Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Papers
(The median citation count of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Development of a perinatal trauma screening tool: Detecting the silent struggle of perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder88
Australia’s unethical deportation practice discriminates against New Zealanders with mental illness: ‘Everybody needs good neighbours!’79
Childhood cumulative trauma, social support and stress as predictors of illness outcomes and quality of life in bipolar disorder64
Research Letter: Effect of antivirals for COVID-19 on the mortality of older adults dispensed treatment with lithium, antipsychotics, antidepressants, anxiolytics and hypnotics50
Thanks to Reviewers40
Prescribing electroconvulsive therapy for depression: Not as simple as it used to be34
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Lithium plus antipsychotics or anticonvulsants for bipolar disorder: Comparing clinical response and metabolic changes’34
The value of screening tools in assessing living kidney donors for psychosocial risk factors: A literature review and case series31
Use of suicide prevention helpline services by first-time, frequent, and daily callers: A national cohort study29
Experiences of physical healthcare services in Māori and non-Māori with mental health and substance use conditions29
Emerging psychiatric treatments, barriers to care and public health challenges28
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of alcohol and other drug use and problematic use among people accessing mental health treatment in Australia27
Bushfire and adolescent mental health: A systematic review24
The cost of editorial independence, and the free speech it supports, is eternal vigilance23
Research Letters: High-definition transcranial direct current stimulation of the inferior parietal lobe in anorexia nervosa: A proof-of-concept randomised controlled trial22
A first-hand account of receiving repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation21
Breaching the family walls: Modelling the impact of prolonged visa insecurity on asylum-seeking children21
Implications of psychiatric diagnosis for Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria21
Comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder21
Risk of parental major psychiatric disorders in patients with comorbid autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A population-based family-link study20
Letter to the Editor regarding: ‘Smoke and mirrors: Support from psychiatrists for nicotine e-cigarette availability in Australia’20
Exploring the association of Indigeneity, social adversity status and externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents20
Prevalence and determinants of mental health related to climate change in Australia19
Letter to the Editor: Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Discharge destinations for young people with a first episode of psychosis after attending an early intervention for psychosis serv19
Initial physical health assessment for psychosis in Australia and New Zealand: 2026 recommendations18
Distinguishing apathy and depression in dementia: A longitudinal study18
Using data in psychiatry: From measurement to meaning17
Using machine learning-based Natural Language Processing to quantify emergency department presentations related to suicide or self-harm in the Australian Capital Territory17
From early intervention to equity17
Bridging the gap: Can single session interventions help enhance mental health treatment delivery for young people in Australia?16
Novel youth mental health services in Australia: What differences are being reported about the clinical needs of those who attend and the outcomes achieved?16
Letter to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘The physical health and premature mortality of Indigenous Māori following first-episode psychosis diagnosis: A 15-year follow-up study’16
Growing the lived experience voice in psychiatry education and research: An academic department’s journey16
Art therapy with children and adolescents experiencing acute or severe mental health conditions: A systematic review15
The impact of the suicide of ‘Parasite’ actor Lee Sun Kyun on suicide rates in South Korea: A time-series analysis15
Self-reported prevalence of long-term mental health conditions highest in the oldest old: Data from the 2021 Australian Census15
Psychiatric diagnoses prior to the first onset of non-affective and affective psychoses15
Mind the gap: Prioritising cognition in the care of people with schizophrenia and other psychosis15
Dynamic modelling of the impact of community-based acute mental health services for children and adolescents14
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Renewal of academic psychiatry without addressing gender equity will render it Jurassic rather than endangered’14
Adult attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder: How can we put the cart behind the horse?14
Research Letters: What do clinicians think about psychedelic-assisted therapy? An Australian perspective14
Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Defending and demonstrating the psychodynamic orientation in psychiatry’13
Anti-dementia medication use in Aotearoa New Zealand: An exploratory study using health data from the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI)13
Prevalence of psychiatric conditions in people with intellectual disability: A record linkage study in New South Wales, Australia12
Trends in calls to a state poisons centre and presentation to emergency departments for intentional antidepressant overdose in Victoria, Australia12
Use of psychotropic medications in adults with intellectual disability: A systematic review and meta-analysis12
Suicide and suicidality in Australian Defence Force veterans: A systematic scoping review12
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Heart rate variability in patients with dementia or neurocognitive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis’12
Police, ambulance and psychiatric co-response versus usual care for mental health and suicide emergency callouts: A quasi-experimental study12
Clinical recommendations for the care of people with treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder when undergoing deep brain stimulation12
Against the use of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 2–15 years11
The prevalence of self-reported mental illness among those imprisoned in New South Wales across three health surveys, from 2001 to 201511
Indigenous suicide rates in the United States, Australia and New Zealand between 2006 and 201911
Abuses in psychiatric care: The shameful story of the Lake Alice Child and Adolescent unit in Aotearoa New Zealand11
Accessibility and responsiveness of Better Access treatment services: Insights from the use of linked administrative data in the evaluation of Better Access11
Research Letter: Cumulative incidence of psychotropic drug prescriptions among children and adolescents in an Australian population cohort11
Exploring the use of electroconvulsive therapy in the anticoagulated population: A systematic review11
Perinatal depression: The use of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale to derive clinical subtypes11
Call to revise the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ clinical memorandum on deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder10
Determining the future role of clinical practice guidelines: The experience of Australia and New Zealand10
Electroconvulsive therapy in a tertiary Australian mental health facility between 2009 and 202010
Health service and medication costs associated with common mental disorders and subthreshold symptoms in women: Findings from the Geelong Osteoporosis Study in Australia10
Ensuring the affordable becomes accessible–lessons from ketamine, a new treatment for severe depression10
Clinical risk prediction for bipolar disorder: If, when and how?10
Treatment guesses in the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study: Accuracy, unblinding and influence on outcomes10
Research Letter: Unveiling the boundaries: Analysing advertising breaches in the promotion of medicinal cannabis in Australia9
Optimising brain health: Getting ambitious about prevention from midlife9
The comparative mental health of Australian doctors before and during COVID-19: A population-based approach9
Incidence of and risk factors for alcohol dependence in bipolar disorder: A population-based cohort and nested case–control study9
Using data linkage for mental health research in Australia9
Why didn’t the TGA consult with Australian researchers and clinicians with experience in psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for treatment-resistant major depressive disorder?9
Expanded access to publicly subsidised lisdexamfetamine treatment for adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: An interrupted time-series analysis9
Examining the effectiveness of the Better Access initiative using data from real-world practice settings9
RANZCP Abstracts9
Should voluntary assisted dying be available to people with mental illness? The example of Canada9
Letter to the editor: Serious concerns about ‘Concerns over the process and outcomes of the review by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists into long-term psychodynamic psychot9
Cardiometabolic monitoring in children and adolescents prescribed antipsychotics in Australian primary care, 2011 to 20179
Clinicians’ views on cognitive assessment with Aboriginal Australians9
Body dysmorphic disorder and the ugly truth of Australian healthcare9
Addressing the unmet needs of bipolar disorder in Australia and beyond9
Moving towards more person-centred, culturally safe and evidence-informed care9
Vitamin D status in pregnancy and childhood associates with intelligence quotient at age 7 years: An Odense child cohort study9
Screen time and young people: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence on self-harm and suicidality9
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists professional practice guidelines for the use of ketamine in psychiatric practice9
Characteristics of deaths related to lithium toxicity in Australia, 2000–20249
Understanding and addressing racism in clinical encounters9
Through the looking glass: Resetting the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry’s approach to gender equity8
Secondary mental health service utilisation following emergency department contact for suicidal behaviour: A systematic review8
Implementation of a ketamine programme for treatment-resistant depression in the public health system: Lessons from the first Australian public hospital clinic8
Research Letter: Perceived rather than actual reduction in standard of living is associated with psychological distress: A cross-sectional survey of working Australians8
Letters to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Is the narrative the message? The relationship between suicide-related narratives in media reports and subsequent suicides’8
Psychiatry across the lifespan: From early risk to advanced age8
The psychosocial impacts of the 15 March terrorist attack on the Christchurch Muslim community: A descriptive, cross-sectional assessment8
Developing policy and regulation for the safer use of artificial intelligence technologies for mental health in Australia8
Research Letter: What do Australian consumers with lived experience of bipolar disorder want from early intervention services?8
Thanks to Reviewers8
Compulsory Community Treatment Orders and health outcomes for Māori in New Zealand8
Perinatal outcomes of Aboriginal women with mental health disorders8
Author Index8
Development of best practice guidelines for clinical and community service providers to prevent suicide in LGBTQA+ young people: A Delphi expert consensus study8
Psychiatric service delivery for older people in hospital and residential aged care: An updated systematic review7
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Artificial intelligence and academic publishing in psychiatry’7
Access to mental health under Medicare has stalled – What now?7
Exploring the measurement validity of the Your Experience of Service survey7
Letter to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Do compulsory mental health patients have a right to receive a second psychiatric opinion on their treatment under Australian mental health legisl7
Palliative psychiatry in a narrow and in a broad sense: A concept clarification7
Improving metabolic risk in patients with mental illness through ‘mental health care plans’ in primary health care7
Doubtful medical cannabis prescribing practices identified from 55 medical cannabis websites7
Neurocognitive function of patients with melancholic and non-melancholic major depressive episodes: An exploratory study7
Youth mental health and suicidality in Australia: Developmental pathways and barriers to care7
Polypharmacy in psychiatry: Evidence-based medicine or a Sisyphean solution?7
Proximity of alcohol outlets and presentation to hospital by young people after self-harm: A retrospective geospatial study using the integrated data infrastructure7
Online Mental Health Assessment in a psychiatry emergency department in adults using touchscreen mobile devices: A randomised controlled trial7
What works for whom when treating major depression with psychotherapy?7
Associations between mortality and exposure to psychotropic medication: A population-based cohort study for depressive disorders7
Letters to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘A challenge to the dopamine orthodoxy in schizophrenia?’7
RANZCP 2025: Book of Abstracts7
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Exposures to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medications reported to the New South Wales Poisons Information Centre (2014–2023): A retrospective study’7
Substance use disorder screening and brief intervention in routine clinical practice in specialist adult mental health services: A systematic review7
On- and off-label utilisation of antipsychotics in Australia (2000–2021): Retrospective analysis of two medication datasets7
The development of a cultural validity assessment tool for First Nations people7
Prevalence of suicidal and self-harm ideation in fathers during the perinatal and early parenting period: A systematic review and meta-analysis6
Can we raise the bar?6
Mental health–related service and medicine use among a cohort of urban Aboriginal children and young people: Data linkage study6
Setting the top 10 eating disorder research and translation priorities for Australia6
Machine learning prediction will be part of future treatment of depression6
Suicides in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people following hospital admission for suicidal ideation and self-harm: A retrospective cohort data linkage study from the Northern Territory6
RANZCP 2024 CONGRESS: Book of Abstracts6
Shame and trauma are critical to understanding the impacts of psychosis: Examining clinical correlates within a tertiary psychosis service cohort6
Plasma neurofilament light in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia compared to mood and psychotic disorders6
Transforming mental health facilities: Current trends and considerations6
Alternative metrics for characterizing longer-term clinical outcomes in difficult-to-treat depression: II. Sensitivity to treatment effects6
Bipolar eyes: Windows to the pole?6
MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: The devil is in the detail6
Mental ill-health and substance use among sexuality diverse adolescents: The critical role of school climate and teacher self-efficacy6
Letter to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Abuses in psychiatric care: The shameful story of the Lake Alice Child and Adolescent unit in Aotearoa New Zealand’6
Vitamin D status in pregnancy and cord blood is associated with symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder at age 5 years: Results from Odense Child Cohort6
Galvanizing research ‘Down Under’ to resist pressure from above6
Data from four consecutive cohorts of students in Australia (2019–2022) show the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic and international university students’ mental health6
Development of a research capacity and culture tool for people with lived experience of mental health challenges6
Involuntary treatment for substance use disorders in Victoria – An audit of people treated under the Severe Substance Dependence Treatment Act from 2011 to 20236
Suicide among health professionals in Australia: A retrospective mortality study of trends over the last two decades6
Research Letter: Could ChatGPT and Bard provide helpful responses to a person seeking advice on how to support someone with a mental health problem?6
Effectiveness of specialist-delivered interventions in severe mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis6
Determinants and comorbidities: Studying the context of psychiatric symptoms5
Persistence of antidepressant treatment in children and adolescents: A population-based cohort study5
Commando care for individuals living with severe mental illness: Equally Well goes beyond metabolic health alone5
Patterns of health service use for children with mental disorders in an Australian state population cohort5
Fair funding for mental health research5
Where next for cognitive remediation in Australasian mental health care?5
How many Early Career Psychiatrists participate in research and what are the motivating factors?5
Associations of maternal perinatal depressive disorders with autism spectrum disorder in offspring: Findings from a data-linkage cohort study5
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Defending and demonstrating the psychodynamic orientation in psychiatry’5
Author reply to the Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Precision medicine approaches to mental health’5
Predictors of suicidal ideation severity among treatment-seeking young people with major depressive disorder: The role of state and trait anxiety5
Have you been paying attention? Adult-onset attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder5
Patterns of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medicine use in the era of new non-stimulant medicines: A population-based study among Australian children and adults (2013–2020)5
Predictors of individual mental health and psychological resilience after Australia’s 2019–2020 bushfires5
The evolution of charcoal-burning suicide: A systematic scoping review5
Nonsuicidal self-injury in a cross-sectional community survey of New Zealand adults: Associations with demographic and psychological characteristics5
Predictors of mental illness onset in adolescents and adults with intellectual disability: A retrospective cohort study in New South Wales, Australia5
Could the Bondi Junction tragedy have been prevented? Lessons for forensic-informed community care5
Smoke and mirrors: Support from psychiatrists for nicotine e-cigarette availability in Australia5
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, patient vulnerability and abuses of power5
A challenge to the dopamine orthodoxy in schizophrenia?5
Is the narrative the message? The relationship between suicide-related narratives in media reports and subsequent suicides5
Matching needs to services: Development of a service needs index for determining care pathways in youth mental health5
Addressing body dysmorphic disorder through mindfulness: A new therapeutic frontier5
Antidepressant utilization patterns and predictors of treatment continuation in pregnant women: A 16-year population-based cohort4
Addressing exclusionary epidemiology in psychosis population prevalence studies4
Vocational functioning in young people accessing services for first-episode psychosis and ultra-high risk of psychosis: A longitudinal naturalistic cohort study4
Assessing the prevalence of cognitive impairment among Australians with schizophrenia: A systematic review4
Serving our community, reaching out to our region4
Understanding and detecting behaviours prior to a suicide attempt: A mixed-methods study4
“Finding hope in the lived experience of psychosis: Reflections on trauma, use of power and re-visioning psychiatry”: Book review4
The epidemiology of mental and substance use disorders in Australia 2020–22: Prevalence, socio-demographic correlates, severity, impairment and changes over time4
Author Index4
Suicide crises among women and mothers during and around the time of pregnancy: Prevalence and timing of initial contact with first responders and health services4
Patterns of psychotropic medication use among young people living in out-of-home care: A scoping review and meta-analysis of international literature4
Research Letter: Dispensing of psychotropic medications in Australia between 2013 and 20224
Understanding subjective experience in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: The need for phenomenology4
Health services and digital technologies used for mental health among a national cross-sectional sample of young people in Australia 2020–2022: Patterns and correlates within geographic regions4
Letter to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Early impacts of the “National Suicide Prevention Trial” on trends in suicide and hospital admissions for self-harm in Australia’4
Mental health and substance use conditions among emerging adults in Australia 2020–2022: Prevalence, severity and psychosocial correlates within geographic regions4
The association between gaming disorder and impulsivity: A systematic review and meta-analysis4
Return on investment from interventions to prevent common mental disorders among adolescents in Australia: A modelling study4
Country and community vs poverty and conflict: Teasing apart the key demographic and psychosocial resilience and risk factors for Indigenous clinic-referred children and adolescents4
Why talking about loneliness matters to the mental health of consumers and to the work of the psychiatrist4
Return from the precipice: New Zealand’s rapid prison population decrease and its implications4
Management of cardiovascular disease risk in people with comorbid mental illness: A cross sectional study in Australian general practice4
Psychotropic pharmacogenetics in adult populations: From basic science to clinical trials and health economics – An evidence-based overview for decision makers4
Whakairo: A values-led approach to psychiatric epidemiology4
Co-occurring psychological distress and alcohol or other drug use among Indigenous Australians: Data from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey4
Psychotogenic potential of prescribed drugs3
Ketamine in psychiatry: Ethical imperatives in harnessing a controversial yet promising therapy3
A non-randomised controlled trial of a community-based accommodation and psychosocial support programme for adults experiencing mental illness and homelessness3
Prolonged grief disorder in ICD-11 and DSM -5-TR: Challenges and controversies3
Letter to the Editor: Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘The physical health and premature mortality of Indigenous Māori following first-episode psychosis diagnosis: A 15-year follow-up s3
The Kessler Psychological Distress Scale in Australian adolescents: Analysis of the second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing3
Tau in dementia with Lewy bodies3
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘Have you been paying attention? Adult-onset attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder’3
Glutamatergic neurotransmission in schizophrenia: A systematic review and quantitative synthesis of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies across schizophrenia spectrum disorders3
Letter to the Editor regarding ‘What happened to the predicted COVID-19-induced suicide epidemic, and why?’3
Trauma exposure, post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol and other drug use among Australian public safety personnel3
The neglected gift of conceptual depth3
Corrigendum to: Stevens, M. W. R., Dorstyn, D., Delfabbro, P. H., & King, D. L. (2021). Global prevalence of gaming disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Australi3
Consumers’ experiences with and outcomes from Better Access: Results from a national survey3
‘E koekoe te Tūī, e ketekete te Kākā, e kuku te Kererū, The Tūī chatters, the Kākā cackles, and the Kererū coos’: Insights into explanatory factors, treatment experiences and recovery for Māori with e3
Longitudinal effects of bushfire harm on adolescent mental health3
Not heading in the right direction: Five hundred psychiatrists’ views on resourcing, demand, and workforce across New Zealand mental health services3
Associations of suicide-related media reporting characteristics with help-seeking and suicide in Oregon and Washington3
Combinatorial panel with endophenotypes from multilevel information of diffusion tensor imaging and lipid profile as predictors for depression3
Evidence absent, risks high: The critical gap for perinatal eating disorders3
Physical multimorbidity and mental illness: A global challenge3
Development of a framework of the skills and attributes needed by mental health professionals to provide optimal clinical care to people experiencing complex psychosis: A Delphi consensus study3
First Nations Peoples in the forensic mental health system in New South Wales: Characteristics and rates of criminal charges post-release3
The effectiveness and tolerability of pharmacotherapy for psychosis in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: A systematic review3
Supportive actions towards people with mental health problems in the community: A national survey of Australian adults3
Interpersonal stress mediates the relationship between childhood trauma and depressive symptoms: Findings from two culturally different samples3
John Cade’s lithium: A granular look at his achievement3
Age at diagnosis and diagnostic delay across attention-deficit hyperactivity and autism spectrums3
Association between mental health workforce supply and clusters of high and low rates of youth suicide: An Australian study using suicide mortality data from 2016 to 20203
Letter to the editor regarding “Understanding subjective experience in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: The need for phenomenology”3
Risk prevalence, readiness and confidence to change lifestyle risk factors among clients of community mental health services3
Factors associated with electroconvulsive therapy treatment for adults with serious psychiatric conditions in Australia3
Cumulative incidence of adolescent mental disorders following childhood maltreatment: An Australian longitudinal population cohort study3
Health-related quality of life in children, adolescents and young adults with self-harm or suicidality: A systematic review3
Ketamine/esketamine in the treatment of depression with comorbid borderline personality disorder or traits: A systematic review of effectiveness3
Incidence and risk profiles for pneumonia in patients with schizophrenia receiving home-care case management intervention in Taiwan3
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists professional practice guidelines for the administration of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation3
Health characteristics and court diversion among adults with psychosis in the New South Wales Local Court: A data-linkage study3
OPCAT: How an international treaty regarding torture is relevant to the Australian mental health system3
Regional evolution of psychosocial services in Australia before and after the implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme3
Body dysmorphic symptoms in autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A comorbidity study3
Development of a harmonized sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire for mental health research: A Delphi-method-based consensus recommendation2
Antipsychotic medications and severe sepsis in schizophrenia: A nested case–control study2
Economic evaluations of alcohol pharmacotherapy: Systematic review of economic evaluations of pharmacotherapy for the treatment of alcohol use disorder2
Towards integrated Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry for older adults in New Zealand2
Letter to the Editor: Author reply to Letter to the Editor regarding ‘What happened to the predicted COVID-19-induced suicide epidemic, and why?’2
Impact, integrity and editorial independence2
Mental health systems modelling for evidence-informed service reform in Australia2
Roll call: Why the child and adolescent mental health sector must be present for severe school refusal2
The mental health effects of changing from insecure to secure visas for refugees2
Meta-analysis of risk factors for suicide after psychiatric discharge and meta-regression of the duration of follow-up2
Change points in Australian suicide rates: Trends from 2000 to 20222
Comprehensive care processes for substance use disorders in adult mental health services: A systematic review2
Principles for delivering improved care of people with functional seizures: Closing the treatment gap2
Letter to the Editor: Letter to the Editor regarding ‘A revisionist model for treatment-resistant and difficult-to-treat depression’2
From suicide surveillance to restricting access to means: A time series study of suicide prevention at the Story Bridge2
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