Dr. Alexandra Pitman is an Associate Professor in the UCL Division of Psychiatry and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. Her research and clinical interests are in the epidemiology of suicide and self-harm, the relationship between loneliness and suicidality, the effects of media reporting of suicide, and in psychosocial interventions for people with suicidal thoughts. She completed her PhD in 2014 at UCL on the impact of suicide bereavement and is funded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to continue research on this topic. She is a Patron of the Support After Suicide Partnership, and tweets in a personal capacity as @DrAPitman.
Dr. Sarah Rowe is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the MSc Mental Health Sciences programme in the Division of Psychiatry, UCL. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Sarah’s research interests include harm-minimisation for self-harm, mental health help-seeking in young people and digital interventions. She can occasionally be found on Twitter @KiwiRowebot
Dr. Alexandra Pitman and Dr. Sarah Rowe
Dr. Alexandra Pitman is an Associate Professor in the UCL Division of Psychiatry and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. Her research and clinical interests are in the epidemiology of suicide and self-harm, the relationship between loneliness and suicidality, the effects of media reporting of suicide, and in psychosocial interventions for people with suicidal thoughts. She completed her PhD in 2014 at UCL on the impact of suicide bereavement and is funded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to continue research on this topic. She is a Patron of the Support After Suicide Partnership, and tweets in a personal capacity as @DrAPitman.
Dr. Sarah Rowe is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the MSc Mental Health Sciences programme in the Division of Psychiatry, UCL. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Sarah’s research interests include harm-minimisation for self-harm, mental health help-seeking in young people and digital interventions. She can occasionally be found on Twitter @KiwiRowebot
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Self-harm in a time of isolation: What is the evidence to support mobile and internet-based psychological interventions for self-harm?
In this blog we summarise the findings and implications of a recent systematic review of studies evaluating the effectiveness and acceptability of mobile- and internet-based psychological interventions for self-harm in adolescents and adults.
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