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Miss Monica Sood BSc, MSc

Postgraduate Research Student

Monica Sood is a PhD Researcher in Psychology at the University of Southampton, Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences.

Academic background:

BSc Psychology (Hons), University of Southampton (2017)
MSc Clinical Psychology, University of Southampton (2018)

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Research interests

My primary research interests are in psychosis, psychotic-type experience, and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for psychosis. My research to date has focused on investigating specific cognitive and attachment-based factors associated with the maintenance of psychotic-type experience. My PhD research aims to determine whether changes in certain psychotic-type symptoms and recovery are accounted for by key cognitive, affective, and behavioural factors, as predicted by attachment theory, in both analogue and clinical populations.

PhD supervision:

Dr. Katherine Newman Taylor
Dr. Kathy Carnelley

PhD research:

Augmenting cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) by integrating attachment theory.

Funding Body:

South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP), part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Research group

Centre for Innovation in Mental Health (CiMH)

Affiliate research group

Centre for Research on Self and Identity (CRSI)

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Articles

Sood, M., Carnelley, K., & Newman-Taylor, K. (2022). Do emotion regulation strategies mediate the attachment–paranoia association? An experimental study of repeated attachment-imagery priming and stress buffering. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.
Sood, M., Carnelley, K., & Newman-Taylor, K. (2021). How does attachment imagery for paranoia work? Cognitive fusion and beliefs about self and others mediate the impact on paranoia and anxiety. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 94(4), 973-993. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12354
Newman-Taylor, K., Sood, M., Rowe, A., & Carnelley, K. (2021). The impact of repeated attachment priming on paranoia, mood and help-seeking intentions in an analogue sample. Brain Sciences, 11(10), [1257]. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11101257
Sood, M., & Newman-Taylor, K. (2020). Cognitive fusion mediates the impact of attachment imagery on paranoia and anxiety. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 44(6), 1150-1161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-020-10127-y
Newman-Taylor, K., Richardson, T., Sood, M., Sopp, M., Perry, E., & Bolderston, H. (2020). Cognitive mechanisms in cannabis-related paranoia; Initial testing and model proposal. Psychosis, 12(4), 314-327. https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2020.1757742

Conference

Sood, M., Newman-Taylor, K., & Carnelley, K. (2021). How does attachment imagery for paranoia work? Cognitive fusion and beliefs about self and others mediate the impact on paranoia and anxiety. Paper presented at European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Belfast, Ireland.

Review

Sood, M., Carnelley, K., & Newman-Taylor, K. (Accepted/In press). How does insecure attachment lead to paranoia? A systematic critical review of cognitive, affective, and behavioral mechanisms. British Journal of Clinical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12361

I provide (or have provided) teaching assistance on a number of modules including:
PSYC1014: Psychology of Attractiveness
PSYC3010: Attachment and Personal Relationships
PSYC3061: Ingroup Relations and Interpersonal Influence

I am also co-supervising a Clinical Psychology Doctorate (DClinPsych) student on their research thesis, who is replicating my research (Sood & Newman-Taylor, 2020; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10608-020-10127-y) in their work.

Miss Monica Sood
Building 44 Highfield Campus University of Southampton SO17 1BJ

Room Number : 44/4001

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