With the UK committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80%, and British households accounting for around 25% of national carbon emissions, decarbonising the domestic sector is central to achieving this target. promoted as part of a solution to climate change, UK low carbo…
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Adult Placement offers people with a learning disability a highly flexible form of accommodation and person-centred support provided by individuals and families in the local community and enables an individual to share in the life of the Adult Placement carer. A limited amount o…
A diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in childhood can have wide reaching implications for the child and their wider family system. The child and family’s physical and emotional wellbeing can be significantly impacted by the psychological adjustment and coping of the pa…
Research indicates that the number of teaching assistants (TAs) employed in schools throughout England and Wales has increased dramatically since the 1980s as a result of the integration and inclusion of children with special educational needs (SEN) within mainstream schools, an…
Literature Review: The effectiveness of attachment-based interventions when used with maltreating families. This systematic review explores the effectiveness of attachment-based interventions when used with maltreating families. A literature search identified eleven papers testi…
Volume One focuses on the quality of life (Qol) of those with intellectual disabilities, commencing with a systematic review of established Qol measures to identify how these measures have been utilised and the factors that have been explored. In the resulting papers, environmen…
In real life, many actions involve using one object upon the other, for instance, using a spoon to scoop from a bowl. The present thesis investigated the influence from such between object actions on affordance selection, i.e. choosing between action possibilities (affordances) …
This thesis submitted for the Doctorate of Clinical Psychology comprises of both two volumes. Volume I consists of the research component, including of the literature review, empirical paper and public domain paper. The literature review examined the cultural adaptions of cognit…
Volume 1 contains a literature review, an empirical paper, and a public dissemination document. The literature review explores how people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience their relationships with others. The results showed that compared with the general populatio…
The remarkable ability of human search inspires computer vision algorithms that have influenced our life. The algorithms often automatically reach an optimal decision upon finishing analysing stimulus information. This is not how human search works. One missing puzzle psychophys…
Volume one contains a systematic literature review, an empirical chapter and a public domain briefing. The review explored the phenomenology of skin picking (a self-injurious behaviour) in people with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). A number of characteristics were well described w…
Researchers have indicated the need for consideration of emotional distress prior to surgery. Measures of pre-operative anxiety have been developed and include the Pre-operative Intrusive Thoughts Inventory (PITI). The aim of the present study is to evaluate the application of t…
Objective: Previous research on the assessment of compassion focussed on self-reported self-compassion measures. This study reported on the development and evaluation of a new compassion scale that expands the previous conceptualisation by incorporating relational aspects of com…
Background: Whilst quantitative research has provided a valuable understanding of the social and emotional impact of relapse of psychosis, it is also important to consider the complexity of individuals' experiences in relation to emotional, psychological and interpersonal adapta…
Background: It has been found that patients have expressed favourable attitudes towards hospital settings (Weinstein, 1979) but more recently, evidence from service user feedback has indicated the experience of psychiatric admission can be felt to be neither safe nor therapeutic…
Aims This study aimed to explore the meaning of cannabis use in individuals who had experienced psychosis. Design A social constructionist version of the original grounded theory was used. Setting Participants were recruited from three Community Mental Health Centres and an out-…
Objectives: To carry out a preliminary exploration and measurement of therapy expectancy and motivation in adults with intellectual disabilities through the development and psychometric evaluation of the Therapy Expectation and Motivation Measure (TEAMM). Design: The initial sca…
Errorless learning has been demonstrated to be an effective strategy for the cognitive rehabilitation of people with memory impairment. This study aimed to determine whether errorless learning is an effective strategy for teaching a complex procedure. Cognitive impairment has be…
The basal ganglia are a group of nuclei that signal to and from the cerebral cortex. They play an important role in cognition and in the initiation and regulation of normal motor activity. A range of characteristic motor diseases such as Parkinson's and Huntington's have been as…