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Ross White is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom and works extensively in the field of psychology, with a particular focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, and health-related disciplines. Their research spans key topics such as migration, health and trauma; mental health treatment and access; COVID-19 and mental health; health disparities and outcomes; employment and welfare studies; resilience and mental health; as well as mindfulness and compassion interventions.

Frequent publication venues for Ross White include:

  • Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health
  • BMC Public Health
  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
  • Conflict and Health

Some of the recent papers they have contributed to are:

  • Guided self-help to reduce psychological distress in South Sudanese female refugees in Uganda: a cluster randomised trial (2020), The Lancet Global Health
  • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and initial period of lockdown on the mental health and well-being of adults in the UK (2020), BJPsych Open
  • Impacts of the Covid-19 lockdown and relevant vulnerabilities on capability well-being, mental health and social support: an Austrian survey study (2021), BMC Public Health
  • Effectiveness of Self-Help Plus in Preventing Mental Disorders in Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Western Europe: A Multinational Randomized Controlled Trial (2021), Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Effectiveness of a WHO self-help psychological intervention for preventing mental disorders among Syrian refugees in Turkey: a randomized controlled trial (2022), World Psychiatry

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Teresa Au
  • Catharina van der Boor
  • Marianna Purgato
  • Marit Sijbrandij
  • Maritta Välimäki

Ross White's expertise is reflected in the substantial number of publications across various fields related to psychology and public health, with particular interests in addressing mental health issues among vulnerable populations such as refugees and communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Best Publications

  • Efficacy and acceptability of psychosocial interventions in asylum seekers and refugees: systematic review and meta-analysis.

    G Turrini;M Purgato;C Acarturk;M Anttila

  • Guided self-help to reduce psychological distress in South Sudanese female refugees in Uganda: a cluster randomised trial.

    Wietse A Tol;Marx R Leku;Daniel P Lakin;Kenneth Carswell

  • A feasibility study of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for emotional dysfunction following psychosis.

    Ross White;Andrew Gumley;Jackie McTaggart;Lucy Rattrie

  • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and initial period of lockdown on the mental health and well-being of adults in the UK.

    Ross G White;Catharina Van Der Boor

  • Effectiveness of a WHO self‐help psychological intervention for preventing mental disorders among Syrian refugees in Turkey: a randomized controlled trial

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  • Impacts of the Covid-19 lockdown and relevant vulnerabilities on capability well-being, mental health and social support: an Austrian survey study.

    Judit Simon;Judit Simon;Timea M. Helter;Ross G. White;Catharina van der Boor

  • Effectiveness of Self-Help Plus in Preventing Mental Disorders in Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Western Europe: A Multinational Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Marianna Purgato;Kenneth Carswell;Federico Tedeschi;Ceren Acarturk

  • The Utility of Home-Practice in Mindfulness-Based Group Interventions: A Systematic Review.

    Annette Lloyd;Ross White;Catrin Eames;Rebecca Crane

  • Mental health, social adversity, and health-related outcomes in sexual minority adolescents: a contemporary national cohort study

    Rebekah Amos;Eric Julian Manalastas;Ross White;Henny Bos

  • Barriers to Accessing and Negotiating Mental Health Services in Asylum Seeking and Refugee Populations: The Application of the Candidacy Framework.

    Catharina F. van der Boor;Ross White

  • Towards a more nuanced global mental health.

    Ross G. White;S. P. Sashidharan

  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for prevention and time to depressive relapse: Systematic review and network meta-analysis

    Mark McCartney;Sarah Nevitt;Annette Lloyd;Ruaraidh Hill

  • Postpsychotic posttraumatic stress disorder: associations with fear of recurrence and intolerance of uncertainty.

    Ross G. White;Andrew I. Gumley

  • The "treatment gap" in global mental health reconsidered: sociotherapy for collective trauma in Rwanda.

    Stefan Jansen;Ross White;Jemma Hogwood;Angela Jansen

  • The integration of idioms of distress into mental health assessments and interventions: a systematic review.

    Cliodhna Cork;Bonnie N. Kaiser;Ross G. White

  • The structure of the Beck Hopelessness Scale: A confirmatory factor analysis in UK students

    Donncha Hanna;Ross White;Kristopher Lyons;Michael J. McParland

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Subjective Wellbeing: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses of Randomised Controlled Trials in Adults

    Alexandra Stenhoff;Linda Steadman;Sarah Nevitt;Lilly Benson

  • Metacognition and persecutory delusions: tests of a metacognitive model in a clinical population and comparisons with non-patients.

    Anthony P. Morrison;Andrew I. Gumley;Katie Ashcroft;I. Reneta Manousos

  • The Palgrave handbook of sociocultural perspectives on global mental health

    Ross G. White;Sumeet Jain;David M.R. Orr;Ursula M. Read

  • Hopelessness in schizophrenia: the impact of symptoms and beliefs about illness.

    Ross G. White;Muriel McCleery;Andrew I. Gumley;Ciaran Mulholland

  • Translation, adaptation, and pilot of a guided self-help intervention to reduce psychological distress in South Sudanese refugees in Uganda.

    W A Tol;J Augustinavicius;K Carswell;F L Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Gumley
Andrew Gumley University of Glasgow
Robert A. Taylor
Robert A. Taylor University of New South Wales

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