Sally Merry

For the American anthropologist, see Sally Engle Merry.

Sally Merry
Born
Sally Nicola Merry
Scientific career
FieldsChild psychiatry
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland
Thesis

Sally Nicola Merry is a New Zealand child psychiatry academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland and holds the Cure Kids Duke Family Chair in Child and Adolescent Mental Health.[1]

Merry obtained her PhD from the University of Auckland. The title of her 2006 doctoral thesis was Population-based approaches to reducing depression in adolescents in New Zealand.[2]

Merry rose to full professor in 2015,[3] and has been involved in the development and evaluation of the SPARX video game for young persons with mild to moderate depression, stress or anxiety.[4] In 2014, Merry was named as the NEXT Woman of the Year in the Health & Science category.[5]

Selected works

  • Merry, Sally N., Karolina Stasiak, Matthew Shepherd, Chris Frampton, Theresa Fleming, and Mathijs FG Lucassen. "The effectiveness of SPARX, a computerised self help intervention for adolescents seeking help for depression: randomised controlled non-inferiority trial." BMJ 344 (2012): e2598.
  • Merry, Sally, H. McDowell, Sarah Hetrick, J. Bir, and N. Muller. "Psychological and/or educational interventions for the prevention of depression in children and adolescents." Cochrane Database Syst Rev 1, no. 1 (2004).
  • Cochrane Review: Psychological and educational interventions for preventing depression in children and adolescents
  • Merry, Sally, Heather McDowell, Chris J. Wild, Julliet Bir, and Rachel Cunliffe. "A randomized placebo-controlled trial of a school-based depression prevention program." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 43, no. 5 (2004): 538–547.
  • Hetrick, S., S. Merry, J. McKenzie, P. Sindahl, and M. Proctor. "Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for depressive disorders in children and adolescents." Cochrane Database Syst Rev 3 (2007).
  • Merry, Sally N., and Leah K. Andrews. "Psychiatric status of sexually abused children 12 months after disclosure of abuse." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 33, no. 7 (1994): 939–944.

References

  1. ^ "Professor Sally Merry – The University of Auckland". unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz.
  2. ^ Merry, Sally (2006). Population-based approaches to reducing depression in adolescents in New Zealand (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/5499.
  3. ^ "Professor Sally Merry Inaugural Lecture – The University of Auckland". www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz.
  4. ^ "PM launches SPARX online tool for youth – Health Research Council". www.hrc.govt.nz.
  5. ^ "Introducing New Zealand's Women of the Year" (Press release). NEXT Woman of the Year. Scoop. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2021.


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