Natasha Yasmin Felles- PhD Psychology
- Lecturer at University of Derby
Natasha Yasmin Felles
- PhD Psychology
- Lecturer at University of Derby
Currently working on an NIHR-funded project to develop a new psychological therapy for couples following a brain injury.
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Introduction
I am an early career researcher with a background as a practitioner psychologist. My primary focus is on working with survivors of acquired brain injuries and their families to study the impact of the injury on their emotional, psychological, and cognitive functioning, and to develop effective interventions.
My publications are under my middle name 'Yasmin'.
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Publications (7)
Some partners of people with an acquired brain injury experience the person with the injury and their relationship as continuous with the pre-injury person and relationship, but others experience the person and relationship as very different to what went before. Previous qualitative research has suggested that the experience of continuity may promo...
There is a need to study prospective memory (PM) and its relationship with aspects of frontal lobe functioning in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The study aims to investigate event‐based (EB) and time‐based (TB) PM functioning in the two groups, and its association with working memory, planning, and attention. A word categorisation task was de...
Introduction
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) brings about inevitable and significant changes for family members. Mental health effects for family members are well documented but there are significant gaps in support options across services. Here, we describe our protocol for a study that seeks to investigate the potential for a narrative, creative app...
Purpose
Some partners experience their relationship with a person with brain injury as the continuation of a loving pre-injury relationship (continuity), but others feel that the pre-injury relationship has been lost and replaced with something very different (discontinuity). This study provided a quantitative test of claims arising from qualitativ...
Background:
Following a brain injury, caregiving spouses/partners differ in their perceptions of relationship continuity/discontinuity (i.e. whether the relationship is experienced as similar or different to the pre-injury relationship). Perceptions of continuity are associated with better psychological wellbeing and a better relationship.
Object...
Objective
Relationship continuity/discontinuity
refers to whether a spouse/partner experiences their current relationship with someone with an acquired brain injury (ABI) as a continuation of their loving pre-injury relationship or as radically changed. The aim of this study was to adapt a questionnaire measure of continuity/discontinuity from dem...
