Thanos Karatzias
Thanos Karatzias

Prof Thanos Karatzias

Professor

Biography

Professor Karatzias, is a Professor of Mental Health at Edinburgh Napier University, UK and a Clinical & Health Psychologist at the Rivers Centre for Traumatic Stress, Edinburgh, UK. He is the Director of Research at Edinburgh Napier University. He is a former Chair of the British Psychological Society Scotland Working Party for Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse (BPSSS) and is a current member of the Committee of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Crisis, Disaster & Trauma Section and UK Psychological Trauma Society (UKPTS). He has spent his entire clinical and academic career working in the field of psychological trauma. In collaboration with national and international research partners he has developed a special interest in the effects and treatment of psychological trauma on physical and mental health; on prison populations; and on people with learning disabilities. He has published widely in these areas.

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Research Areas

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Committee Member - Chief Scientist Office Health Improvement, Protection and Services Research Committee
  • Board Member - British Psychological Society (BPS) Research Board
  • Board Member - Research Grants Council, Hong Kong Standing Review Board
  • Board Member - UK Posttraumatic Stress Society (UKPTS)
  • Committee Member - BPS Crisis, Disaster & Trauma Section
  • Changing Faces Scotland Advisory Board
  • Committee Member - BPS Scotland

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • Keynote and Conference Chair - UKPTS Annual Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • Keynote: St. Andrews Health Care Conference - The Introduction CPTSD as a New Diagnosis in ICD-11
  • Evidence of distinct profiles on PTSD and Complex PTSD
  • PTSD & complex PTSD: ICD -11 updates on concept and measurement
  • PTSD and CPTSD Using the Newly Developed ICD-TQ
  • Classification, Assessment and Treatment of PTSD and CPTSD
  • The Impact of Interpersonal Trauma on Health & Wellbeing. United Nations, N 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence
  • Treating Traumatic Stress and PTSD in People with LDs
  • Childhood Sexual Abuse Across The Lifespan.
  • Psychological trauma and criminal behaviour
  • Phenomenology and Treatment of Traumatic Stress in People with Intellectual Disabilities: Preliminary Results from a Randomised Controlled Trial on the effectiveness of EMDR for DSM 5 PTSD
  • Effectiveness & Acceptability of Group Psychological Interventions for Interpersonal Trauma.
  • Symptom profiles of people attending a trauma service: Is there evidence that PTSD and complex PTSD are two distinct disorders
  • Disruptive, Optimistic, Progressive and Entrepreneurial: Is Survive and Thrive D.O.P.E.?
  • Keynote: Psychological trauma: Treatment & trauma informed care
  • Keynote: Child Sexual Abuse: Impact & Recovery
  • Keynote: Male Survivors Conference: Health & Well-being

 

Editorial Activity

  • Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health

 

External Examining/Validations

  • MSc Psychological Trauma - External Examiner
  • Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology - External Examiner
  • MSc Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy - External Examiner

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Grant reviewer for MRC
  • Grant reviewer for Carnegie Trust
  • Member of Russian Science Foundation (RSF) College Of Experts
  • Grant reviewer for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) – Clinical Evaluation and Trials (NIHR)
  • Member of Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Peer Review College
  • Grant reviewer for National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)

 

Invited Speaker

  • UKPTS Annual Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Psychological Trauma: Impact and Treatment
  • Child sexual abuse impact and interventions: A critical review of the existing evidence

 

Media Activity

  • Glasgow Sunday Herald
  • Herald Scotland (web).
  • Irish Independent (web).
  • The Sun (Eire).
  • CBC News Radio
  • The Sun (Scotland)

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Chartered Clinical Psychologist
  • Member of the Health Professions Council
  • Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
  • Chartered Scientist (CSci), Science Council
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Chartered Health Psychologist, British Psychological Society
  • Graduate Member, British Psychological Association

 

Reviewing

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
  • Journal of Traumatic Stress
  • International Journal of Forensic Mental Health
  • Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice & Policy
  • Children and Youth Services Review
  • Stress & Health
  • Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
  • Psychology, Health & Medicine
  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Traumatology
  • Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Journal of Intellectual Disabilities
  • Behaviour Research & Therapy
  • Women’s Studies International Forum
  • Journal of Behaviour Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry
  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
  • Psychiatria Danubina
  • European Review of Applied Psychology
  • Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry
  • British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
  • British Journal of General Practice
  • Journal of Happiness Studies
  • Psychiatry Research
  • British Journal of Health Psychology
  • Psychology and Psychotherapy; Theory, Research and Practice
  • Quality of Life Research
  • Aggressive Behaviour

 

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting Professor in Mental Health

 

Date


226 results

The Development and Initial Validation of Self-Report Measures of ICD-11 Depressive Episode and Generalised Anxiety Disorder: The International Depression Questionnaire (IDQ) and the International Anxiety Questionnaire (IAQ)

Journal Article
Shevlin, M., Hyland, P., Butter, S., McBride, O., Hartman, T. K., Karatzias, T., & Bentall, R. P. (in press)
The Development and Initial Validation of Self-Report Measures of ICD-11 Depressive Episode and Generalised Anxiety Disorder: The International Depression Questionnaire (IDQ) and the International Anxiety Questionnaire (IAQ). Journal of Clinical Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23446
Background: The new International Classification of Diseases came into effect in 2022 (ICD-11; World Health Organization, 2022) and included updated descriptions and diagnosti...

Mindfulness-based interventions for non-affective psychosis: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis

Journal Article
Lai King Yip, A., Karatzias, T., & Tong Chien, W. (2022)
Mindfulness-based interventions for non-affective psychosis: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis. Annals of Medicine, 54(1), 2340-2353. https://doi.org/10.1080/07853890.2022.2108551
Aim: Although mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are routinely used in clinical practice, a comprehensive synthesis of the effectiveness of MBIs for non-affective psychosi...

Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide

Journal Article
Savinc, J., Dougall, N., Maxwell, M., Karatzias, T., O'Connor, R., Williams, B., …Nolan, L. (2022)
Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide. International Journal of Population Data Science, 7(3), https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1878
Objectives Childhood adversity (CA) carries an increased risk of developing later mental health (MH) problems and suicidal behaviour. This study aimed to summarise lifetime ho...

The role of psychosocial factors in explaining sex differences in major depression and generalized anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal Article
Vallières, F., Murphy, J., McBride, O., Shevlin, M., Gilmore, B., Travers, Á., …Hyland, P. (2022)
The role of psychosocial factors in explaining sex differences in major depression and generalized anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Public Health, 22(1), Article 1563. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13954-8
Background: Understanding how pandemics differentially impact on the socio-protective and psychological outcomes of males and females is important to develop more equitable pu...

Validation of the International Trauma Questionnaire – Child and Adolescent Version (ITQ-CA) in a Chinese mental health service seeking adolescent sample

Journal Article
Ho, G., Liu, H., Karatzias, T., Hyland, P., Cloitre, M., Lueger-Schuster, B., …Shevlin, M. (in press)
Validation of the International Trauma Questionnaire – Child and Adolescent Version (ITQ-CA) in a Chinese mental health service seeking adolescent sample. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 16(1), Article 66. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-022-00497-4
Background. The International Trauma Questionnaire – Child and Adolescent version (ITQ-CA) is a self-report measure that assesses posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and comp...

The network structure of ICD-11 adjustment disorder: A comparison of clinical and non-clinical samples

Journal Article
Levin, Y., Karatzias, T., Shevlin, M., Ben-Ezra, M., Maercker, A., & Bachem, R. (2022)
The network structure of ICD-11 adjustment disorder: A comparison of clinical and non-clinical samples. European Psychiatry, 65(1), Article e43. https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.2303
Background: ICD-11 adjustment disorder (AjD) is characterized by two main symptom clusters; preoccupation with the stressor and failure to adapt to the stressor. The network a...

The psychological consequences of the Ukraine war: What we know, and what we have to learn

Journal Article
Shevlin, M., Hyland, P., & Karatzias, T. (2022)
The psychological consequences of the Ukraine war: What we know, and what we have to learn. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 146(2), 105-106. https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.13466
Invited editorial.

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD): A network analysis in a highly traumatised clinical sample

Journal Article
Owczarek, M., Karatzias, T., McElroy, E., Hyland, P., Cloitre, M., Kratzer, L., …Shevlin, M. (in press)
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD): A network analysis in a highly traumatised clinical sample. Journal of Personality Disorders,
Whether Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) diagnoses differ substantially enough to warrant separate diagnostic classifica...

State of Ireland's Mental Health: Findings from a nationally representative survey

Journal Article
Hyland, P., Vallières, F., Shevlin, M., Bentall, R. P., Butter, S., Hartman, T. K., …Fox, R. (2022)
State of Ireland's Mental Health: Findings from a nationally representative survey. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 31, Article e47. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2045796022000312
Aims. Current information about the prevalence of various mental health disorders in the general adult population of the Republic of Ireland is lacking. In this study, we exam...

Tracking the psychological and socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a methodological report from Wave 5 of the Covid-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study

Journal Article
McBride, O., Butter, S., Murphy, J., Hartman, T. K., McKay, R., Hyland, P., …Bentall, R. P. (2022)
Tracking the psychological and socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a methodological report from Wave 5 of the Covid-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 31(4), Article e1928. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1928
Objectives: The COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study was established in March 2020 to monitor the psychological and socio-economic impact of the pandemic ...

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