Staff profile
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Job title: Year Director
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Dept: Applied Psychology
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Campus: Salomons
Dr John McGowan is the Year 1 Director and Academic Director of the Clinical Psychology Training Scheme.
John completed his degree in psychology from Strathclyde University in 1990. and a PhD University of Wales (Cardiff) in 1995. His research area was failures in skilled performance and attentional mechanisms. This was followed by two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex in the psychopharmacology specialty looking at the effects of hormone replacement therapy on cognitive performance in aging. He completed the clinical psychology training at Salomons in 2000.
Since qualifying he has worked in the NHS in Kent and Sussex predominantly as a Psychologist attached to inpatient psychiatric wards. His interests include presentations labelled as personality disorders, issues in risk assessment and management, formulation in complex care, the role of psychological practitioners in multi-disciplinary teams and the role of psychological thinking in inpatient environments. He has also published work considering aspects of cognitive-behaviour therapy for psychosis. His clinical orientation is primarily psychodynamic and he has had specialist training in cognitive-analytic therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and mentalisation-based therapy.
Recent Publications
McGowan, J. F. (2009). The truth about markets. Health Services Journal, 2 July.
McGowan, J, F. & Hall, R. (2009). The role of psychological therapies in acute psychiatric care. Clinical Psychology Forum, April, 14-18.
McGowan J. F. (2008). Working with personality disorders in an acute environment. Clarke, I. & Wilson, H. (Eds.) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Unit: Working with Clients, Staff and the Milieu. London: Routledge.
McGowan, J. F., Lavender, A. & Garety, P. A. (2005). Factors in outcome of cognitive-behavioural therapy for psychosis: Users' and clinicians' views. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 78, 4, 513-529.
Recent Presentations
McGowan, J. F. & Hall, R. (April 2008). Should there be greater access to psychological therapies in acute psychiatric care? Poster presented to the 16th European Congress of Psychiatry, Nice.
McGowan J. F. (2007). Doing research in the acute environment. Paper presented to the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies Annual Conference, University of Sussex
Texts of all recent publications and other related material can be found here|.
Tel: 01892 507778