Browsing by Author "Freeman, Daniel"
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Measuring dissociation across adolescence and adulthood: Developing the short-form Cernis Felt Sense of Anomaly scale (CEFSA-14)
Molodynski, Andrew; Freeman, Daniel (2023-05)Dissociation may be important across many mental health disorders, but has been variously conceptualised and measured. We introduced a conceptualisation of a common type of dissociative experience, ‘felt sense of anomaly’ ... -
Measuring reasoning in paranoia: Development of the Fast and Slow Thinking Questionnaire
Freeman, Daniel (2020-07)Paranoid thoughts are common across the psychosis continuum. It is well established that reasoning biases (conceived as an overreliance on fast thinking and lack of willingness and/or ability to engage in slow thinking) ... -
Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom
Freeman, Daniel; Lambe, Sinead; Waite, Felicity; Rosebrock, Laina; Jenner, Lucy; Petit, Ariane (2021-04)We explore the implications of online social endorsement for the Covid-19 vaccination program in the United Kingdom. Vaccine hesitancy is a long-standing problem, but it has assumed great urgency due to the pandemic. By ... -
Paranoia in patients attending child and adolescent mental health services
Bird, Jessica C.; Fergusson, Emma C.; Shearn, Christina; Teale, Ashley-Louise; Stratford, Hannah J.; James, Anthony; Waite, Felicity; Freeman, Daniel (2021-01)OBJECTIVE: Paranoia may be particularly prevalent during adolescence, building on the heightened social vulnerabilities at this age. Excessive mistrust may be corrosive for adolescent social relationships, especially in ... -
Parenting behaviour and paranoia: a network analysis and results from the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescents (NCS-A)
Waite, Felicity; Freeman, Daniel (2020-08)Method We examined cross-sectional associations of parenting and paranoia in an epidemiologically representative cohort of 10,148 adolescents (National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescents; NCS-A) and a second dataset of 1286 ... -
Participatory design to create a VR therapy for psychosis
Lambe, Sinead; Waite, Felicity; Freeman, Daniel (2021-02)This paper describes how participatory design was employed in the design of an automated Virtual Reality (VR) psychological therapy (gameChange), putting people with lived experience of psychosis at the heart of the process. ... -
Psychological framework to understand interpersonal violence by forensic patients with psychosis
Lambe, Sinead; Fazel, Seena; Freeman, Daniel (2023-10)Forensic patients with psychosis often engage in violent behaviour. There has been significant progress in understanding risk factors for violence, but identification of causal mechanisms of violence is limited. Aims To ... -
Psychological intervention, antipsychotic medication or a combined treatment for adolescents with a first episode of psychosis: the MAPS feasibility three-arm RCT
Broome, Matthew R.; Freeman, Daniel; Johns, Louise; James, Anthony; Maughan, Daniel L (2021-01)Background: When psychosis emerges in young people there is a risk of poorer outcomes, and access to evidence-based treatments is paramount. The current evidence base is limited. Antipsychotic medications show only a small ... -
The psychological journey of weight gain in psychosis
Waite, Felicity; Langman-Levy, Amy; Mulhall, Sophie; Lennox, Belinda; Freeman, Daniel (2022-02)Rapid weight gain is common with antipsychotic medication. Lost confidence, low mood and medication non-adherence often follow. Yet, the dynamic interactions between the physical and psychological consequences of weight ... -
Psychological mechanisms connected to dissociation: Generating hypotheses using network analyses
Ehlers, Anke; Freeman, Daniel (2022-02)A large number of mechanisms, many relating to the processing of affect, have been proposed to cause dissociation. The aim of this study was to use network analyses to identify psychological processes most closely connected ... -
A randomised controlled test of emotional attributes of a virtual coach within a virtual reality (VR) mental health treatment
Freeman, Daniel; Rovira, Aitor (2023-07)We set out to test whether positive non-verbal behaviours of a virtual coach can enhance people's engagement in automated virtual reality therapy. 120 individuals scoring highly for fear of heights participated. In a ... -
A safe place to learn: a peer research qualitative investigation of automated virtual reality cognitive therapy (gameChange)
Freeman, Daniel; Rosebrock, Laina; Lambe, Sinead; Waite, Felicity (2023-01)Background: Automated virtual reality (VR) therapy has the potential to substantially increase access to evidence-based psychological treatments. The results of a multicenter randomized controlled trial showed that ... -
A Safe Place to Learn: Peer Research Qualitative Investigation of gameChange Virtual Reality Therapy
Beckley, Ariane; Rosebrock, Laina; Lambe, Sinead; Freeman, Daniel; Waite, Felicity (2023-01)Background: Automated virtual reality (VR) therapy has the potential to substantially increase access to evidence-based psychological treatments. The results of a multicenter randomized controlled trial showed that ... -
The service user experience of SlowMo therapy: A co-produced thematic analysis of service users' subjective experience
Collett, Nicola; Freeman, Daniel (2022-04)Objectives: SlowMo is the first blended digital therapy for paranoia, showing significant small-moderate reductions in paranoia in a recent large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT). This study explored the subjective ... -
Sleep Disorders in Early Psychosis: Incidence, Severity, and Association With Clinical Symptoms
Sheaves, Bryony; Freeman, Daniel (2018-09-08)Sleep disturbance is known to be associated with psychosis, but sleep disorders (eg. insomnia, nightmare disorder, sleep apnea) have rarely been investigated. We aimed to provide the first detailed assessment of sleep ... -
Sleep disturbance and psychiatric disorders
Freeman, Daniel; Sheaves, Bryony; Waite, Felicity; Harrison, Paul J (2020-07)Signs of mental ill health that cut across psychiatric diagnostic categories at high rates are typically viewed as non-specific occurrences, downgraded in importance and disregarded. However, problems not associated with ... -
SlowMo therapy, a new digital blended therapy for fear of harm from others: An account of therapy personalisation within a targeted intervention
Collett, Nicola; Rus-Calafell, Mar; East, Anna; Freeman, Daniel (2022-01)Objectives: SlowMo therapy is a pioneering blended digital therapy for paranoia, augmenting face-to-face therapy with an interactive ‘webapp’ and a mobile app. A recent largescale trial demonstrated small–moderate effects ... -
Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of CBT vs antipsychotics vs both in 14–18-year-olds: Managing Adolescent first episode Psychosis: a feasibility study (MAPS)
Broome, Matthew R.; Freeman, Daniel (2019-07)Background: Adolescent-onset psychosis is associated with more severe symptoms and poorer outcomes than adult-onset psychosis. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommend that adolescents with first ... -
Suicidal ideation and behaviour in patients with persecutory delusions: Prevalence, symptom associations, and psychological correlates
Freeman, Daniel; Collett, Nicola; Diamond, Rowan; Cernis, Emma; Bird, Jessica C.; Isham, Louise; Forkert, Ava; Waite, Felicity (2019-07)Background:To determine the prevalence of suicidal ideation and behaviour - and their correlates - in patients with persecutory delusions. Methods:110 patients with persecutory delusions in the context of non-affective ... -
A targeted psychological treatment for sleep problems in young people at ultra-high risk of psychosis in England (SleepWell): a parallel group, single-blind, randomised controlled feasibility trial
Waite, Felicity; Cernis, Emma; Iredale, Ellen; Johns, Louise; Maughan, Daniel L; Diamond, Rowan; Freeman, Daniel (2023-08)Sleep disturbance is common and problematic for young people at ultra-high risk of psychosis. Sleep disruption is a contributory causal factor in the occurrence of mental health problems, including psychotic experiences, ...