CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Research Focus
Oxford has an extraordinary history of developing effective psychological therapies for mental health difficulties, many of which are recommended in national guidelines and implemented in the NHS and services worldwide. The therapies are built on theoretical models which are supported by experimental psychology research and developed in close collaboration with people with lived experience. The therapies are then tested in randomised controlled trials before becoming approved treatments.
To widen access to these therapies, clinical psychology teams in our department have successfully developed guided online and immersive forms of these therapies in the past few years.
Our teams work especially closely with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, as well as the University’s Department of Psychiatry. Several senior researchers in our department lead research themes in the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).
RESEARCH GROUPS IN THIS THEME
Oxford Centre for Anxiety and Trauma (OxCADAT)
Clinical Social Cognition
Cognitive Neurology
Emotional Disorder Genesis and Evolution
Oxford Cognitive Approaches to Psychosis
Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training & Research
Risk & Resilience
Oxford Psychological Interventions for Children and Adolescents