All Outputs (10)

Emotion recognition problems after brain injury: Development of the Brief Emotion Recognition Test (BERT) (2018)
Thesis

Difficulty recognising emotion can have a major impact on psychosocial outcome following acquired brain injury. The need to have an easily administered screening test which enables clinicians to quickly assess this ability has been identified. In th... Read More about Emotion recognition problems after brain injury: Development of the Brief Emotion Recognition Test (BERT).

An exploration of burnout in Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services: An interpretative phenomenological analysis (2018)
Thesis

Background: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services are a provision of care characterised by high workloads and high turnover which can mean high levels of burnout. Within the IAPT workforce, research shows that two-thirds of Psyc... Read More about An exploration of burnout in Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Lived experiences of biracial women with Pakistani and White parents: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of identity (2018)
Thesis

Counselling psychology has a commitment both to understanding and working with difference and to promoting social justice for socially marginalised groups. Biracial people are one such group and therefore a focus for social justice work in counsellin... Read More about Lived experiences of biracial women with Pakistani and White parents: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of identity.

Bergson, Plotinus and the Harmonics of Evolution (2018)
Thesis

This thesis argues that Bergson and Plotinus replicate the Pythagorean tradition by proposing a philosophy of dynamic transformation underpinned by two fundamental and interlinked premises: a universe generated and governed by a natural law of musica... Read More about Bergson, Plotinus and the Harmonics of Evolution.

The citizen and trust in the (trustworthy) state (2018)
Thesis

Public sector modernisation has focused on achieving greater efficiency within the institutions and agencies of the state. In comparison the relationship between citizen and state as a basis for service improvement has received less attention. This s... Read More about The citizen and trust in the (trustworthy) state.

Investigating the impact of providing a cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for frequent attenders at the Emergency Department with medically unexplained symptoms: A mixed method study (2018)
Thesis

Abstract

Background
There are a cohort of people who attend the Emergency Department (ED) extremely frequently. In many cases the symptoms driving their presentations are medically unexplained (MUS).

Objectives
The aim of the research was to... Read More about Investigating the impact of providing a cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for frequent attenders at the Emergency Department with medically unexplained symptoms: A mixed method study.

A novel genotyping approach to improve transfusion support for patients with HLA and/or HPA alloantibodies (2018)
Thesis

Patients who require platelet transfusion support but have become sensitised to Human Leucocyte Antigens (HLA) or Human Platelet Antigens (HPA) require suitably matched or selected products to avoid adverse transfusion reactions resulting from antibo... Read More about A novel genotyping approach to improve transfusion support for patients with HLA and/or HPA alloantibodies.

Psychotherapists’ personal appearance and the therapeutic relationship: A grounded theory of client perspectives (2018)
Thesis

Research conducted in the fields of sports psychology, psychiatry, nursing, complimentary medicine, social and cognitive psychology, and business psychology, suggests that appearance influences how others perceive the other to be, and in some instanc... Read More about Psychotherapists’ personal appearance and the therapeutic relationship: A grounded theory of client perspectives.

Cognition associated with use of and belief in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) (2018)
Thesis

The use of and belief in the effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is associated with two cognitive biases: over-reliance on intuitive thinking and ontological mistakes. This thesis reports seven studies which explore the natu... Read More about Cognition associated with use of and belief in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

Understanding former heroin users' experience of change: An interpretative phenomenological analysis (2018)
Thesis

This study aimed to explore the experiences of those who have been involved in change from problematic heroin use and how they have made sense out of their experiences.
Seven participants, who had been abstinent from heroin for a minimum of two year... Read More about Understanding former heroin users' experience of change: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.