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Nancy L. Heath

Nancy L. Heath

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Psychology

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44
Citations
8509
World Ranking
6939
National Ranking
469

Overview

Nancy L. Heath is affiliated with McGill University in Canada. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of psychology and medicine, with an emphasis on clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, social psychology, epidemiology, and education.

The research topics covered by Nancy L. Heath include:

  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access

Recent papers authored by Nancy L. Heath or involving their research contributions are as follows:

  • "When social isolation is nothing new: A longitudinal study on psychological distress during COVID-19 among university students with and without preexisting mental health concerns." (2020), published in Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne
  • "Stressful Experiences in University Predict Non-suicidal Self-Injury Through Emotional Reactivity" (2021), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Mindfulness-based programs and school adjustment: A systematic review and meta-analysis" (2023), published in Journal of School Psychology
  • "The Effects of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Suicide Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis" (2020), published in Archives of Suicide Research
  • "Naturally mindful? The role of mindfulness facets in the relationship between nature relatedness and subjective well-being" (2020), published in Current Psychology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nancy L. Heath include:

  • Jessica Mettler
  • Julia Petrovic
  • Bilun Naz Böke
  • Chloe A. Hamza
  • Laurianne Bastien

Publication venues where Nancy L. Heath's work appears most often include:

  • Psychological Reports
  • Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
  • Archives of Suicide Research
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of School Psychology

Best Publications

  • A Study of the Frequency of Self-Mutilation in a Community Sample of Adolescents

    Shana Ross;Nancy Heath

  • An Examination of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among College Students

    Nancy L. Heath;Jessica R. Toste;Tatiana Nedecheva;Alison Charlebois

  • Effectiveness of Mindfulness Interventions for Mental Health in Schools: a Comprehensive Meta-analysis

    Dana Carsley;Bassam Khoury;Nancy L. Heath

  • When social isolation is nothing new: A longitudinal study psychological distress during COVID-19 among university students with and without preexisting mental health concerns

    Chloe A. Hamza;Lexi Ewing;Nancy L. Heath;Abby L. Goldstein

  • Non-suicidal self-injury, youth, and the Internet: What mental health professionals need to know.

    Stephen P Lewis;Nancy L Heath;Natalie J Michal;Jamie M Duggan

  • Nonsuicidal self-injury and gender: patterns of prevalence, methods, and locations among adolescents.

    Michael J. Sornberger;Nancy L. Heath;Jessica R. Toste;Rusty McLouth

  • The Scope of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury on YouTube

    Stephen P. Lewis;Nancy L. Heath;Jill M. St Denis;Rick Noble

  • Non-suicidal self-injury and eating pathology in high school students

    Shana Ross;Nancy L. Heath;Jessica R. Toste

  • Two models of adolescent self-mutilation.

    Shana Ross;Nancy Lee Heath

  • Retrospective Analysis of Social Factors and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among Young Adults

    Nancy L. Heath;Shana Ross;Jessica R. Toste;Alison Charlebois

  • Helpful or Harmful? An Examination of Viewers' Responses to Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Videos on YouTube

    Stephen P. Lewis;Nancy L. Heath;Michael J. Sornberger;Alexis E. Arbuthnott

  • Psychological distress in children with developmental coordination disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

    Cheryl Missiuna;John Cairney;Nancy Pollock;Wenonah Campbell

  • Self-injury today: Review of population and clinical studies in adolescents.

    Nancy L. Heath;Kristin Schaub;Shareen Holly;Mary K. Nixon

  • Self-injury in youth: The essential guide to assessment and intervention.

    Mary K. Nixon;Nancy L. Heath

  • Nonsuicidal self-injury in the schools: Prevention and intervention

    Richard A. Lieberman;Jessica R. Toste;Nancy L. Heath

  • “I Am Not Well-Equipped”: High School Teachers’ Perceptions of Self-Injury

    Nancy L. Heath;Jessica R. Toste;Erin L. Beettam

  • Nonsuicidal self-injury across cultures and ethnic and racial minorities: A review

    Maryam Gholamrezaei;Jack De Stefano;Nancy L. Heath

  • Effectiveness of a Classroom Mindfulness Coloring Activity for Test Anxiety in Children

    Dana Carsley;Nancy L. Heath;Sophia Fajnerova

  • Prevalence and Expression of Depressive Symptomatology in Students with and without Learning Disabilities

    Nancy Lee Heath;Shana Ross

  • Nonsuicidal self-injury, coping strategies, and sexual orientation.

    Michael J. Sornberger;Nathan Grant Smith;Jessica R. Toste;Nancy L. Heath

  • Positive illusory bias and the self-protective hypothesis in children with learning disabilities.

    Nancy Lee Heath;Tamara Glen

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. Lewis
Stephen P. Lewis University of Guelph
Penelope Hasking
Penelope Hasking Curtin University
Judith Wiener
Judith Wiener University of Toronto
Janis Whitlock
Janis Whitlock Cornell University
Marina Milyavskaya
Marina Milyavskaya Carleton University
Jeffrey L. Derevensky
Jeffrey L. Derevensky McGill University
Elizabeth E. Lloyd-Richardson
Elizabeth E. Lloyd-Richardson University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Marc S. Wilson
Marc S. Wilson Victoria University of Wellington
Paul L. Plener
Paul L. Plener Medical University of Vienna
Abby L. Goldstein
Abby L. Goldstein University of Toronto

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