A5015859445- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Ethics in medical practice
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Family Support in Illness
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Diverse Approaches in Healthcare and Education Studies
University of Manchester
2008-2025
Manchester Academic Health Science Centre
2019-2024
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2022
Hull York Medical School
2022
Hudson Institute
2022
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
2021
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
2014-2016
Stepping Hill Hospital
2014-2016
National Health Service
2016
University of Ghana
2016
Anatomy is a discipline that, despite its universal nature, offers limited diversity in terms of representation cadavers, imagery, technology, and models used within teaching. The move toward inclusive curricula has put anatomy education under the microscope, particularly with respect to efforts decolonize curricula. This paper considers challenges opportunities diversify curriculum. Decolonizing will entail addressing ingrained cultures disciplines, such that produces number including:...
SERIES INTRODUCTORY ABSTRACTWidening Access, Participation and SuccessThis AMEE guide series explores three interconnected strategies for widening access, participation, success in medical education. The emphasises the interdependence of these areas as essential to supporting students from entry graduation. Each addresses a specific phase student journey, first steps through enhancing participation during their studies, ultimate success. Aimed at disadvantaged, under-represented, culturally...
Objectives This study aimed to understand the experiences and perceptions of medical students educators regarding barriers facilitators for pursuing clinical academic pathways. Design A qualitative using semistructured interviews focus groups was conducted. reflexive thematic analysis used data analysis. Theoretical snowball sampling approaches were applied participant recruitment. Setting University Manchester NHS Trusts in Greater region. Participants The sample this composed 43...
Working alliance (WA) has been shown to be an important process influencing the success of therapy. The association clients' underlying attachment representations with WA and subsequent therapy increasingly recognized. This study explores between adult representations, specific therapist in patients receiving psychological therapy.Fifty-eight participants due receive were recruited from primary care services. Participants completed self-report measures attachment, WA,...
Clinical environments can be so stressful to medical students as detrimental their learning and well-being. Our intervention, Debrief, integrates through clinical experience with the development of positive coping strategies. Students shared cases experiences during weekly small group classroom discussions, facilitated by general practitioners (from outside current hospital placement), throughout two consecutive 12-week blocks first year. Alongside enquiry-based reasoning learning, we gave a...
The aim of this research was to examine relationships between attachment insecurity and suicidal ideation behaviour. Secondary aims were explore the mediating role emotion dysregulation moderating betrayal trauma in explaining hypothesised relationships.Sixty-five participants with experience completed questionnaire measures assessing security, suicide ideation, regulation, trauma, depressive symptoms hopelessness.A direct relationship found avoidant after controlling for age gender....
Background: To understand why attachment difficulties predispose individuals to suicidal thinking (suicide ideation) and behaviour, a leading cause of death, we need explore the role pertinent psychological mechanisms. Attachment processes are closely linked development mentalisation capabilities, or reflective functioning; ability interpret self other behaviour as an expression mental states. Interventions designed improve have been associated with reduction in yet functioning has not...
There is a growing interest into how attachment theory can inform psychotherapeutic practice with adults. This study aimed to explore group of therapists an in use it their work adult clients. A cross‐sectional qualitative design was adopted. Sampling, data collection and analysis procedures were guided by grounded principles. Semi‐structured telephone interviews conducted 12 from variety training backgrounds. Data coded developed thematic categories. Six primary themes identified describe...
We investigated associations between attachment, psychopathology, quality of life, service utilisation and costs. Twenty-five people with psychosis completed self-report measures use was assessed from case note review. Insecure attachment associated greater psychopathology higher anxious related to independent symptoms.
Abstract Story stem measures are an increasingly popular method for assessing the attachment representations of young children, but little is known their cross‐cultural applicability. This study aimed to characterise in 73 five‐ eight‐year‐old children urban Ghana, West Africa, using Manchester Child Attachment Task (MCAST) test its feasibility, psychometric characteristics and concurrent associations with caregiver‐ teacher‐rated child behaviour, conduct a qualitative thematic analysis...
Abstract A Western worldview pervades the social and psychological study of children. The current employed a story-stem method to qualitatively explore daily family life experiences young Ghanaian primary school children in urban Ghana through their story narratives. recorded narratives 69 5- 8-year-old were elicited presenting stems common child-caregiver scenarios thematically analysed. Five overarching themes identified: routines concerns, interactions, spirituality, death-related fears...
Shame can be a powerfully aversive emotion that is associated with wide variety of mental health difficulties including non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). This study used novel mixed-methods design (Qualitative Experiential Sequence Tracking; QUEST) to investigate the experiences shame in sample individuals who self-injure.Six participants received prompts complete brief online diaries three times per day over period 2 weeks. These captured information about experience negative emotions,...
Background Self‐injurious behaviour (SIB) is among the most serious problems faced by intellectual disability services. It very difficult to treat and can become a chronic problem. Method Information on number of variables was collected through survey service‐users identified as displaying SIBs. Clinical opinion literature review guided selection potential predictors continued SIB. Univariate statistical analyses were used investigate associations between SIB each identified. Variables shown...