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A randomized trial of face-to-face counselling versus telephone counselling versus bibliotherapy for occupational stress (2010)
Journal Article
Kilfedder, C., Power, K., Karatzias, T., McCafferty, A., Niven, K., Chouliara, Z., Galloway, L., & Sharp, S. (2010). A randomized trial of face-to-face counselling versus telephone counselling versus bibliotherapy for occupational stress. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 83, 223-242. https://doi.org/10.1348/147608309X476348

Objective. The aim of the present study was to compare the effectiveness and acceptability of three interventions for occupational stress.

Methods/design. A total of 90 National Health Service employees were randomized to face-to-face counselling... Read More about A randomized trial of face-to-face counselling versus telephone counselling versus bibliotherapy for occupational stress.

Issues in Quality of Life Assessment in Schizophrenia (2010)
Book Chapter
Martin, C. R., & Fleming, M. (2010). Issues in Quality of Life Assessment in Schizophrenia. In Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures (3607-3624). Springer Science + Business Media. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78665-0_209

Quality of Life is an important aspect of everyday functioning to patients with a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia. The multifactorial nature of schizophrenia enmeshed within a biopsychosocial phenomena and the impact of pharmacological therapy mak... Read More about Issues in Quality of Life Assessment in Schizophrenia.

The role of community nurses and residential staff in supporting women with intellectual disability to access breast screening services: The role of community nurses and residential staff (2010)
Journal Article
Taggart, L., Truesdale-Kennedy, M., & McIlfatrick, S. (2011). The role of community nurses and residential staff in supporting women with intellectual disability to access breast screening services: The role of community nurses and residential staff. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 55(1), 41-52. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2788.2010.01345.x

Background: Women with intellectual disability (ID) are surviving to the age group at greatest risk of developing breast cancer (50-69 years). These women are more likely to experience a greater number of risk-factors placing them at an advanced thre... Read More about The role of community nurses and residential staff in supporting women with intellectual disability to access breast screening services: The role of community nurses and residential staff.

Low-grade psychotic symptoms in a non-clinical population: a study (2010)
Journal Article
Fleming, M., & Martin, C. R. (2010). Low-grade psychotic symptoms in a non-clinical population: a study. British Journal of Wellbeing, 1(8), 21-25

Low-grade psychotic symptoms have consistently been found to be experienced by members of the general population. Evidence suggests that they are less frequent, intrusive and severe than those experienced by people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.... Read More about Low-grade psychotic symptoms in a non-clinical population: a study.

Supporting women with intellectual disabilities to access breast cancer screening: a healthcare professional perspective: Breast cancer screening for women with intellectual disability (2010)
Journal Article
McIlfatrick, S., Taggart, L., & Truesdale-Kennedy, M. (2011). Supporting women with intellectual disabilities to access breast cancer screening: a healthcare professional perspective: Breast cancer screening for women with intellectual disability. European Journal of Cancer Care, 20(3), 412-420. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2354.2010.01221.x

Cancer prevention has been identified as the most cost effective strategy for cancer control. This should extend to all groups including women with intellectual disability (ID), seeking to access breast cancer screening. The purpose of this study was... Read More about Supporting women with intellectual disabilities to access breast cancer screening: a healthcare professional perspective: Breast cancer screening for women with intellectual disability.

Profile, practice and perspectives of occupational therapists in community mental health teams in Ireland (2010)
Journal Article
O'Connell, J. E., & McKay, E. A. (2010). Profile, practice and perspectives of occupational therapists in community mental health teams in Ireland. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 73(5), 219-228. https://doi.org/10.4276/030802210x12734991664228

The Mental Health Commission (2006a) and the Department of Health and Children (2006) have identified a gap in the knowledge relating to the interventions carried out by mental health workers in community mental health teams (CMHTs) in Ireland. The p... Read More about Profile, practice and perspectives of occupational therapists in community mental health teams in Ireland.

The formal support experiences of mothers of adolescents with intellectual disabilities in Edinburgh, UK: a longitudinal qualitative design. (2010)
Journal Article
Lin, M.-C., Macmillan, M., & Brown, N. (2010). The formal support experiences of mothers of adolescents with intellectual disabilities in Edinburgh, UK: a longitudinal qualitative design. Journal of Nursing Research, 18, 34-43. https://doi.org/10.1097/JNR.0b013e3181ce50be

BACKGROUND:

In the United Kingdom, healthcare provision for children with intellectual disabilities (ID) has shifted away from institutions to the community. Today, family members most often assume the primary caregiver role and look after care r... Read More about The formal support experiences of mothers of adolescents with intellectual disabilities in Edinburgh, UK: a longitudinal qualitative design..

The modernisation of mental health day services: participatory action research exploring social networking. (2010)
Journal Article
Bryant, W., Vacher, G., Beresford, P., & McKay, E. (2010). The modernisation of mental health day services: participatory action research exploring social networking. Mental Health Review Journal, 15(3), 11-21. https://doi.org/10.5042/mhrj.2010.0655

The modernisation of mental health day services has been shaped by concerns about the social exclusion of people with enduring mental health problems. Initiatives have emphasised the use of mainstream facilities and an individualised approach. In con... Read More about The modernisation of mental health day services: participatory action research exploring social networking..

‘Rip That Book up, I've Changed’: Unveiling the Experiences of Women Living with and Surviving Enduring Mental Illness (2010)
Journal Article
McKay, E. A. (2010). ‘Rip That Book up, I've Changed’: Unveiling the Experiences of Women Living with and Surviving Enduring Mental Illness. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 73(3), 96-105. https://doi.org/10.4276/030802210x12682330090370

The lives of women with an enduring mental illness have been little researched within occupational therapy. This study explored the experiences of five women living with enduring mental illness in their communities. The women were interviewed over a... Read More about ‘Rip That Book up, I've Changed’: Unveiling the Experiences of Women Living with and Surviving Enduring Mental Illness.

Dietary restriction delays aging, but not neuronal dysfunction, in Drosophila models of Alzheimer's disease (2009)
Journal Article
Kerr, F., Augustin, H., Piper, M. D. W., Gandy, C., Allen, M. J., Lovestone, S., & Partridge, L. (2011). Dietary restriction delays aging, but not neuronal dysfunction, in Drosophila models of Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiology of Aging, 32(11), 1977-1989. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2009.10.015

Dietary restriction (DR) extends lifespan in diverse organisms and, in animal and cellular models, can delay a range of aging-related diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD). A better understanding of the mechanisms mediating these interactions,... Read More about Dietary restriction delays aging, but not neuronal dysfunction, in Drosophila models of Alzheimer's disease.

Classification of schizophrenia. Part 2: the nonsense of mental health illness (2009)
Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2009). Classification of schizophrenia. Part 2: the nonsense of mental health illness. British Journal of Nursing, 18(20), 1228-1232. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2009.18.20.45113

The classification of schizophrenia is currently under review in a coordinated worldwide consultation for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD 11) – the standard manua... Read More about Classification of schizophrenia. Part 2: the nonsense of mental health illness.

Classification of schizophrenia. Part one: the enduring existence of madness (2009)
Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2009). Classification of schizophrenia. Part one: the enduring existence of madness. British Journal of Nursing, 18(19), 1176-1180. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2009.18.19.44822

The classification of schizophrenia is currently under review in a coordinated worldwide consultation for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD 11) – the standard manua... Read More about Classification of schizophrenia. Part one: the enduring existence of madness.

Disparate routes through support: Negotiating the sites, stages and support of informal dementia care (2009)
Journal Article
Egdell, V., Bond, J., Brittain, K., & Jarvis, H. (2010). Disparate routes through support: Negotiating the sites, stages and support of informal dementia care. Health and Place, 16(1), 101-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.09.002

Worldwide people with dementia are usually cared for at home by informal carers who may themselves have poor health and/or live in social situations which intensify their needs. The scale of these needs continues to be underappreciated and they are e... Read More about Disparate routes through support: Negotiating the sites, stages and support of informal dementia care.

Depressive symptoms in early pregnancy disrupt attentional processing of infant emotion (2009)
Journal Article
Pearson, R. M., Cooper, R. M., Penton-Voak, I. S., Lightman, S. L., & Evans, J. (2010). Depressive symptoms in early pregnancy disrupt attentional processing of infant emotion. Psychological Medicine, 40(4), 621-631. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291709990961

BACKGROUND: Growing evidence suggests that perinatal depression is associated with disrupted mother-infant interactions and poor infant outcomes. Antenatal depression may play a key role in this cycle by disrupting the development of a maternal respo... Read More about Depressive symptoms in early pregnancy disrupt attentional processing of infant emotion.

Vividness of mental imagery in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): The role of depression (2009)
Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Power, K., Brown, K., & McGoldrick, T. (2009). Vividness of mental imagery in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): The role of depression. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 40(2), 352-358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2009.02.002

The present study aimed to investigate demographics, trauma variables, PTSD symptomatology, co-morbid psychopathology, dissociation and personality variables as correlates of vividness of imagery (i.e. general ability to imagine objects) in people wi... Read More about Vividness of mental imagery in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): The role of depression.

Irish employers' attitudes to mental illness. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Foley, T., & McKay, E. A. (2009, April). Irish employers' attitudes to mental illness. Paper presented at Association of Occupational Therapist Ireland

Vicarious traumatisation in practitioners who work with adult survivors of sexual violence and child sexual abuse: Literature review and directions for future research (2009)
Journal Article
Chouliara, Z., Hutchison, C., & Karatzias, T. (2009). Vicarious traumatisation in practitioners who work with adult survivors of sexual violence and child sexual abuse: Literature review and directions for future research. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 9(1), 47-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733140802656479

Primary objective: The authors sought to summarise and evaluate evidence regarding vicarious traumatisation (VT) in
practitioners working with adult survivors of sexual violence and/or child sexual abuse (CSA). Methods and selection criteria:
Relev... Read More about Vicarious traumatisation in practitioners who work with adult survivors of sexual violence and child sexual abuse: Literature review and directions for future research.