report of the MJA-Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: lessons learnt from Australia's "Black Summer", 2020, The Medical Journal of Australia
  • The 2021 report of the MJA-Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australia increasingly out on a limb, 2021, The Medical Journal of Australia
  • Social Participation Among Older Adults Receiving Community Care Services, 2020, Journal of Applied Gerontology
  • Climate Change and Substance-Use Behaviors: A Risk-Pathways Framework, 2022, Perspectives on Psychological Science

Best Publications

  • Climate change and mental health: a causal pathways framework

    Helen Louise Berry;Kathryn Bowen;Tord Kjellstrom

  • The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • Human health: impacts, adaptation, and co-benefits

    K Smith;A Woodward;Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum;D Chadee

  • The case for systems thinking about climate change and mental health

    Helen L. Berry;Thomas D. Waite;Keith B. G. Dear;Anthony G. Capon

  • Social capital and health in Australia: An overview from the household, income and labour dynamics in Australia survey.

    Helen Louise Berry;Jennifer A. Welsh

  • Healthy country, healthy people: the relationship between Indigenous health status and "caring for country".

    Christopher P Burgess;Fay H Johnston;Helen L Berry;Joseph McDonnell

  • Climate change and farmers' mental health: risks and responses

    Helen L. Berry;Anthony Hogan;Jennifer Owen;Debra Rickwood

  • Drought as a mental health exposure.

    Lean O'Brien;Lean O'Brien;Helen Berry;Helen Berry;Clare Coleman;Ivan Hanigan;Ivan Hanigan

  • If the land's sick, we're sick: The impact of prolonged drought on the social and emotional well-being of Aboriginal communities in rural New South Wales*

    Colin Wayne Rigby;Alan Rosen;Alan Rosen;Alan Rosen;Helen Louise Berry;Helen Louise Berry;Craig Richard Hart

  • Potentially preventable complications of urinary tract infections, pressure areas, pneumonia, and delirium in hospitalised dementia patients: retrospective cohort study.

    Kasia Bail;Helen Berry;Laurie Grealish;Brian Draper

  • Climate Change and Children’s Mental Health: A Developmental Perspective:

    Francis Vergunst;Helen L. Berry;Helen L. Berry

  • Rapid change, climate adversity and the next ‘big dry’: Older farmers' mental health

    John David Polain;Helen Louise Berry;Helen Louise Berry;John Oliver Hoskin

  • The cost of hospital-acquired complications for older people with and without dementia; a retrospective cohort study

    Kasia Bail;John Goss;Brian Draper;Helen Berry

  • Preliminary development and validation of an Australian community participation questionnaire: Types of participation and associations with distress in a coastal community

    Helen Louise Berry;Bryan Rodgers;Keith B.G. Dear

  • Association between Physical Functionality and Falls Risk in Community-Living Older Adults

    Disa J. Smee;Judith M. Anson;Gordon S. Waddington;Helen L. Berry

  • One-year reciprocal relationship between community participation and mental wellbeing in Australia: a panel analysis.

    Ning Ding;Helen L. Berry;Léan V. O'Brien

  • Mind, body, spirit : co-benefits for mental health from climate change adaptation and caring for country in remote Aboriginal Australian communities

    Helen L. Berry;Helen L. Berry;James R. A. Butler;C. Paul Burgess;Ursula G. King

  • Pearl in the oyster: climate change as a mental health opportunity

    Helen Berry

  • The Importance of Humidity in the Relationship between Heat and Population Mental Health: Evidence from Australia.

    Ning Ding;Helen L. Berry;Charmian M. Bennett

  • Improving the mental health of rural New South Wales communities facing drought and other adversities

    Craig Richard Hart;Helen Louise Berry;Helen Louise Berry;Anne Maree Tonna

  • Work demands, job insecurity and sickness absence from work. How productive is the new, flexible labour force?

    Rennie M. D'Souza;Lyndall Strazdins;Dorothy H. Broom;Bryan Rodgers

  • The Coffee House: A Cultural History

    Helen Berry

Frequent Co-Authors

Bryan Rodgers
Bryan Rodgers Australian National University
Peter Butterworth
Peter Butterworth Australian National University
Lyndall Strazdins
Lyndall Strazdins Australian National University
Ross S. Bailie
Ross S. Bailie University of Sydney
Shilu Tong
Shilu Tong Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Vanessa E. Cobham
Vanessa E. Cobham University of Queensland
Brian Draper
Brian Draper University of New South Wales
Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly University of Newcastle Australia
Peng Bi
Peng Bi University of Adelaide
Debra Rickwood
Debra Rickwood University of Canberra

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