Dr. Kate Cavanagh, DPhil DClinPsych, Interactive Well Being Lab Director

Dr. Cavanagh is a leading international expert in e-health and has been involved in research exploring computer-aided psychological therapies for 10 years. This work has included randomized controlled trials evaluating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) programs, pragmatic studies in real-world healthcare services delivering cCBT programs in primary, secondary and specialist-care centres in the National Health Service (NHS) as well as voluntary sector services, qualitative and quantitative studies of user experiences of cCBT programs and the ‘common factors’ of cCBT, systematic and narrative reviews of literature and meta-analyses investigating the impact of computer-aided psychological therapy programs for common mental health problems. She has presented her work at various international conferences and published many articles, book chapters and co-authored a book (with Isaac Marks & Lena Gega), on computer-aided psychological therapies and e-health and has had the pleasure of collaborating with many other world-leading experts in the development and delivery of low-intensity therapies, such as cCBT.

Dr. Cavanagh is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and member of the British Psychological Society, serving on the Society’s Media and Communications Committee and Psychologist Policy Commitee. She is a member of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, and the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions. She is an associate editor of both The Psychologist and the Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, and in the popular press writes a monthly column for Top Sante magazine.

Dr. Cavanagh delivers training on the development, evaluation and implementation of guided self-help, computer-aided psychological therapies and cCBT and is a research consultant to a number of e-health companies and e-health providers including Ultrasis plc, CCBT ltd, and InnoHealth NL.

Rebecca Grist

My doctoral research in concerned with the development, evaluation and deliverance of Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CCBT) as an intervention for common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety. I am particularly interested in the factors influencing client uptake and drop out from CCBT programs, also identifying and overcoming barriers to CCBT uptake and continuation. This includes investigations into the application of health behaviour models and their relation to CCBT uptake and cessation, and the therapeutic relationship between the program and client. 

I am also interested in whether CCBT is currently appropriate for special populations and whether improvements or new programs can be developed for these groups.  

My supervisors are Dr Kate Cavanagh and Professor Graham Davey.

 

Natalie Barazzone

Natalie has collaborated on a research project investigating the role of the therapeutic relationship in computerised cognitive behavioural therapies. Her other research interests include the effect of anger on interpretational biases, specifically it's causal role in the maintenance of PTSD symptoms

Barazzone, N., & Davey, G. C. L. (2009) Anger potentiated the reporting of threatening interpretations: An experimental study. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23, 498-495

Barazzone, N., Cavanagh, K. & Richards, D. (in prep) Computerised cognitive behavioural therapy and the therapeutic alliance: a qualitative enquiry.

Contact us

For more information about the Interactive Well Being Lab and our research, reprint requests or any other query, please contact

Dr. Kate Cavanagh
School of Psychology
University of Sussex
Falmer
East Sussex
BN1 9QH
United Kingdom
E kate.cavanagh@sussex.ac.uk
T +44 1273 877395