Matters of the Mind and Heart
by Jennifer Ma |
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Dr. Jennifer Ma (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jennifer-Ma) is a Suicide Prevention Australia Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Mental Health Research, the Australian National University and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education, the University of Canberra. Her research aims to better understand, assess, and modify causal risk and protective factors for mental health and suicide in the community, adopting evidence-based, co-design approaches with stakeholders and service providers. She has contributed to testing of leading theoretical models of suicidal behaviour, the development and validation of a new measure for interpersonal suicide risk, investigating help seeking for suicidality and mental health problems, exploring consumer expectations of crisis lines (including the introduction of new technologies), and co-design research of local and international wellbeing education frameworks in schools and organisations.
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