Alexandra Pitman
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		Email a.pitman@ucl.ac.uk
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	Courses organised relevant to Mental Health
	Birkbeck College - Diploma in Health Policy
	Courses taught on relevant to Mental Health
	UCL Medical School - Depression UCL Medical School - Eating Disorders Birkbeck College - Health Policy and Health Promotion LSE - Economic evaluation for public health clinicians and policy-makers Imperial College Management School - International Fellowship Programme in Health Policy
	3 Key Mental Health related publications
	Pitman, A. (2007). Policy on the prevention of suicidal behaviour; one treatment for all may be an unrealistic expectation. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 100(10), 461-464 Pitman, A., Tyrer, P. (2008). Implementing clinical guidelines for self harm – highlighting key issues arising from the NICE Guideline for Self-Harm. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Training and Practice (Special Issue: Implementing clinical guidelines in everyday practice) 8(4), 377-397 Pitman A & Osborn DPJ (2011) Cross-cultural attitudes to help-seeking among individuals who are suicidal: new perspective for policymakers British Journal of Psychiatry 199 (1): 8-10. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.087817
	Favourite papers or books by other researchers
	Hawton, K. & Van Heeringen, C. (2000) The International Handbook of Suicide and Attempted Suicide. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
	Whose work has influenced you most
	Professor Keith Hawton, Oxford Centre for Suicide Research
	Current Research
	I am funded by a MRC Population Health Scientist Fellowship to investigate the impact of sudden bereavement on the mental health and social functioning of young adults. This cross-sectional study surveys young adults at a range of UK colleges and universities using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
	Collaborators within department/faculty
	Professor Michael King Dr David Osborn Dr Fiona Stevenson
	Collaborators in other academic institutions
	Dr Paul Moran, Institute of Psychiatry, KCL
	NHS Collaborators
	Dr Lester Sireling, BEH Mental Health NHS Trust
	Collaborators in the voluntary sector
	Cruse Bereavement Care Samaritans Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide Widowed by Suicide
	Keywords
	Adjustment disorders, Adult mental disorders, Bereavement, Deliberate self-harm, Epidemiology, Evidence based practice, Impact of cultural difference on care pathways, Implementation, Medical sociology, Planning and providing mental health services, Psychiatry in primary care, Public policy & mental health, Research into practice, Role of the voluntary sector, Scientific basis of aetiology of mental health problems, Service needs of individuals & populations, Social & cultural anthropology, Social psychiatry & service provision, Social sciences, Stress-related and adjustment disorders, Suicide, service use & outcome
	Publications