Sally Merry
Biographic Data
| ID | 276486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally Merry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally |
| FAMILY NAME | Merry |
| SIGNATURE | MERRY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8281-1573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 280 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Building a digital tool to support focused acceptance and commitment therapy practitioners in New Zealand primary care: A qualitative exploration of user needs to guide software feature development
Mental health service scalability needs to be improved to meet the growing global demand. The scalability of Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (fACT), a popular evidence-based brief behavioural intervention used in primary care contexts, could be improved through the development and implementation of a digital tool that supports practitioners to overcome service-delivery problems within their practice context. Through semi-structured in-d…
Barriers to Clinician Implementation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) in New Zealand and Australia: What Role for Time-Out
While we had hypothesised that time-out represented an intra-intervention component that detracted from implementation success, results suggested that clinician concern over the use of time-out was present but not prominent. Rather, the lack of access to suitable equipment (i.e., one-way mirror and ear-piece) and difficulties associated with clients attending clinic-based sessions were barriers most commonly reported by clinicians. We suggest tha…
Day Stress Detox: Open Trial of a Universal Well-Being Chatbot for Young Adults
There has been a lot of interest in digital mental health interventions but adherence to online programmes has been less than optimal. Chatbots that mimic brief conversations may be a more engaging and acceptable mode of delivery. We developed a chatbot, called 21-Day Stress Detox, to deliver stress management techniques for young adults. The purpose of the study was to explore the feasibility, acceptability, and potential efficacy of this low-in…
Practitioner review: Co‐design of digital mental health technologies with children and young people
BACKGROUND: There is increasing interest in digital technologies to help improve children and young people's mental health, and the evidence for the effectiveness for these approaches is rising. However, there is concern regarding levels of user engagement, uptake and adherence. Key guidance regarding digital health interventions stress the importance of early user input in the development, evaluation and implementation of technologies to help en…
Revising Computerized Therapy for Wider Appeal Among Adolescents: Youth Perspectives on a Revised Version of SPARX
Background: The way in which computerized therapy is presented may be important for its uptake. We aimed to explore adolescents' views on the appeal of a tested computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (CCBT) for depression (SPARX), and a revised version (SPARX-R). The versions were similar but while SPARX is presented explicitly as a treatment for depression, SPARX-R is presented as providing skills that could be useful for young people for whe…
Co-design of eHealth Interventions With Children and Young People
Precarious Rhetorics
OUR COLLEC TION has come together in the midst of the rise of the global Right.It will likely be received and circulate in a global context wherein this ascendency has been consolidated through an entrenched hard-right populism, marked by xenophobia and racialized social orderings, and characterized by nativist, heteronormative, hypermasculine, and heteropatriarchal leadership styles and structures.Such structures are apparent in the authoritaria…
Serious Games and Gamification for Mental Health: Current Status and Promising Directions
Computer games are ubiquitous and can be utilized for serious purposes such as health and education. "Applied games" including serious games (in brief, computerized games for serious purposes) and gamification (gaming elements used outside of games) have the potential to increase the impact of mental health internet interventions via three processes. First, by extending the reach of online programs to those who might not otherwise use them. Secon…
Tips for research recruitment: The views of sexual minority youth
Researchers often experience difficulties recruiting hard-to-reach populations. This is especially so for studies involving those who have been historically stigmatized, such as individuals who challenge heteronormative expectations or people who experience mental ill health. The authors aimed to obtain the views of sexual minority adolescents (n = 25) about what encouraged their participation in a research project. The authors used a general ind…
Pōwhiri process in mental health research
Within the health research context, indigenous people globally have a commitment to provide their own solutions. Māori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa (New Zealand) value the traditional Pōwhiri process of engagement and participation in mental health research. The practices and protocols within the Pōwhiri process (use in the Doctorate of Philosophy (2010) and Auckland University) are premised on the notion of respect and positive relationshi…
Vernacularization on the ground: Local uses of global women's rights in Peru, China, India and the United States
The articles published in this special journal issue examine how global ideas about women's rights actually get used in four contexts - China, India, Peru and the United States. Our findings result from collaborative research conducted by teams in each country. We call the process of appropriation and local adoption of globally generated ideas and strategies vernacularization. In each country, vernacularization differed depending on the contents …
Burnout and Wellbeing: Testing the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory in New Zealand Teachers
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Racial Integration in an Urban Neighborhood: The Social Organization of Strangers
Vernacularization on the ground: Local uses of global women's rights in Peru, China, India and the United States
The articles published in this special journal issue examine how global ideas about women's rights actually get used in four contexts - China, India, Peru and the United States. Our findings result from collaborative research conducted by teams in each country. We call the process of appropriation and local adoption of globally generated ideas and strategies vernacularization. In each country, vernacularization differed depending on the contents …
Burnout and Wellbeing: Testing the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory in New Zealand Teachers
Racial Integration in an Urban Neighborhood: The Social Organization of Strangers
Racial Integration in an Urban Neighborhood: The Social Organization of Strangers
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Burnout and Wellbeing: Testing the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory in New Zealand Teachers
Vernacularization on the ground: Local uses of global women's rights in Peru, China, India and the United States
The articles published in this special journal issue examine how global ideas about women's rights actually get used in four contexts - China, India, Peru and the United States. Our findings result from collaborative research conducted by teams in each country. We call the process of appropriation and local adoption of globally generated ideas and strategies vernacularization. In each country, vernacularization differed depending on the contents …
Pōwhiri process in mental health research
Within the health research context, indigenous people globally have a commitment to provide their own solutions. Māori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa (New Zealand) value the traditional Pōwhiri process of engagement and participation in mental health research. The practices and protocols within the Pōwhiri process (use in the Doctorate of Philosophy (2010) and Auckland University) are premised on the notion of respect and positive relationshi…
Serious Games and Gamification for Mental Health: Current Status and Promising Directions
Computer games are ubiquitous and can be utilized for serious purposes such as health and education. "Applied games" including serious games (in brief, computerized games for serious purposes) and gamification (gaming elements used outside of games) have the potential to increase the impact of mental health internet interventions via three processes. First, by extending the reach of online programs to those who might not otherwise use them. Secon…
Tips for research recruitment: The views of sexual minority youth
Researchers often experience difficulties recruiting hard-to-reach populations. This is especially so for studies involving those who have been historically stigmatized, such as individuals who challenge heteronormative expectations or people who experience mental ill health. The authors aimed to obtain the views of sexual minority adolescents (n = 25) about what encouraged their participation in a research project. The authors used a general ind…
Co-design of eHealth Interventions With Children and Young People
Precarious Rhetorics
OUR COLLEC TION has come together in the midst of the rise of the global Right.It will likely be received and circulate in a global context wherein this ascendency has been consolidated through an entrenched hard-right populism, marked by xenophobia and racialized social orderings, and characterized by nativist, heteronormative, hypermasculine, and heteropatriarchal leadership styles and structures.Such structures are apparent in the authoritaria…
Revising Computerized Therapy for Wider Appeal Among Adolescents: Youth Perspectives on a Revised Version of SPARX
Background: The way in which computerized therapy is presented may be important for its uptake. We aimed to explore adolescents' views on the appeal of a tested computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (CCBT) for depression (SPARX), and a revised version (SPARX-R). The versions were similar but while SPARX is presented explicitly as a treatment for depression, SPARX-R is presented as providing skills that could be useful for young people for whe…
Practitioner review: Co‐design of digital mental health technologies with children and young people
BACKGROUND: There is increasing interest in digital technologies to help improve children and young people's mental health, and the evidence for the effectiveness for these approaches is rising. However, there is concern regarding levels of user engagement, uptake and adherence. Key guidance regarding digital health interventions stress the importance of early user input in the development, evaluation and implementation of technologies to help en…
Barriers to Clinician Implementation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) in New Zealand and Australia: What Role for Time-Out
While we had hypothesised that time-out represented an intra-intervention component that detracted from implementation success, results suggested that clinician concern over the use of time-out was present but not prominent. Rather, the lack of access to suitable equipment (i.e., one-way mirror and ear-piece) and difficulties associated with clients attending clinic-based sessions were barriers most commonly reported by clinicians. We suggest tha…
Day Stress Detox: Open Trial of a Universal Well-Being Chatbot for Young Adults
There has been a lot of interest in digital mental health interventions but adherence to online programmes has been less than optimal. Chatbots that mimic brief conversations may be a more engaging and acceptable mode of delivery. We developed a chatbot, called 21-Day Stress Detox, to deliver stress management techniques for young adults. The purpose of the study was to explore the feasibility, acceptability, and potential efficacy of this low-in…
Building a digital tool to support focused acceptance and commitment therapy practitioners in New Zealand primary care: A qualitative exploration of user needs to guide software feature development
Mental health service scalability needs to be improved to meet the growing global demand. The scalability of Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (fACT), a popular evidence-based brief behavioural intervention used in primary care contexts, could be improved through the development and implementation of a digital tool that supports practitioners to overcome service-delivery problems within their practice context. Through semi-structured in-d…
Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Mental health (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Applied Psychology (5 works) · Digital Mental Health Interventions (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works) · Applied Psychology (4 works)