MARS
Mood and Anxiety Research in Sussex
A collaboration between the University of Sussex and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Graham Davey & Frances Meeten
University of Sussex
Clara Strauss & Fergal Jones
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Today’s programme
2.15 – 2.25pm:
Welcome to MARS!
2.25 – 2.55pm:
Research Strategy and Clinical Services
2.55 – 3.40pm:
MARS research: selected presentations
3.40 – 4.00pm:
Introductions
4.00 – 4.20pm:
Poster session and coffee
4.20 – 5.20pm:
Funding opportunities
5.20 – 6.00pm:
Future directions: open discussion
MARS
• The Mood and Anxiety Research in Sussex group is a
collaboration between researchers at the University of
Sussex (US) and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
(SPT)
• The aim of the group is to conduct research relevant to
developing mood and anxiety theory and improving
clinical practice and to foster research collaborations
between the researchers in Sussex
Selection of current MARS projects
• A qualitative study into information provision in Bipolar Disorder
Richard Bowskill (SPT) and Professor Rob Horne (SPT)
• An examination of memories for traumatic birth, the utility of cognitive
models of PTSD, and biases in perception of infant emotion
Susan Ayers (US)
• Working with service users to develop a group based intervention for chronic
worry, based on ‘mood as input’ theory
Graham Davey (US), Fergal Jones (SPT) and Ruth Chandler (SPT)
• Evaluating person-based cognitive therapy groups for chronic depression
Clara Strauss (SPT), Paul Chadwick (Institute of Psychiatry) and Mark
Hayward (SPT & US)
• Exploring the development and delivery of computer-aided therapies in
mental health
Kate Cavanagh (US)
MARS projects continued
• Parental Anxiety: Cognitive-Behavioural Processes in the Intergenerational
Transmission of Fear to Children
Andy Field (US) and Sam Cartwright-Hatton (US)
• Investigating emotional influences on psychophysiology and attention in
social anxiety
Yoko Nagai (SPT)
• Mechanisms of Catastrophic worry: An investigation into the role of negative
mood, poor problem-solving confidence, and intolerance of uncertainty in
worry perseveration
Graham Davey (US) and Frances Meeten (US)
• A study concerning depression rating scales
Tim Gale (SPT) and Sanjay Jain (SPT)
• Negative mood and systematic processing in perseverative worry
Suzanne Dash (US) and Graham Davey (US)