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Mike J. Crawford is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily the fields of psychology and medicine, with a focus on clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health. Additional areas of study include general health professions, philosophy, and social psychology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics within mental health and psychological research. Main topics include:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Psychiatric care and mental health services

Mike J. Crawford has contributed to several publication venues. Frequent journals and platforms where their work appears include:

  • BJPsych Open
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Psychiatry
  • BMJ Open
  • Personality and Mental Health

Collaborations with other researchers form an important part of Mike J. Crawford's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Verity C. Leeson
  • Kirsten Barnicot
  • Paul Moran
  • Alan Quirk
  • Barbara Barrett

Recent research papers authored or co-authored by Mike J. Crawford cover a variety of themes related to mental health, clinical interventions, and quality of life. Notable recent publications include:

  • Workplace factors associated with mental health of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international cross-sectional study, 2021, BMC Health Services Research
  • Quality of life, level of functioning, and its relationship with mental and physical disorders in the elderly: results from the MentDis_ICF65+ study, 2020, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
  • Service user perspectives of community mental health services for people with complex emotional needs: a co-produced qualitative interview study, 2022, BMC Psychiatry
  • Standard set of patient-reported outcomes for personality disorder, 2021, Quality of Life Research
  • Psychological interventions for acute psychiatric inpatients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, Clinical Psychology Review

Best Publications

  • Systematic review of involving patients in the planning and development of health care

    Mike J Crawford;Deborah Rutter;Catherine Manley;Timothy Weaver

  • Music therapy for depression

    Sonja Aalbers;Laura Fusar-Poli;Ruth E. Freeman;Marinus Spreen

  • Classification, assessment, prevalence, and effect of personality disorder

    Peter Tyrer;Geoffrey M Reed;Mike J Crawford

  • Risperidone, haloperidol, and placebo in the treatment of aggressive challenging behaviour in patients with intellectual disability: a randomised controlled trial

    Peter Tyrer;Patricia C. Oliver-Africano;Zed Ahmed;Nick Bouras

  • Prevalence of mental disorders in elderly people: the European MentDis_ICF65+ study

    Sylke Andreas;Holger Schulz;Jana Volkert;Maria Dehoust

  • The Social Functioning Questionnaire: A Rapid and Robust Measure of Perceived Functioning:

    Peter Tyrer;Ula Nur;Mike Crawford;Saffron Karlsen

  • Screening and referral for brief intervention of alcohol-misusing patients in an emergency department: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

    Mike J Crawford;Robert Patton;Robin Touquet;Colin Drummond

  • Qualitative research in psychiatry.

    Rob Whitley;Mike Crawford

  • The Development of the ICD-11 Classification of Personality Disorders: An Amalgam of Science, Pragmatism, and Politics.

    Peter Tyrer;Roger Mulder;Youl-Ri Kim;Mike J Crawford

  • The rationale for the reclassification of personality disorder in the 11th revision of the international classification of diseases (ICD‐11).

    Peter Tyrer;Mike Crawford;Roger Mulder;Roger Blashfield

  • Patient experience of negative effects of psychological treatment: results of a national survey†.

    Mike J. Crawford;Lavanya Thana;Lorna Farquharson;Lucy Palmer

  • Patients or partners? Case studies of user involvement in the planning and delivery of adult mental health services in London

    Deborah Rutter;Catherine Manley;Tim Weaver;Mike J Crawford

  • Music therapy for in-patients with schizophrenia: exploratory randomised controlled trial.

    Nakul Talwar;Mike J Crawford;Anna Maratos;Ula Nur

  • Prevalence of health anxiety problems in medical clinics

    Peter Tyrer;Sylvia Cooper;Mike Crawford;Simon Dupont

  • Selecting outcome measures in mental health: the views of service users

    Mike J. Crawford;Daniel Robotham;Lavanya Thana;Sue Patterson

  • Group art therapy as an adjunctive treatment for people with schizophrenia: multicentre pragmatic randomised trial

    Mike J Crawford;Helen Killaspy;Thomas R E Barnes;Barbara Barrett

  • Effects of Improvisational Music Therapy vs Enhanced Standard Care on Symptom Severity Among Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: The TIME-A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Lucja Bieleninik;Monika Geretsegger;Karin Mössler;Jörg Assmus

  • User involvement in the planning and delivery of mental health services: a cross-sectional survey of service users and providers.

    M. J. Crawford;T. Aldridge;K. Bhui;D. Rutter

  • Clinical and cost-effectiveness of cognitive behaviour therapy for health anxiety in medical patients: a multicentre randomised controlled trial

    Peter Tyrer;Sylvia Cooper;Paul Salkovskis;Helen Tyrer

  • Suicide rate 22 years after parasuicide: cohort study

    Gary R Jenkins;Robert Hale;Maria Papanastassiou;Michael J Crawford

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Tyrer
Peter Tyrer Imperial College London
Conor Duggan
Conor Duggan University of Nottingham
Mary McMurran
Mary McMurran University of Nottingham
Paul Moran
Paul Moran University of Bristol
Roger T. Mulder
Roger T. Mulder University of Otago
Luigi Grassi
Luigi Grassi University of Ferrara
Angela Hassiotis
Angela Hassiotis University College London
Martin Härter
Martin Härter Universität Hamburg
Anne Lingford-Hughes
Anne Lingford-Hughes Imperial College London

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