Clinical Psychology

Research Projects - Abstracts for Graduates in 2002

These abstracts are downloadable as Word documents.

A qualitative investigation into the impact of childhood sexual abuse on identity, relationships and aetiology of offending in sex offenders

An Exploration of the healthcare experiences of women with severe and enduring mental health problems

An exploration of the identity formation of adolescents in foster care

Clinical Psychologists’ decision-making processes during therapy assessments: a qualitative study

Coping, in the longer term, with being a relative of a murder victim

Development and Behaviour in Angelman Syndrome: A study of development in 15q11q13 maternal microdeletions and behaviour across genotypes

Female perpetrators of child sex abuse: the perspectives of staff in a regional secure unit

Measuring attachment in young children: investigation into the further development of an attachment coding scheme for the use with doll play narratives

Mood and motherhood women experiences of being mothered and becoming mothers

Overcoming difficulties in attending school: perspectives of young people and their parents

Peer relationships in young people recovering from a first episode of psychosis: A ‘lifespan’ perspective of childhood and adolescence

Psychotic Experiences and Childhood Abuse - Issues in Assessment and Treatment

Religious Belief and Identity in People who have Experienced Psychosis

Researchers’ Experiences of Participatory Research, Involving People with Learning Disabilities

Security of Attachment and the Development of Behaviour and Attention Problems in Very Preterm Children Aged Three Years

Stories of Teenage Motherhood: A Qualitative Study

The perceptions of nursing home staff towards people with dementia and their care: a qualitative exploration of care staff views prior to and following a period of training and development interventions

The Provision of Cognitive Analytic Therapy Via Interactive Video

Therapists’ responses during therapeutic work with incestuous sexual abusers

Abstracts for Post-Qual in 2002

A comparison of the staff and patient view of the suitable admission ward milieu for those with borderline personality disorder

An exploration of the clinical situation in which a patient unilaterally discontinues long term psychoanalytic psychotherapy

An exploratory investigation into the interrelationship between locus of control and dysthymic depression

An investigation into the factors leading to dropout from therapy in a child and family clinical psychology service for children with special needs

An investigation of the prescription privileges debate and its significance for the professional identity of clinical psychologists working in the United Kingdom

Can the Object Relations Technique contribute to assessment?

Clinical Psychologists as Supervisors of their own profession: An investigation of Clinical Psychologists’ views of theory in supervision

Executive function in Down’s Syndrome: Its role in the detection of dementia

Group cognitive behaviour therapy for bulimia nervosa in a service setting – does it work?

Influences on case transfer decision-making in a tiered child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS)

Mothers with Learning Disabilities: Experiences and Meanings of Losing Custody of their Children

Therapists’ accounts of the process of systemic family therapy with people with learning disabilities and their families