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Anxiety and Trauma (OxCADAT)

Anxiety Clinical Practice Cognition & Information Processing Resilience

Created 3 NICE-recommended therapies

Funded by the Wellcome Trust and NIHR, part of the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre

Prof. Anke Ehlers & Prof. David Clark

The image is comprised of two separate photos. The photo of the left depicts a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) face-to-face session and the photo on the right depicts a patients using the Social Anxiety Internet Therapy website using CBT. © OxCADAT
A therapy session and a patient working on Social Anxiety Internet Therapy

The Oxford Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (OxCADAT) aims to improve the understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders. We currently focus on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia). 

We work to improve understanding of the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders and stress-related disorders to develop more effective and efficient psychological therapies. Past successes of the Centre’s research team, which is led by Professor David M Clark and Professor Anke Ehlers, include developing specialised forms of cognitive therapy that are now recommended by NICE as first line treatments for panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder and social anxiety disorder. We are also working on making delivery of the treatments more efficient through blended therapy and digital delivery.

Pure genius with a real-world application - American Psychological Association Awards Committee

 

Our Centre works to improve the understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders. We currently focus on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia). We support a closely integrated programme of psychopathology studies, treatment development work and randomized controlled trials. We work closely with the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma in London, founded by Professors Clark, Ehlers and Salkovskis in 2000.

 

 

Oxcadat Therapist resources website

If you would like to view our therapist resources, which include videos intended to aid therapists treating clients using the specialised cognitive therapies developed from our models of PTSD (Ehlers and Clark, 2000), social anxiety disorder (Clark and Wells, 1995), and panic disorder (Clark 1986, 1988) please visit the OxCADAT Resources website.

 

Recent article on IAPT

Realizing the Mass Public Benefit of Evidence Based Psychological Therapies: The IAPT Programme 

 Clark DM., (2018) Annu Rev Clin Psychol, 14, 159-183

 

Questionnaires developed by the oxcadat team

If you are interested in questionnaires developed by the team to assess cognitive processes in social anxiety disorder or PTSD, please visit the OxCADAT Resources website.

Our team

Selected publications

Research Projects

  • Advancing cognitive therapy for anxiety disorders and PTSD (Wellcome trust, Pls Ehlers and Clark)

  • Preventing PTSD, depression and associated physical health problems in emergency workers (MQ, PI Dr Wild)

  • SHAPE Recovery (COVID Research Response Fund, PI Dr Wild

  • A digital approach to grief support and the treatment of post-loss mental health problems (Dr Kirsten Smith)
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News

  • Professor Anke Ehlers receives the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)’s 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award. This award is the highest honour given to someone who has made great lifetime contributions to the field of traumatic stress. Professor Ehlers attended the 38th Annual Meeting in Atlanta, USA in November where she gave a keynote talk on cognitive approaches to understanding and treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders. 

  • Congratulations to Dr Hannah Murray on being made an Honorary Fellow of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP). Hannah has been recognised for her distinguished service to the Association and the CBT community.
  • Check out Dr Hannah Murray's book on working with complexity in PTSD Working with Complexity in PTSD: A Cognitive Therapy Approach, co-authored by Sharif El-Leithy. Find out more here and buy the book here

Related research themes

Psychological and Brain Health