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: St. Andrews Health Care Conference - The Introduction CPTSD as a New Diagnosis in ICD-11
  • Keynote and Conference Chair - UKPTS Annual Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Childhood Sexual Abuse Across The Lifespan.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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

 

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

 

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting Professor in Mental Health

 

Date


226 results

Sex and age differences in ICD-11 PTSD and Complex PTSD: An analysis of four general 2 population samples

Journal Article
McGinty, G., Fox, R., Ben-Ezra, M., Cloitre, M., Karatzias, T., Shevlin, M., & Hyland, P. (2021)
Sex and age differences in ICD-11 PTSD and Complex PTSD: An analysis of four general 2 population samples. European Psychiatry, 64(1), https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.2239
Background. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is traditionally understood as a disorder that occurs more commonly in women than in men, and in younger age groups than in ol...

Complex post-traumatic stress disorder in asylum seekers and victims of trafficking: treatment considerations

Journal Article
Jowett, S., Argyriou, A., Scherrer, O., Karatzias, T., & Katona, C. (2021)
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder in asylum seekers and victims of trafficking: treatment considerations. BJPsych Open, 7(6), https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2021.1007
Asylum-seekers experience high levels of traumatic events pre, post, and during migration. Polytraumatisation is associated with Complex PTSD (CPTSD), which has not yet been e...

Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict poorer adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal Article
Lloyd, A., McKay, R., Hartman, T. K., Vincent, B. T., Murphy, J., Gibson-Miller, J., …Mason, L. (2021)
Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict poorer adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98772-5
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented global changes in individual and collective behaviour. To reduce the spread of the virus, public health bodies have promo...

Trajectories of change in internalizing symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based study

Journal Article
Hyland, P., Vallières, F., Daly, M., Butter, S., Bentall, R. P., Fox, R., …Shevlin, M. (2021)
Trajectories of change in internalizing symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 295, 1024-1031. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.08.145
Background: Longitudinal data indicates that the mental health of the general population may not have been as badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as some had feared. Most ...

Dimensional latent structure of ICD-11 posttraumatic stress disorder, complex PTSD, and adjustment disorder: Evidence from Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria

Journal Article
Charak, R., Cano-Gonzalez, I., Shevlin, M., Ben-Ezra, M., Karatzias, T., & Hyland, P. (2022)
Dimensional latent structure of ICD-11 posttraumatic stress disorder, complex PTSD, and adjustment disorder: Evidence from Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria. Traumatology, 28(2), 223-234. https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000311
With the release of ICD-11 in 2018, there has been a surge in studies examining the nosology of mental disorders, including disorders associated with stress, namely, posttraum...

ICD-11 ‘Mixed Depressive and Anxiety Disorder’ is Clinical Rather than Sub-Clinical and More Common than Anxiety and Depression in the General Population

Journal Article
Shevlin, M., Hyland, P., Nolan, E., Owczarek, M., Ben-Ezra, M., & Karatzias, T. (2022)
ICD-11 ‘Mixed Depressive and Anxiety Disorder’ is Clinical Rather than Sub-Clinical and More Common than Anxiety and Depression in the General Population. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61(1), 18-36. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12321
Background: The new International Classification of Diseases was published in 2018 (ICD-11; World Health Organization, 2018) and now includes ‘Mixed depressive and anxiety dis...

Predicting risk along the suicidality continuum: A longitudinal, nationally representative study of the Irish population during the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal Article
Hyland, P., Rochford, S., Munnelly, A., Dodd, P., Fox, R., Vallières, F., …Murphy, J. (2022)
Predicting risk along the suicidality continuum: A longitudinal, nationally representative study of the Irish population during the COVID-19 pandemic. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 52(1), 83-98. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12783
Introduction: Little is known about the lifetime prevalence of different indicators of suicidality in the Irish general population; whether suicidality has increased during th...

Psychological trauma at different developmental stages and ICD-11 CPTSD: The role of dissociation

Journal Article
Jowett, S., Karatzias, T., Shevlin, M., & Hyland, P. (2022)
Psychological trauma at different developmental stages and ICD-11 CPTSD: The role of dissociation. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 23(1), 52-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2021.1934936
Background: Dissociation is commonly reported by individuals who meet criteria for PTSD and Complex PTSD. However, the association between the age of trauma exposure, dissocia...

Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study – Wave 3

Journal Article
McBride, O., Butter, S., Murphy, J., Shevlin, M., Hartman, T. K., Hyland, P., …Bentall, R. P. (2021)
Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study – Wave 3. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 30(3), https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1880
Objectives: The COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study aims to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the adult population in multiple countries. Thi...

The network structure of ICD-11 Adjustment Disorder: A cross-cultural comparison of three African countries

Journal Article
Levin, Y., Bachem, R., Karatzias, T., Shevlin, M., Maercker, A., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2021)
The network structure of ICD-11 Adjustment Disorder: A cross-cultural comparison of three African countries. British Journal of Psychiatry, 219(4), 557-564. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.46
Background: Adjustment disorder (AjD) is one of the most widespread mental disorders worldwide. In ICD-11, AjD is characterized by two main symptom clusters; preoccupation wit...

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