Previous thesis topics

Last Updated on 08/08/2024

Graduating year 2023

Aimee Hogan
Measurement of teamwork and predictors of intention to leave in mental health teams

Beth Parker
Psychological factors in the wellbeing of first responder populations

Clare Rooney
The relationship between family expressed emotion (EE) and caregiver burden in stroke and acquired brain injury

Emily Rothwell
Factors associated with caregivers’ responses to individuals affected by eating disorders

Faromarz Nasiri
Exploring the experiences and perspectives of using mental health apps

Haakon Juul
What works? A grounded theory investigation into the impact of non-specialist staff using Solution-Focused Brief Therapy following brief training

Hannah Riley
Health visitors’ experiences of assessing perinatal mental health and psychotic like experiences in new mothers: A thematic analysis.

Hollie Cooper
Experiences of living with Huntington’s disease

Jess Hughes
Living well with functional neurological disorder

Katie Knott
Psychological safety: Exploring NHS organisational factors and the experiences of operating theatre teams

Laura Walker
Self-concept clarity and trauma

Megan Hawkes
The role of self-compassion in neurological conditions

Molly Rhinehart
Clinical psychologists’ experiences of negotiating dual identities as mental health service users and service providers

Molly Turgoose
Women’s experiences of psychosis in the perinatal period: Exploring the perspectives of couples and midwives

Nicole Thordarson
Striving for trauma-informed organisations: What it takes to take the lead

Rania-Nikoletta Malouta
Experiences of limb difference: Psychological entailments and support

Rosa Pitts
Homelessness, mental health and psychologically informed environments: Qualitative exploration with people experiencing homelessness and staff

Rosie Austin
The psychological processes underlying a trauma-informed approach in primary schools: The perspectives of leaders

Ruth Hirst
A case study of a spousal caregiver’s experiences during the Covid 19 pandemic for a partner who has had a stroke: Identifying implications for psychological support.

Sarah Hilton
Qualitative analyses of perinatal experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic

Serena Hannah
Experiences of trainee clinical psychologists and workplace supervisors when mental health difficulties are shared

Sharon Sandhu
The experiences of staff working with vulnerable populations: Racism, power, and psychological impact: A qualitative analysis

Steph Walsh
Psychological distress and socioeconomic status. A consideration of associated factors

Steven Sulej
“We’re here for these kids, but we’re here for each other as well”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of residential staff members’ experiences of managing self-harm with care-experienced young people.

Suzy Berry
The moral distress and post-traumatic growth of the ambulance workforce: A systematic review and meta-synthesis

Vicky Barnett
Self-concept clarity, body image and restrictive eating disorders

Will de Gaunza
Mental health and Deafness – factors associated with psychological well-being and symptom presentation in Deaf populations

Graduating year 2022

Rosie Ainsworth
A sense of belonging: Childhood abuse, intolerance of uncertainty and bipolar disorder

Cerys Bailey
A qualitative exploration of emergency practitioner’s perspectives towards functional seizures and self-harm behaviours

Gina Bannister
Emotion regulation and psychological mechanisms in parenthood

Fiona Boyd
The qualitative explorations of mental health in rural adolescents and UK sheep farmers

Julieanne Briones
The relationships between the flows of compassion and job-related affective wellbeing in helpline volunteers

Amy Burgess
Fathers experiences of perinatal loss

Hayley Butler
How people make sense of their partner’s cognitive and emotional difficulties following acquired brain injury

Aimee Cairns
Telehealth imagery focused therapy for people with delusions

Sophie Cochrane
A qualitative exploration of communication impairment following stroke

Rachel D’Sa
The experiences of staff who support people with intellectual disabilities

Shannon Dandy
Parenting a child with congenital heart disease: Experiences of diagnosis, identity and parental role

Claire Evans
Neurodevelopmental disorders and the journey to diagnosis: An exploration of adults’ experiences 

Emily Goodman
Working on the frontline of public service

Samantha Harpur
The experience of psychological care for women with endometriosis

Heather Havlin
A qualitative exploration of limb loss

Mike Heyes
Influences on worker’s role with children in residential settings: A grounded theory

Sophie Holding
Understanding the barriers and enablers to escaping homelessness throughout the pathway to rough sleeping

Michaela Lagdon
Issues in acute psychiatric inpatient services: staff experiences of suicide and risk-assessments

Emma Mellor
The experience of eating difficulties for individuals with inflammatory bowel disease

Corinna Milroy
Factors associated with the mental wellbeing of medical professionals

Holly Riches
Team formulation: A qualitative exploration of service users’ views

Tom Speight
Team formulation for foster carers: A qualitative analysis

Laura Williams
Measurement and impact of childhood bullying experiences

Becky Wright
Professional quality of life and wellbeing with mental health professionals

Graduating year 2021

Sara Asensio Cruz
The experiences of men who self-harm: A qualitative analysis

Johanna Barraclough
Caregivers’ engagement with online support

Sylwia Bazydlo
Functional movement disorders: Exploring lived experiences and psychological interventions

Jessica Creighton
Self-esteem and wellbeing in Deaf adults

Susan Doak
The influence of individual and social factors on attitudes and stigma towards Deaf people

Nina Fernandes
Multidisciplinary team perspectives of borderline personality disorder and clinicians’ experiences of support

Ciaran Foley
Exploring the experience of stigma in functional neurological disorder and mindfulness for functional seizures

Helen Gowling
Psychological factors associated with distress and wellbeing in dystonia

Sophie Green
How does receiving a personality disorder diagnosis affect wellbeing? A grounded theory investigation

Gemma Hayes
The role of self-concept clarity in adult attachment, adverse childhood experiences and psychotic like experiences

Nina Hewitson
A qualitative study of the experiences of moving on from a non-residential democratic therapeutic community

Rebecca Mayor
A meta-synthesis of stigma in epilepsy and an empirical exploration of self-disgust in epilepsy

Amy Nickson
Social psychological factors in healthcare engagement

Adam Pitt
Democratic therapeutic communities and the experience of belongingness: A qualitative exploration

Emily Retkiewicz
Healthcare professionals’ capacity for compassion and interactions with people diagnosed with eating disorders

Thomas Rozwaha
“Like working on the battlefield”: Experiences of nurses during emerging infectious disease epidemics

David Saddington
Burnout and retention among psychological practitioners: A qualitative investigation into the influence of organisational factors

Jess Smith
A qualitative exploration of the impact of persistent pain

Tom Speight
Team formulation for foster carers: A qualitative analysis

Amy Tomlinson
Narratives of voice hearing and mental health

Rosie Wheeler
Clinical psychologists’ use of reflection within their clinical work

Gina Wieringa
The experience of living with a neurodegenerative condition

Debbie Wood
Examining the caregiver-child dynamic on youth disclosure of transgender identity

Natalie Yau
Autistic adults’ experiences of psychological therapy and wellbeing: A qualitative analysis

Graduating year 2020

Jenni Benkoff
Emotional experiences in emergency ambulance services

Amy Brown
Impact of obstructive sleep apnoea and experiences of using positive airway

Helena Coleman
The impact on emotional well-being: Experiences of being a palliative care volunteer

Claire Downs
The paradox of forensic care: Supporting sexual offenders

Emma Fowler
Using an assessment tool to support capacity assessments undertaken remotely in the context of a global health crisis: A feasibility study

Hannah Gordon
The experience of body image for people with a left ventricular assist device

Sophie Harrison
The “sub-culture” created through austere measures: Understanding the cycle to break it

Chris Hunt
Experiences of therapy in a gender and sexually diverse world

Natalie Leigh
The influence of a lack of social support and perceived stigma for individuals with multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease

Lily Lewis
Self-conscious emotions amongst survivors of trauma

Melissa Longworth
Self-compassion and coping in chronic illness groups

Sam Mellor
Exploring staff experiences of therapeutic relationships and team formulation in forensic mental health services

Rohan Morris
Assessing the relationships people have with their voices

Lindsay Prescott
Associations between illness perceptions, self-criticism, self-reassurance and recovery outcomes following traumatic brain injury

Laura-Jayne Richardson
A qualitative exploration of emotional expression for healthcare professionals working within end-of-life

Hayley Slater
Experiences of psychological distress, uncertainty and coping amongst people with cancer

Lizzy Steyert
Young people’s experiences of abuse and conflict within their intimate partner relationships

Charlotte Thompson
Social Justice is the best therapy: Exploring lived-experiences of welfare reform on the United Kingdom

John Timney
Stigma, fear of compassion and chronic pain

Graduating year 2019

Cormac Duffy
An exploration of the neuropsychological needs of individuals experiencing homelessness

Sana Gill
Acknowledging the unseen: Muslim practitioners’ understandings and processes of alleviating emotional distress with British Muslims

Kristian Glenny
The experience of professionals working with children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviours

Kathryn Hughes
Disordered eating and the relationships with post-traumatic stress, self criticism and fear of compassion

Melissa Leigh
Living well with an acquired visual impairment: A narrative analysis

Gemma Parry
Veterans experiences of reintegration and successfully managing post-traumatic stress

Phaedra Robinson
Self-harm and suicidality among lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans youth: The role of school-based connectedness

Jessica Sheffield
Experiences of supporting organ transplant recipients

Natalie Sowter
Cognition, compassion and wellbeing among people with Parkinson’s

Catrina Stansfield
Psychological factors influencing women’s postpartum mental health

Elizabeth Tane
Burnout and compassion in acute mental health wards

Jeri Tikare
The experience of adjusting to acquired brain injuries

Sophie Valavanis
The relationships between nurses’ emotional intelligence

Andrew Wah
A qualitative exploration of how people with bipolar disorder consider risk-taking in everyday situations

Marie Winterson
Exploring psychological and therapeutic needs among refugees and asylum seekers

Graduating year 2018

Natasha Cullingham
Psychological inflexibility and non-epileptic attack disorder

Benjamin Helliwell
The role of self-disgust in the relationship between childhood trauma and psychotic experience

Elizabeth Hickman
Understanding compassion in learning disability services

Maximilian Homberger
Exploring the experiences and understandings of psychosis through relationships with family members, mental health services, and society

Kimberley Keegan
‘I am simply an ahtlete’: A psychological exploration of athletic identity in physical impairment and amputation

Javier Malda Castillo
Asthma, caregiving and mental health: The mind keeps the score

Shaneela Malik
Does prosthetist communication style predict psychosocial adjustment and satisfaction with a prosthesis following limb amputation

Helen McGauley
The experience of living in poverty, the role of stigma and mental health: A qualitative analysis

Mattia Monastra
The role of affective theory of mind in the association between trauma and psychotic-like experiences

Andrew Morgan
The impact and experience of living with dystonia

Selane Rigby
Cancer: Emotional experiences

Leona Rose
An exploration of emotional distress and sleep in a stroke rehabilitation setting

Lauren Rutter
Emergency personnel’s experiences of their role

Eleanor Catherine Taylor
Experiences of being maintained on a ventricular assist device

Ellysia-Grace Thompson
The cost of caring: What contributes to compassion fatigue?

Danielle Verity
Stigma, perceived control and health-related quality of life for individuals experiencing Parkinson’s disease

Graduating year 2017

Rebecca Ashton
A qualitative exploration of the impact of stress and workplace adversity on healthcare staff experiences, well-being and resilience

David Baker
Psychological perspectives on stigma and self-compassion in adults with epilepsy

Laura Binsale
Self-concept clarity, adverse experiences and psychopathology

Joanna Cheng
The mechanisms of psychological therapy with people with long-term physical health conditions

Aoife Clarke
A systematic review of the concept of self-disgust, and an empirical examination of its role in post-traumatic stress difficulties

Toni Deavin
A qualitative exploration of family members’ experiences of paediatric chronic illness

Ruth Elsdon
A qualitative exploration of the experiences of women involved in sex work

Kate Empson
Family carers and mental health: The role of self compassion

Stephanie Fagan
A compassionate and relational understanding of borderline personality disorder

Rachael Faulkner
Experiences of transition to secondary school in children with a cleft lip and/or palate

Gemma Foat-Smith
Staff experiences in paediatric trauma services: Exploring perceptions of resilience when dealing with distress

Thomas Heavey
A qualitative exploration of how risk is conceptualised and worked with in mental health services

Hayley Higson
Exploration of mental health professionals’ views on hope and austerity: The synergy of a paradox?

Mel Hugill
Early life adverse experiences and the effect on parenting stress and schizotypal symptons

Ciara Joyce
Lived long-term experience of eating disorders: A narrative exploration

Rosie Kirkham
Exploring the experiences of staff working in forensic mental health settings

Jessica Moore
A qualitative exploration of the movement disorder experience

James Oliver
Being the parent of a child with either a cleft lip and /or palate or limb difference

Alice Pettitt
Women’s stories of emotional distress, relational experiences and sense-making. Listening in a different way

Rebecca Potts
Disability following traumatic brain injury: Considering the wider context

Lucy Rathbone
The role of emotions in obsessive-compulsive experiences

Charlene Rouski
Looked after children’s experiences of self-harm: A qualitative analysis

Anna Chiara Sicilia
Risk-taking behaviour in people diagnosed with bipolar disorder

Laura Smith
What are the experiences of caring for a loved one with a chronic illness

Rachel Watterson
Emotional and systemic experiences of having a partner with dementia

Laura Wedlock
The role of interpreters in accessing psychological support and developing relationships in mental health and deafness

Emma Williamson
Does professional language affect help seeking in young people? A randomised study

Graduating year 2016

Rachel Barcroft
Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis and fibromyalgia: A social model of disability perspective

Claire Browne
Psychological interventions in forensic learning disability services: A focus on anger and aggression

Nicolas Burden
Body image and self-disgust as self-appraisals influencing adjustment to limb amputation

Anna Clancy
An exploration of experiences of bipolar disorder with couples

Josie Davies
Psychosocial pathways involved in the development of psychosis

Anna Duxbury
What is the process by which a decision to administer electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or not is made: A grounded theory informed study from the perspectives of those involved

Natasha Goakes
The relationships between mental health experiences, trauma and posttraumatic growth

Mirella Hopper
Quantitative investigations of compassion satisfaction and challenges to compassion in mental health professionals

Kerry Irving
Relatives’ experiences of last resort interventions for people with mental health difficulties

Rachel McKail
Exploring transracial and transethnic international adoption

Jay McNeil
An exploration of transgender people’s mental health

Kelly Price
What is the relationship between self harm and self compassion in the context of voice hearing

Laurence Regan
The views of adults with Huntington’s disease on assisted dying: A psychological exploration

Graham Simpson-Adkins,
Parents, adverse childhood experiences and psychological distress

Claire Smith-Gowling
Towards an understanding of the self-behaviour of vulnerable young people

Heather Spankie
The importance of addressing the impact of contextual difficulties on mental health

Liz Tallentire
Psychological characteristics related to epileptic and non-epileptic seizures

Rachael Theed
Psychological distress in the context of Huntington’s disease

Nicola Tikare
The experience of seizures: Epilepsy and non-epileptic attack disorder

Emma Warren
An exploration of adult attachment, style, empathy and social distance

Graduating year 2015

Jo Bradley
Sleep disturbances following traumatic brain injury: Lived experiences and the use of psychological interventions

Kay Brewster
Client experiences of CBT: Factors influencing engagement

Laura Cramond
Exploring experiences of compassion and resilience in clinical psychologists working in palliative care

William Curvis
Self-esteem and social anxiety following brain injury

Sarah Davidson
Recovery and sense of self for individuals with a borderline personality disorder diagnosis

Benjamin Dawson
The experience of low grade and pituitary tumours

Pascal Diab
Neuropsychological assessment and coping in traumatic brain injury

Nicola Faye Edwards
Experiences of support following a diagnosis of breast cancer

Rachael Ellis
What is the lived experience of young people during their admission to a psychiatric inpatient unit

Rebecca Hough
Psychiatric diagnosis: Learning from people who experience distress and the practitioners who work with them

Charlotte Ingham
Experiences of non-heterosexual women in relation to psychological wellbeing

Melissa Leigh
Living well with acquired visual impairment: A narrative analysis

Helen Lewthwaite
Challenging behaviours: Caregiver attributions and emotional experiences

Ailsa Lord
The experiences of staff supporting people with dementia, death and bereavement

Sarah Parry
Qualitative explorations of talking therapies for CSA survivors and therapeutic relationships for people experiencing dissociation

Bethan Roberts
An exploration of the way in which services support adolescents with eating disorders

Sarah Saveker
Relationships between mental imagery, emotion and suicidality in extreme mood states

Elizabeth Margaret Tallentire
Psychological factors related to epileptic and non-epileptic seizures

Roisin Turner
Psychiatric diagnosis: Views of service users and professionals

Emma Tyerman
Family experiences after paediatric acquired brain injury

Helen Walls
Well-being in psychologists

Marcelina Watkinson
Mothers’ experiences of postpartum psychosis and negative emotions during breastfeeding

Graduating year 2014

Dawn Johnson
Exploring experiences of parenting a child with autism

Amy Singleton
Young people’s perspectives on the role of the media in wellbeing

Kate Houlihan
Caring for looked after children from the perspectives of foster carers and social workers

Olivia Wadham
Understanding shared experiences of couples and families in which one person has dementia

Caroline Wyatt
Postnatal mental distress: Exploring the experiences of professionals, mothers, and significant others

Reed Cappleman
Managing bipolar moods without medication: A qualitative investigation

Amy D’Sa
Exploration of how children and young people self-construe following a traumatic experience

Hannah Wilson
Clinical psychologists’ experiences of accessing personal therapy during training

Rachel Wass
Compassion and burnout in community mental health work

Jennifer Hewitt
Young people, home and homelessness: A narrative exploration

Lucy Morris
The process of change in non-residential therapeutic communities

Diarmaid O’Lonargain
Experiencing health services and mentalisation-based treatment for borderline personality disorder: Service user perspectives

Roxanna Mohtashemi
An exploration of psychiatrists’ understanding and use of psychological formulation

Richard Colley
Hearts and minds: How do people experience and psychologically recover from traumatic cardiac treatment-related events?

Alexandra Turner
Caring for patients with dementia in a general hospital setting

Lisa Jones
An exploration of coping in sex work

Irram Walji
Narrative identities and self-constructs of individuals with histories of sexual and violent offences

Graduating year 2013

Jade Ark
Navigating the organ donation journey

Catherine Elson
The narratives of life before and after cardiothoracic transplant

Victoria Cairns
Experiences of support for first-episode psychosis: Family member seeking help and service user engagement with psychosocial formulation

Emma Chorlton
An exploration of the experiences of people with coexisting mental health and substance use difficulties

Sophie Croft
Does coping mediate the relationship between attachment style and substance use in a clinical and non-clinical sample?

Peter Dargan
Mental imagery and self-injury

Jannine Dowling
Therapists’ perceptions of the therapeutic alliance in ‘mandatory’ therapy with sex offenders

Samantha Fitzpatrick
Evolutionary processes in paranoia

Tim Fullen
Stories from adoptive parents: A narrative analysis

Suzanne Heffernan
The role of religion and faith in the recovery journey of individuals with experience of psychosis

Samantha Large
Service users’ experiences of risk management in relation to their own self-harm

Peter Lydon
Lived experiences of rupture and endings in psychological therapy

Gail Meadows
The development of the fatigue severity scale for people who have experienced a traumatic brain injury

Peter Morgan
A qualitative analysis of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for stress for therapy health care workers

Nicola Pilkington
The experiences of body image in young women with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM)

Jennifer Pomfret
Narratives of living well with cystic-fibrosis

Sumayah Refaat
Experience of bipolar disorder from the perspectives of parents with the diagnosis of family members

Stacey Story
Providing therapy whilst pregnant: Reflections of clinical psychologists after returning to work

Katherine Taylor
Art, creativity and mental health

Graduating year 2012

Claire Anderson
What is the process by which placement supervisors make difficult decisions in trainee assessment?

Eirini Athanasopoulou
Understanding previous experiences and developing parenting views: The perspective of adults who have been in care

Sharon Carr
Clients’ experiences of CBT: Meta-synthesis exploring experience and a narrative analysis of maintaining change

Helen Casey
Experiences of apathy in people with Parkinson’s disease: A qualitative exploration

Samantha Cooke
Narratives of experts by experience and conceptualisations of mental health recovery

Katy Flynn
“A post-transplant person”. Narratives of heart of lung transplantation and intensive care unit delirium

Ian Gill
Psychological factors associated with posttraumatic stress following brain injury

James Heath
Living with a pituitary tumour: A narrative analysis

Yvonne Heslop
Admission to discharge: Experiences of inpatient mental health care from the perspective of individuals with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder

Carla Innes
Mechanisms of change in compassion focused therapy: A grounded theory investigation

Susan Knowles
Exploring parents’ understandings of their child’s journey into offending behaviours: A narrative analysis

Caroline Maxted
Huntington’s disease: Family experiences and presymptomatic genetic testing in young people

Claire McDonald
Palliative care professionals’ experiences of unusual spiritual phenomena at the end of life

Sinead Murphy
Narratives of change in fathers who have completed an Incredible Years parent training programme

Cara Pouchly
Cultural competence: The importance of exploring identity

Karen Quinn
The experience of stroke from the perspectives of survivors and partners

Elizabeth Rushbrooke
Exploring intimate relationships for people with intellectual disabilities

Carey Viala
Eating disorders, alexithymia and emotions: A narrative review and qualitative study

Rebecca Waldron
Navigating the solid organ transplant process

Samuel Watts
Cultural factors in the provision of psychological support

Graduating year 2011

Deb Anderson
Making sense of intimacy and sexual health for people with exstrophy-epispadias complex conditions

Natalie Arran
Illness perceptions, coping styles and psychological distress in adults with Huntington’s disease

Suzey Breckon
Listening to the voices of intellectually disabled offenders: Qualitative enquiry in secure services

Ruth Clayton
The journey through early intervention services: A narrative analysis

Catherine Cooper
Stories of ongoing transition: An exploration of becoming and being retired

Deanna Donnellan
The interpersonal impact of trauma: Couples’ experiences and current approaches to treatment

Rebecca Dunn
The relationship between trauma and psychosis

Jana Fusekova
Mechanisms of change: A qualitative investigation into the emergence of exits in cognitive analytic therapy

Ayse Gurpinar-Morgan
The process of seeking asylum in the United Kingdom

Victoria Lee
Older people’s experiences of residential care

Claire Matchwick
The perceptions of cause and control in people with Alzheimer’s disease

Kriten Mistry
Exploring the psychological experiences of people living with a diagnosis of motor neurone disease

Charlotte Morris
Emotion and self-harm

Kathryn Pemberton
Self-conscious emotions and eating disorders

Jodie Quigg
An exploration into the active ingredients within therapeutic practice: A meta-synthesis of the therapeutic alliance and a grounded theory of the mechanisms of change

Karen Seal
Family experiences of the cancer journey

Nicola Spence
Improving the effectiveness of supervision: A clinical psychology perspective

Emily Suter
Obesity: An emotion focused understanding and the role of clinical psychology

Graduating year 2010

Elizabeth Allsop
The construction of the coparenting relationship: A qualitative enquiry

Melanie Booth
The self regulation model and psychological outcomes of people with primary brain tumours

Elizabeth Chamberlain
Stories of adoption: A narrative analysis

Suzi Curtis
Aspects and stories of helpful therapy and its outcomes: A narrative enquiry

Mary Delaney
Perceptions of cause and control of impulse control disorders in people with Parkinson’s disease

Amy Fisher
Partners of alcohol-dependent adults: intervention effectiveness, predictors of enabling behaviours and gathering data by-proxy

Tessa Franken
A qualitative exploration into adolescents’ understanding of emotional difficulties in female peers

Karen Green
Couples’ participation in dementia research and partners’ perspectives on their relationship in young onset dementia

Rebecca Jones
An investigation of vicarious posttraumatic growth

Catherine Keen
A qualitative exploration of sensing presence of deceased following bereavement

Rachel Lever
Religiosity: Effects on client and clinician

Christina Mason
A narrative exploration of the experiences of clinical psychologists following client suicide

Lindsay McMahon
The experience of fibromyalgia: A narrative inquiry

Zoe Nowell
The subjective experience of personhood in dementia care settings

Cathy Parker
A qualitative investigation of the experience of coping and recovery from stroke at a young age

Aneela Pilkington
Psychological well-being and barriers to accessing psychological services within South Asian and Muslim populations

Helena Rose
Using a participatory approach to explore how young people understand the concept of social inclusion

Ian Rushton
Developing an early therapeutic alliance with the transferred client

Sangeetha Senthinathan
A qualitative exploration of the role of identity in older people experiencing chronic pain

Rachel Skippon
Exploring and supporting stories of resilience in parenthood

Greg Taylor
A qualitative investigation into non-clinical voice hearing: What factors may protect against distress?

Graduating year 2009

Rachel Chin
A qualitative exploration of first time fathers’ experiences of becoming a father

Keely Clarke
Do shame, self-criticism and/or depression mediate the relationship between negative early life experiences and later problems with eating?

Beatrice Cox
How does having Asperger syndrome affect parenting experience?

Fiona Eccles
Perceptions of cause and control in people with Parkinson’s disease

Kathryn Evans
Support staff’s experiences of relationship formation and development in secure services

Kara Garforth
Service users’ perceptions of change following treatment in democratic therapeutic communities

Katie Hatton
The experience of guilt, shame and entrapment in carers of people with dementia and the relationship of these variables to psychological outcome

Katie Jackson
Understanding young offenders’ experiences of drinking alcohol: An interpretative phenomenological analysis

Jenny King
Dementia and long-term care experiences from a relative’s perspective

Amy Mawson
A qualitative exploration of voice hearing within an interpersonal context

Victoria Molyneaux
The caring relationship: reflections on terminology and the concept of ‘couplehood’ compulsions in people with dementia

Rachel Orr
A qualitative study exploring people’s responses to their partners’ and spouses’ obsessions and compulsions

Hannah Osborne
A psychosocial model of parent fixation in people with dementia: The role of personality and attachment

Amie Smith
Attachment patterns, supervisory style and the supervisory working alliance

Katie Splevins
Theories of posttraumatic growth: Vicarious and cross-cultural aspects

Lesley Taylor
Listening to people with learning disabilities about their identity and experiences of therapy

Jan Warnes
‘Rebuilding after the storm’: Stories of young motherhood

Louise Woods
Multiple Sclerosis and the experience of self

Graduating year 2008

Jane Bewley
Does alexithymia mediate the relationship between obligatory exercise and eating pathology in adult female exercisers?

Claire Blackburn
Client attachment to services, satisfaction with services and their predictors

Naomi Brown
Retrospective accounts of cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders: Which aspects were most useful

Clare Dixon
A qualitative exploration into young children’s perspectives and understandings of emotional difficulties in other children

Jennifer Elvish
Clinical and demographic predictors of poor insight in individuals with obsessions and compulsions

Sara Evans
Stroke, psychological outcomes and the self-regulatory model

Stephen Field
Subjective experiences of personal relationships throughout the course of schizophrenia: Low secure service-users’ perspectives

Lee Fitzpatrick
A qualitative analysis of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in Parkinson’s disease

Sonia Guirguis
Burnout and ways of coping among workers in young offender services

Kathryn Heaton
Men with intellectual disabilities who display sexually abusive behaviour

Gemma Horridge
BurnEd: Exploring the factors influencing a burn-injured child’s return to education.

Clare Jefferson
The pregnancy and health care experiences of women who became mothers when they were teenagers

Kelly McCarthy-Sweeney
The impact of adolescent self-harm on parental well-being

Louise McKenzie
An examination of the factors that affect activities of daily living skills in individuals who have undergone coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Chantel Morland
An investigation of the factors associated with body dissatisfaction in adult men

Louise Phin
Paradox and conflict: An exploration of personal accounts of self-harm and self-injury

Jonathan Rust
Evaluation of a school-based intervention addressing children’s appraisals of interparental conflict

Rachel Scullion
Exploring bereavement and spirituality in adults with intellectual disabilities

Emma Simpson
The experiences of administrative staff working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A grounded theory study

Alison Thorpe
Patients’ experiences of psychiatric intensive care: A wellbeing perspective

David Todd
A phenomenological analysis of delusions in people with Parkinson’s disease

Jane Toner
Asking about childhood trauma: The experiences of psychological therapists in early intervention services

Sharon Twigg
Facial difference: Psychosocial implications for individuals and relevant others

Stephen Weatherhead
Muslim views on mental health and psychology

Graduating year 2007

Hayley Bailey
Distress and the self-care practices of trainee clinical psychologists.

Dominic Basson
An investigation into the role of worry and rumination in deliberate self harm

Elizabeth Bray
A qualitative study of postnatal resilience in fathers and mothers and what services can do to help.

Claire Beale
Mothers’ experiences of raising a child with autism.

Anna Caudwell
Differential coping with disease-related stressors and its effects on psychological outcomes and quality of life in people with Parkinson’s disease and their spouses

David Dawson
The implicit relational procedure: Assessing the implicit beliefs of sexual offenders.

Jennifer Deakin
An exploratory study to identify obstacles and enablers to communication about erectile dysfunction following cardiac trauma

Johan Elliott
The relationship between magical thinking, thought-shape fusion and symptoms associated with eating difficulties in a non-clinical population

Ashley Fallon
Forensic inpatient sexuality: A qualitative investigation of the nursing perspective

Joanna Farrington
A study investigating the relationship between parental conflict, self-concept and the roles children play in bullying situations

Louise Ferguson
The effects of training on the ability of adults with a learning disability to give informed consent to medication

Nicholas Gore
Theory of mind and perspective – taking ability amongst people with intellectual disabilities

Joanne Gorry
Conceptualisations of risk within female sex work: A literature review

Chris Groom
Online game playing, lifestyle factors and general health in men aged 18-40

Sarah Holden
Subjective experiences of transgenerational parenting effects: A qualitative analysis

Amy Hothersall
Illness beliefs, coping and psychological outcome in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Matthew Kemsley
User involvement in personality disorder literature: Methodological, clinical and theoretical considerations

Jane Lawton
The use of alcohol in a chronic pain population: Physical and psychosocial factors

Rachael Line
Understanding intimacy and its effects on wellbeing for a sample of older women: A grounded theory approach

Shirley Lockeridge
The experience of carers of people with young onset dementia

Andrew McLean
Psychological well-being and perceptions of stigma in people with a disability

Laura Pickering
The role of attachment in paranoia and hallucination

Joanne Singleton
Shame in adults: Exploring the relationships between shame, attachment, the family system and psychological outcome

Graduating year 2006

Elizabeth Billington
Does hopefulness predict good adjustment to chronic renal failure and consequent dialysis?

Aileen Burnett
An investigation into self-harm in primary school aged children

James Carr
The impact of pre-morbid personality on challenging behaviour in dementia

Lisa Gallimore
Young children’s beliefs and attitudes towards mental health

Amanda Gill
Development and primary validation of the Thought Control Questionnaire (TCQ) for adolescents

Hannah Goring
Measures of depressive rumination and of underlying metacognitive beliefs: A factor analytic study

Lynne Heyes
Investigating the relationship between presence of negative thoughts and control strategies in postnatally depressed and non-postnatally depressed mothers after childbirth

Rebecca Humphreys
The effect of individual differences upon response styles to low mood

Rasha Khiami
Relationships between perfectionism, perseverative negative thinking and affect

Paula Killean
How do nursing staff, working in a secure forensic setting, talk about their responses to patients’ challenging behaviours: A qualitative study

Fiona Lattimer
The impact of child-centred play taught in behavioural parent training on the development of children’s language skills

Suzanne Lee
The psychological impact of a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease

Rachael McNulty
The experience of obesity: A qualitative study

Kavita Misra
The ruminative response scale: A cross-cultural factor analysis and gender comparison

Kirsty Pratt
An investigation of the psychosocial characteristics of individuals requesting cosmetic surgery on the NHS

Clare Punshon
Emotional reactions to receiving a diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome

Sandra Renga
Harnessing hope to promote positive reappraisal coping and post-traumatic growth

Laura Shotton
The role of appraisal and coping in post-acquired brain injury adjustment; A qualitative investigation

Becky Simm
An understanding of self harm in primary school children

Stephanie Sneider
Trauma experiences of adolescents with psychosis

Caroline Williamson
Caregivers’ experiences of caring for a spouse with Parkinson’s disease and psychotic symptoms

Jacqui Wood
Adapting the Illness Perception Questionnaire for mothers of children with autism and Down’s syndrome

Anwen Woodcock
Does rumination run in families?

Anna Warm
The role of attachment experiences and emotional regulation in deliberate self-harm

Graduating year 2005

Yasmeen Akram-Saleem
A study to investigate empathy amongst adult offenders and non-offenders with mild intellectual disabilities

Jennifer Atkinson
A study to investigate the emotional and behavioural adjustment of asylum seeker, refugee and British children attending a primary school in the United Kingdom

Clare Calvert
An exploration of the relationships between trauma and delusional ideation in secure services

Rachel Crossley
Experiments of antipsychotic medication for people with learning disabilities

Ruth Fowlie
Social inclusion, citizenship and people with intellectual disabilities

Ruth Fox
A study of the relationship between childhood trauma and symptom profiles of bipolar disorder

Tamsin Fryer
The experience of being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis: An interpretive phenomenological analysis

Angela Goddard Walsh
An exploration of clinical psychologists’ experiences of informed consent in psychodynamic therapy

Joanna Hearne
Experiences of the child protection system for women with alcohol problems

Leanne Holcroft
Post traumatic stress disorder after stroke

Catherine Houseman
Anger beliefs and behaviour; an investigation of associations with hypomania in a non-clinical sample

Linsay Kirk
A phenomenological study to explore the impact on children of parental brain injury

Tania Mann
Problem-solving confidence, rumination and depression

Ruth McIver
Illness representations and psychological adjustment in people with end-stage renal disease on dialysis

Karen Shimmon
An investigation of inhibitory control in hard to manage preschoolers and the effects of ‘executive skills’ training

Jenny Shuttleworth
Factors affecting the correspondence between teacher and child self-reports of anxiety and depression

Rachel Stretton
An exploratory investigation into sex-related communications by parents of an adolescent with intellectual disabilities

Louise Talbot
Psychological outcome in people with Parkinson’s disease and their spouses: The effect of motor fluctuations

Lorraine Tatum
ADHD: Diagnosis, medication and self-identity in adolescents. An interpretative phenomenological analysis

Claire Wilde
Relationships between parenting styles and metacognitive beliefs about rumination in depression

Graduating year 2004

Lucy Attenborough
Changing young people’s attitudes toward people with mental health problems: Evaluation of an educational Approach

Amy Burns
Family and marital adaptation following traumatic brain injury

Erica Clayton
The experiences and identity issues of men with intellectual disabilities who sexually offend against women

Cindy Davies
The impact of a booster session following behavioural parent training

Saffron Dickinson
Repetitive thought as a predictor of treatment outcome in individuals who misuse alcohol

Dickson Katharine
Body site specificity of self-injurious behaviour in children with severe intellectual disability

Ailyn Garley
A case series to pilot cognitive behaviour therapy for female urinary incontinence

Kate Green
An Investigation of transgenerational parenting constructs and their relationship to childhood behaviour difficulties

Pauline Hall
Postnatal negative cognitions: A review of current understanding and development of a self-report scale

Lindsey Hampson
Parental attributions, responses, and expectancy towards behaviours of children with a diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome

Catherine Marshall
Breast reconstruction: Its impact on patients’ and partner’ sexual functioning

Stephen Mullin
Does executive functioning predict behaviour change in offenders following the enhances thinking skills programme?

Paul Russell
Carer responses to challenging behaviour: The role of optimism

Jennifer Seamans
Experiences of pregnancy for women with eating disorders: A qualitative investigation

Paul Skirrow
The prevalence and correlates of burnout amongst direct care workers of adults with intellectual disabilities

Sara Williamson
Self-esteem and psychological adjustment in adolescents with Asperger syndrome

Jonathan Willis
An Investigation into the association between physical activity and dimensions of psychological well-being among children with an intellectual disability

Graduating year 2003

Susanne Albrecht
The involvement of people with learning disabilities in person-centred planning

Sara Banks
Models of illness amongst carers of people with dementia

Jo Black
The impact of a child with Asperger’s syndrome on parents

Julie Blakeley
Quality of life amongst adolescent survivors of childhood heart surgery

Caroline Browne
Attachment behaviours and parent fixation amongst adults with dementia

Louise Cumbley
Factors associated with hallucinations and delusions in children

Christina Fitzgerald
Sexuality and women with learning disabilities

Lucinda Harter
Understanding of the basic principles of CBT amongst older adults and adults with dementia

Lloyd Humphreys
Family environment and challenging behaviour in families with a young child with learning disabilities

Joanne Johnson
Meta-cognition and rumination in depression

Elizabeth Peacock
Post-traumatic stress disorder amongst adults experiencing burns

Jacqueline Peyton
Comparing models of hypertension between older adults and professionals

Lorraine Turnbull
What skills are necessary for people with learning disabilities to engage in community leisure activities?

Graduating year 2002

Alison Blackshaw
An investigation to determine the social and psychological characteristics of people who frequently attend accident & emergency services

Nigel Colbert
A qualitative investigation into the experiences of clients and therapists engaged in psychodynamic interpersonal therapy following an episode of deliberate self-harm

Rupa Gone
Illness representations, coping, depression and anxiety in South Asian and British people with inflammatory arthritis

Cheryl Hutton
Children’s adjustment following parental separation: The role of interparental conflict and children’s appraisals

Alec Laraway
Prevalence of emotional disorders in adults with Asperger syndrome and access to mental health services

Richa Mehta
Burnout in clinical psychologists in the UK: An examination of its nature, extent and correlates

Karen Mellor
Emotion identification, emotion word fluency and alexithymia in people with learning disabilities

Moira Phillips
Theory of mind and concept of death in children with autistic spectrum disorder

Helen Rhodes
Care staff responses to behaviour changes resulting from dementia in people with learning disabilities

Julie Riding
Psychological functioning, coping strategies and metabolic control in adolescents with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus

Kirsty Sherratt
Emotional and behavioural responses to music in people with dementia

Julie Walmsley
Parental attributions and responses towards challenging behaviour displayed by children and adolescents with learning disabilities

Graduating year 2001

Gerrard Burrell-Hodgson
Theory of mind and children with autism: A cross-modal deficit?

Magdalene Cox
Thought-shape fusion, obsessive-compulsive disorder and eating disorders

Clare Firth
Women considering preventive mastectomy: A qualitative investigation of the decision-making process

James Hoy
Central coherence and children with autism: Consistency of deficits across central coherence tasks

Rachel McCormick
Women experiencing domestic violence during pregnancy: Impact on the mother and the child.

Gill McIntee
Dissociation and self-harm in adolescent women attending A&E departments.

Andrew Moss
The role of dysfunctional attitudes and knowledge in health anxiety: The case of HIV/AIDS education

Victoria Pike
Physical functioning, coping and quality of life amongst adults in need of long-term rehabilitation.

Claire Rockliffe-Fidler
Sexual functioning in women with diabetes

Samantha Todd
Attributions, emotional reactions and willingness of offer help to a person with dementia and challenging behaviours: comparing support staff and clinical psychologists

Jacqueline Wilson
Testing the congruent schema/life event theory of depression in outpatients of an adult mental health service

Graduating year 2000

Caroline Belcher
The impact on parents of their pre-school child being accidentally burned: A phenomenological investigation.

Jaime Craig
Social reasoning, paranoia and theory of mind in adults with Asperger’s syndrome and paranoid psychosis

Catherine Gartside
Social support as a mediator of the impact of crime on the mental health of older adults

Rebecca Hughes
Negative therapist interventions and patient outcomes in psychodynamic psychotherapy

Warren Larkin
Attributions, hallucinations, delusions and post traumatic stress disorder amongst paramedic staff

Ian Smith
The role of autobiographical memory in problem solving and challenging behaviour in people with mild/moderate learning disabilities

David Wheatcroft
Attitudes towards help-seeking, coping and mental health in farmers


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