Russell Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 4232067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles Sturt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8715-8932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Co-design of a systematic review
Engaging people who have lived experience (LE) of a topic of enquiry increases the efficacy, integrity and robustness of research. This group bring improvements to all kinds of research, including systematic reviews. This paper is a shared reflection on the process of conducting a systematic literature review as a team including people living with mental and physical health concerns (with and without a research background) and researchers. We met…
Supporting Staff To Address the Physical Health of Consumers in Mental Healthcare Settings
Mental health consumers experience challenges in accessing regular physical healthcare. Staff working in mental health settings are well-positioned to address the issue; however, they often face significant barriers in delivering physical healthcare. The primary aim of this study was to identify important factors that support mental health staff to address the physical health of consumers; the secondary aim was to evaluate the utility of using a …
Perceived Power Polarizes Moral Evaluations
We show an interactive effect of perceiver-target similarity in ideological beliefs and target power on impressions of target morality. Consistent with prior research, perceivers rated targets with dissimilar ideologies as less moral than targets with similar ideologies, but this difference in ratings was magnified for powerful targets relative to less powerful targets. We argue that these results emerged because perceivers expected similar-ideol…
“I have to fight for them to investigate things”
Introduction: Women play a significant role in the management of their own healthcare and that of others, however women diagnosed with mental illness and physical health concerns experience significant health inequalities as compared to people living without mental health concerns. Methods: In this paper, we reflect on the experiences of 20 cis women diagnosed with mental and physical health concerns who agreed to be a part of this research. This…
A critical review of research into mental health consumers' perspectives on their physical health
We conducted a critical review, using systematic methods, of the literature examining mental health consumer perspectives on their physical and mental health in academic research published between 2005 and 2021. This review examined the inclusion, extent, type and centrality of consumer perspectives regarding their mental and physical health. The search produced 1,865 papers from which 116 met the inclusion criteria. Studies predominantly focused…
Experiences of integrated care
Introduction: While many service users have co-existing physical and mental health concerns, health professionals can tend to approach clients only through their single professional focus. This does not match service users lived experience of the dynamic relationship between physical, social and emotional health. ‘Diagnostic overshadowing’ refers to when clinicians only attend the presenting problem and fail to consider other important areas of h…
A Collective Impact approach to improving the physical health of people living with mental illness
Introduction: Eighty percent of people living with mental illness have a co-existing physical health condition. Yet due to ‘diagnostic overshadowing’ (where the presenting problem overshadows all other concerns and risks), stigma and systemic discrimination, the rate of screening and treatment for mortality-related chronic health conditions in this part of our community is low. Consequently, as a group, people living with mental illness have poor…
The Potential Impact of a Public Health Approach to Improving the Physical Health of People Living with Mental Illness
With already wide disparities in physical health and life expectancy, COVID-19 presents people with mental illness with additional threats to their health: decreased access to health services, increased social isolation, and increased socio-economic disadvantage. Each of these factors has exacerbated the risk of poor health and early death for people with mental illness post-COVID-19. Unless effective primary care and preventative health response…
Equally Well
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
The psychology of asymmetric zero-sum beliefs
The belief that others gain at one's own expense, but not vice versa. Across various contexts (international relations, interpersonal negotiations, political partisanship, organizational hierarchies) and research designs (within- and between-participant), we find that people are more prone to believe that others' success comes at their own expense than they are to believe that their own success comes at others' expense. Moreover, we find that peo…
Improving the physical health of people living with mental illness
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Equally Well. A collective impact approach to integration in New Zealand, Australia and the UK
People living with mental illness die on average 20 years earlier than the general population. For every one person who die from suicide, 10 to die prematurely due to chronic physical health conditions. The majority of these deaths are avoidable. However, due to a number of reasons, including lack of screening, diagnostic overshadowing, limited access, stigma and discrimination the life expectancy gap has actually increased over the last three de…
The Role of Social Workers in Improving the Physical Health of People Who Use Mental Health Services
This paper highlights some key actions social workers can take to help improve the physical health of people living with mental illness. Despite an 80% comorbidity rate, many people living with mental illness still do not receive a physical health check-up. For this and other reasons, people living with mental illness die, on average, 10–20 years prematurely. This early death is usually preceded by years or decades of poor health. Using a collect…
Assessing Program Efficiency
The Mental Health Emergency Care-Rural Access Program (MHEC-RAP) is a telehealth solution providing specialist emergency mental health care to rural and remote communities across western NSW, Australia. This is the first time and motion (T&M) study to examine program efficiency and capacity for a telepsychiatry program. Clinical services are an integral aspect of the program accounting for 6% of all activities and 50% of the time spent conducting…
Improving The Mental Health Of Drought-Affected Communities
In recent years there has been increasing recognition of the social impact of drought on rural communities. This paper provides an overview of a major mental health program developed in response to persistent severe drought and longer-term social and economic restructuring in New SouthWales agriculture. Led by government and incorporating close collaboration with rural community agencies and services, the program’s design and implementation was i…
Low-Level Environmental Lead Exposure and Children’s Intellectual Function
Lead is a confirmed neurotoxin, but questions remain about lead-associated intellectual deficits at blood lead levels or = 7.5 microg/dL (p = 0.015). We conclude that environmental lead exposure in children who have maximal blood lead levels < 7.5 microg/dL is associated with intellectual deficits.
Client characteristics and psychotherapy
An overview and rationale for emphasising interventions based on tailoring treatments to relevant client characteristics is presented. Also emphasised is the importance of the therapeutic alliance and how the development and maintenance of this alliance is enhanced through effective technique, especially when the techniques are tailored according to relevant client characteristics. Implications for training are discussed
The Recovery of Rhetoric
Port Pirie Cohort study
The Port Pirie Cohort Study is an ongoing prospective study of the relationship between exposure to environmental lead within a lead smelter community, and neuropsychological development in early childhood. Over 600 children, originally recruited during antenatal life, underwent serial blood lead estimations up to two years of age. Systematic interview information was collected on a range of variables, and formal developmental assessment (Bayley …
The psychology of asymmetric zero-sum beliefs
The belief that others gain at one's own expense, but not vice versa. Across various contexts (international relations, interpersonal negotiations, political partisanship, organizational hierarchies) and research designs (within- and between-participant), we find that people are more prone to believe that others' success comes at their own expense than they are to believe that their own success comes at others' expense. Moreover, we find that peo…
Port Pirie Cohort study
The Port Pirie Cohort Study is an ongoing prospective study of the relationship between exposure to environmental lead within a lead smelter community, and neuropsychological development in early childhood. Over 600 children, originally recruited during antenatal life, underwent serial blood lead estimations up to two years of age. Systematic interview information was collected on a range of variables, and formal developmental assessment (Bayley …
The Role of Social Workers in Improving the Physical Health of People Who Use Mental Health Services
This paper highlights some key actions social workers can take to help improve the physical health of people living with mental illness. Despite an 80% comorbidity rate, many people living with mental illness still do not receive a physical health check-up. For this and other reasons, people living with mental illness die, on average, 10–20 years prematurely. This early death is usually preceded by years or decades of poor health. Using a collect…
Improving The Mental Health Of Drought-Affected Communities
In recent years there has been increasing recognition of the social impact of drought on rural communities. This paper provides an overview of a major mental health program developed in response to persistent severe drought and longer-term social and economic restructuring in New SouthWales agriculture. Led by government and incorporating close collaboration with rural community agencies and services, the program’s design and implementation was i…
Client characteristics and psychotherapy
An overview and rationale for emphasising interventions based on tailoring treatments to relevant client characteristics is presented. Also emphasised is the importance of the therapeutic alliance and how the development and maintenance of this alliance is enhanced through effective technique, especially when the techniques are tailored according to relevant client characteristics. Implications for training are discussed
The Recovery of Rhetoric
Port Pirie Cohort study
The Port Pirie Cohort Study is an ongoing prospective study of the relationship between exposure to environmental lead within a lead smelter community, and neuropsychological development in early childhood. Over 600 children, originally recruited during antenatal life, underwent serial blood lead estimations up to two years of age. Systematic interview information was collected on a range of variables, and formal developmental assessment (Bayley …
The Recovery of Rhetoric
Client characteristics and psychotherapy
An overview and rationale for emphasising interventions based on tailoring treatments to relevant client characteristics is presented. Also emphasised is the importance of the therapeutic alliance and how the development and maintenance of this alliance is enhanced through effective technique, especially when the techniques are tailored according to relevant client characteristics. Implications for training are discussed
Low-Level Environmental Lead Exposure and Children’s Intellectual Function
Lead is a confirmed neurotoxin, but questions remain about lead-associated intellectual deficits at blood lead levels or = 7.5 microg/dL (p = 0.015). We conclude that environmental lead exposure in children who have maximal blood lead levels < 7.5 microg/dL is associated with intellectual deficits.
Improving The Mental Health Of Drought-Affected Communities
In recent years there has been increasing recognition of the social impact of drought on rural communities. This paper provides an overview of a major mental health program developed in response to persistent severe drought and longer-term social and economic restructuring in New SouthWales agriculture. Led by government and incorporating close collaboration with rural community agencies and services, the program’s design and implementation was i…
Assessing Program Efficiency
The Mental Health Emergency Care-Rural Access Program (MHEC-RAP) is a telehealth solution providing specialist emergency mental health care to rural and remote communities across western NSW, Australia. This is the first time and motion (T&M) study to examine program efficiency and capacity for a telepsychiatry program. Clinical services are an integral aspect of the program accounting for 6% of all activities and 50% of the time spent conducting…
The Role of Social Workers in Improving the Physical Health of People Who Use Mental Health Services
This paper highlights some key actions social workers can take to help improve the physical health of people living with mental illness. Despite an 80% comorbidity rate, many people living with mental illness still do not receive a physical health check-up. For this and other reasons, people living with mental illness die, on average, 10–20 years prematurely. This early death is usually preceded by years or decades of poor health. Using a collect…
Improving the physical health of people living with mental illness
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Equally Well. A collective impact approach to integration in New Zealand, Australia and the UK
People living with mental illness die on average 20 years earlier than the general population. For every one person who die from suicide, 10 to die prematurely due to chronic physical health conditions. The majority of these deaths are avoidable. However, due to a number of reasons, including lack of screening, diagnostic overshadowing, limited access, stigma and discrimination the life expectancy gap has actually increased over the last three de…
The Potential Impact of a Public Health Approach to Improving the Physical Health of People Living with Mental Illness
With already wide disparities in physical health and life expectancy, COVID-19 presents people with mental illness with additional threats to their health: decreased access to health services, increased social isolation, and increased socio-economic disadvantage. Each of these factors has exacerbated the risk of poor health and early death for people with mental illness post-COVID-19. Unless effective primary care and preventative health response…
Equally Well
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
The psychology of asymmetric zero-sum beliefs
The belief that others gain at one's own expense, but not vice versa. Across various contexts (international relations, interpersonal negotiations, political partisanship, organizational hierarchies) and research designs (within- and between-participant), we find that people are more prone to believe that others' success comes at their own expense than they are to believe that their own success comes at others' expense. Moreover, we find that peo…
A critical review of research into mental health consumers' perspectives on their physical health
We conducted a critical review, using systematic methods, of the literature examining mental health consumer perspectives on their physical and mental health in academic research published between 2005 and 2021. This review examined the inclusion, extent, type and centrality of consumer perspectives regarding their mental and physical health. The search produced 1,865 papers from which 116 met the inclusion criteria. Studies predominantly focused…
Experiences of integrated care
Introduction: While many service users have co-existing physical and mental health concerns, health professionals can tend to approach clients only through their single professional focus. This does not match service users lived experience of the dynamic relationship between physical, social and emotional health. ‘Diagnostic overshadowing’ refers to when clinicians only attend the presenting problem and fail to consider other important areas of h…
A Collective Impact approach to improving the physical health of people living with mental illness
Introduction: Eighty percent of people living with mental illness have a co-existing physical health condition. Yet due to ‘diagnostic overshadowing’ (where the presenting problem overshadows all other concerns and risks), stigma and systemic discrimination, the rate of screening and treatment for mortality-related chronic health conditions in this part of our community is low. Consequently, as a group, people living with mental illness have poor…
“I have to fight for them to investigate things”
Introduction: Women play a significant role in the management of their own healthcare and that of others, however women diagnosed with mental illness and physical health concerns experience significant health inequalities as compared to people living without mental health concerns. Methods: In this paper, we reflect on the experiences of 20 cis women diagnosed with mental and physical health concerns who agreed to be a part of this research. This…
Perceived Power Polarizes Moral Evaluations
We show an interactive effect of perceiver-target similarity in ideological beliefs and target power on impressions of target morality. Consistent with prior research, perceivers rated targets with dissimilar ideologies as less moral than targets with similar ideologies, but this difference in ratings was magnified for powerful targets relative to less powerful targets. We argue that these results emerged because perceivers expected similar-ideol…
Co-design of a systematic review
Engaging people who have lived experience (LE) of a topic of enquiry increases the efficacy, integrity and robustness of research. This group bring improvements to all kinds of research, including systematic reviews. This paper is a shared reflection on the process of conducting a systematic literature review as a team including people living with mental and physical health concerns (with and without a research background) and researchers. We met…
Supporting Staff To Address the Physical Health of Consumers in Mental Healthcare Settings
Mental health consumers experience challenges in accessing regular physical healthcare. Staff working in mental health settings are well-positioned to address the issue; however, they often face significant barriers in delivering physical healthcare. The primary aim of this study was to identify important factors that support mental health staff to address the physical health of consumers; the secondary aim was to evaluate the utility of using a …
Medicine (12 works) · Mental health (12 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Health care (6 works) · Mental illness (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (5 works)