Clinical Psychology Unit - Key Publications & Grant Awards

Below is a selection of key recent output from our course team, as well as a list of key grant awards. Full details of staff research output can be found via individual staff pages.

Recent Key Publications by the Programme Team

Below is a list of the key recent publications produced by the course team and trainees - staff in bold; * indicates DClin Psy Trainee/PhD student.

Brown A, Mountford V & Waller G (2013) Therapeutic alliance and weight gain during cognitive behavioural therapy for anorexia nervosa. Behav Res Ther, 51(4-5), 216-220.

Kellett S, Bennett D, Ryle T & Thake A (2013) Cognitive analytic therapy for borderline personality disorder: therapist competence and therapeutic effectiveness in routine practice. Clin Psychol Psychother, 20(3), 216-225.

Kellett S & Hardy G (2013) Treatment of Paranoid Personality Disorder with Cognitive Analytic Therapy: A Mixed Methods Single Case Experimental Design. Clin Psychol Psychother.

Kellett S, Purdie F, Bickerstaffe D, Hopper S & Scott S (2013) Predicting return to work from health related welfare following low intensity cognitive behaviour therapy. Behav Res Ther, 51(3), 134-141.

Mukuria C, Brazier J, Barkham M, Connell J, Hardy GE, Hutten R, Saxon D, Dent-Brown K & Parry G (2013) Cost-effectiveness of an improving access to psychological therapies service. Br J Psychiatry, 202(3), 220-227.

Nicoll M*, Beail N & Saxon D (2013) Cognitive Behavioural Treatment for Anger in Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 26(1), 47-62.

Rowse G, McCarthy-Jones S, Knowles R, Corcoran R & Bentall RP (2013) Attributional Style and Theory of Mind in People With Alzheimer Disease and Persecutory Delusions. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry.

Berry L-M & Laskey B (2012) A review of obsessive intrusive thoughts in the general population. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 1(2), 125-132.

Lavda AC, Webb TL & Thompson AR (2012) A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of psychological interventions for adults with skin conditions. Br J Dermatol, 167(5), 970-979.

McCarthy-Jones S, Knowles R & Rowse G (2012) More than words? Hypomanic personality traits, visual imagery and verbal thought in young adults. Conscious Cogn, 21(3), 1375-1381.

Ralfs S* & Beail N (2012) Assessing components of empathy in sex-offenders with intellectual disabilities. J Appl Res Intellect Disabil, 25(1), 50-59.

Saxon D & Barkham M (2012) Patterns of therapist variability: therapist effects and the contribution of patient severity and risk. J Consult Clin Psychol, 80(4), 535-546.

Thornhill K*, Kellett S & Davies J (2012) Heterogeneity within compulsive buyers: a Q-sort study. Psychol Psychother, 85(2), 229-241.

Waller G, Stringer H & Meyer C (2012) What cognitive behavioral techniques do therapists report using when delivering cognitive behavioral therapy for the eating disorders? J Consult Clin Psychol, 80(1), 171-175.

Knowles R, McCarthy-Jones S & Rowse G (2011) Grandiose delusions: A review and theoretical integration of cognitive and affective perspectives. Clinical Psychology Review, 31(4), 684-696.

Mavranezouli I, Brazier JE, Young TA & Barkham M (2011) Using rasch analysis to form plausible health states amenable to valuation: The development of CORE-6D from a measure of common mental health problems (CORE-OM). Quality of Life Research, 20(3), 321-333.

Rayner K*, Thompson AR & Walsh S (2011) Clients' experience of the process of change in cognitive analytic therapy. Psychol Psychother-T, 84, 299-313.

Berry LM, May J, Andrade J & Kavanagh D (2010) Emotional and behavioral reaction to intrusive thoughts. Assessment, 17(1), 126-137.

Houghton S, Saxon D, Bradburn M, Ricketts T & Hardy GE (2010) The effectiveness of routinely delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a benchmarking study. Br J Clin Psychol, 49(Pt 4), 473-489.

May J, Andrade J, Batey H, Berry L-M & Kavanagh DJ (2010) Less food for thought. Impact of attentional instructions on intrusive thoughts about snack foods. Appetite, 55(2), 279-287.

Sheeran P, Thompson AR & Palayiwa A* (2010) Words will never hurt me": Implementation Intentions Regulate Attention to Stigmatising Comments about Appearance. Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology, 575-598.

Thompson AR, Clarke SA, Newell RJ, Gawkrodger DJ & Appearance Research Collaboration (ARC) (2010) Vitiligo linked to stigmatization in British South Asian women: a qualitative study of the experiences of living with vitiligo. Br J Dermatol, 163(3), 481-486.

Webb TL, Ononaiye MS, Sheeran P, Reidy JG & Lavda A (2010) Using implementation intentions to overcome the effects of social anxiety on attention and appraisals of performance. Pers Soc Psychol Bull, 36(5), 612-627.

Bentall RP, Rowse G, Shryane N, Kinderman P, Howard R, Blackwood N, Moore R & Corcoran R (2009) The Cognitive and Affective Structure of Paranoid Delusions: A Transdiagnostic Investigation of Patients With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders and Depression. ARCH GEN PSYCHIAT, 66(3), 236-247.

Bugg A, Turpin G, Mason S & Scholes C (2009) A randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of writing as a self-help intervention for traumatic injury patients at risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder. Behav Res Ther, 47(1), 6-12.

Goodridge D & Hardy GE (2009) Patterns of change in psychotherapy: an investigation of sudden gains in cognitive therapy using the assimilation model. Psychother Res, 19(1), 114-123.

Lilley SA, Andrade J, Turpin G, Sabin-Farrell R & Holmes EA (2009) Visuospatial working memory interference with recollections of trauma. Br J Clin Psychol, 48, 309-321.

Waller G (2009) Evidence-based treatment and therapist drift. Behav Res Ther, 47(2), 119-127.

Johnson H & Thompson AR (2008) The Development and Maintenance of Post. Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in civilian adult survivors of war trauma and torture: A review. Clinical Psychology Review, 36-47.

Pallister E & Waller G (2008) Anxiety in the eating disorders: understanding the overlap. Clin Psychol Rev, 28(3), 366-386.

Stiles WB, Barkham M, Mellor-Clark J & Connell J (2008) Effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural, person-centred, and psychodynamic therapies in UK primary-care routine practice: replication in a larger sample. Psychol Med, 38(5), 677-688.

Totterdell P & Kellett S (2008) Restructuring mood in cyclothymia using cognitive behavior therapy: an intensive time-sampling study. J Clin Psychol, 64(4), 501-518.

Beail N, Newman DW, Kellett S & Warden S (2007) The dose-effect relationship in psychodynamic psychotherapy with people with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 20(5), 448-454.

Berry LM, Andrade J & May J (2007) Hunger-related intrusive thoughts reflect increased accessibility of food items. Cognition Emotion, 21(4), 865-878.

Saatsi S, Hardy GE & Cahill J (2007) Predictors of outcome and completion status in cognitive therapy for depression. Psychotherapy Research, 17(2), 189-200.

Scholes C, Turpin G & Mason S (2007) A randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of providing self-help information to people with symptoms of acute stress disorder following a traumatic injury. Behav Res Ther, 45(11), 2527-2536.

Barkham M, Connell J, Stiles WB, Miles JN, Margison F, Evans C & Mellor-Clark J (2006) Dose-effect relations and responsive regulation of treatment duration: the good enough level. J Consult Clin Psychol, 74(1), 160-167.

Sabin-Farrell R & Turpin G (2003) Vicarious traumatization: Implications for the mental health of health workers? Clinical Psychology Review, 23(3), 449-480.

Key Recent Grant Awards

• Ayer, T.A., Kellett, S. Developing a stepped-care mood in Primary Care for Long Term Conditions/Medically Unexplained Symptoms: Phase 2 (Awarded 2013). £170,000.

• BACP Research Foundation. Waller, G. (joint applicant). A pragmatic non-inferiority randomised trial of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of counselling for depression versus cognitive-behaviour therapy, for clients in primary care meeting a diagnosis of moderate or severe depression. (Awarded 2013). £449,891.

• British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Foundation (BACP): Barkham, M. (PI), Saxon, D., Bennett, S., Bower, P., Bradburn, M., Brazier, J., Elliott, R., Gabriel, L., Hardy, G.E., Kellett, S., King, M., Pilling, S., Waller, G., & Shaw, S. Pragmatic, Randomised Controlled Trial assessing the non-Inferiority of Counselling and its Effectiveness for Depression (PRaCTICED). (Awarded subject to contract 2013). £449,891.

• Ayer, T.A., Kellett, S. Developing a stepped-care mood in Primary Care for Long Term Conditions/Medically Unexplained Symptoms: Phase 1 (Awarded 2012). £170,000.

• Crohn's & Colitis UK (previously National Association for Crohn's and Colitis UK). Rowse, G., Brooks, A., Norman, P., Nirula, P., & Lobo, A. Adolescents experiences of living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. (Awarded 2012). £65,000.

• NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA): Lovell,K., (PI) Bower, P., Bee, P., Roberts, C., Mottram, P., Lidbetter, N., Barkham, M., Hardy, G.E., Reynolds, S., Gega, L., Gilbody, S., McMillan, D., & Byford, S. Obsessive Compulsive Treatment Efficacy Trial (OCTET). (Awarded 2011). £1,806,152.

• Big Lottery Fund Social Fund. Waller, G. (lead academic applicant, in collaboration with charity). Cognitive behavioural therapy and cognitive analytic therapy for anorexia nervosa (Awarded 2010). £457,000.

• MRC/ESRC Interdisciplinary Research Studentship. Norman, P., Goodacre, S., & Thompson, A. R. Psychological distress and service use among non cardiac chest pain patients. (Awarded 2009). £62,692.

• NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Research and Care. Parry, G., Barkham, M., Hardy, G.E., Ricketts, T., Kendall, T., Barber, R., Houghton, S., Kaltenthaler, M., Brazier, J., Brennan, A., Saxon, D., Coleman, J., Chambers, E., Leach, C., Lucock, M., Dent-Brown, K., Kellett, S. & Hirst, C. Improving Quality and Effectiveness of Self-management, Therapies & Services of longer-term depression (IQuests). (2009-13). £304,926+ £337,229 matched funding.

• NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Research and Care. Parry, G., Barkham, M., Hardy, G.E., Ricketts, T., Kendall, T., Barber, R., Houghton, S., Kaltenthaler, M., Brazier, J., Brennan, A., Saxon, D., Coleman, J., Chambers, E., Leach, C., Lucock, M., Dent-Brown, K., Kellett, S., & Hirst C. Improving Quality and Effectiveness of Self-management, Therapies & Services of longer-term depression (IQuests). (Awarded 2009). £304,926+ £337,229.

• NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB): Parry, G. (PI), Barkham, M., Curran, J., Saxon, D., Chambers, E., & O'Hara, R. Understanding and preventing adverse effects of psychological therapies (AdEPT). (Awarded 2009). £258,535.

• WARP (Women Academic Returners Programme). Rowse, G. (awarded February 2008) £14,000.

• ESRC Collaborative MRes-PhD (CASE) Studentship. Thompson, A. R., (PI), Baker, S., & Gibson, B. (School of Dentistry): Exploring Asian British experience of living with visible disfigurement. (awarded March 2006). £88,504.

• The Healing Foundation. Rumsey, N. (PI) (Bristol), Newell, R. (Bradford), Clarke, A. (Royal Free Hospital, London), Newman, S. (UCL), Moss, T. (UWE), Kent, G. (Sheffield), Thompson, A. R. (Sheffield), Harcourt, D. (UWE), Charlton, R. (Warwick): Identifying factors and processes contributing to successful adjustment to disfiguring conditions in collaboration. (June 2004). £500,000.

• National Treatment Agency, Department of Health. Oliver, P., Keen, J., Rowse, G., Mathers, N., & Dorries, C. A Psychological Autopsy Study of Acute Heroin-related Overdoses. (awarded August 2003). £90,000.