Mimi Suzuki
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Mimi Suzuki is a PhD student at Centre for Mental Health Research, funded by a Doctoral Fellowship from THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute). Her doctoral research examines how mental health practitioners in emergency departments (EDs) make and communicate decisions about aftercare for people presenting with self-harm. Drawing on ethnography, conversation analysis, and longitudinal narrative interviews, her project explores why exclusionary referral practices occur, how they are justified in psychosocial assessments, and the impact these practices have on patients’ journeys through the mental health system.
Her broader research interests include suicide prevention, crisis care, institutional decision-making, lived experience involvement in mental health research, and applying systems and improvement science approaches to complex healthcare challenges.
She is also a Senior Research Assistant for the Assured Study.
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1stsupervisor
- Professor Rose McCabe, Professor of Clinical Communication
2ndsupervisor
- Steve Gillard, Associate Dean Research
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Journal articles (12)
- Suzuki, M., Bakou, A.E., Dove, J. and McCabe, R. (2026). Mental health practitioners’ experiences and practices in making decisions about onward care for patients presenting to emergency departments with self-harm or suicidal ideation: systematic review and meta-synthesis. BJPsych Open, 12(3). doi:10.1192/bjo.2026.11007
- Khudiakova, V., Sin, J., Suzuki, M. and Barnicot, K. (2026). Lived Experience, Family, and Clinician Perspectives on Barriers to Adult Autism Diagnosis and Post-Diagnostic Supports: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities. doi:10.1007/s10882-026-10055-x
- McCabe, R., Suzuki, M., O’Keeffe, S., Walker, N., Hooper, R., Priebe, S.... Bakou, A.E. (2026). Improving outcomes in adult patients who self-harm—evaluating a brief psychological intervention in emergency departments (ASSURED): protocol of a randomised controlled clinical trial. Trials, 27(1). doi:10.1186/s13063-025-09411-7
- Xanthopoulou, P., Suzuki, M., Ryan, M. and McCabe, R. (2026). Mental health practitioners’ views on assessing suicide risk in the emergency department: navigating a challenging assessment process. Journal of Mental Health, 35(1), pp. 44-52. doi:10.1080/09638237.2025.2585205
- O’Keeffe, S., Suzuki, M., Ryan, M., Priebe, S., Byng, R., Simpson, A.... McCabe, R. (2025). Enhanced psychosocial assessment and rapid follow-up care for people presenting to emergency departments with self-harm and/or suicidal ideation: the Assured feasibility study and internal pilot trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 11(1). doi:10.1186/s40814-025-01602-y
- Shah, N., O’Keeffe, S., Hayward, S., Suzuki, M. and McCabe, R. (2024). Re-imagining crisis care: experiences of delivering and receiving the Assured brief psychological intervention for people presenting to Emergency Departments with self-harm. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1271674
- O’Keeffe, S., Suzuki, M. and McCabe, R. (2023). An Ideal-Type Analysis of People’s Perspectives on Care Plans Received from the Emergency Department following a Self-Harm or Suicidal Crisis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(19), pp. 6883-6883. doi:10.3390/ijerph20196883
- Farbstein, D., Lukito, S., Yorke, I., Wilson, E., Crudgington, H., El-Aalem, O.... Ougrin, D. (2022). Risk and protective factors for self-harm and suicide in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. BMJ Open, 12(11), pp. e058297-e058297. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058297
- Chinchani, A.M., Menon, M., Roes, M., Hwang, H., Allen, P., Bell, V.... Woodward, T.S. (2021). Item-specific overlap between hallucinatory experiences and cognition in the general population: A three-step multivariate analysis of international multi-site data. Cortex, 145, pp. 131-144. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2021.08.014
- O'Keeffe, S., Suzuki, M., Ryan, M., Hunter, J. and McCabe, R. (2021). Experiences of care for self-harm in the emergency department: comparison of the perspectives of patients, carers and practitioners. BJPsych Open, 7(5). doi:10.1192/bjo.2021.1006
- Moseley, P., Aleman, A., Allen, P., Bell, V., Bless, J., Bortolon, C.... Fernyhough, C. (2021). Correlates of Hallucinatory Experiences in the General Population: An International Multisite Replication Study. Psychological Science, 32(7), pp. 1024-1037. doi:10.1177/0956797620985832
- Rajabzadeh, V., Burn, E., Sajun, S.Z., Suzuki, M., Bird, V.J. and Priebe, S. (2021). Understanding global mental health: a conceptual review. BMJ Global Health, 6(3), pp. e004631-e004631. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004631