Research interests in the Section of Clinical
& Health Psychology are diverse and include current projects on -
- quality of life, including an adaptation
of the World Health Organisation Quality of Life
(WHOQOL) protocol for older adults
- a study of healthy ageing
- the development of a measure for assessing
QOL in children and adolescents
- the adaptation of the WHOQOL for a learning
disabilities population
- study on the efficacy and effectiveness of psychological interventions in bipolar affective disorders
- study on attachment, engagement and recovery in first episode pychosis
- screening for mood disorder in college and university students
The department is currently developing models of
cognition and emotion and their relation to emotional
disorders. Researchers are working on measures
of emotion states in normal and clinical groups
and examining controlled and automatic processes
in emotion. Psychological therapies and their
adaptation for use in primary care settings and
with non-traditional disorder groups is being
explored - as is neuropsychology of sexual and
violent offending, psychopathy and psychosis.
Other areas of research include an examination
of the outcomes following long-term head and brain
injury, psychosis with an emphasis on early interventions
and emotional dysfunction, and the relationship
between psycho-social and cognitive factors in
psychological models of severe and enduring disorder
groups, including the onset of severe mental health
problems with regard to developmental models of
psychiatric disorders and the advancement of specific
clinical interventions.
Academic staff are also involved in supervising
DClinPsychol research projects, a sample of which
can be viewed in our 2008
thesis abstracts booklet.
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