PTSD and complex PTSD in sentenced male prisoners in the UK: prevalence, trauma antecedents, and psychiatric comorbidities
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Facer-Irwin, E., Karatzias, T., Bird, A., Blackwood, N., & MacManus, D. (in press)
PTSD and complex PTSD in sentenced male prisoners in the UK: prevalence, trauma antecedents, and psychiatric comorbidities. Psychological Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720004936
Background
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is highly prevalent within prison settings, yet is often unidentified and undertreated. Complex PTSD (CPTSD) has been recently ...
The Authoritarian Dynamic During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Nationalism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
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Hartman, T. K., Stocks, T. V., Mckay, R., Gibson Miller, J., Levita, L., Martinez, A. P., …Bentall, R. P. (2021)
The Authoritarian Dynamic During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Nationalism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(7), 1274-1285. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620978023
Research has demonstrated that situational factors such as perceived threats to the social order activate latent authoritarianism. The deadly COVID-19 pandemic presents a rare...
Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom
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Murphy, J., Vallières, F., Bentall, R., Shevlin, M., McBride, O., Hartmann, T., …Hyland, P. (2021)
Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Nature Communications, 12(1), Article 29 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20226-9
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Persistent Somatic Symptoms During the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Role of Sense of Threat
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Jowett, S., Shevlin, M., Hyland, P., & Karatzias, T. (2021)
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Persistent Somatic Symptoms During the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Role of Sense of Threat. Psychosomatic Medicine, 83(4), 338-344. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000890
Objective
Persistent somatic symptoms, such as pain and fatigue, have been referred to as somatisation. Somatisation is commonly associated with histories of trauma and PTSD. ...
Sexual Violence and Its Associated Psychosocial Effects in Ireland
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Valliéres, F., Gilmore, B., Nolan, A., Maguire, P., Bondjers, K., McBride, O., …Hyland, P. (2022)
Sexual Violence and Its Associated Psychosocial Effects in Ireland. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(11-12), NP9066-NP9088. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520978193
Current data on the prevalence and psychosocial correlates of sexual violence in the Republic of Ireland is lacking, with the most recent sexual abuse and violence survey dati...
A randomized controlled trial of a caregiver-facilitated problem-solving-based self-learning program for family carers of people with early psychosis
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Tong Chien, W., Bressington, D., Lubman, D. I., & Karatzias, T. (2020)
A randomized controlled trial of a caregiver-facilitated problem-solving-based self-learning program for family carers of people with early psychosis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(24), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249343
Facilitated self-help and problem-solving strategies can empower and support family carers to cope with caregiving for people with severe mental illness. This single-blind mul...
The Need for Research on PTSD in Children and Adolescents: A commentary on Elliot et al., 2020
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Cloitre, M., Brewin, C. R., Kazlauskas, E., Lueger-Schuster, B., Karatzias, T., Hyland, P., & Shevlin, M. (2021)
The Need for Research on PTSD in Children and Adolescents: A commentary on Elliot et al., 2020. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 62(3), 277-279. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13361
The recent release of the 11th version of The International Classification of Diseases (ICD‐11: WHO, 2018) marked a significant departure from the previous similarities betwee...
Monitoring the psychological, social, and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the population: Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study
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McBride, O., Murphy, J., Shevlin, M., Gibson-Miller, J., Hartman, T. K., Hyland, P., …Bentall, R. P. (2021)
Monitoring the psychological, social, and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the population: Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 30(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1861
Objectives: The C19PRC Study aims to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the adult population of the UK, Republic of Ireland, and Spain. This paper describes the con...
Anxiety, Depression, Traumatic Stress, and COVID-19 Related Anxiety in the UK General Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Shevlin, M., McBride, O., Murphy, J., Gibson Miller, J., Hartman, T. K., Levita, L., …Bentall, R. P. (2020)
Anxiety, Depression, Traumatic Stress, and COVID-19 Related Anxiety in the UK General Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic. BJPsych Open, 6(6), https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2020.109
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented global crisis necessitating drastic changes to living conditions, social-life, personal freedom and economic acti...
Is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Meaningful in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Response to Van Overmeire's Commentary on Karatzias et al. (2020)
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Shevlin, M., Hyland, P., & Karatzias, T. (2020)
Is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Meaningful in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Response to Van Overmeire's Commentary on Karatzias et al. (2020). Journal of Traumatic Stress, 33(5), 866-868. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22592
In a recently published study in this journal that used a population‐based sample in the Republic of Ireland (Karatzias et al., 2020), we concluded that 17.7% of the sample me...