Dr Christopher DJ Taylor
School of Psychology
Senior Lecturer and NIHR Fellow
Full contact details
School of Psychology
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
219 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Dr Christopher Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and NIHR Fellow in the School of Psychology at University of Sheffield. He also has a small role as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. The main aim of his work is to contribute to improving our understanding of severe mental health conditions and develop new treatments tested in clinical trials. He led as chief investigator the NIHR funded iMAPS-2 trial, the largest trial of imagery focused therapy for psychosis to date internationally.
He was a principal investigator on the CSO funded DEC:IDES trial, the first Umbrella design trial in mental health internationally (conducting three trials at the same time in one infrastructure).
He is Co-Chief Investigator of the TRUST trial, a school’s based NIHR funded adolescent paranoia RCT and a co-investigator on Young and Healthy Minds legacy project to develop a screening measure for multiple severe mental health conditions. Chris is also a co-investigator on the ACTIVATE trial testing THUMOS, a resilience boosting intervention for medical students. Chris also serves on the National Scientific Committee for the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP), the lead organisation for CBT in UK and is Co-Chair of the Spring Conference. In 2021, he was recipient of the British Psychological Society’s May Davidson Award, for “an outstanding contribution to clinical psychology, within the first ten years of qualifying”.
More information about his work can be found below and at www.researchinpsychosis.com.
Dr Taylor also does regular short video updates on the latest mental health research #TheMostInterestingThinginMentalHealth
- Qualifications
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- BSc (Hons)
- PG Cert.
- MSc
- ClinPsyD
- PhD
- CPsychol
- AFBPsS
- Research interests
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The understanding and development of new psychological therapies for people with severe mental health experiences, including psychosis, with a focus on schemas and mental imagery.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- iMAgery focused therapy for PSychosis (iMAPS-2): an assessor-blind feasibility randomized controlled clinical trial. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 51(Supplement_3), S317-S335. View this article in WRRO
- Accelerating the development of a psychological intervention to restore treatment decision-making capacity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: An umbrella trial. Schizophrenia Research, 282, 184-197. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding the relationships between parenting, attachment, schemas, and psychosis: A serial mediation analysis. British Journal of Clinical Psychology. View this article in WRRO
- Imagery-focused cognitive behavioral therapy techniques for auditory verbal hallucinations in psychosis spectrum disorders: four experimental case series. Schizophrenia Bulletin. View this article in WRRO
- Do cognitive behavioural therapy interventions lead to schema change in people with psychosis? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 32(2). View this article in WRRO
- Brief imagery based metacognitive intervention for flashforwards in psychosis: a fixed baseline case series. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 53(1), 30-46.
- The outcomes of imagery-focused interventions in relation to distress in people with delusions: a systematic literature review. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 52(6), 596-615.
- How can we measure psychological safety in mental healthcare staff? Developing questionnaire items using a nominal groups technique. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 36(3). View this article in WRRO
- Imagery‐focused therapy for visual hallucinations: a case series. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 31(3). View this article in WRRO
- Emotional and non‐emotional mental imagery and auditory verbal hallucinations (hearing voices): A systematic review of imagery assessment tools. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 31(1).
- Accelerating the development of a psychological intervention to restore treatment decision-making capacity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: a study protocol for a multi-site, assessor-blinded, pilot Umbrella trial (the DEC:IDES trial). Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 9(1). View this article in WRRO
- Attachment‐focused
iMAgery therapy forPSychosis (A‐iMAPS) : A case series targeting psychosis‐related trauma. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62(3), 621-641.
- Assessing the delivering of i
MA gery‐focused therapy forPS ychosis (iMAPS ) via telehealth. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 96(3), 678-696.
- Trauma measures for use with psychosis populations: a systematic review of psychometric properties using COSMIN. Psychiatry Research, 323. View this article in WRRO
- Commentary: Bringing together lived experience, clinical and research expertise – a commentary on the May 2022 debate (should
CAMH professionals be diagnosing personality disorder in adolescence?). Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 27(3), 246-249.
- Developing Best Practice Guidance for Discharge Planning Using the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12.
- ‘Care co-ordinator in my pocket’: a feasibility study of mobile assessment and therapy for psychosis (TechCare). BMJ Open, 11(11), e046755-e046755.
- iMAgery focused psychological therapy for persecutory delusions in PSychosis (iMAPS): a multiple baseline experimental case series. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 48(5), 530-545.
- Characterizing core beliefs in psychosis: a qualitative study. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 48(1), 67-81.
- iMAgery-Focused Psychological Therapy for Persecutory Delusions in PSychosis (iMAPS): A Novel Treatment Approach. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 26(3), 575-588.
- Delivery of cognitive-behaviour therapy for psychosis: a service user preference trial. Journal of Mental Health, 27(4), 336-344.
- Early maladaptive schema, social functioning and distress in psychosis: A preliminary investigation. Clinical Psychologist, 21(2), 135-142.
- Does schema therapy change schemas and symptoms? A systematic review across mental health disorders. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 90(3), 456-479.
- TechCare: mobile assessment and therapy for psychosis – an intervention for clients in the Early Intervention Service: A feasibility study protocol. SAGE Open Medicine, 4.
- Digital inclusion: The concept and strategies for people with mental health difficulties. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 49(9), 772-773.
- An exploration of the therapeutic alliance within a telephone‐based cognitive behaviour therapy for individuals with experience of psychosis. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 87(4), 393-410.
- Assessing Therapist Adherence to Recovery-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis Delivered by Telephone with Support from a Self-Help Guide: Psychometric Evaluations of a New Fidelity Scale. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 42(4), 435-451.
Book chapters
- Attachment, Schemas and Imagery Focused Therapy for Psychosis (iMAPS) In Rhodes J & Vorontsova N (Ed.), Schema Therapy Adapted for Psychosis and Bipolarity Exploring the Multi-Self Routledge
Other
- Schema Therapy, 461-476.
- The relationship between positive and negative schema and psychotic experiences. Clinical Psychology Forum(240), S20-S21.
- iMAgery focused therapy for PSychosis (iMAPS-2): an assessor-blind feasibility randomized controlled clinical trial. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 51(Supplement_3), S317-S335. View this article in WRRO
- Research group
- Grants
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Current Grant Funded Projects:
Title: NIHR PASF Fellowship
Funder: National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) £38,577.00
Role: Chief Investigator
Title: Treating Unhelpful Suspicious Thoughts in Teenagers (TRUST) Adolescent Paranoia RCT
Funder: National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) £299,981
Role: Co-Chief Investigator
Title: ACTIVATE: A randomised controlled trial of a resilience boosting intervention in medical students
Funder: Medical Protection Society (MPS) £200,000
Role: Co-Investigator
Completed Projects:
Title: iMAgery focused therapy for PSychosis (iMAPS-2): A feasibility randomised controlled trial
Funder: National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) £255,909
Role: Chief Investigator
Title: DEcision-making Capacity: Intervention Development and Evaluation in Schizophrenia spectrum disorder
Funder: Chief Scientist Office (CSO) £309,266
Role: Co-Investigator and Site Lead for Pennine
Title: Core Belief focused therapy for Psychosis and Schizophrenia
Funder: National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Fellowships £152,057
Role: Chief Investigator
- Teaching activities
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PSY 2003 Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology II
PSY346 Research Projects
PSY331 Essay Topics
- Professional activities and memberships
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National Scientific Committee, British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (BABCP), The lead organisation for CBT in the UK
- PhD Opportunities
I am happy to receive applications for PhD study in my area of research.
We advertise PhD opportunities (Funded or Self-Funded) on FindAPhD.com
For further information, please see the department PhD Opportunities page.