Staff profile
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Job title: Year Director
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Dept: Applied Psychology
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Campus: Salomons
Anne Cooke is Year Director for the third year of the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology and takes a lead on service user and carer involvement within the programme. She is also Tutor on the Postgraduate Diploma in Psychological Therapies: CBT (IAPT High Intensity), and offers psychological therapy and support to a number of workers under the auspices of the Employee Assistance Programme which the Department offers as a service to local NHS Trusts and other organisations.
Anne gained an MA in Linguistics and German from Edinburgh University in 1985. She then worked in television before deciding to change careers and train as a clinical psychologist. After working in psychiatric hospitals for two years and undertaking a postgraduate conversion course in psychology, she trained at the Institute of Psychiatry and qualified in 1992. She then worked in NHS mental health services, mostly in inner city London until coming to Salomons in 1999. From 1997 to 2001 she was Honorary Media Officer for the British Psychological Society's Division of Clinical Psychology and co-edited the Division's influential report on psychosis which was published in 2000.
Anne's interests include critical and community psychology, links between traumatic experiences and psychosis, media representations of 'mental illness' and collaborative approaches between mental health workers and service users.
Recent Publications
Submitted
Jackson, L., Hayward, M. & Cooke, A. Developing Positive Relationships with Voices: A Preliminary Grounded Theory Study. Submitted to the International Journal of Social Psychiatry.
In press
Jones, S., Lobban,. F. & Cooke, A. (co-ordinating eds). Understanding Bipolar Disorder: Why Some People Experience Extreme Mood States and What Can Help. A Report by the British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology. British Psychological Society.
Hayward, M., Cooke, A. & Goodbody, L. (eds). Service User and Carer Involvement: A Special Issue of Clinical Psychology Forum.
Cooke, A. & Hayward, M. Service Users and Carers as Placement Advisors. Clinical Psychology Forum.
2009
Minding our clinical language (letter). The Psychologist, 22, 9 (September) , p. 732.
Hayward, M., Riddell, B. & Cooke, A. Involving service users and carers in clinical psychology placements. Higher Education Academy Psychology Network Newsletter, 52, June 2009. Page 4.
2008
Problems associated with the use of the concept' mental illness'. In Stickley, T. & Basset, T. (eds.) Learning about Mental Health Practice, pp. 329-346. Wiley: ISBN 978 0 470 51227 2
May, R., Cooke, A. & Cotton, A. Psychological Approaches to Mental Health. In Stickley, T. & Basset, T. (eds.) Learning about Mental Health Practice, pp. 463-47. Wiley: ISBN 978 0 470 51227 2
2007
Basset. T., Hayward, M., Chandler, R., Blank, A., Cooke, A. & Read, J. Psychosis Revisited: A Recovery-Based Workshop for Mental Health Workers, Service Users and Carers. Second Edition. Pavilion, Brighton. ISBN 978 1 84196 219 1
Harper, D., Cromby, J., Reavey, P., Cooke, A. & Anderson, J. Don't jump ship! New approaches in teaching mental health to undergraduates. The Psychologist, 20, 5, 302-304.
Phillips. C, Cooke, M., Cooke, A. & Peters, E.R. Identity and Cause of Problems: The Perceptions of Patients with a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia. Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapy, 35, 2, 237-240.
2006
Chisholm, B., Freeman, D. & Cooke, A. (2006) Identifying potential predictors of traumatic reactions to psychotic episodes. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 45, 4, 545-559
Recent Conference Papers presented
2009
Power to our Elbow: How Clinical Psychologists can use the DCP Report. Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology. London, 10 December.
What Next for the Profession after IAPT? (symposium). Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology. London, 11 December.