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Cathy Creswell

Catharine Sarah Creswell is a British psychologist and Professor of Developmental Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford.[1][2] She specialises in anxiety disorders in children and young people.[3][4]

Cathy Creswell
Born
Catharine Sarah Creswell
Alma materUniversity of Oxford,
University College London
(BA (Ox) Hons, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
Mental health
Children and young people[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Reading
University of Oxford
ThesisThe development of anxious cognitions in children (2004)
Websitewww.psy.ox.ac.uk/team/catharine-creswell Edit this at Wikidata

Education edit

Creswell was educated at University of Oxford, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts (BA)[5] degree[when?]. She later qualified as a Clinical Psychologist at University College London followed by a PhD in 2004.[6]

Research and career edit

Creswell joined the University of Reading as a research fellow in 2003, where she was later promoted to a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research Professorship.[7] At the University of Reading she led the Anxiety and Depression in Children and Young People clinic (AnDY).[8][9]

Creswell studies why some children develop anxiety disorders.[10] Anxiety disorders often emerge before the age of 12 and develop in preadolescence.[11] and although 6.5% of children suffer from anxiety disorders, only 2% of those who meet the diagnostic criteria for anxiety disorder seek any effective treatment.[12][11] In fact, only around 40% of families of children with children seek any type of help.[11]

She has studied how interactions between children and their parents can maintain or break vicious cycles associated with child anxiety.[13] As part of this work, Creswell showed that children of anxious parents are more likely to become anxious, but that this likely reflects a complex interaction of child, parent, and other characteristics [11] For example, she showed that anxious children were more aware of signals from their parents; and that non-anxious children were less likely to be influenced by what their parents were doing.[11]

As a result of this work, she developed a therapist-guided, parent-led cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for the management of child anxiety disorders, which is a now available on the National Health Service (NHS).[11] She demonstrated that only 5 hours of therapist-supported training was enough to support parents in helping their children tackle anxiety.[11]

She joined the University of Oxford in 2019. At Oxford, Creswell leads the Emerging Minds Mental Health Network.[12][14] Emerging Minds is a network that looks to reduce the number of children who experience mental health challenges. Creswell is a member of the scientific advisory group of Evidence to Impact, a not-for-profit organisation that looks to improve public health.[15]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Creswell co-led the Co-SPACE (COVID-19 Supporting Parents, Adolescents and Children during Epidemics).[16] Co-SPACE looks to understand how families cope with coronavirus disease and the impact of the pandemic on children and young people's mental health.[16] In May 2020, the first round of results from the Co-SPACE study, showing that work and their children's wellbeing was the most frequent source of stress for parents.[17][18] Her study revealed that only 1 in 5 families who had previously received care continued to do so throughout the lockdown.[17] In particular, the highest levels of stress were found amongst parents of children with special educational needs (SEN).[17]

Selected publications edit

Creswell's publications[1][2][3] include:

  • Evidence from turner's syndrome of an imprinted x-linked locus affecting cognitive function[19]
  • Murray, Lynne; Cooper, Peter; Creswell, Cathy; Schofield, Elizabeth; Sack, Caroline (2007). "The effects of maternal social phobia on mother–infant interactions and infant social responsiveness" (PDF). Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 48 (1): 45–52. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2006.01657.x. ISSN 1469-7610. PMID 17244269.  
  • Creswell, Cathy (23 April 2019). Parent-led CBT for child anxiety : helping parents help their kids. ISBN 978-1-4625-4080-8. OCLC 1083715089.
  • Creswell, Cathy (11 April 2019). Helping your child with fears and worries : a self-help guide for parents. Willetts, Lucy,, Cooper, Peter J.,, Waite, Polly, 1972- (Second ed.). London. ISBN 978-1-4721-3861-3. OCLC 1101411122.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Cathy Creswell publications indexed by Google Scholar  
  2. ^ a b Cathy Creswell publications from Europe PubMed Central
  3. ^ a b Cathy Creswell publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. ^ Cathy Creswell on Twitter  
  5. ^ Publications by Cathy Creswell at ResearchGate  
  6. ^ Creswell, Catherine Sarah (2004). The development of anxious cognitions in children. london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. OCLC 926222359.
  7. ^ "REF Case study: Improving access to evidence-based treatments for children with anxiety disorders". impact.ref.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  8. ^ Skuse, David; Bruce, Helen; Dowdney, Linda (2017-07-24). Child Psychology and Psychiatry: Frameworks for Clinical Training and Practice. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-119-17018-1.
  9. ^ "Cathy Creswell, University of Reading, UK". eabct2018.org. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  10. ^ "Cathy Creswell". research.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g "Nipping anxiety in the bud". thepsychologist.bps.org.uk. The Psychologist. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  12. ^ a b Carlowe, Jo (2019). "In Conversation... Prof. Cathy Creswell - Anxiety and 'Emerging Minds'". acamh.org. The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  13. ^ Creswell, Cathy; O'Connor, Thomas G.; Brewin, Chris R. (2008). "The Impact of Parents' Expectations on Parenting Behaviour: An Experimental Investigation" (PDF). Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. 36 (4): 483–490. doi:10.1017/S1352465808004414. ISSN 1352-4658. S2CID 145172246.
  14. ^ Ford, Anna (2018). "Sussex psychologist awarded prestigious role in new national mental health network". sussex.ac.uk. University of Sussex. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  15. ^ "Scientific Advisory Group | Evidence to Impact". evidencetoimpact.com. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  16. ^ a b "Co-SPACE". oxfordxpsy.az1.qualtrics.com. Archived from the original on 2020-03-31. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  17. ^ a b c Anon. "Major stressors for parents during COVID-19 revealed in new report". QA Education Magazine. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  18. ^ "Co-SPACE Study - 2nd Update". emergingminds.org.uk. Emerging Minds. 2020-05-02. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  19. ^ Skuse, D. H.; James, R. S.; Bishop, D. V. M.; Coppin, B.; Dalton, P.; Aamodt-Leeper, G.; Bacarese-Hamilton, M.; Creswell, C.; McGurk, R.; Jacobs, P. A. (1997). "Evidence from Turner's syndrome of an imprinted X-linked locus affecting cognitive function". Nature. 387 (6634): 705–8. Bibcode:1997Natur.387..705S. doi:10.1038/42706. PMID 9192895. S2CID 4279874.
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