Dr Carla Meurk
Affiliate Research Fellow
National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research
Publications
Book Chapter
Cherrier, Helene, Carah, Nicholas and Meurk, Carla (2017). Social media affordances for curbing alcohol consumption: insights from Hello Sunday Morning blog posts. Youth drinking cultures in a digital world: alcohol, social media and cultures of intoxication. (pp. 167-184) edited by Antonia C. Lyons, Tim McCreanor, Ian Goodwin and Helen Moewaka Barnes. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315660844-11
Journal Articles
Raut, Sanket, Mellor, Rebecca, Meurk, Carla, Lam, Michael, Lane, Jonathan, Khoo, Andrew, Cronin, Andrew, Smith, Steve, Heffernan, Ed and Johnson, Luke (2025). Prevalence and factors associated with polypharmacy in military and veteran populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 369, 411-420. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.10.025
Wittenhagen, Lisa, Gullestrup, Jorgen, Doran, Chris M., Brimelow, Rachel, Thompson, Nicholas, Heffernan, Edward and Meurk, Carla S. (2024). The concept of distress–widely used but what does it mean for individuals working in the construction industry?. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health. doi: 10.1080/15555240.2024.2356799
Parker, Stephen, Chapman, Maddison, Wyder, Marianne, Pommeranz, Matthew, Walgers, Rebecca, Dark, Frances and Meurk, Carla (2024). Life is better but not without challenges: experiences following discharge from community-based residential mental health rehabilitation–a qualitative content analysis. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 1-17. doi: 10.1007/s00127-024-02716-z
Comben, Charlotte, Rutherford, Zoe, Meurk, Carla, John, Julie, Fjeldsoe, Kevin, Gossip, Kate and Diminic, Sandra (2024). Identifying core mental health services required for adult justice-involved populations in Australia: a Delphi study. Psychiatry Psychology and Law, 1-28. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2024.2330049
Oltvolgyi, Csongor G., Meurk, Carla and Heffernan, Ed (2024). Suicide and suicidality in Australian Defence Force veterans: A systematic scoping review. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 58 (9), 760-774. doi: 10.1177/00048674241246443
Wittenhagen, Lisa, Hielscher, Emily, Meurk, Carla S., Scott, James G., Steele, Megan L., Bosley, Emma, Watson, Shelby and Heffernan, Ed (2024). A cohort profile of children and adolescents who had a suicide‐related contact with police or paramedics in Queensland (Australia). Emergency Medicine Australasia, 36 (4), 520-526. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.14392
Moss, Katherine, Meurk, Carla, Steele, Megan L. and Heffernan, Ed (2024). Physical health and activity of inpatients under forensic mental health care: a cross-sectional survey and audit of patients in a high secure setting in Queensland, Australia. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 23 (1), 12-23. doi: 10.1080/14999013.2022.2154872
Clugston, Bobbie, Meurk, Carla, Harris, Meredith, Burgess, Philip and Heffernan, Ed (2024). Persons with mental disorders and suicidality in crisis or high-risk situations involving police negotiation: a systematic review. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 31 (1), 57-75. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2023.2175066
Steele, Megan L., Wittenhagen, Lisa, Meurk, Carla, Phillips, Jane, Clugston, Bobbie, Heck, Peter, Waterson, Elissa and Heffernan, Ed (2024). Police negotiators and suicide crisis situations: a mixed-methods examination of incident details, characteristics of individuals and precipitating factors. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 31 (4), 748-763. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2023.2206878
Dale, Penny R., Meurk, Carla, Williams, Megan, Watson, Marshall, Steele, Megan L., Wittenhagen, Lisa, Harden, Scott, Stathis, Stephen, Scott, James G., Kinner, Stuart and Heffernan, Ed (2023). Our Ways, Your Ways, Both Ways – a multi-disciplinary collaboration to develop, embed and evaluate a model of social and emotional wellbeing care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people who experience detention – Phase 1. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14 1207103, 1-15. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1207103
Wallace, Duncan, Meurk, Carla, Moss, Andrew and Heffernan, Ed (2023). Australian Defence Force Centre for Mental Health Second Opinion Clinic – first ten years of operation. Australasian Psychiatry, 31 (5), 669-673. doi: 10.1177/10398562231190780
Kerr, Katelyn, Varker, Tracey, Meurk, Carla and Williams, Georgia (2023). Synergistic effects of military sexual trauma and military combat exposure on posttraumatic stress disorder in veterans. A systematic review. Traumatology. doi: 10.1037/trm0000464
Wallace, D., Heffernan, E., Meurk, C., McKay, D. and Jones, C. Nas (2023). Bipolar disorder in the Australian Defence Force: estimating prevalence from Defence Electronic Health System Records. Journal of Military and Veterans Health, 31 (2), 13-21.
De Monte, Veronica, Veitch, Angus, Dark, Frances, Meurk, Carla, Wyder, Marianne, Wheeler, Maddison, Carney, Kylie, Parker, Stephen, Kisely, Steve and Siskind, Dan (2023). Measuring recovery-oriented rehabilitation language in clinical documentation to enhance recovery-oriented practice. BJPsych Open, 9 (2) e36, 17-20. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2023.14
Reilly, John, Meurk, Carla, Heffernan, Ed and Sara, Grant (2023). Substance use disorder screening and brief intervention in routine clinical practice in specialist adult mental health services: a systematic review. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 57 (6), 1-18. doi: 10.1177/00048674221148394
Parker, Stephen, Dark, Frances, Newman, Ellie, Wyder, Marianne, Pommeranz, Matthew, Walgers, Rebecca and Meurk, Carla (2023). Staff experiences of integrating peer support workers and clinical staff in community-based residential mental health rehabilitation: a pragmatic grounded theory analysis. Community Mental Health Journal, 59 (4), 703-718. doi: 10.1007/s10597-022-01054-1
Wittenhagen, Lisa, Doran, Christopher, Brady, John, Heffernan, Edward and Meurk, Carla (2022). Understanding and enhancing responses to distress in the construction industry: protocol for a data linkage study. BMJ Open, 12 (12) e061695, 1-7. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061695
Kerr, Katelyn, Heffernan, Ed, Hawgood, Jacinta, Edwards, Bronwen and Meurk, Carla (2022). Optimal care pathways for people in suicidal crisis who interact with first responders: a scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (18) 11510, 1-17. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191811510
Meurk, Carla, Roberts, Susan, Lam, Michael, Wittenhagen, Lisa, Callaway, Leonie, Moss, Katherine, Lucke, Jayne, Barker, Ruth, Waterson, Elissa, Rawlinson, Catherine, Malmstrom, Natasha, Weaver, Edward, Hoehn, Elisabeth, Bosley, Emma, Watson, Shelby and Heffernan, Ed (2022). Suicide crises among women and mothers during and around the time of pregnancy: Prevalence and timing of initial contact with first responders and health services. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 57 (2) ARTN 00048674221101517, 000486742211015-301. doi: 10.1177/00048674221101517
Saha, Sukanta, Lim, Carmen C.W., Degenhardt, Louisa, Cannon, Danielle L., Bremner, Monique, Prentis, Finley, Lawrence, Zoe, Heffernan, Ed, Meurk, Carla, Reilly, John and McGrath, John J. (2021). Comorbidity between mood and substance-related disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 56 (7) ARTN 00048674211054740, 000486742110547-770. doi: 10.1177/00048674211054740
Sharma-Kumar, Ratika, Puljević, Cheneal, Morphett, Kylie, Meurk, Carla and Gartner, Coral (2021). The acceptability and effectiveness of videos promoting smoking cessation among Australians experiencing mental illness. Health Education and Behavior, 49 (3), 109019812110347-515. doi: 10.1177/10901981211034738
Moss, Katherine, Meurk, Carla, Steele, Megan L. and Heffernan, Ed (2021). The physical health and activity of patients under forensic psychiatric care: a scoping review. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 21 (2), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/14999013.2021.1943570
Doran, Christopher M., Wittenhagen, Lisa, Heffernan, Edward and Meurk, Carla (2021). The MATES case management model: presenting problems and referral pathways for a novel peer-led approach to addressing suicide in the construction industry. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (13) 6740, 1-11. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18136740
Parker, Stephen, Wyder, Marianne, Pommeranz, Matthew, Newman, Ellie, Meurk, Carla and Dark, Frances (2021). Consumer experiences of community‐based residential mental health rehabilitation for severe and persistent mental illness: a pragmatic grounded theory analysis. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 30 (3), 733-746. doi: 10.1111/inm.12842
Steele, Megan L., Meurk, Carla, Schess, Jaclyn, Yap, Lorraine, Jones, Jocelyn, Harden, Scott, Davison, Sophie, Butler, Tony and Heffernan, Ed (2021). Substance use and help‐seeking among justice‐involved young people in Queensland and Western Australia: A cross‐sectional survey of 14–17‐year‐olds. Drug and Alcohol Review, 40 (4), 617-626. doi: 10.1111/dar.13238
Meurk, Carla, Wittenhagen, Lisa, Bosley, Emma, Steele, Megan L., Bunting, Denise, Waterson, Elissa, Edwards, Bronwen, Martain, Ben and Heffernan, Ed (2021). Suicide crisis calls to emergency services: Cohort profile and findings from a data linkage study in Queensland, Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 56 (2) ARTN 00048674211009604, 1-10. doi: 10.1177/00048674211009604
Meurk, Carla, Wittenhagen, Lisa, Lucke, Jayne, Barker, Ruth, Roberts, Susan, Moss, Katherine, Waterson, Elissa and Heffernan, Ed (2021). Suicidal behaviours in the peripartum period: a systematic scoping review of data linkage studies. Archives of Womens Mental Health, 24 (4), 579-593. doi: 10.1007/s00737-021-01102-x
Yap, Lorraine, Jones, Jocelyn, Donovan, Basil, Nathan, Sally, Sullivan, Elizabeth, Davison, Sophie, Heffernan, Ed, Richards, Alun, Meurk, Carla, Steele, Megan, Fisher, Christopher, Ton, Bianca and Butler, Tony (2020). The sexual behaviours of adolescents aged between 14 and 17 years involved with the juvenile justice system in Australia: A community-based survey. PLoS One, 15 (12) e0243633, 1-19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243633
Wallace, Duncan, Meurk, Carla, McKay, Diana, Khoo, Andrew, Lane, Jon and Heffernan, Ed (2020). Keeping military in mind: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Military and Veterans’ Mental Health Network. Australasian Psychiatry, 28 (3), 274-278. doi: 10.1177/1039856219895199
Goodwin, Terri-ann, Lowry, Tim J., Meurk, Carla and Neillie, Darren (2020). Treating the untreatable? The biopsychosocial treatment of delusional disorder: a case study. Australasian Psychiatry, 28 (4), 103985622090146-437. doi: 10.1177/1039856220901463
Meurk, Carla, Wittenhagen, Lisa, Steele, Megan L., Ferris, Laura, Edwards, Bronwen, Bosley, Emma and Heffernan, Ed (2020). Examining the use of police and ambulance data in suicide research: a systematic scoping review of data linkage studies. Crisis, 42 (5), 1-11. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000739
Clugston, Bobbie, Green, Bob, Phillips, Jane, Samaraweera, Zara, Ceron, Carolina, Gardner, Cameron, Meurk, Carla and Heffernan, Ed (2019). Interviewing persons with mental illness charged with murder or attempted murder: a retrospective review of police interviews. Psychiatry Psychology and Law, 26 (6), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2019.1642260
Meurk, Carla, Parker, Stephen, Newman, Ellie and Dark, Frances (2019). Staff expectations of an Australian integrated model of residential rehabilitation for people with severe and persisting mental illness: a pragmatic grounded theory analysis. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10 (JULY) 468, 468. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00468
Kinchin, Irina, Russell, Alex M. T., Tsey, Komla, Jago, Jon, Wintzloff, Thomas, Meurk, Carla and Doran, Christopher M. (2019). Psychiatric inpatient cost of care before and after admission at a residential subacute step-up/step-down mental health facility. Journal of Medical Economics, 22 (5), 491-498. doi: 10.1080/13696998.2019.1588126
Alla, Kristel, Oprescu, Florin, Hall, Wayne D., Whiteford, Harvey A., Head, Brian W. and Meurk, Carla S. (2018). Can automated content analysis be used to assess and improve the use of evidence in mental health policy? A systematic review. Systematic Reviews, 7 (1) 194, 194. doi: 10.1186/s13643-018-0853-z
Silva, Diego S., Forlini, Cynthia and Meurk, Carla (2018). Public mental health ethics: helping improve mental health for individuals and communities. Public Health Ethics, 11 (2), 121-125. doi: 10.1093/phe/phy011
Sharma-Kumar, Ratika, Meurk, Carla, Ford, Pauline, Beere, Diana and Gartner, Coral (2018). Are Australian smokers with mental illness receiving adequate smoking cessation and harm reduction information?. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27 (6), 1673-1688. doi: 10.1111/inm.12465
Wyder, Marianne, Kisely, Steve, Meurk, Carla, Dietrich, Josie, Fawcett, Teresa, Siskind, Dan, Robinson, Gail and Crompton, David (2018). The language we use - the effect of writing mental health care plans in the first person. Australasian Psychiatry, 26 (5), 103985621877225-502. doi: 10.1177/1039856218772251
Parker, Stephen, Meurk, Carla, Newman, Ellie, Fletcher, Clayton, Swinson, Isabella and Dark, Frances (2018). Understanding consumers' initial expectations of community-based residential mental health rehabilitation in the context of past experiences of care: a mixed-methods pragmatic grounded theory analysis. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27 (6), 1650-1660. doi: 10.1111/inm.12461
Sharma, Ratika, Meurk, Carla, Bell, Stephanie, Ford, Pauline and Gartner, Coral (2018). Australian mental health care practitioners’ practices and attitudes for encouraging smoking cessation and tobacco harm reduction in smokers with severe mental illness. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 27 (1), 247-257. doi: 10.1111/inm.12314
Meurk, Carla, Harris, Meredith, Wright, Eryn, Reavley, Nicola, Scheurer, Roman, Bassilios, Bridget, Salom, Caroline and Pirkis, Jane (2018). Systems levers for commissioning primary mental healthcare: A rapid review. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 24 (1), 29-53. doi: 10.1071/PY17030
Parker, Stephen, Dark, Frances, Newman, Ellie, Hanley, Dominic, McKinlay, William and Meurk, Carla (2017). Consumers' understanding and expectations of a community-based recovery-oriented mental health rehabilitation unit: a pragmatic grounded theory analysis. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 28 (04), 1-10. doi: 10.1017/S2045796017000749
Kinchin, Irina, Doran, Christopher M., Hall, Wayne D. and Meurk, Carla (2017). Understanding the true economic impact of self-harming behaviour. Lancet Psychiatry, 4 (12), 900-901. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(17)30411-X
Sharma, Ratika, Alla, Kristel, Pfeffer, Daniel, Meurk, Carla, Ford, Pauline, Kisely, Steve and Gartner, Coral (2017). An appraisal of practice guidelines for smoking cessation in people with severe mental illness. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 51 (11), 1106-1120. doi: 10.1177/0004867417726176
Alla, Kristel , Hall, Wayne D. , Whiteford, Harvey A. , Head, Brian W. and Meurk, Carla S. (2017). How do we define the policy impact of public health research? A systematic review. Health Research Policy and Systems, 15 (84) 84, 84. doi: 10.1186/s12961-017-0247-z
Grace, Francesca C., Meurk, Carla S., Head, Brian W., Hall, Wayne D., Harris, Meredith G. and Whiteford, Harvey A. (2017). An analysis of policy success and failure in formal evaluations of Australia's national mental health strategy (1992-2012). BMC Health Services Research, 17 (1) 374, 374. doi: 10.1186/s12913-017-2309-x
Parker, Stephen, Siskind, Dan and Meurk, Carla (2017). Further reflections on recovery-oriented mental health practice in a community care unit. Journal of Forensic Nursing, 13 (2), 87-88. doi: 10.1097/JFN.0000000000000150
Carah, Nicholas, Meurk, Carla, Males, Matthew and Brown, Jennifer (2017). Emerging social media ‘platform’ approaches to alcohol marketing: a comparative analysis of the activity of the top 20 Australian alcohol brands on Facebook (2012-2014). Critical Public Health, 28 (1), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2017.1282154
Sharma, Ratika, Wigginton, Britta, Meurk, Carla, Ford, Pauline and Gartner, Coral E. (2017). Motivations and limitations associated with vaping among people with mental illness: a qualitative analysis of Reddit discussions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14 (1) 7, 7.1-7.15. doi: 10.3390/ijerph14010007
Whiteford, Harvey A. , Meurk, Carla, Carstensen, Georgia, Hall, Wayne, Hill, Peter and Head, Brian W. (2016). How did youth mental health make it onto Australia’s 2011 federal policy agenda?. Sage Open, 6 (4), 215824401668085. doi: 10.1177/2158244016680855
Carah, Nicholas and Meurk, Carla (2016). We need a media platform perspective on alcohol marketing: a reply to Lobstein et al.. Addiction, 112 (2), 370-370. doi: 10.1111/add.13599
Meurk, Carla, Ford, Pauline, Sharma, Ratika, Fitzgerald, Lisa and Gartner, Coral (2016). Views and preferences for nicotine products as an alternative to smoking: a focus group study of people living with mental disorders. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 13 (11) 1166, 1166. doi: 10.3390/ijerph13111166
Parker, Stephen, Dark, Frances, Newman, Ellie, Korman, Nicole, Rasmussen, Zoe and Meurk, Carla (2016). Reality of working in a community-based, recovery-oriented mental health rehabilitation unit: A pragmatic grounded theory analysis. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 26 (4), 355-365. doi: 10.1111/inm.12251
Parker, Stephen, Dark, Frances, Newman, Ellie, Korman, Nicole, Meurk, Carla, Siskind, Dan and Harris, Meredith (2016). Longitudinal comparative evaluation of the equivalence of an integrated peer-support and clinical staffing model for residential mental health rehabilitation: a mixed methods protocol incorporating multiple stakeholder perspectives. BMC Psychiatry, 16 (1) 179, 179. doi: 10.1186/s12888-016-0882-x
Meurk, Carla, Morphett, Kylie, Carter, Adrian, Weier, Megan, Lucke, Jayne and Hall, Wayne (2016). Scepticism and hope in a complex predicament: people with addictions deliberate about neuroscience. International Journal of Drug Policy, 32, 34-43. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.03.004
Sharma, Ratika, Lucas, Maya, Ford, Pauline, Meurk, Carla and Gartner, Coral E. (2016). YouTube as a source of quit smoking information for people living with mental illness. Tobacco Control, 25 (6), 634-637. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052713
Meurk, Carla (2016). Review: "Good science: the ethical choreography of stem cell research", by Charis Thompson. New Genetics and Society, 35 (2), 219-221. doi: 10.1080/14636778.2014.970630
Meurk, Carla, Leung, Janni, Hall, Wayne, Head, Brian W. and Whiteford, Harvey (2016). Establishing and governing e-mental health care in Australia: A systematic review of challenges and a call for policy-focussed research. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 18 (1) e10, e10. doi: 10.2196/jmir.4827
Grace, Francesca C., Meurk, Carla S., Head, Brian W., Hall, Wayne D., Carstensen, Georgia, Harris, Meredith G. and Whiteford, Harvey A. (2015). An analysis of policy levers used to implement mental health reform in Australia 1992-2012. BMC Health Services Research, 15 (479) 479, 1-11. doi: 10.1186/s12913-015-1142-3
Diminic, S., Carstensen, G., Harris, M.G., Reavley, N., Pirkis, J., Meurk, C., Wong, I., Bassilios, B. and Whiteford, H.A. (2015). Intersectoral policy for severe and persistent mental illness: review of approaches in a sample of high income countries. Global Mental Health, 2 e18, e18. doi: 10.1017/gmh.2015.16
Carah, Nicholas, Meurk, Carla and Angus, Daniel (2015). Online self-expression and experimentation as ‘reflectivism’: using text analytics to examine the participatory forum Hello Sunday Morning. Health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine, 21 (2), 1-17. doi: 10.1177/1363459315596799
Meurk, Carla, Whiteford, Harvey, Head, Brian, Hall, Wayne and Carah, Nicholas (2015). Media and evidence-informed policy development: the case of mental health in Australia. Contemporary Social Science, 10 (2), 160-170. doi: 10.1080/21582041.2015.1053970
Meurk, Carla (2015). Contesting death: Conservation, heritage and pig killing in far North Queensland, Australia. Environmental Values, 24 (1), 79-104. doi: 10.3197/096327115X14183182353827
Carah, Nicholas, Carla Meurk and Hall, Wayne Denis (2015). Profiling Hello Sunday Morning: who are the participants?. International Journal of Drug Policy, 26 (2), 214-216. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.07.019
Meurk, Carla, Fraser, Doug, Weier, Megan, Lucke, Jayne, Carter, Adrian and Hall, Wayne (2015). Assessing the place of neurobiological explanations in accounts of a family member's addiction. Drug and Alcohol Review, 35 (4), 461-469. doi: 10.1111/dar.12318
Meurk, Carla, Carter, Adrian, Partridge, Brad, Lucke, Jayne and Hall, Wayne (2014). How is acceptance of the brain disease model of addiction related to Australians' attitudes towards addicted individuals and treatments for addiction?. BMC Psychiatry, 14 (1) 373, 373. doi: 10.1186/s12888-014-0373-x
Lee, Yong Yi, Meurk, Carla S., Harris, Meredith, Diminic, Sandra, Scheurer, Roman W. and Whiteford, Harvey A. (2014). Developing a service platform definition to promote evidence-based planning and funding of the mental health service system. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11 (12), 12261-12282. doi: 10.3390/ijerph111212261
Meurk, Carla, Hall, Wayne, Carter, Adrian and Chenery, Helen (2014). Collecting real-time data from substance users raises unique legal and ethical issues: reply to Kuntsche & Labhart. Addiction, 109 (10), 1760-1760. doi: 10.1111/add.12640
Meurk, Carla S, Broom, Alex, Adams, Jon, Hall, Wayne and Lucke, Jayne (2014). Factors influencing women's decisions to drink alcohol during pregnancy: Findings of a qualitative study with implications for health communication. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 14 (1) 246, 246. doi: 10.1186/1471-2393-14-246
Meurk, Carla, Partridge, Brad, Carter, Adrian, Hall, Wayne, Morphett, Kylie and Lucke, Jayne (2014). Public attitudes in Australia towards the claim that addiction is a (brain) disease. Drug and Alcohol Review, 33 (3), 272-279. doi: 10.1111/dar.12115
Meurk, Carla, Broom, Alex and Adams, Jon (2014). Relative bodies of knowledge: therapeutic dualism and maternal-foetal individuation. Social Theory and Health, 12 (2), 159-178. doi: 10.1057/sth.2013.26
Meurk, Carla, Carter, Adrian, Hall, Wayne and Lucke, Jayne (2014). Public understandings of addiction: where do neurobiological explanations fit?. Neuroethics, 7 (1), 51-62. doi: 10.1007/s12152-013-9180-1
Meurk, Carla, Lucke, Jayne and Hall, Wayne (2014). A bio-social and ethical framework for understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. Neuroethics, 7 (3), 337-344. doi: 10.1007/s12152-014-9207-2
Meurk, Carla (2014). The econo-techno-social design of invasive animal management: costs and benefits or beneficiaries and benefactors?. Australian Geographer, 45 (1), 37-52. doi: 10.1080/00049182.2014.869295
Meurk, Carla, Hall, Wayne, Morphett, Kylie, Carter, Adrian and Lucke, Jayne (2013). What does 'acceptance' mean? Public reflections on the idea that addiction is a brain disease. BioSocieties, 8 (4), 491-506. doi: 10.1057/biosoc.2013.24
Lee, Natalia M., Lucke, Jayne, Hall, Wayne D., Meurk, Carla, Boyle, Frances M. and Carter, Adrian (2013). Public views on food addiction and obesity: implications for policy and treatment. PLoS One, 8 (9) e74836, e74836.1-e74836.8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074836
Morphett, Kylie, Lucke, Jayne, Gartner, Coral, Carter, Adrian, Meurk, Carla and Hall, Wayne (2013). Public attitudes toward the treatment of nicotine addiction. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 15 (9), 1617-1622. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntt037
Broom, Alex, Meurk, Carla, Adams, Jon and Sibbritt, David (2013). Networks of knowledge or just old wives' tales?: a diary-based analysis of women's self-care practices and everyday lay expertise. Health, 18 (4), 335-351. doi: 10.1177/1363459313497610
Cheshire, Lynda, Meurk, Carla and Woods, Michael (2013). Decoupling farm, farming and place: recombinant attachments of globally engaged family farmers. Journal of Rural Studies, 30, 64-74. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.11.005
Meurk, Carla, Broom, Alex, Adams, Jon and Sibbritt, David (2013). Rurality, mobility, identity: women's use of complementary and alternative medicine in rural Australia. Health & Place, 20, 75-80. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.12.005
Morphett, Kylie and Meurk, Carla (2013). The "Brain Disease" Concept in Addiction: A Cause for Ambivalence, Not Concern. AJOB Neuroscience, 4 (3), 48-50. doi: 10.1080/21507740.2013.806377
Trigger, David, Forsey, Martin and Meurk, Carla (2012). Revelatory moments in fieldwork. Qualitative Research, 12 (5), 513-527. doi: 10.1177/1468794112446049
Broom, Alex, Meurk, Carla, Adams, Jon and Sibbritt, David (2012). My health, my responsibility? complementary medicine and self (health) care. Journal of Sociology, 50 (4), 515-530. doi: 10.1177/1440783312467098
Meurk, Carla, Broom, Alex, Adams, Jon and Sibbritt, David (2012). Bodies of knowledge: nature, holism and women’s plural health practices. Health, 17 (3), 300-318. doi: 10.1177/1363459312447258
Conference Papers
Comben, Charlotte, Rutherford, Zoe, Meurk, Carla and Diminic, Sandra (2024). Development of a forensic mental health service planning model in Australia. EPA Section of Epidemiology & Social Psychiatry 2024 Congress, Lausanne, Switzerland, 11-14 September 2024.
Wallace, D., Meurk, C., Moss, A. and Heffernan, E. (2023). THE AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH (ADFCMH) SECOND OPINION CLINIC: FIRST 200 PATIENTS (2011-2021). LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD.
Moss, K., Meurk, C., Steele, M. L. and Heffernan, E. (2023). The physical health and activity of individuals under inpatient forensic mental health care: a national survey. RANZCP 2023 Congress, Perth, WA Australia, 28 May-1 June 2024. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications.
Heffernan, E., Watson, M., Meurk, C., Wittenhagen, L., Williams, M., Dale, P., Fletcher, R. Hird and Harden, S. (2023). The Need To Rethink Mental Health Care For Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Youth In Detention. RANZCP 2023 Congress, Perth, WA Australia, 28 May - 1 June 2023. London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications.
Heffernan, E., Meurk, C., Wallace, D., Lam, M., Wittenhagen, L., Mckay, D., Lane, J. and Khoo, A. (2023). Suicidality Among Current And Ex-serving Members In Contact With The Queensland Police Service. RANZCP 2023 Congress, Perth, WA Australia, 28 May - 1 June 2023. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD.
Comben, Charlotte, John, Julie, Rutherford, Zoe, Meurk, Carla and Diminic, Sandra (2023). Defining the types and intensity of services required by discrete population groups within specialist forensic mental health settings. IAFMHS Annual Conference 2023, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 20 - 22 June 2023. Burnaby, BC, Canada: International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services.
Comben, C., John, J., Rutherford, Z., Meurk, C. and Diminic, S. (2022). Defining the types and intensity of services required by discrete population groups within specialist forensic mental health settings. 12th Health Services Research Conference, Sydney, NSW Australia, 30 November- 2 December 2022.
Meurk, Carla, Ferris, Laura J., Wittenhagen, L., Davidson, F., Steele, M., Waterson, E., Bosley, E., Edwards, B. and Heffernan, E. (2020). Partners in Prevention: Understanding and enhancing first responses to suicide crisis situations - Context and methods. TheMHS, Brisbane, Queensland, 27-30 August . Australia: TheMHS Learning Network.
Parker, S., Dark, F. and Meurk, C. (2019). What do consumers want from residential mental health rehabilitation: a qualitative analysis. RANZCP 2019 Congress, Cairns, QLD Australia, 12–16 May 2019. London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications.
Moss, K., Heffernan, E., Meurk, C. and Steele, M. (2019). Physical health and mental illness: can implementation science assist in addressing the needs of forensic patients in secure facilities?. RANZCP 2019 Congress, Cairns, QLD Australia, 12–16 May 2019. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications. doi: 10.1177/0004867419836919
Heffernan, E., Meurk, C., Waterson, E. and Steele, M. (2019). Partnering with police to improve outcomes in mental health crisis situations. RANZCP 2019 Congress, Cairns, Australia, 12–16 May 2019. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications. doi: 10.1177/0004867419836919
Moss, K., Heffernan, E., Meurk, C. and Steele, M. (2019). The physical health, activity and activation measures of patients with severe mental illness residing in a secure facility. RANZCP 2019 Congress, Cairns, QLD Australia, 12–16 May 2019. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications. doi: 10.1177/0004867419836919
Ahmadzada, Sanam, Charlson, Fiona and Meurk, Carla (2018). Mental health, associated stigma and help seeking behaviour among the Afghan community in Australia. WMHHS Research Day 2018, Ipswich Hospital, 6 September 2018.
Gartner, Coral Elizabeth, Bell, Stephanie Kate, Sharma Ratika, Meurk, Carla, Judith Dean, Charles Gilks and Boyd, Mark (2017). Health practitioners' attitudes toward tobacco harm reduction approaches for smokers from priority populations with co-morbidities.. Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting., Florence, Italy, 8-11 March 2017.
Sharma, Ratika, Wigginton, Britta, Meurk, Carla, Ford, Pauline and Gartner, Coral Elizabeth (2017). “Vaping not only saved my life, but freed me from a cage": A qualitative analysis of social media discussions about motivations for and barriers to smokers with mental illness switching to e-cigarettes. Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting, Florence, Italy, 8-11 March 2017.
Sharma, Ratika, Alla, Kristel, Daniel Pfeffer, Meurk, Carla, Ford, Pauline, Kisely, Steve and Gartner, Coral Elizabeth (2017). Assessing practice guidelines for smoking cessation in severe mental illness: an AGREE II appraisal. Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting, Florence, Italy, 8-11 March 2017.
Sharma, Ratika, Meurk, Carla, Bell, Stephanie Kate, Ford, Pauline and Gartner, Coral Elizabeth (2017). Australian health practitioners’ adherence to the 5A’s of smoking cessation and barriers to delivering smoking cessation assistance to smokers with severe mental illness. Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting, Florence, Italy, 8-11 March 2017.
Meurk, C., Harris, M., Wright, Eryn, Reavley, Nicola, Scheurer, R. W., Bassilios, Bridget, Salom, Caroline and Pirkis, Jane (2017). Systems levers for Primary Health Networks: a conceptual framework. 10th Health Services and Policy Research Conference, Gold Coast , Queensland, Australia,, 1-3 November 2017.
Meurk, C., Grace, F., Head, B., Hall, W., Harris, M. and Whiteford, H. (2017). Evaluating the success and failure of national policy reform: an analysis of formal evaluations of Australia’s National Mental Health strategy (1992-2012). Australasian Evaluation Society, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 5-7 September 2017.
Parker, S., Dark, F., Newman, E., Korman, N. and Meurk, C. (2016). What Do Consumers Expect of Community-Based Residential Mental Health Rehabilitation Services? a Qualitative Analysis. 2016 International RANZCP Congress of Psychiatry, Hong Kong, 8-12 May 2016. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD.
Parker, S., Korman, N., Rasmussen, Z., Doyle, C., Dark, F., Newman, E. and Meurk, C. (2016). The Challenge of Delivering Recovery-Oriented Residential Rehabilitation Care: a Qualitative Analysis. 2016 International RANZCP Congress of Psychiatry, Hong Kong, 8-12 May 2016. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD.
Wright, E., Leitch, E., Harris, M., Meurk, C. and Whiteford, H. (2016). What is the current evidence on low intensity mental health interventions? Implications for developing a stepped care service model . Society for Mental Health Research, Sydney, Australia, 7-9 December 2016.
Meurk, Carla, Keane, Helen, Fraser, Suzanne, Madden, Annie, Morphett, Kylie, Fraser, Doug, Carter, Adrian, Lucke, Jayne and Hall, Wayne D. (2014). Neuroscientific Accounts of Addiction: Social and Ethical Dimensions. Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs Conference 2014, Adelaide, SA Australia, 9-12 November 2014. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/dar.12222
Meurk, Carla, Morphett, Kylie, Fraser, Doug, Carter, Adrian, Lucke, Jayne and Hall, Wayne D. (2014). Is knowing about neurobiology helpful to those affected by addiction? Perspectives of drug dependent persons and their families. Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs Conference 2014, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 9-12 November, 2014. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/dar.12222
Meurk, Carla, Carter, Adrian, Lucke, Jayne, Partridge, Brad, Morphett, Kylie and Hall, Wayne (2013). How has neurobiology affected public perceptions of addiction? Review of a mixed methods study. Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs Conference 2013, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 24-27 November 2013. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1111/dar.12077
Morphett, Kylie A., Lucke, Jayne C., Gartner, Coral E., Carter, Adrian, Meurk, Carla S. and Hall, Wayne D. (2013). Public attitudes towards the treatment of nicotine addiction. 2013 SRNT 19th Annual International Meeting, Boston, MA United States, 13-16 March 2013.
Carter, Adrian, Meurk, Carla, Morphett, Kylie and Keane, Helen (2013). The Brain Disease Model of Addiction: Attitudes and Implications. Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs (APSAD) conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 24 - 27 November 1013. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.. doi: 10.1111/dar.12077
Meurk, C. S., Brown, J. A. and Reale, M. (2007). Graphical modeling of ecological time series data. MODSIM 2007: International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Christchurch, New Zealand, 10-13 December 2007. Christchurch, New Zealand: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand.
Thesis
Carla Meurk (2011). Loving Nature, Killing Nature, and the Crises of Caring: An Anthropological Investigation of Conflicts Affecting Feral Pig Management in Queensland, Australia. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.
Research Reports
Meurk, Carla, Steele, Megan, Yap, Lorraine, Jones, Jocelyn, Heffernan, Ed, Davison, Sophie, Nathan, Sally, Donovan, Basil, Sullivan, Lisa, Schess, Jaclyn, Harden, Scott, Ton, Bianca and Butler, Tony (2019). Changing direction: mental health needs of justice-involved young people in Australia. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Kirby Institute, UNSW.
Gossip, Kate, Diminic, Sandra, Leitch, Elizabeth, Wright, Eryn, Meurk, Carla, Harris, Meredith, Fjeldsoe, Kevin and Whiteford, Harvey (2017). Supporting Primary Health Networks to implement stepped care for mental health planning - June 2017. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Leitch, Elizabeth, Wright, Eryn, Harris, Meredith, Meurk, Carla and Whiteford, Harvey (2016). Implementing a Stepped Care approach to mental health services within Australian Primary Health Networks: Report to the Department of Health. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland; Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research : Policy and Economics Group.
Whiteford, Harvey, Leung, Janni, Wong, Ides, Meurk, Carla, Harris, Meredith, Diminic, Sandra, Fjeldsoe, Kevin, Lee, Yong Yi and Leitch, Elizabeth (2015). A systems approach to mental health service planning: final report. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.