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Personal profile
Academic Biography
I am a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. I joined Teesside University in December 2016 as a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, after 12 years of working within a range of clinical roles with individuals with a vast array of mental health difficulties. My principle teaching and course responsbilities within the University are on postgraduate programmes and continued professional develoment courses, including: PgC/UCAPD Low Intensity Assessment and Intervention Skills for Psychological Wellbeing Practice, UCPPD Approaches to Long Term Conditions for Psychological Wellbeing Practice, UCPPD Supervision for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, UCAPD Dialectic Behavior Therapy, & UCPD Integrated Cognitive Behavioral Theory and Interventions in Mental Health Practice.
My academic background is within Psychology, with a specific interest in Developmental Psychology/Psychopathology, mental health, and low intensity CBT interventions. I completed my degree in Psychology and Masters degree in Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Durham, whilst also working within the field of mental health. I have also completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Primary Mental Health Care at Teesside University, in order to pratice as an accredited PWP, before undertaking a PhD in Psychology at the University of York. Since commencing at Teesside, I have completed a PgC in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
I continue to work clinically as a Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner within a forensic setting, alongside lecturing.
Summary of Research Interests
My research interests are relatively diverse; my primary research interest is in the quality of the parent-child relationship, specifically parental mind-mindedness, and its role in predicting children's developmental outcomes, including children's social cognition. I am particularly interested in non-normative groups such as adoptive parents/foster carers/blended families, and families that differ from the typical 'nuclear' set-up.
I am also interested more broadly in mental health and wellbeing, and am involved in several streams of research in the field of mental health.
Research Projects & External Funding
Starting 2021 Co-production of an Evidence-Based Framework and Related Guidance for Practitioners on Personalised Risk Management and Safety Planning for Adults Experiencing Suicidality
Funding Body: NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North East & North Cumbria
The aim of the project is to co-produce (with people with lived experience of suicidality) an evidence-based framework for supporting personalised risk management and safety planning, which is sensitive to the needs, preferences and values of people experiencing suicidality.
2020 - Ongoing Self-Harm and Suicide Prevention Training – Quality Assurance Framework
Funding Body: North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System (NENC ICS), Suicide Prevention Network (SPN).
The North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System (NENC ICS), Suicide Prevention Network (SPN) aim to develop a consistent, multi-agency approach to system wide learning and development, based on Health Education England (HEE) competency frameworks for self-harm and suicide prevention.
The first aim of this funded project was to undertake a scoping review is to identify and collate the available evidence that highlights the best practice in the design and delivery of education and training for people who require self-harm and suicide prevention training. My role within the scoping review has been to double-sift a proportion of the of titles and abstracts, along with full paper sifts, data extraction, analysis and contributing to the write-up of the report.
2020 NHS 111 Mental Health Support Team Service Evaluation
Funding Body: Integrated Care System North East & North Cumbria/Cumbria, Mental Health (MH) workstream
I was part of the academic research team responsible for evaluating the NHS 111 Mental Health Support Team Service, from data provided by Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust and the North East Ambulance Service. The service was set up rapidly to respond to the COVID-19 situation, with the purpose of reducing demand on the emergency care system by providing an accessible mental health and wellbeing support service. I was responsible for reviewing and analysing data, and contributing to the final report, outlining the evaluation findings and themes to inform recommendations.
2019 - Present University Mental Health Charter; Student Minds
Funding Body: UPP Foundation and the Office for Students
Recruited as part of an academic research team to collect and analyse the evidence that informed the University Mental Health Charter. Data anaysis still ongoing.
2019 - Present Primary Mental Health Care within the North East Prisons: Evidencing 'Recovery' and Patient Satisfaction within a Prison-Based Setting
Working in collaboration with Rethink Mental Illness to collate practice-based recovery outcomes of their primary mental health care provision, aloing with evaluating patient satisfaction.
2013 - 2017 Mind-Mindedness in Research and Practice
Funding Body: Economic and Social Research Council
Project creation and management as part of working towards a PhD. which was completed in 2017; ongoing work to complete several papers for publication. I continue to be a member of the Meins Lab group at the University of York.
2011 - 2013 Tees Valley Baby Study
Funding Body: Economic and Social Research Council
Volunteer research assistant; assisted with data collection and analysis at the Wolfson Research Institute.
External Roles and Professional Activities
British Psychological Society (244957):
- Chartered Psychologist
- Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
- Accredited Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
Higher Education Academy:
- Fellow (PR156431)
External Examiner:
University of East Anglia; PGCert Evidence Based Low Intensity CBT Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
Learning and Teaching Interests and Activities
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Assessment and Treatment of Common Mental Health Problems
- Psychological Therapies
- Clinical and Case Management Supervision
- Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Dialectic Behaviour Therapy
- Delivering Psychological Therapies to 'Hard to Reach' Groups
- Forensic Mental Health
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, University of York
Sep 2013 → Jun 2017
Master, Durham University
Oct 2010 → Sep 2011
Bachelor, Durham University
Oct 2005 → Jun 2008
External positions
External Examiner, University of East Anglia
2021 → …Chartered Psychologist & Associate Fellow, The British Psychological Society
2019 → …Fellow, Higher Education Academy
2018 → …Senior Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner , Rethink Mental Illness
Mar 2015 → …Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner , Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Jan 2013 → Mar 2015Fingerprint
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Projects
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Developing an audit tool for mapping training for suicide and self-harm
Giles, E., Barker, J., Ramtohul, A., Fishburn, S., Robinson, J. & Hodgson, J.
1/03/21 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
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Rapid scoping review of evidence of best practice in the design and delivery of self-harm and suicide prevention training
Barker, J., Giles, E., Byrnes, K., Lilley, R., Fishburn, S., Ramtohul, A., McGeechan, G., Thompson, P., Robinson, J. & Hodgson, J.
22/09/20 → 19/02/21
Project: Research
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NHS 111 Mental Health Support Service Evaluation
Barker, J., Giles, E., Dingwall, A., Smith, J., Byrnes, K., Watson, P., Fishburn, S., Thompson, P., Bednarz-Withers, P. & Johnson, K.
12/06/20 → 28/10/20
Project: Consultancy
Research output
- 3 Article
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Explaining the Relation between Early Mind-Mindedness and Children’s Mentalizing Abilities: Validating an Observational Preschool Assessment
Meins, E., Fishburn, S., Munoz Centifanti, L., Larkin, F. & Fernyhough, C., Dec 2019, (Submitted) In: Developmental Psychology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mind-Mindedness in Parents of Looked After Children
Fishburn, S., Meins, E., Greenhow, S., Jones, C., Hackett, S., Nina, B., Baldwin, H., Cusworth, L. & Wade, J., 31 Jul 2017, In: Developmental Psychology. 53, 10, p. 1954-1965 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Maternal Mind-Mindedness and Children's Behavioral Difficulties: Mitigating the Impact of Low Socio-Economic Status
Meins, E., Munoz Centifanti, L., Fernyhough, C. & Fishburn, S., 2014, In: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 41, 4, p. 543-553 11 p., 41.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Press / Media
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York leads UK survey on adoptive, foster and step-parenting
8/04/15 → 9/04/15
3 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media