Sally Merry

Sally Merry
Sally Merry
Born	Sally Nicola Merry
	Scientific career
Fields	Child psychiatry
Institutions	University of Auckland
Thesis	Population-based approaches to reducing depression in adolescents in New Zealand (2006); ;

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.