Dr Steven Jones
Reader in Clinical Psychology
- Email: steven.jones@manchester.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 306 0400
- Fax: +44 (0)161 306 0406
Research
My research interests are broadly in the psychological aspects of severe and enduring mental health problems. I have been involved with clinical work and research into schizophrenia, including efforts to understand deficits in information processing in schizophrenia and also involvement in trials of individual and group cognitive therapy. The information processing work has focussed on patterns of causal and associative processing in schizophrenia and looking at associations between deficits in these areas and stage of illness, symptomatology and response to psychological treatment.
My primary interest in recent years has been in bipolar disorder. I have investigated the efficacy of cognitive treatment for bipolar disorder, and am currently studying the impact of this type of intevention with first episode bipolar patients. I have also been working on developing a model of bipolar disorder which incorporates findings from psychological research into emotions and research into circadian rhythm deficits. I have recently completed a study looking at circadian functioning in bipolar and autistic patients using a non-invasive, but objective, activity measure. Currently, I am investigating circadian and psychological functioning in the healthy children of bipolar parents, with a view to identifying protective and risk factors.
I am also interested in personality disorder and have recently completed a study of its prevalence and its impact on treatment outcomes in primary care. It is intended to continue this work to look at associations between personality disorder and the presumed dysfunctional assumptions in particular types of disorder and also the impact of psychological treatment on both PD and measures of assumptions/beliefs.
A further interest has been in evaluation of services for people with severe and enduring mental health problems. This has included research investigating the properties of routine outcome measures. Currently I am investigating clinical outcomes in a secure hostel for people with psychosis and challenging behaviours. This includes investigation of staff beliefs and expressed emotion and the extent to which this is associated with patients' outcomes.
Qualifications
1991, MSc., Institute of Psychiatry, London
1989, PhD., Institute of Psychiatry, London
Selected publications
2006
- Jones SH, Mansell W, L Waller. (2006). Appraisal of Hypomania Relevant Experiences: Development of a Questionnaire to Assess Positive Self Dispositional Appraisals in Bipolar and Behavioural High Risk Samples. Journal of Affective Disorders, 93, 19-28. eScholarID:1d12640 | DOI:10.1016/j.jad.2006.01.017
- Jones SH, Tai SJ, Evershed K, Knowles R, Bentall RP. (2006). Early detection of bipolar disorder: a pilot familial high-risk study of parents with bipolar disorder and their adolescent children. Bipolar Disorders, 8, 362-372. eScholarID:1d12517 | DOI:10.1111/j.1399-5618.2006.00329.x
2005
- Jones SH, Hare DJulian, Evershed K. (2005). Actigraphic assessment of circadian activity and sleep patterns in bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord, 7( 2), 176-86. eScholarID:1d12155 | DOI:10.1111/j.1399-5618.2005.00187.x
2001
- Serra A, Jones SH, Toone B, Gray J A. (2001). Impaired associative learning in chronic schizophrenics and their first-degree relatives: A study of latent inhibition and the Kamin blocking effect. Schizophrenia Research, 48, 273-289. eScholarID:1d23722 | DOI:10.1016/S0920-9964(00)00136-5