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Helen Startup publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Helen Startup sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 103 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Helen Startup D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Helen Startup sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Helen Startup is affiliated with the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with extensive work in clinical psychology and related subfields such as sociology and political science, psychiatry and mental health, pharmacy, and applied psychology.

The topics that commonly appear in Startup's research include eating disorders and behaviors, personality disorders and psychopathology, psychotherapy techniques and applications, the impact of technology on adolescents, obesity and health practices, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and child nutrition and feeding issues.

Recent publications by Startup demonstrate involvement in multiple areas of mental health and clinical psychology. Notable papers include:

  • "The Parenting Experience of Those With Borderline Personality Disorder Traits: Practitioner and Parent Perspectives" (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
  • "The Maudsley Anorexia Nervosa Treatment for Adults (MANTRA): a feasibility case series of an integrated group based approach" (2021), Journal of Eating Disorders
  • "Co-producing principles to guide health research: an illustrative case study from an eating disorder research clinic" (2023), Research Involvement and Engagement
  • "Adult mental health service engagement with patients who are parents: Evidence from 15 English mental health trusts" (2021), British Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • "Seeing Through the Façade of Anorexia: A Grounded Theory of Emotional Change Processes Associated With Recovery From Anorexia Nervosa" (2022), Frontiers in Psychiatry

Startup frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Coauthors who have appeared alongside them multiple times include:

  • Anna Oldershaw
  • Cat Papastavrou Brooks
  • Tony Lavender
  • William H. Barber
  • Nicola Gilbert

The venues where Startup has published multiple papers include:

  • The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Research Involvement and Engagement

Best Publications

  • Effects of cognitive behaviour therapy for worry on persecutory delusions in patients with psychosis (WIT): a parallel, single-blind, randomised controlled trial with a mediation analysis

    Daniel Freeman;Graham Dunn;Graham Dunn;Helen Startup;Helen Startup;Katherine Pugh;Katherine Pugh

  • Efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy for sleep improvement in patients with persistent delusions and hallucinations (BEST): a prospective, assessor-blind, randomised controlled pilot trial

    Daniel Freeman;Felicity Waite;Helen Startup;Elissa Myers

  • Persecutory delusions and catastrophic worry in psychosis: Developing the understanding of delusion distress and persistence

    Helen Startup;Daniel Freeman;Philippa A. Garety

  • The revised Green et al., Paranoid Thoughts Scale (R-GPTS): psychometric properties, severity ranges, and clinical cut-offs

    Daniel Freeman;Bao S Loe;David Kingdon;Helen Startup

  • Out-patient psychological therapies for adults with anorexia nervosa: randomised controlled trial.

    Ulrike Schmidt;Anna Oldershaw;Fatima Jichi;Lot Sternheim

  • Cognitive behavioural treatment of insomnia in individuals with persistent persecutory delusions: A pilot trial

    Elissa Myers;Helen Startup;Daniel Freeman

  • A randomized controlled trial of internet-based cognitive-behavioural therapy for bulimia nervosa or related disorders in a student population.

    V. C. Sánchez-Ortiz;C. Munro;D. Stahl;J. House

  • A randomised controlled trial of a worry intervention for individuals with persistent persecutory delusions

    Chloe Foster;Helen Startup;Laura Potts;Daniel Freeman

  • Mood as input and catastrophic worrying.

    Helen M Startup;Graham C L Davey

  • Parenting in mothers with borderline personality disorder and impact on child outcomes.

    Lara Suzanne Petfield;Helen Startup;Hanah Droscher;Sam Cartwright-Hatton

  • Worry and rumination in anorexia nervosa.

    Helen Startup;Anna Lavender;Anna Oldershaw;Richard Stott

  • An experimental exploration of behavioral and cognitive-emotional aspects of intolerance of uncertainty in eating disorder patients

    Lot Sternheim;Helen Startup;Ulrike Schmidt

  • What does uncertainty mean to women with anorexia nervosa? An interpretative phenomenological analysis.

    Lot Sternheim;Anna Konstantellou;Helen Startup;Ulrike Schmidt

  • The Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ)

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  • The patient experience of sleep problems and their treatment in the context of current delusions and hallucinations

    Felicity Waite;Nicole Evans;Elissa Myers;Elissa Myers;Helen Startup;Helen Startup

  • Quality of life in anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and eating disorder not-otherwise-specified

    Hannah DeJong;Anna Oldershaw;Lot Sternheim;Nelum Samarawickrema

  • Anorexia Nervosa and a Lost Emotional Self: A Psychological Formulation of the Development, Maintenance, and Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa.

    Anna Oldershaw;Anna Oldershaw;Helen Startup;Tony Lavender

  • Treating Sleep Problems in Patients with Schizophrenia.

    Felicity Waite;Elissa Myers;Allison G. Harvey;Colin A. Espie

  • Social cognition in bulimia nervosa: A systematic review

    H. DeJong;F. Van den Eynde;H. Broadbent;M.D. Kenyon

  • Understanding catastrophic worry in eating disorders: Process and content characteristics

    Lot Sternheim;Helen Startup;Saeideh Saeidi;John Morgan

  • Inflated responsibility and the use of stop rules for catastrophic worrying.

    H.M. Startup;G.C.L. Davey

  • Theory of mind in bulimia nervosa.

    Martha Kenyon;Nelum Samarawickrema;Hannah DeJong;Frederique Van den Eynde

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Freeman
Daniel Freeman University of Oxford
Ulrike Schmidt
Ulrike Schmidt King's College London
David Kingdon
David Kingdon University of Southampton
Graham Dunn
Graham Dunn University of Manchester
Janet Treasure
Janet Treasure King's College London
Jennifer Beecham
Jennifer Beecham University of Kent
Kate Tchanturia
Kate Tchanturia King's College London
Sabine Landau
Sabine Landau King's College London
Ivan Eisler
Ivan Eisler King's College London
Nadia Micali
Nadia Micali University College London

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