- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Family Support in Illness
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Language Development and Disorders
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
2025
University College London
2016-2021
University of Cambridge
2017
University of Oxford
2016
University of Manchester
2016
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
2016
Warneford Hospital
2016
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
2016
Brown University
2016
Background Persecutory delusions may be unfounded threat beliefs maintained by safety-seeking behaviours that prevent disconfirmatory evidence being successfully processed. Use of virtual reality could facilitate new learning. Aims To test the hypothesis enabling patients to predictions persecutory in social environments with dropping (virtual cognitive therapy) would lead greater delusion reduction than exposure alone exposure). Method Conviction and distress a real-world situation were...
Background: Leaving the care system heightens vulnerability of experienced young people (CEYP), and all-too-often signals a cliff-edge in support. There is lack evidence-based psychological interventions for CEYP they face numerous challenges accessing what available. Objectives: This study explored feasibility, accessibility, acceptability, outcomes novel intervention – DISCOVER “Getting Life You Want” (GtLYW) that has been developed with aged 16–19. GtLYW rooted theory coaches skills to...
Background: Many patients do not respond adequately to current pharmacological or psychological treatments for psychosis. Persistent persecutory delusions are common in clinical services, and cause considerable patient distress impairment. Our aim has been build a new translational personalized treatment, with the potential wide use, that leads high rates of recovery persistent delusions. We have developing, evaluating individually, brief modular interventions, each targeting key causal...
ABSTRACT This study evaluated the ability for two rhythmic rhyming programs to raise phonological awareness in early literacy classroom. Year 1 (5–6‐year‐olds) from low socioeconomic status schools Bedfordshire, learned a program of sung or spoken rhymes, acted as controls. The project ran with independent cohorts (Cohort N = 98, Cohort 2 136). Program‐related gains pre‐ post‐tests (Rhyme Detection, Rhyme Production, and Phoneme Deletion), were statistically significant exception Detection...