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I am a Professor in the School of
Psychology at the University of Nottingham and PI leading the Self-Harm
Research Group (SHRG) (click here for lab www –
under construction). Our group
researches psychological factors associated with self-harm and suicidality,
and interventions that promote recovery, especially in young people using a
range of techniques including sequence analysis, the Card Sort Task for
Self-Harm (CaTS), experiments, questionnaires,
epidemiology, interviews and systematic reviews. This work has been funded by the NHS, NIHR
and the ESRC. Our work has influenced
policy – earlier versions of our systematic review of interventions for
self-harm were included in the 2011 NICE Guidance on the Longer Term
Management of Self-Harm. I led a national Clinical Research Group
on self-harm funded by the Mental Health Research Network (NIHR) and am a
Fellow of the Institute of Mental
Health. I am a collaborator on the
Multicentre Study of Self-Harm
in England and am co-leading the development of INTERACT - a new research
initiative for participatory research and public engagement working with
colleagues from across the university.
I am PI on a Wellcome Trust People Award
supporting the development of our Café Connect model of public
engagement. We were finalists in the UoN Knowledge Exchange and Impact Awards 2016 for this
work. I am PI on a project investigating
self-harm in looked-after young people funded by the Department of Health
Policy Research Programme. See our project
website: www.listen-up.ac.uk for
more information.
I am a Fellow of the International
Academy of Suicide Research and a member of the BPS Expert Panel on the
Psychology of Suicidal Behaviour. I
was a participant in the Nottingham
Research Leaders Programme 2015-16.
I
have recently been awarded a Miegunyah
Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at the University of Melbourne,
Australia which will take place in April 2017. In
2016 a publication co-authored with Dr Katie Glazebrook received the
Institute of Mental Health ‘Best Overall Publication Award’ - Glazebrook K, Townsend E, Sayal K
(2015). The role of attachment style in predicting repetition of adolescent
self-harm: a longitudinal study. Suicide
and Life-Threatening Behavior.
DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12159. See
my twitter account @selfharmnotts and the SHRG www
for updates about me and my research group. Publications in
peer reviewed journals ·
Lockwood J, Daley D, Townsend E, Sayal S. (In
Press). Impulsivity and self-harm in
adolescence: A systematic review. European
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 10.1007/s00787-016-0915-5. (Open
access.) ·
Nielsen
E, Sayal K & Townsend E. (2016).
Dealing with difficult days: functional coping dynamics in self-harm
ideation and enactment. Journal
of Affective Disorders, 208, 330-337, DOI:
10.1016/j.jad.2016.08.036.
(Open access.) ·
Townsend E, Wadman R, Sayal K, Armstrong M, Harroe C,
Majumder, Vostanis, Clarke D. (2016). Uncovering key patterns in self-harm
in adolescents: Sequence analysis using the Card Sort Task for Self-harm (CaTS). Journal
of Affective Disorders, 206, 161-168. (Open access.) ·
Nielsen E, Sayal K & Townsend E. (2016) Exploring
the Relationship Between Experiential Avoidance, Coping Functions and the Recency and Frequency of Self-Harm. PLoS ONE 11(7): e0159854. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159854. (Open access.) ·
Hochard K, Heym N & Townsend E. (2016)
Investigating the interaction between sleep symptoms of arousal and acquired
capability in predicting suicidality. Suicide and
Life-Threatening Behavior. doi:10.1111/sltb.12285. ·
Hawton K, Witt KG, Taylor Salisbury TL, Arensman E, Gunnell D, Hazell
P, Townsend E, van Heeringen K. (2016). Psychosocial interventions following
self-harm in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet
Psychiatry, 3(8), 740-750. ·
Hawton K, Witt KG, Taylor
Salisbury TL, Arensman E, Gunnell
D, Hazell P, Townsend E, van Heeringen
K. (2016) Psychosocial interventions for self-harm in adults. Cochrane
Library. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD012189. ·
Geulayov G, Kapur N, Turnbull P,
Clements C, Waters K, Ness J, Townsend E, Hawton K (2016). Epidemiology and trends in non-fatal self-harm in three
centres in England, 2000–2012: findings from the Multicentre Study of
Self-Harm in England. BMJ
Open. 6:4
e010538
doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010538. ·
Hochard
K, Heym N, Townsend E. (2016). The behavioral effects of frequent nightmares
on objective stress tolerance. Dreaming,
26(1), 42-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/drm0000013 ·
Wadman R, Clarke D, Sayal
K, Vostanis P, Armstrong M, Harroe C, Majumder P,
Townsend E. An
interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of self-harm
repetition and recovery in young adults (2016), Journal
of Health Psychology. doi 10.1177/1359105316631405 ·
Clements C, Turnball P, Hawton K, Geulayov G, Waters K, Ness J,
Townsend E, Khundakar K, Kapur, N. (2016). Rates of
self-harm presenting to general hospitals: a comparison of data from the
Multicentre Study of Self-Harm in England and Hospital Episode Statistics. BMJ
Open 6:e009749 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009749 ·
Townsend E, Ness J, Waters K, Kapur N, Turnbull P,
Cooper J, Bergen H, Hawton K. (2016). Self-harm and life problems: findings from the Multicentre
Study of Self-harm in England. Social
Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 51 (2), 183-192. ·
Glazebrook
KG, Townsend E. & Sayal K. (2015). Do coping strategies
mediate the relationship between parental attachment
and self-harm in young people? Archives
of Suicide Research. DOI 10.1080/13811118.2015.1004495 ·
Hawton K, Witt KG, Taylor Salisbury TL, Arensman E, Gunnell D, Townsend
E, van Heeringen K. Hazell P (2015). Interventions for self-harm in children
and adolescents. Cochrane
Library. ·
Turnbull
P, Webb R, Kapur R, Clements C, Bergen H, Hawton K,
Jennifer Ness, Keith Waters, Ellen Townsend, Cooper J. (2015). Variation by ethnic group in premature
mortality risk following self-harm: a multicentre cohort study in England. BMC
Psychiatry. 15, 254. Published
online 19-10-15. DOI: 10.1186/s12888-015-0637-0 ·
Hawton K, Witt KG, Taylor Salisbury TL, Arensman E, Gunnell D, Hazell
P, Townsend E, van Heeringen K. (2015). Pharmacological interventions for
self-harm in adults. Cochrane
Library. ·
Kapur N, Steeg S, Turnbull P, Webb R, Bergen H,
Hawton K, Geulayov G, Townsend E, Ness J, Waters K & Cooper J. (2015). Hospital management of suicidal behaviour
and subsequent mortality: a
prospective cohort study. Lancet
Psychiatry. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(15)00169-8 ·
Glazebrook
KG, Townsend E. & Sayal K. (2015). The role of attachment style in predicting
repetition of adolescent self-harm: a longitudinal study. Suicide
and Life-Threatening Behavior. ·
Hochard
K, Heym N, Townsend E. (2015). The
Unidirectional Relationship of Nightmares on Self-Harmful Thoughts and Behaviors. Dreaming, 25(1),
44-58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038617 ·
Townsend,
E. (2014). Self-Harm in Young People. Clinical Review. Evidence-Based Mental Health. (Click
here for online first version August 2014). ·
Townsend,
E., Spence, A. and Knowles, S. (2014.) Investigating the
operation of the affect heuristic: Is it an associative construct?’ Journal
of Risk Research, 17 (3), 299-315. ·
Knowles,
S., Townsend, E. and Anderson, M. (2013.) “In two minds”. Socially motivated
self-harm is perceived as less serious than internally motivated: A
qualitative study of youth justice staff. Journal
of Health Psychology. Full text
available online before print here: http://hpq.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/11/05/1359105312459874.full.pdf+html ·
Townsend,
E. and Pitchford, N. Baby knows best?
(2012). The impact of weaning style on food preferences
and body mass index in early childhood in a case–controlled sample. BMJ Open
2012;2:e000298 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000298.
Full text available here: http://bmjopen.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmjopen-2011-000298 ·
Fleming, P., Townsend, E., van Hilten,
J.A., Spence, A., and Ferguson, E. (2012). Expert relevance and the use of
context-driven heuristic processes in risk perception. Journal of Risk Research, 15,
857-873. Available online here. ·
Knowles, S., Townsend, E. & Anderson, M (2012).
Youth Justice staff attitudes towards screening for
self-harm. Health & social care in the community, 20(5),
506-515. ·
Knowles,
S. & Townsend, E. (2012). Implicit and Explicit Attitudes toward
Self Harm: support for a functional model.
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental
Psychiatry, 43, 730-736.
Article available online here. ·
Knowles, S.,
Townsend, E., Anderson, M. (2011). Factors associated with self-harm in community-based young offenders: the importance of psychological variables, Journal of Forensic Psychiatry
&Psychology. First published on: 16 June 2011 (iFirst).To
link to this Article: DOI: 10.1080/14789949.2011.591415. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2011.591415
Book chapters
Other publications Campbell,
S. and Townsend, E. (2005) How To Make A Minority Look Like A Majority'. Australasian
Science, March 2005, pp. 28-29. Ulph, F., Leong, J,
Glazebrook,C, Townsend, E. (2005). When do
mum and dad need their genes back? Communicating information about genetics
to children. Psychology & Health,
20, 268 Suppl. 1, AUG 2005. Ulph F, Glazebrook C, Leong J,
Shakespeare F, Townsend E
(2005). "It's certainly letting a little bit of a flood gate open":
Genetic counsellors' views about the UK newborn
screening programme for cystic fibrosis. Journal
of Medical Genetics 42: S122-S122 Suppl. 1 SEP. Hawton
K, Townsend E. (2002)
UK legislation on analgesic pack sizes: impact on suicidal behaviour. EUR PSYCHIAT 17: 67S-67S Suppl. 1. Geddes
J, Burgess S, Hawton K, Townsend E,
Jamison K, Goodwin G. (2002) Lithium prophylaxis of mood
disorders: Efficacy, acceptability and anti-suicidal effects, Journal of Affective Disorders, 68
(1): 83-83. Teaching and Admin I Chair the
‘Careers and Engagement Committee’ and am a member of the Postgraduate
Committee (where I also act as School Postgraduate Advisor). I
convene the final year module on Clinical Psychology and lecture on the Forensic
Mental Health Module.
Harmless
(Award winning support service for self-harm). http://www.harmless.org.uk/ U
Can Cope: resources to build resilience and cope in times of stress: http://connectingwithpeople.org/ucancope SANE on suicide: http://www.sane.org.uk/sane_on_suicide Cochrane Collaboration: http://www.cochrane.org/index.htm University
of Oxford Centre for Suicide Research: http://cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk/csr/ Help
is at Hand. Information for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden
death. American
Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP): http://www.afsp.org/ American
Association of Suicidology (AAS): http://www.suicidology.org/ The
Samaritans: http://www.samaritans.org.uk/ Healthtalkonline: http://www.healthtalkonline.org/ International Academy of Suicide Research. https://suicide-research.org/ International
Association for Suicide Prevention. https://www.iasp.info/
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