All Outputs (41)

Achieving real-world impact in psychotherapy research (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Translational research aims to bridge the gap between the researcher’s findings and real-world applications, transforming discoveries into tangible benefits for clients, patients and communities. This structured discussion session will explore strate... Read More about Achieving real-world impact in psychotherapy research.

Group psychological intervention for Multiple Sclerosis: A Longitudinal IPA study of change (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Aim: The aim of the current presentation is to delineate the conceptualisation of trajectories of change for people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) who participated in an 8-week group psychological intervention. The focus will be on the research design... Read More about Group psychological intervention for Multiple Sclerosis: A Longitudinal IPA study of change.

Emotional Skills Groups: A qualitative study exploring client experiences of online emotional skills group interventions in an NHS Talking Therapies service (2025)
Journal Article

Background: Many people treated in Talking Therapies services have highly complex needs which are not always met by the treatment offered. Emotional skills groups based on adaptations of Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) have been offered to mee... Read More about Emotional Skills Groups: A qualitative study exploring client experiences of online emotional skills group interventions in an NHS Talking Therapies service.

“Baking the same cake”: Online systemic multifamily group therapy after first episode of psychosis (2025)
Book Chapter

Family interventions have been shown to reduce the likelihood of relapse for individuals across the spectrum of psychosis and are recommended internationally in practice guidelines for psychosis. Multifamily therapy after a psychotic episode is a fle... Read More about “Baking the same cake”: Online systemic multifamily group therapy after first episode of psychosis.

Providing state-supported financial incentives and benefits for vehicle insurance policies using telematics (2024)
Book Chapter

We recommend providing state-supported financial incentives and benefits for vehicle insurance policies using telematics. To achieve this policy recommendation, we propose the following: (1) Provision for financial incentives and benefits by the stat... Read More about Providing state-supported financial incentives and benefits for vehicle insurance policies using telematics.

Does one-size-fit-all? Considering individual and contextual factors in psychotherapy research (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Climate change, war, populism, growing economic inequalities… these are just some of the major challenges facing the world today. Does psychotherapy research have any contribution to make to addressing these problems and, if so, what? This semi-plena... Read More about Does one-size-fit-all? Considering individual and contextual factors in psychotherapy research.

Longitudinal and idiographic methods of developing and evaluating tailored psychological interventions for people with MS: Findings from a pilot study and future directions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a complex and heterogeneous condition which makes the development of effective psychological interventions a challenging task. Research so far has focused on well-established protocols which do not always fit the individual... Read More about Longitudinal and idiographic methods of developing and evaluating tailored psychological interventions for people with MS: Findings from a pilot study and future directions.

Evaluation of the feasibility and acceptability of an integrative group psychological intervention for people with Multiple Sclerosis: A study protocol (2023)
Journal Article

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is characterised by significant symptom diversity and complexity. The unpredictability of the symptoms and the emotional and cognitive facets of the disease have a significant impact on the patients' quality of life, relations... Read More about Evaluation of the feasibility and acceptability of an integrative group psychological intervention for people with Multiple Sclerosis: A study protocol.

“It made me a more resilient therapist”: A qualitative study on practitioners’ experience of providing mental health services during the pandemic (2023)
Journal Article

The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated sudden and radical changes in mental health care delivery where practitioners unavoidably engaged in remote working. As remote care is likely to become increasingly common, perhaps routine, in this study, we aim... Read More about “It made me a more resilient therapist”: A qualitative study on practitioners’ experience of providing mental health services during the pandemic.

Patient and public involvement in chronic conditions psychotherapy research: Developing a patient–centred psychological intervention for people with multiple sclerosis (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Psychological interventions for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) mainly adhere to the principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness. Adopting these generic models for the care of people with MS places them in t... Read More about Patient and public involvement in chronic conditions psychotherapy research: Developing a patient–centred psychological intervention for people with multiple sclerosis.

Client–led research and intervention development: Exploring people with Multiple Sclerosis’ experiences of psychological therapies (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction
There is a high prevalence of anxiety and depression among people with Multiple Sclerosis. Therapeutic modalities have been proven effective on the management of stress, anxiety, fatigue, sleep disturbances, with Cognitive Behaviour The... Read More about Client–led research and intervention development: Exploring people with Multiple Sclerosis’ experiences of psychological therapies.

The experience of psychological therapies for people with multiple sclerosis: A mixed-methods study towards a patient-centred approach to exploring processes of change (2023)
Journal Article

Psychological therapies are effective for managing multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms such as depression, pain and fatigue. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), mindfulness and other theory-led approaches have been applied and were found to have modera... Read More about The experience of psychological therapies for people with multiple sclerosis: A mixed-methods study towards a patient-centred approach to exploring processes of change.

Interpretative phenomenological analysis: Theory, Method and research (Second edition) (2022)
Journal Article

Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was developed and introduced by Jonathan Smith when he put together the epistemological underpinnings of phenomenology and hermeneutics along with idiography (Smith, 2008). He then worked with Michael La... Read More about Interpretative phenomenological analysis: Theory, Method and research (Second edition).

Emerging from the global syndemic crucible: Finding belonging in a post Corona future (2022)
Journal Article

The covid-19 global syndemic has upended societies worldwide and concomitantly united the world in a shared experience of lockdowns, social distancing, and economic upheaval. In the face of great uncertainty, dystopian realities, and binding governme... Read More about Emerging from the global syndemic crucible: Finding belonging in a post Corona future.

On learning from the client: Using interpretative phenomenological analysis for psychological intervention effectiveness and change studies (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Psychotherapy is a multi- faceted, complex phenomenon, with unique characteristics that cannot be captured by nomothetic quantitative methods. The current presentation will focus on idiographic methods of exploring psychotherapy effectiveness and the... Read More about On learning from the client: Using interpretative phenomenological analysis for psychological intervention effectiveness and change studies.

On learning from the client: Using interpretative phenomenological analysis for psychological intervention effectiveness and change studies (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Psychotherapy is a multi- faceted, complex phenomenon, with unique characteristics that cannot be captured by nomothetic quantitative methods. The current presentation will focus on idiographic methods of exploring psychotherapy effectiveness and the... Read More about On learning from the client: Using interpretative phenomenological analysis for psychological intervention effectiveness and change studies.

Fragkiadaki, E., Cotterill, N. & Rice, C. (2022). MyMS-Ally Group Psychological Intervention: a feasibility and acceptability study of a novel group psychological intervention for people with Multiple Sclerosis (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The emotional and cognitive facets of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) have a significant impact on the patients’ quality of life, relationships and other significant areas of living. Psychological interventions and their efficacy have been the focus of MS li... Read More about Fragkiadaki, E., Cotterill, N. & Rice, C. (2022). MyMS-Ally Group Psychological Intervention: a feasibility and acceptability study of a novel group psychological intervention for people with Multiple Sclerosis.

‘Sunshine’, ‘angels’ and ‘rainbows’: Language developed by mothers bereaved by perinatal loss (2022)
Journal Article

Background A perinatal loss is a life-changing event that can have psychological consequences for a mother both after the loss and in a subsequent pregnancy. Aims This qualitative study aimed to examine mothers' lived experiences of the holistic jour... Read More about ‘Sunshine’, ‘angels’ and ‘rainbows’: Language developed by mothers bereaved by perinatal loss.

The Athens multifamily therapy project (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The present paper aims at describing a pilot study on the impact of a multi – family group therapy process for families with a child who has experienced a first psychotic episode. The sample consisted of 18 members of 6 families who participated in o... Read More about The Athens multifamily therapy project.

Application of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis methodology in psychotherapy impact research: Experience of psychotherapy of a person with Multiple Sclerosis (2021)
Journal Article

Psychotherapy's impact and effectiveness have been explored through the use of quantitative research methods such as standardised inventories and scales measuring mainly behavioural and overt aspects of the psychotherapeutic encounter and symptom red... Read More about Application of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis methodology in psychotherapy impact research: Experience of psychotherapy of a person with Multiple Sclerosis.