Richard Whitehead
Biographic Data
| ID | 5024718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Whitehead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitehead |
| SIGNATURE | WHITEHEAD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5354-4181 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reorienting the Way a Community Mental Health Service Responds to Suicide and Other Serious Incidents
Suicide and other serious incidents involving users of mental health services can have a deep and lasting effect on staff members who have been involved in the person’s care. It is important for the service to ensure that staff can learn and improve from these incidents while also minimizing the negative impacts on workers. One service has developed an innovative approach to reviewing and responding to serious incidents, using a dialogically info…
A systematic review of the facilitators and barriers for the implementation of co-designed youth suicide and self-harm interventions
Nonattachment to self mediates the relationship between Instagram engagement and orthorexia nervosa amongst Australian university students
Instagram is a popular social media platform with two billion active users every month. Despite its entertainment and social benefits, research has associated Instagram use with adverse mental and physical health outcomes. Recently, Instagram use has been associated with the maladaptive eating practice, orthorexia nervosa. Orthorexia nervosa refers to an unhealthy pre-occupation with the quality of food, rather than quantity, and has been associa…
Understanding Autism as a Condition in Mental Health Clinical Practice
Autism is a rapidly growing phenomenon, with rates of diagnosed autism in the community rising every decade. Autism and traits of autism are also regularly part of presentation at youth mental health services, including early psychosis services. In early psychosis services young people's symptoms tend to be formulated through a psychosis lens, rather than a neurodevelopmental lens which can lead to unnecessary medicalised treatment, and treatment…
Adolescent Violence in the Home Among Youth Presenting to an Early Psychosis Service
Integrating Substance Misuse Specialists in a Youth Early Psychosis Service
Stories of Suffering and Growth
The Buddhist concept of nonattachment refers to a flexible engagement with experience without fixation on achieving specified outcomes. The primary focus of this study was to qualitatively examine how nonattachment and attachment are experienced in individuals identified as having very high and low levels of nonattachment. Specifically, we examined individuals’ descriptions of how their levels of nonattachment and attachment developed, and how no…
One-Party Dominance in African Democracies
Is the dominance of one political party a problem in an emerging democracy, or simply an expression of the will of the people? Why has one-party dominance endured in some African democracies and not in others? What are the mechanisms behind the varying party-system trajectories? Considering these questions, the authors of this collaborative work use a rigorous comparative research design and rich case material to greatly enhance our understanding…
Historical legacies, clientelism and the capacity to fight
While regimes in countries like Cameroon, Guinea, Togo and Tanzania have survived the transition from single to multiparty rule, this article suggests two unique characteristics for the case of regime tenure in Tanzania. First, while transitions in other cases were characterized by widespread protests and/or popular opposition movements, opposition in Tanzania's transition environment was minuscule by comparison. Secondly, while repression is sti…
Historical legacies, clientelism and the capacity to fight
While regimes in countries like Cameroon, Guinea, Togo and Tanzania have survived the transition from single to multiparty rule, this article suggests two unique characteristics for the case of regime tenure in Tanzania. First, while transitions in other cases were characterized by widespread protests and/or popular opposition movements, opposition in Tanzania's transition environment was minuscule by comparison. Secondly, while repression is sti…
Historical legacies, clientelism and the capacity to fight
While regimes in countries like Cameroon, Guinea, Togo and Tanzania have survived the transition from single to multiparty rule, this article suggests two unique characteristics for the case of regime tenure in Tanzania. First, while transitions in other cases were characterized by widespread protests and/or popular opposition movements, opposition in Tanzania's transition environment was minuscule by comparison. Secondly, while repression is sti…
One-Party Dominance in African Democracies
Is the dominance of one political party a problem in an emerging democracy, or simply an expression of the will of the people? Why has one-party dominance endured in some African democracies and not in others? What are the mechanisms behind the varying party-system trajectories? Considering these questions, the authors of this collaborative work use a rigorous comparative research design and rich case material to greatly enhance our understanding…
Stories of Suffering and Growth
The Buddhist concept of nonattachment refers to a flexible engagement with experience without fixation on achieving specified outcomes. The primary focus of this study was to qualitatively examine how nonattachment and attachment are experienced in individuals identified as having very high and low levels of nonattachment. Specifically, we examined individuals’ descriptions of how their levels of nonattachment and attachment developed, and how no…
Integrating Substance Misuse Specialists in a Youth Early Psychosis Service
Adolescent Violence in the Home Among Youth Presenting to an Early Psychosis Service
A systematic review of the facilitators and barriers for the implementation of co-designed youth suicide and self-harm interventions
Nonattachment to self mediates the relationship between Instagram engagement and orthorexia nervosa amongst Australian university students
Instagram is a popular social media platform with two billion active users every month. Despite its entertainment and social benefits, research has associated Instagram use with adverse mental and physical health outcomes. Recently, Instagram use has been associated with the maladaptive eating practice, orthorexia nervosa. Orthorexia nervosa refers to an unhealthy pre-occupation with the quality of food, rather than quantity, and has been associa…
Understanding Autism as a Condition in Mental Health Clinical Practice
Autism is a rapidly growing phenomenon, with rates of diagnosed autism in the community rising every decade. Autism and traits of autism are also regularly part of presentation at youth mental health services, including early psychosis services. In early psychosis services young people's symptoms tend to be formulated through a psychosis lens, rather than a neurodevelopmental lens which can lead to unnecessary medicalised treatment, and treatment…
Reorienting the Way a Community Mental Health Service Responds to Suicide and Other Serious Incidents
Suicide and other serious incidents involving users of mental health services can have a deep and lasting effect on staff members who have been involved in the person’s care. It is important for the service to ensure that staff can learn and improve from these incidents while also minimizing the negative impacts on workers. One service has developed an innovative approach to reviewing and responding to serious incidents, using a dialogically info…
Psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Mental health (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (2 works) · Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (2 works)