Research project

Attachment based psychological interventions for people with psychosis

Project overview

People with psychosis see, hear or believe things that others don't. These experiences can be compelling, highly distressing, and disrupt people’s lives.

We are working with people with psychosis, their family and friends, and NHS clinicians, to develop attachment based interventions and therapies.

Our 'attachment style' is informed by early relationships, and describes the way that we cope with difficult feelings and interact with others. Many people with psychosis report adverse early experiences and develop an insecure attachment style. This makes it hard to cope with their unusual experiences or access treatments that may beneficial.

Our work aims to support people to live well with psychosis – to feel safe, manage their distress, and access recommended treatments if they so choose.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Katherine Newman-Taylor

Prof of Clinical Psychology and CBT
Research interests
  • CBT and mindfulness for psychosis
  • Attachment based interventions for psychosis
  • Recovery approaches to living well with severe mental ill-health
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Other researchers

Dr Kathy Carnelley

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • My research area is personal relationships. I investigate the ways in which attachment experi…
  • One stream of my research focuses on moving people toward felt security. Attachment security …
  • Other streams of research focus on attachment networks (e.g., who serves as attachment figure…
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Dr Tess Maguire

Principal Teaching Fellow
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Olivia, Josephine Partridge, Tessa Maguire & Katherine Newman-Taylor, 2022, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 50(4), 404-417
Type: article
Olivia Partridge, Tess Maguire & Katherine Newman-Taylor, 2021, Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 95(1)
Type: review
Monica Sood & Katherine Newman-Taylor, 2020, Cognitive Therapy and Research, 44(6), 1150-1161
Type: article