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Professor Edward Watkins
Professor of Experimental and Applied Clinical Psychology
E.R.Watkins@exeter.ac.uk
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Sir Henry Wellcome Building for Mood Disorders Research F09
Sir Henry Wellcome Building for Mood Disorders Research, University of Exeter, Queens Drive, Exeter, EX4 4QQ, UK
Overview
I am a research clinical psychologist, with an MSc and Chartership in Clinical Psychology (1995) and a PhD (1998), both from the Institute of Psychiatry , London. From 1995-2003, I worked as a cognitive therapist at the Affective Disorders Unit, Maudsley Hospital, London, a national unit specialising in the treatment of depression, working in in-patient, out-patient and primary care settings. I was a core supervisor on the Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychology Diploma Course in Cognitive Therapy from 1998-2003.
I was awarded the British Psychological Society's May Davidson Award for 2004. This award is for “a clinical psychologist who has made an outstanding contribution to the development of clinical psychology within the first 10 years of his/her work as a qualified clinical psychologist. The contribution may be through clinical research or other professional work. It should be innovative and of an order sufficient to become widely recognised as an important development in British clinical psychology”.
I currently work as a researcher, teacher, clinical trainer and clinical practitioner within the Mood Disorders Centre, which is a partnership between the University of Exeter and Devon Partnership NHS Trust. I am the director of the Study of Maladaptive to Adaptive Repetitive Thought (SMART) lab.
I served as an expert member of the NICE Guidelines for Depression in Adults from 2015-2022.
Please contact me about:
- Rumination and worry - their mechanism and treatment
- The treatment and dissemination of rumination-focused CBT
- Research into understanding the active ingredients of CBT and Behavioural Activation
- Improving mental health in young people including university students
- Treatment and prevention of anxiety and depression
Nurture-U university mental health studies
We are now running several studies to find ways to improve mental health in university students.
- Bounce Back investigates the use of supported workbooks to improve resilience in students at the University of Exeter.
- a trial of a self-help app to reduce worry and build confidence to improve mental health for university students. Our research has found that over 40% of students report high levels of worry and unhelpful overthinking and this app is designed to target this risk factor in students. The app is based on evidence-based therapies and has been co-designed with students. The trial is open to UK university students with elevated worry and overthinking.
- a trial of self-guided internet cognitive-behavioural therapy versus therapist-supported internet cognitive-behavioural therapy for students with elevated anxiety and/or depression symptoms. Such internet-delivered cognitive-behavioural therapy is a proven treatment and routinely offered by university wellbeing services but we don't know who will benefit from which approach and what proportion of students benefit from self-help alone, who really need therapist-supported therapy, or who need more intensive therapy. Answering these questions will help to plan university student services more accurately. This trial is open to UK university students with elevated anxiety and/or depression symptoms.
Wellcome Trust grant to improve psychotherapy
I have recently been funded by the Wellcome Trust for a large-scale programme to investigate the active ingredients of CBT to reduce worry and rumination, as part of their recent Mental Health call on Looking Backwards to Move Forwards
This research will enable us to further enhance interventions for these transdiagnostic processes and thereby improve prevention and treatment across mood disorders, anxiety disorders and psychosis.One workstream within the project is a factorial trial to disentangle the active components of rumination-focused CBT - this will build on our recently published work on factorial trials for internet CBT in JAMA Psychiatry
The programme will also include experimental studies and co-design with experts-by-experience to further enhance our understanding and treatment of repetitive negative thought.
We have a number of posts already advertised within this grant.
We have a 4-year fully funded PhD
We have a 6-year postdoctoral researcher post – with a focus towards lived experience engagement and co-design research.
We have another 6-year postdoctoral researcher or clinical psychologist post – with a focus on experimental work and treatment development and evaluation.
We also have a project manager post for 6 years:
Self-Help guide for tackling worry and rumination
The following document provides self-help tips and strategies for those seeking guidance on how to reduce worry and rumination:
self-help guide to tackle rumination
There is also a general well-being self-help guide using Behavioural Activation principles written for use during COVID-19 pandemic.
Strategies and Tips for Mental and Emotional Well-being (COVID update)
Therapy Training material - RFCBT
The latest NICE Guidelines for Treatment of Adult Depression (NG222) ecommend that treatment for chronic depression includes CBT that explicitly targets rumination as a maintaining mechanism and that psychological interventions are adapted for relapse prevention to also tackle rumination.
We have now developed training programmes and online courses in rumination-focused CBT - and are now running these courses under the auspices of NHS England for Talking Therapies services in the South-West of the UK. We may extend this training internationally - please send us an email if you are interested.
For more detail on Rumination-focused CBT -please see the treatment manual published by Guilford Press
For details on absorption training, please see the attached self-help guide for patients and the attached script for therapists.
Therapy training material - Behavioural Activation (BA) Guide for COVID-19
Many therapists are likely to be working from home and delivering treatment remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Below is guidance in how to adapt BA for remote delivery and for where clients are stuck at home, building on the BA work developed within SMART lab. This guide assumes that therapists are already familiar with all of the main features of BA.
Please click on the link below to access the guide:
Behavioural Activation (BA) guide for therapists - adapting to COVID-19
This guide is accompanied by a worksheet for explaining the BA model and a supplement to support guided self-help workbooks.
BA worksheet to explain the model
BA supplement to support guided self-help workbooks (SPARK)
Audio/video presentations:
Please see below a selection of recorded presentations/talks/blogs:
Mind Over Natter talk: How to not worry about worry
Better Thinking interview on rumination
ABCT webinar on Rumination-focused CBT
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, 1998
Dissertation: “Contextual Awareness and the Maintenance of Depressed Mood”.
1994-1995 Institute of Psychiatry one year Diploma Course in Cognitive Therapy
Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, 1995
MSc in Clinical Psychology, University of London, 1994
BA (Hons) Psychology and Physiology 1st Class (Congratulatory) University of Oxford, 1992
Career
From September 2005 to August 2007: Reader in Clinical Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Exeter
From October 2003 to September 2005: Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Exeter
From October 1998 to September 2003: Research Fellow in Cognitive Clinical Psychology of Depression, Jointly held between Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London & MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
Links
- Full list of publications is available here
- Mood Disorders Centre
- A Special Offer from Guilford Press: Save 20% with Promotion Code 2E
- details on award of new Wellcome Trust grant
- More details on Nurture-U university mental health study
Research group links
Research
Research interests
- Cognitive behavioural and behavioural activation approaches to depression
- Cognition and emotion
- Onset, maintenance, recurrence, treatment and prevention of depression
- Ruminative thinking, worry, autobiographical memory, emotional processing, problem solving, transdiagnostic processes, procrastination, being effective.
- New approaches to trial design and methodology, e.g,, MOST, SMART designs
- Prevention of depression and anxiety in young people
- Digital interventions e.g., internet treatment, mobile apps
Research projects
I am leading a 4-year £4million flagship MRC/AHRC/ESRC funded grant within the Adolescence, Mental Health and Developing Minds scheme focused on understanding and improving university student mental health. The project involves the Universities of Exeter, Oxford, Southampton, Newcastle, Cardiff and King’s College London..
The programme includes workstreams examining different elements across a whole university approach:
(a) in-depth surveys of students each winter and spring to understand rates of mental health difficulties, how they vary across the wide diversity of the student body, the use and helpfulness of different services/resources, and protective and risk factors. To date, we have over 6000 students completing surveys in our first year;
(b) the co-design and evaluation of a web-based tool for students to use as a electronic wellbeing record/passport and that improves signposting of students to relevant services and resources;
(c) a focus on understanding how to make campuses more compassionate and inclusive. This includes the use of focus groups, embedded anthropological observation, and video ethnography to examine where university culture, leadership, systems and bureaucracy, and curricula can act to increase or decrease students’ experience of being supported and valued and their sense of belonging. We also recognise the critical importance of isolation and loneliness and are piloting a social prescribing approach to build social connectedness.
(d) Developing and evaluating a state-of-the-art mental health literacy course for students designed to promote healthy behaviours and improved resilience, with encouraging initial findings.
(e) Randomised controlled trials to investigate (i) a supported student-developed strengths-based intervention to build resilience in students; (ii) a self-guided app to build confidence and reduce worry in students – with over 40% of students reporting high levels of worry; (iii) self-guided versus therapist-supported versions of internet cognitive-behavioural therapy for anxiety and depression. Such treatments are commonly used by university wellbeing services but we don’t know who might benefit from which or how best to distribute resources between self-help versus therapist-based interventions. This trial will answer this question to improve planning of therapy and wellbeing services.
2. Wellcome Trust "Understanding the mechanisms driving the reduction of repetitive negative thought."
We have been funded by the Wellcome Trust for a large-scale six-year programme to investigate the active ingredients of CBT to reduce worry and rumination, as part of their recent Mental Health call on Looking Backwards to Move Forwards. This research will enable us to further enhance interventions for these transdiagnostic processes and thereby improve prevention and treatment across mood disorders, anxiety disorders and psychosis.
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE POSTS IN THIS PROJECT INCLUDE:
We have a 4-year fully funded PhD:
University webpage: Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter
We have a 6-year postdoctoral researcher post – with a focus towards lived experience engagement and co-design research:
‘Click here’ to view the advert on UoE website.
We have another 6-year postdoctoral researcher or clinical psychologist post – with a focus on experimental work and treatment development and evaluation:
‘Click here’ to view the advert on UoE website.
We also have a project manager post for 6 years:
3. IMPROVE Study
The Mood Disorders Centre, University of Exeter has recently completed an innovative trial to investigate and improve internet-based psychotherapy for depression. The IMPROVE trial provided free and open access internet-delivered cognitive-behavioral therapy for people with major depression, supported by online guidance from a trained psychological wellbeing practitioner. The initial study is funded by a University of Exeter Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund Seedcorn grant to Professor Ed Watkins, a clinical psychologist who leads the Mood Disorders Centre. It investigated which components of internet CBT for depression were the main actie ingredients. This study is now completed and the main outcome paper has been published in JAMA Psychiatry Investigation of Active Ingredients Within Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression,
2. "Reducing depressive rumination: the role of processing mode".
With support from the Wellcome Trust, a series of experimental studies investigated whether the style that people adopt when thinking about problems or difficulties can influence whether they get better or worse. Rumination is a term used to refer to unhelpful dwelling on problems, mistakes and losses. In particular, the research is examining whether people can be trained in and out of unhelpful ruminative thinking.
3. Rumination-focused CBT for residual depression.
A randomised controlled trial of rumination-focused CBT for patients who have not fully recovered from depression despite adequate treatment with antidepressant medication was funded by the National Alliance for Research into Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) in adults and found that RFCBT was an effective addition to antidepressants in treating residual depression (Watkins et al., 2010). A follow-on trial found that group RFCBT outperformed group CBT in the treatment of out-patient patients with depression (Hvenegaard et al., 2019). An ongoing US NIMH funded trial (in collaboration with University of Utah) is examining whether RFCBT is effective at preventing relapse into depression for adolescents with a history of depression (the RuMeChange trial).
4. Vulnerability to depression in adolescence.
Cognitive factors that may predict risk for depression are being examined in young people aged between 14-21. Several trials have now found that targeting rumination via online treatment in high risk young people is effective at reducing the onset of depression and anxiety (Topper et al., 2017; Cook & Watkins, 2019).
5. ECoWeB (Emotional Competence and Wellbeing in Young People) http://www.ecowebproject.eu
This Horizon2020 grant (Prof Watkins, lead applicant) sought to investigate emotions and the role of emotional competence skills in the maintenance of well-being and tests whether a scalable self-help mental health app can promote well-being and prevent poor mental health in young people across UK, Germany, Spain and Belgium. This study has now completed and the study results have been submitted for publication.
Research grants:
1. Wellcome Trust - Wellcome Project Grant - 065809 -“Reducing Persistent Depressive Rumination: The Role of Processing Style”. Value £144, 508. Grant started in May 2002 and ran until August 2006. Principal investigator (PI) on the grant. The Grant employed one full-time postdoctoral researcher. External Grant.
2. Psychiatry Research Trust – Project Grant: “Rumination-focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Residual Depression – Investigating Mechanisms”. Value £40, 000 for two years from June 2003.
This grant employed one half-term research assistant for two years to investigate the mechanisms of change of cognitive behavioural therapy for residual depression. With Professor Jan Scott. Internal Grant at Institute of Psychiatry.
3. National Alliance Research into Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) Young Investigator Award: “Rumination-focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Residual Depression”. Value $60,000 over two years starting in July 2003, shifted to start in May 2004, running to May 2006. This grant provided monies for a research assistant for two years in order to conduct a pilot randomised controlled trial of rumination-focused CBT. Principal investigator on grant with Professor Jan Scott as mentor. The grant also involves training in administering a randomised controlled trial. External Grant from a prestigious North American mental health charity.
4. Medical Research Council MRC Trial platform: “Preventing depression relapse in NHS practice using Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy”. Value £237,246. For two years from September 2005 to September 2007. Co-PI with Dr Willem Kuyken as PI.
5. Medical Research Council MRC Experimental Medicine Grant: “Cognitive training as a facilitated self-help intervention for depression”. Value £464,000 (full FEC costs £536,426). For 3 years from July 2006 to December 2009. Only 27 out of 199 applications for Experimental Medicine grants were funded – this project was the only psychological (non-medical) project funded. Principal investigator on grant.
6. ESRC CASE Collaborative PhD Studentship: “An investigation of the impact of a facilitated self-help intervention for patients with depression on psychosocial well-being and social functioning”. Funding for PhD studentship for 3 years from October 2006 to October 2009. Value £57900.
7. Wellcome Trust - Wellcome Project Grant 080099/Z/06/Z- “Reducing vulnerability to depression: dysregulation of processing style and depressive rumination.” Value £226, 349. Grant started in September 2006 and ran until August 2009. Principal investigator on the grant. The Grant employed one full-time postdoctoral researcher. External Grant.
8. Great Western Research Collaboration Funded PhD studentship grant: “Psychological Interventions in Palliative Care”. Jointly funded by Great Western Research and Hospiscare. Principal supervisor and applicant. Funding for PhD studentship for 3 years from January 2008 to January 2011. Value £55,000
9. Peninsula Collaborative Leadership in Applied Research Health Care (CLARHC) grant: collaborative partner in bid for £10 million funding from NIHR with £10 million matched funding to develop applied clinical research integrating with the NHS in the Southwest (Mood Disorders Centre a partner in the application).
10. Wellcome Trust Capital Bid: “Improving Psychological Interventions for Mood Disorders: A Translational Research Approach.” (Grant no: 085965). Principal applicant and co-ordinating applicant for Mood Disorders Centre’s successful bid for developing a new Research Treatment Centre building and Biobehavioural and Virtual Reality Laboratory, £3.6 million.
11. ESRC Research Fellowship: ‘Rumination, goals and autobiographical memory’ (RES-063-27-0254) Grant value: £168,148. PI – Dr Nicholas Moberly (Prof Watkins acting as Mentor on the grant). Period of award: September 2009- August 2011
12. HTA Grant [08/56/01] – Mindfulness-based CBT as a relapse prevention treatment. Grant value: £2.1 million. PI- Prof Willem Kuyken (Prof Watkins, Co-PI). Period of award: October 2009-September 2013
13. ZonMW (Dutch based funding organisation) – Preventing depression and anxiety disorders by targeting excessive worry and rumination in healthy adolescents. Grant value: 265,500 Euros. Period of award: November 2009 – November 2013. PI- Dr Thomas Ehring (University of Amsterdam) –Prof Watkins, co-PI.
14. Royal Society Travel Award – Determining Selective Information-Processing Biases in Positive and Negative Affect. Period of Award: April to July 2010. Value: £3472 to support sabbatical visit and associated project. PI – Watkins.
15. University of Western Australia Raine Visiting Professor Award – award of $10,000 AUD to support sabbatical collaboration at University of Western Australia
16. NIHR HTA for a Clinical Trials Grant titled “COBRA (Cost and Outcome of BehaviouRal Activation): a Randomised Controlled Trial of Behavioural Activation versus Cognitive Therapy for Depression”. £1.9 million, start date November 2011, for 4 years. PI Professor David Richards (Prof Watkins, Co-PI). This grant has been awarded –final contract details are being settled.
17. The Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence Grant in Mood Disorders Centre (named artist Daniel Jamieson) £12516 from October 2012 for 10 months. PI –Prof Watkins.
18. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Operating grant titled An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Concrete Thinking on Worry, Problem-Solving and Cognitive Processing in Individuals with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. $200,160 over 3 years (2013-2016). PI Koerner, N. (Prof Watkins, Co-PI).
19. University of Exeter Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund Seedcorn grant titled IMPROVE-1 (Implementating Multifactorial Psychotherapy Research in Online Virtual Environments) – a feasibility study of multifactorial internet psychotherapy for depression. £30,000 July 2013-December 2013. PI Watkins.
20. European Commission Seventh Framework Programme Collaborative Project. Project title: MooDFood - Multi‐country cOllaborative project on the rOle of Diet, Food‐related behaviour, and Obesity in the prevention of Depression. 8,930,530 Euros, across 11 EU countries. January 2014-December 2018. Chief Investigator: Stichting, VUA, Netherlands; Watkins PI for Exeter site (870,000 euros to Exeter).
21. Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and South West Peninsula Academic Health Services Network. Title: Innovation in Understanding, Implementation, and Impact of Psychological Treatments for Mental Health. £720,000. (£550k in new research posts and research costs into University of Exeter, plus £160k service support therapist costs in NHS). April 2014 –May 2017. Prof Watkins PI.
22. Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award – PI Prof Mark Jackson (Medical History). 'Lifestyle, health and disease: changing concepts of balance in modern medicine'. £825,000. Professor Edward Watkins is a collaborator on this award.
23. Wellcome Trust Vacation Scholarship. Student - Rosie Hattersley, June to August 2013. Title: Implicit Cognitive Bias Manipulation of Abstract Conceptual Processing Style : Testing whether an implicit computer-based task can modify processing and influence emotional reactivity. £1440
24. 2013 Brain and Behavior Research foundation, NARSAD Young Investigator Grant PI Dr Pia Pechtel. Title: “Depression and Reward Responsiveness in Adolescents with a History of Child Sexual Abuse. $60,000. 06/01/2013 - 01/14/2015. Prof Watkins will be the primary mentor for Dr Pechtel on this project.
25. Armed Forces Covenant Libor Fund, application from Help for Heroes, titled Hidden Wounds Programme. £2.75 million over 5 years. Project manager and applicant: David Richmond, Help for Heroes. Prof Watkins is PI on research component – the Mood Disorders Centre is providing an academic partnership to develop and evaluate treatment components of the service.
26. Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund –University of Exeter 2 – Centre for Biomedical Modelling and Analysis. £1 million for 2 years. PI – Prof Nick Talbot, Prof Watkins co-I, with Prof Terry, Prof Frayling etc. annual income £500k per annum. 2014-2016
27. Hong Kong Health and Medical Research Fund - $HK 1 million, Title: “Internet-based mindfulness and rumination-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy as selective prevention of anxiety and depression: a randomised controlled trial”. Watkins Co-I, Prof Winnie Mak, CUHK, PI. April 2016- April 2018.
28. (FY2016) Comprehensive Research on Disability Health and Welfare, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED). Title: Novel CBT Programs for people with mental disorder: treatment and dissemination. Principal Investigator: Atsuo Nakagawa, MD, Keio University, CI Prof Ed Watkins, University of Exeter. Budget: 3,500,000 JPY per year for three years from April 2016. This grant takes my rumination-focused CBT for depression and translates/adapts it for Japan and conducts a pilot trial.
29. European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme Collaborative Project. Project title: Assessing and Enhancing Emotional Competence for Well-Being (ECoWeB) in the Young: A principled, evidence-based, mobile-health approach to prevent mental disorders and promote mental well-being. 3,999,980 Euros, across 8 EU countries. January 2018-December 2021. Chief Investigator: Watkins Lead Chief Investigator and PI for Exeter site and main trial (1.2 M euros to Exeter).
30. Australian Research Council – Discovery Projects. ID:DP170104533. Project title: The cognitive basis of resilience. AU$ 478,167. Principal investigator: Prof Colin MacLeod, University of Western Australia. Prof Watkins as Co-investigator. October 2017 to September 2020.
31. United States of America National Institute of Mental Health. R61/R33 Project title: Developing rumination-focused treatment to reduce risk for depression recurrence in adolescence. $872,656 for first-stage 2-year R61 grant, expanding to cumulative total of $3,382,751 if meet pre-specified target conditions to proceed to further 3-year R33 grant. October 2018 to October 2020 for phase 1, to October 2023 if second-phase funded. Principal investigators: Scott Langenecker (University of Utah, Salt Lake City); Edward Watkins, University of Exeter.
32. Wellcome Clinical Research Development Fellowship awarded to Dr Pia Pechtel, project title: “Neurobiological mechanisms of emotional relief in adolescents with a history of sexual abuse”. £230,048 for 24 months from November 2018 to October 2020, progressing to another 5 years and up to £1.5 Million at gateway to second stage. Prof Watkins as mentor and sponsor for Dr Pechtel.
Research networks
- The Mood Disorders Centre www.exeter.ac.uk/mooddisorders
- Member of Global Consortium for Depression Prevention, an invitation only grouping of international leading experts on interventions for depression (see www.preventionofdepression.org)
Links
Publications
Books
Journal articles
Chapters
Conferences
External Engagement and Impact
Administrative responsibilities
Co- founded and developed the Mood Disorders Centre as a University – NHS partnership, which now has an international profile as a clinical research and training centre. Director of the Sir Henry Wellcome Building for Mood Disorders Research
Research Director for the University of Exeter Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
From November 2007 to December 2011, Director of Research (DoR), for Psychology
Editorial responsibilities
Consulting editor of Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Cognition and Emotion, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Journal of Experimental Psychopathology
On the editorial board for Cognition and Emotion, Behaviour Research and Therapy
Previously reviewed leading international journals in the clinical/cognition and emotion fields including:
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Emotion, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Medicine, Behavioural and Brain Sciences, Cognition and Emotion, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Lancet, British Journal of Psychology, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, Personality and Individual Differences, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology, Memory, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Science, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly.
Other
Member of the Wellcome Trust Cognitive Neuroscience and Mental Health Expert Review Group
Awarded British Psychological Society’s May Davidson Award for 2004. This award is for “a clinical psychologist who has made an outstanding contribution to the development of clinical psychology within the first 10 years of his/her work as a qualified clinical psychologist. The contribution may be through clinical research or other professional work. It should be innovative and of an order sufficient to become widely recognized as an important development in British Clinical psychology”.
Peer reviewer OST Foresight report Mental Capital and Wellbeing Project
Member of the Expert Advisory Group for the Center for Excellence research program GRIP-TT (Generalization Research in Ill Health and Psychopathology: Transdiagnostic processes and Transfer), KU Leuven, Belgium (Lead Prof Dirk Hermans).
University of Western Australia Raine Visiting Professor Award 2010
National Institute Health Research (NIHR) Senior Leader
Member of Global Consortium for Depression Prevention, an invitation only grouping of international leading experts on interventions for depression (see http://www.preventionofdepression.org/)
Awarded Top Cited Article 2007-2011 in Behaviour Research and Therapy for Watkins et al., (2007), Rumination-focused cognitive behavioural therapy for residual depression: A case series, Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 9.
Jointly awarded Paper of the Year 2012 for the journal Palliative Medicine for the paper: Galfin, J.M., Watkins, E.R., & Harlow, T. (2012). A brief guided self-help intervention for psychological distress in palliative care patients: A randomized controlled trial. Palliative Medicine, 26, 197-205. DOI: 10.1177/0269216311414757
Expert member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Guideline Committee Group for the Depression in Adults Guideline 2015-2020
UK liaison for the World Health Organisation World Mental Health International College Student initiative (WHO-ICCS) Survey
Teaching
Professional training on Clinical Psychology programme.PSY3401 Research Projects
Professional Training and CPD
Therapy Training material - RFCBT
We have now developed training programmes and online courses in rumination-focused CBT and are currently providing them for Talking Therapies services in SouthWest England through NHS England funding. For more information send an email.
For more detail on Rumination-focused CBT -please see the treatment manual published by Guilford Press
Please see below a selection of recorded presentations/talks/blogs:
Mind Over Natter talk: How to not worry about worry
Better Thinking interview on rumination
ABCT webinar on Rumination-focused CBT
Modules
2024/25
Information not currently available
Supervision / Group
Postdoctoral researchers
- Alexandra Newbold Dr
Postgraduate researchers
- Lorna Cook PhD student
- Luke O'Shea PhD student