David Gresswell

University of Lincoln · School of Psychology

Clergy have an emotionally taxing role and experience high rates of distress. Clergy are an under-represented group in research, with studies suggesting clergy utilise religious coping skills, and underutilise social support. The aims of this study were to assess psychological distress, coping, and help-seeking in UK clergy, and determine whether r...

Clergy have an emotionally taxing role and are suggested to experience high rates of distress. Prior research suggests clergy utilise religious coping skills and may underutilise support. This study aimed to explore clergy experiences of role-demands, coping, and support, to supplement previous findings, and guide intervention. Nine clergy members...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore service users’ experiences of the process of ending from national health service (NHS) community personality disorder services. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight participants recruited from four NHS community personality disorder services. Findings Thre...

Assessing adult deaf individuals 'cognitive ability and adaptive behaviour is complicated due to confounding factors such as language deprivation, the influence of deaf-culture and to adapt the assessment measures from hearing measures challenges reliability and validity. We raise issues of what types of assessing cognitive and adaptive skills are...

Purpose This paper aims to explore whether a United Kingdom (UK) clinical psychology training programme (the programme) was effective in producing graduates who are confident in leadership, within the context of the National Health Service and reflecting the British Psychological Society’s views of leadership. Design/methodology/approach Mixed met...

Purpose This paper aims to address how one Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) programme contributes to the shaping of attitudes of its trainee clinical psychologists (TCPs) towards cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Design/methodology/approach A total of 28 TCPs completed an online, mixed-methods questionnaire relating to their attitude...

Forensic inpatients who experience hallucinations and delusions present with complex clinical needs, which can be exacerbated through additional individual difficulties and disabilities impacting responsivity. Experiences of hallucinations and delusions are shaped by the individual’s context and culture; however, to date this has not been explored...

Purpose To review and synthesize the qualitative literature on service users’ experiences of endings from a psychological service or therapy. Methods A systematic search of the peer‐reviewed literature identified qualitative studies meeting specific inclusion criteria. A modified CASP tool was used to critically appraise their quality, and a meta‐...

Purpose: Nurses working in acute mental-health services are vulnerable to occupational stress. One stressor identified is the challenging behaviour of some service users (Jenkins and Elliott, 2004). The purpose of this paper is to discuss the discourses drawn on by nurses to understand challenging behaviour and talk about its management. Design/met...

This study utilised a non-concurrent case-series design to examine the effectiveness and acceptability of a guided self-help Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention for people with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. A key aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between psychological flexibility (a key process within ACT),...

This chapter explores and specifies the assessment of parental risk in child custody evaluation cases where one or both parents, usually the father, is reported to have possessed and/or engaged in the distribution, trading and/or production of child sexual exploitation material (CSEM). It presents a clinical analysis of CSEM offending and risk in f...

At its core, Clinical Behaviour Analysis (CBA) is the application of empirically established behavioural learning principles to the clinical domain, providing a framework for the systematic analysis of a person’s historical and current contexts, in terms of the personal learning that has occurred through interaction with those contexts, and using t...

Background: Clinicians have reported observations of the immediate cessation of non-epileptic attacks after the diagnosis of NEAD is presented. Objective: The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the impact of receiving a diagnosis of NEAD. Search strategy: A literature search across the databases Medline, PsycINFO, EMBASE, and CINAHL,...

Recent empirical evidence suggests that women assault their intimate partners at approximately the same rate as men. However, a general historical reluctance to acknowledge women as significant perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV) has limited clinical understanding of this phenomenon and the processes by which such behaviour may develop....

A correlational study examined the suppositions of Headey and Wearing’s four-dimension model of subjective wellbeing (SWB) and psychological distress amongst people experiencing psychosis. The research objective was to replicate the model with the studied sample and to examine how emotional distress resulting from psychosis affects the individuals’...

Purpose This paper seeks to extend the focus of positive psychology research to individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) to address an aspect of social exclusion experienced by this disadvantaged client group. Design/methodology/approach The article summarises and builds on the outcomes of an earlier subjective wellbeing in psychosis study and...

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Researchers have proposed that the cognitive distortions of sexual offenders are underpinned by a number of implicit cognitive processes termed implicit theories. Until recently, however, the implicit theory hypothesis has received little empirical support due to broader limitations with standard forensic assessment procedures. The current research...

A review of the literature on multiple murder reveals little systematic research on this phenomenon despite widespread media interest and figures indicating that over 3 per cent of homicide victims in England and Wales die in incidents of multiple homicide. Difficulties in both defining multiple murder and estimating its prevalance are noted, altho...

Suggests that the application of functional analysis (FA) to past behavior is useful to both practitioners and researchers. An FA suggests that certain events occur in a particular order and so may have a functional relationship. An FA offers benefits in terms of organizing case material while avoiding statements of direct causality, understanding...

Compares multiple murder to addictive activities, particularly gambling. 86% of multiple murderers interviewed disclosed a history of violent fantasy compared to 23% of murderers with only 1 victim (R. A. Prentky et al, 1989). Addictions produce changes in physical arousal and affect with the core psychological components of salience, conflict, tol...