Anna Bak-Klimek
Anna BakKlimek

Dr Anna Bak-Klimek

Lecturer

  A.Bak-Klimek@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Dr Anna Bak-Klimek is a BPS Chartered Psychologist (Teaching & Research Route). She is currently a part-time lecturer involved in teaching on a number of Postgraduate Programmes. She has teaching and research expertise in mental/physical health of vulnerable populations.
Areas of research expertise include systematic reviews, quantitative research approaches and mixed methods. She is passionate about adapting and developing psychological interventions for improving mental health of populations affected by long-term health conditions (e.g. cancer) and developmental disabilities. She currently supervises 4 PhD/Prof Doc students in the area of interventions development (in mental health and educational settings).
Anna also has a professional diploma in cognitive-behavioural therapy and postgraduate certificate in person-centred counselling. She has experience in delivering psychological interventions to migrant and student populations.

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Bak-Klimek, A., Karatzias, T., Elliott, L., MacLean R., Dickson, A. (2015). Well-being among Polish Economic Migrants in Scotland: Testing the Sustainable Happiness. A Sequential Explanatory Mixed-Methods Study. Migrant and Ethnic Health Research, Glasgow
  • Bak-Klimek, A., Karatzias, T., Elliott, L., MacLean, R. (2014). The Determinants of Well-being Among International Economic Migrants: A Meta-Analysis. 7th European Conference on Positive Psychology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  • Bak-Klimek, A., Karatzias, T., Elliott, L. (2013). The Determinants of Well-being Among International Immigrants. A Systematic Literature Review. The 2nd International Conference on Positive Psychology, Brno, The Czech Republic.
  • Bak-Klimek, A. & Karatzias, T., Laybourn, P. (2009). Demographic, Trauma and Clinical Characteristics of Patients Referred to a Specialist Psychotherapy Service for Survivors of Sexual Abuse. BPS Scottish Undergraduate Conference, Glasgow Caledonian Unive

 

Invited Speaker

  • UK Central & Eastern European Health Research Forum, 2019

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Member of British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies

 

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  • Reviewing

 

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Is Population Density Associated with Non-Communicable Disease in Western Developed Countries? A Systematic Review

Journal Article
Carnegie, E. R., Inglis, G., Taylor, A., Bak-Klimek, A., & Okoye, O. (2022)
Is Population Density Associated with Non-Communicable Disease in Western Developed Countries? A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(5), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052638
Over the last three decades, researchers have investigated population density and health outcomes at differing scale. There has not been a systematic review conducted in order...

Positive changes and appreciation of life among economic immigrants in Scotland.

Journal Article
Bak-Klimek, A., Karatzias, T., Elliott, L., Dickson, A., & MacLean, R. (2020)
Positive changes and appreciation of life among economic immigrants in Scotland. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 21, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-019-00669-w
Objectives: Existing qualitative studies focussed predominantly on exploring immigrants’ stress, distress and coping aimed at reducing stress. Little attention has been paid t...

The Determinants of Well-being among Polish Economic Immigrants. Testing The Sustainable Happiness Model in Migrant Population

Journal Article
Bak-Klimek, A., Karatzias, T., Elliott, L., & MacLean, R. (2018)
The Determinants of Well-being among Polish Economic Immigrants. Testing The Sustainable Happiness Model in Migrant Population. Journal of Happiness Studies, 19, 1565–1588. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-017-9877-7
Economic migration has increased dramatically over the past decades, yet, still little is known about the well-being of economic migrants. Most studies focus on the poor menta...

The level and determinants of well-being among Polish economic migrants in Scotland - testing the Sustainable Happiness Model; a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study

Thesis
Bak-Klimek, A. (2015)
The level and determinants of well-being among Polish economic migrants in Scotland - testing the Sustainable Happiness Model; a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9829
Background: The available research on economic migration suggested that immigrants may be less happy than the indigenous populations. It was found that relatively stable dispo...

The Determinants of Well-Being Among International Economic Immigrants: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis

Journal Article
Bak-Klimek, A., Karatzias, T., Elliott, L., & Maclean, R. (2015)
The Determinants of Well-Being Among International Economic Immigrants: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis. Applied research in quality of life, 10(1), 161-188. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-013-9297-8
Over the past decades migration has increased dramatically. Most of the scientific literature on immigrant mental health has focussed on stress, distress and mental illness. L...

Nature of child sexual abuse and psychopathology in adult survivors : results from a clinical sample in Scotland.

Journal Article
Bak-Klimek, A., Karatzias, T., Campbell, J., Pugh, R., Laybourn, P., & Elliott, L. (2014)
Nature of child sexual abuse and psychopathology in adult survivors : results from a clinical sample in Scotland. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 21, 550-557. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12127
The relationship between history of childhood sexual abuse and psychopathology in adult life is well established. However, understanding of the mechanisms by which abuse exert...

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