Staff Members

Dr Cate Curtis

Role: Senior Lecturer Qualifications: BA Cant, BSocSc(Hons), PhD Waikato Email: ccurtis@waikato.ac.nz Location: J1.27 Contact: ext 8669

Research Interests:

My research interests are centred around mental health and wellbeing. These interests fall into three areas:
- the practical impacts of health policy, as it relates to mental illness and mental health services, for example, the ways people diagnosable with mental illness make sense of their experiences of being unwell and their experiences as consumers of mental health services, including stigma.
- intitation and cessation of deliberate self-harm, especially in young women, including help-seeking.
- resilience amongst young 'at risk' women, especially social factors.
Recent work includes evaluations of mental health workforce initiatives and suicide prevention policies.

Selected Publications:

(Note that some of the publiations in the list attached below are in my previous name, Wilson).

Research Publications:

You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Dr Cate Curtis

General Interests:

I currently convene and take most of the lectures in:
PSYC102: Social and Developmental Psychology
PSYC229: Contemporary Issues and Social Psychology
PSYC310: Gender & Psychology
PSYC517: The Social Psychology of Anti-Social Behaviour

Expertise:

Prior to commmencing tertiary studies, I worked within community organisations, focusing on the areas of disadvantaged women and youth, and (un)employment. My PhD examined social factors in female suicidal behaviour and I remain passionately interested in female self-harming behaviour in general and social factors implicated both in engaging in self-harm and in recovery, particularly the roles played by family and friends and barriers to help-seeking behaviour. I am currently developing research in the field of youth resilience.

Community Psychology