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Douglas Turkington is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with a particular focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health as well as Clinical Psychology. Additional subfields of interest include Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Social Psychology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Psychiatric care and mental health services
  • Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
  • Family Caregiving in Mental Illness

They have contributed to academic publications in a number of venues, with repeated appearances in:

  • Psychosis
  • Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice
  • BJPsych Bulletin
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Psychiatric Services

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Douglas Turkington include:

  • Improving patient flow in acute psychiatric wards: enhanced bed management and trusted assessment, 2020, BJPsych Bulletin
  • Psychosis REACH: Effects of a Brief CBT-Informed Training for Family and Caregivers of Individuals With Psychosis, 2021, Psychiatric Services
  • Targeting dissociation using cognitive behavioural therapy in voice hearers with psychosis and a history of interpersonal trauma: A case series, 2020, Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice

Additional notable papers relevant to their domain, though not primary author, include:

  • Efficacy and Moderators of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis Versus Other Psychological Interventions: An Individual-Participant Data Meta-Analysis, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Rumination, intolerance of uncertainty and paranoia in treatment resistant psychosis, 2020, Psychosis

Douglas Turkington has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • David Kingdon
  • Aaron T. Beck
  • Robert Dudley
  • Sarah L. Kopelovich
  • Kate Hardy

In addition to journal articles, they have published books, such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Schizophrenia (2022) through Psychology Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • A randomized controlled trial of cognitive-behavioral therapy for persistent symptoms in schizophrenia resistant to medication.

    Tom Sensky;Douglas Turkington;David Kingdon;Janine L. Scott

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Schizophrenia

    David G. Kingdon;Douglas Turkington

  • Cognitive Therapy of Schizophrenia

    David G. Kingdon;Douglas Turkington

  • Effectiveness of a brief cognitive—behavioural therapy intervention in the treatment of schizophrenia

    Douglas Turkington;David Kingdon;Trevor Turner

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Schizophrenia: A Review

    Douglas Turkington;Robert Dudley;Debbie M Warman;Aaron T Beck

  • Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Schizophrenia

    Douglas Turkington;David Kingdon;Peter J. Weiden

  • Cognitive therapy for people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders not taking antipsychotic drugs: a single-blind randomised controlled trial

    Anthony P Morrison;Anthony P Morrison;Douglas Turkington;Douglas Turkington;Melissa Pyle;Melissa Pyle;Helen Spencer;Helen Spencer

  • The use of cognitive behavior therapy with a normalizing rationale in schizophrenia. Preliminary report.

    David G. Kingdon;Douglas Turkington

  • Insight into schizophrenia: the effects of cognitive behavioural therapy on the components of insight and association with sociodemographics—data on a previously published randomised controlled trial

    Shanaya Rathod;David Kingdon;Peter Smith;Douglas Turkington

  • Outcomes of an effectiveness trial of cognitive-behavioural intervention by mental health nurses in schizophrenia.

    Douglas Turkington;David Kingdon;Shanaya Rathod;Katie Hammond

  • A randomized controlled trial of cognitive-behavior therapy for persistent symptoms in schizophrenia: a five-year follow-up.

    Douglas Turkington;Tom Sensky;Jan Scott;Thomas R E Barnes

  • The Evolution of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Schizophrenia: Current Practice and Recent Developments

    Sara Tai;Douglas Turkington

  • Antipsychotics: is it time to introduce patient choice?

    Anthony P. Morrison;Paul Hutton;David Shiers;Douglas Turkington

  • Cognitive behaviour therapy of schizophrenia. The amenability of delusions and hallucinations to reasoning.

    David Kingdon;Douglas Turkington;Carolyn John

  • Cognitive-behavioural techniques for general psychiatrists in the management of patients with psychoses

    Douglas Turkington;David Kingdon

  • Predictors of Outcome in Brief Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Schizophrenia

    Alison Brabban;Sara Tai;Douglas Turkington

  • Cognitive behavioural therapy in clozapine-resistant schizophrenia (FOCUS): an assessor-blinded, randomised controlled trial

    Anthony P Morrison;Melissa Pyle;Andrew Gumley;Matthias Schwannauer

  • Cognitive therapy for people with a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis not taking antipsychotic medication: an exploratory trial.

    A. P. Morrison;Paul Hutton;M Wardle;H Spencer

  • Cognitive therapy versus dietary counselling in the outpatient treatment of anorexia nervosa: Effects of the treatment phase

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  • Cognitive therapy for schizophrenia.

    David Kingdon;Shanaya Rathod;Peter Weiden;Douglas Turkington

  • Cognitive therapy for the treatment of delusions

    Douglas Turkington;Ronald Siddle

  • Psychosis as a personal crisis. An experience-based approach

    Douglas Turkington

Frequent Co-Authors

David Kingdon
David Kingdon University of Southampton
Anthony P. Morrison
Anthony P. Morrison University of Manchester
Sara Tai
Sara Tai University of Manchester
Mark H. Freeston
Mark H. Freeston Newcastle University
Andrew Gumley
Andrew Gumley University of Glasgow
Linda Davies
Linda Davies University of Manchester
Tom Sensky
Tom Sensky Imperial College London
Aaron T. Beck
Aaron T. Beck University of Pennsylvania
Filippo Varese
Filippo Varese University of Manchester
Allan H. Young
Allan H. Young King's College London

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