Thanos Karatzias
Thanos Karatzias

Prof Thanos Karatzias

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  T.Karatzias@napier.ac.uk

  

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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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Committee Member - Chief Scientist Office Health Improvement, Protection and Services Research Committee
  • Board Member - Research Grants Council, Hong Kong Standing Review Board
  • Board Member - British Psychological Society (BPS) Research 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: St. Andrews Health Care Conference - The Introduction CPTSD as a New Diagnosis in ICD-11
  • Keynote and Conference Chair - UKPTS Annual Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • 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
  • Evidence of distinct profiles on PTSD and Complex PTSD
  • PTSD & complex PTSD: ICD -11 updates on concept and measurement
  • 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
  • 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.?
  • Effectiveness & Acceptability of Group Psychological Interventions for Interpersonal Trauma.
  • Keynote: Psychological trauma: Treatment & trauma informed care
  • Keynote: Male Survivors Conference: Health & Well-being
  • Keynote: Child Sexual Abuse: Impact & Recovery

 

Editorial Activity

  • Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health

 

External Examining/Validations

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

 

Grant Reviewer

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

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

 

Membership of Professional Body

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

 

Reviewing

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

 

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting Professor in Mental Health

 

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Childhood Abuse and Current Intimate Partner Violence: A Population Study in Hong Kong

Journal Article
Yan, E., & Karatzias, T. (2020)
Childhood Abuse and Current Intimate Partner Violence: A Population Study in Hong Kong. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 35(1-2), 233-251. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260516682521
Previous studies have established that childhood violence victimization is associated with current experience of intimate partner violence (IPV). Existing literature, however,...

A randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-based intervention program for people with schizophrenia: 6-month follow-up

Journal Article
Wang, L., Chien, W. T., Yip, L. K., & Karatzias, T. (2016)
A randomized controlled trial of a mindfulness-based intervention program for people with schizophrenia: 6-month follow-up. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 12, 3097-3110. https://doi.org/10.2147/ndt.s123239
Mindfulness-based interventions have been increasingly evidenced to be effective in different mental illnesses but limited in schizophrenia. This single-blind, multisite rando...

Organic vs. functional neurological disorders: The role of childhood psychological trauma

Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Howard, R., Power, K., Socherel, F., Heath, C., & Livingstone, A. (2017)
Organic vs. functional neurological disorders: The role of childhood psychological trauma. Child Abuse and Neglect, 63, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.11.011
Although the relationship between psychological trauma and medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) is well established, this relationship is less well understood in people with m...

From Childhood Trauma to Self-Harm: An Investigation of Theoretical Pathways among Female Prisoners: Childhood Trauma and Self-Harm in Female Prisoners

Journal Article
Howard, R., Karatzias, T., Power, K., & Mahoney, A. (2017)
From Childhood Trauma to Self-Harm: An Investigation of Theoretical Pathways among Female Prisoners: Childhood Trauma and Self-Harm in Female Prisoners. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 24(4), 942-951. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2058
Despite empirical evidence suggesting complex associations between childhood trauma and self-harm, there is a dearth of research investigating this association in the female p...

Depression and resilience mediate the relationship between traumatic life events and ill physical health: results from a population study

Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Jowett, S., Yan, E., Raeside, R., & Howard, R. (2016)
Depression and resilience mediate the relationship between traumatic life events and ill physical health: results from a population study. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 22(9), 1021-1031. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2016.1257814
We set out to investigate the mediating roles of depression, resilience, smoking, and alcohol use, in the relationship between potentially traumatic life events and objective ...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms mediate the relationship between substance misuse and violent offending among female prisoners

Journal Article
Howard, R., Karatzias, T., Power, K., & Mahoney, A. (2017)
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms mediate the relationship between substance misuse and violent offending among female prisoners. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 52(1), 21-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-016-1293-5
Purpose Despite empirical evidence suggesting complex associations between psychological trauma, substance misuse, and violent offending, there is a dearth of research investi...

An initial psychometric assessment of an ICD-11 based measure of PTSD and complex PTSD (ICD-TQ): Evidence of construct validity

Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Cloitre, M., Brewin, C. R., Bisson, J. I., Roberts, N., Wilson, D., …Shevlin, M. (2016)
An initial psychometric assessment of an ICD-11 based measure of PTSD and complex PTSD (ICD-TQ): Evidence of construct validity. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 44, 73-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2016.10.009
Among the conditions following exposure to traumatic life events proposed by ICD-11 are Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD). The primary aim of this ...

Evidence of distinct profiles of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) based on the new ICD-11 Trauma Questionnaire (ICD-TQ)

Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Shevlin, M., Fyvie, C., Hyland, P., Efthymiadou, E., Wilson, D., …Cloitre, M. (2017)
Evidence of distinct profiles of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) based on the new ICD-11 Trauma Questionnaire (ICD-TQ). Journal of Affective Disorders, 207, 181-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2016.09.032
Background The WHO International Classification of Diseases, 11th version (ICD-11), has proposed two related diagnoses following exposure to traumatic events; Posttraumatic St...

Early maladaptive schemas in adult survivors of interpersonal trauma: foundations for a cognitive theory of psychopathology

Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Jowett, S., Begley, A., & Deas, S. (2016)
Early maladaptive schemas in adult survivors of interpersonal trauma: foundations for a cognitive theory of psychopathology. European Journal of Psychotraumatology Supplement, 7(1), 30713. https://doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v7.30713
Background Although the association between psychological trauma and early maladaptive schemas (EMS) is well established in the literature, no study to date has examined the r...

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) for DSM–5 posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults with intellectual disabilities: A case study review.

Journal Article
Jowett, S., Karatzias, T., Brown, M., Grieve, A., Paterson, D., & Walley, R. (2016)
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) for DSM–5 posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults with intellectual disabilities: A case study review. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 8(6), 709-719. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0000101
Objective: People with intellectual disabilities may be at a greater risk for exposure to traumatic events and consequently develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Altho...

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