Autism and Visual Impairment: a Review of the Literature
Journal Article
Butchart, M., Long, J. J., Brown, M., McMillan, A., Bain, J., & Karatzias, T. (2017)
Autism and Visual Impairment: a Review of the Literature. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 4(2), 118-131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-016-0101-1
Purpose
This review presents the evidence on the prevalence of visual impairments in children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and the similar behavioural trait...
Social cognition and paranoia in forensic inpatients with schizophrenia: A cross-sectional study
Journal Article
Bratton, H., O'Rourke, S., Tansey, L., & Hutton, P. (2016)
Social cognition and paranoia in forensic inpatients with schizophrenia: A cross-sectional study. Schizophrenia Research, 184, 96-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2016.12.004
Background
People diagnosed with schizophrenia have difficulties in emotion recognition and theory of mind, and these may contribute to paranoia. The aim of this study was to ...
A randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-based intervention program for people with schizophrenia: 6-month follow-up
Journal Article
Wang, L., Chien, W. T., Yip, L. K., & Karatzias, T. (2016)
A randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-based intervention program for people with schizophrenia: 6-month follow-up. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 12, 3097-3110. https://doi.org/10.2147/ndt.s123239
Mindfulness-based interventions have been increasingly evidenced to be effective in different mental illnesses but limited in schizophrenia. This single-blind, multisite rando...
From Childhood Trauma to Self-Harm: An Investigation of Theoretical Pathways among Female Prisoners: Childhood Trauma and Self-Harm in Female Prisoners
Journal Article
Howard, R., Karatzias, T., Power, K., & Mahoney, A. (2017)
From Childhood Trauma to Self-Harm: An Investigation of Theoretical Pathways among Female Prisoners: Childhood Trauma and Self-Harm in Female Prisoners. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 24(4), 942-951. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2058
Despite empirical evidence suggesting complex associations between childhood trauma and self-harm, there is a dearth of research investigating this association in the female p...
Depression and resilience mediate the relationship between traumatic life events and ill physical health: results from a population study
Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Jowett, S., Yan, E., Raeside, R., & Howard, R. (2016)
Depression and resilience mediate the relationship between traumatic life events and ill physical health: results from a population study. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 22(9), 1021-1031. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2016.1257814
We set out to investigate the mediating roles of depression, resilience, smoking, and alcohol use, in the relationship between potentially traumatic life events and objective ...
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms mediate the relationship between substance misuse and violent offending among female prisoners
Journal Article
Howard, R., Karatzias, T., Power, K., & Mahoney, A. (2017)
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms mediate the relationship between substance misuse and violent offending among female prisoners. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 52(1), 21-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-016-1293-5
Purpose
Despite empirical evidence suggesting complex associations between psychological trauma, substance misuse, and violent offending, there is a dearth of research investi...
An initial psychometric assessment of an ICD-11 based measure of PTSD and complex PTSD (ICD-TQ): Evidence of construct validity
Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Cloitre, M., Brewin, C. R., Bisson, J. I., Roberts, N., Wilson, D., …Shevlin, M. (2016)
An initial psychometric assessment of an ICD-11 based measure of PTSD and complex PTSD (ICD-TQ): Evidence of construct validity. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 44, 73-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2016.10.009
Among the conditions following exposure to traumatic life events proposed by ICD-11 are Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD). The primary aim of this ...
Evidence of distinct profiles of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) based on the new ICD-11 Trauma Questionnaire (ICD-TQ)
Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Shevlin, M., Fyvie, C., Hyland, P., Efthymiadou, E., Wilson, D., …Cloitre, M. (2017)
Evidence of distinct profiles of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) based on the new ICD-11 Trauma Questionnaire (ICD-TQ). Journal of Affective Disorders, 207, 181-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2016.09.032
Background The WHO International Classification of Diseases, 11th version (ICD-11), has proposed two related diagnoses following exposure to traumatic events; Posttraumatic St...
Early maladaptive schemas in adult survivors of interpersonal trauma: foundations for a cognitive theory of psychopathology
Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Jowett, S., Begley, A., & Deas, S. (2016)
Early maladaptive schemas in adult survivors of interpersonal trauma: foundations for a cognitive theory of psychopathology. European Journal of Psychotraumatology Supplement, 7(1), 30713. https://doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v7.30713
Background
Although the association between psychological trauma and early maladaptive schemas (EMS) is well established in the literature, no study to date has examined the r...
Rurality and Suicide
Book Chapter
Stark, C., Riordan, V., & Dougall, N. (2016)
Rurality and Suicide. In The International Handbook of Suicide Prevention, 569-593. (2nd). Wiley