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Overview

Roz Shafran is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom, focusing primarily on Psychology and Medicine with significant contributions to Clinical Psychology and Neurology. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics, notably related to mental health, COVID-19, and adolescent healthcare.

The scientist has published extensively in various academic journals, frequenting venues such as:

  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
  • PLoS ONE
  • Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Internet Interventions

Shafran's research interests span several major topics including:

  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies

Their recent publications highlight key issues in mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Notable papers include:

  • Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science (2020) published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Rapid Systematic Review: The Impact of Social Isolation and Loneliness on the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in the Context of COVID-19 (2020) published in Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • The prevalence and long-term health effects of Long Covid among hospitalised and non-hospitalised populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2022) published in EClinicalMedicine
  • Persistent symptoms following SARS-CoV-2 infection amongst children and young people: A meta-analysis of controlled and uncontrolled studies (2021) published in Journal of Infection
  • Physical and mental health 3 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection (long COVID) among adolescents in England (CLoCk): a national matched cohort study (2022) published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

Shafran collaborates frequently with other researchers, with the most common co-authors including:

  • Sophie Bennett
  • Isobel Heyman
  • Terence Stephenson
  • Emma Dalrymple
  • Tamsin Ford

Their work crosses interdisciplinary boundaries, bringing together aspects of clinical psychology, psychiatry, and digital interventions, as well as a focus on the psychosocial development of children and adolescents in various contexts.

Best Publications

  • Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science.

    Emily A. Holmes;Emily A. Holmes;Rory C O'Connor;V. Hugh Perry;Irene Tracey

  • Cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders: a "transdiagnostic" theory and treatment.

    Christopher G Fairburn;Zafra Cooper;Roz Shafran

  • Rapid Systematic Review: The Impact of Social Isolation and Loneliness on the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in the Context of COVID-19.

    Maria Elizabeth Loades;Eleanor Chatburn;Nina Higson-Sweeney;Shirley Reynolds

  • Cognitive Behavioural Processes across Psychological Disorders: A Transdiagnostic Approach to Research and Treatment

    Allison Harvey;Edward Watkins;Warren Mansell;Roz Shafran

  • Clinical perfectionism: a cognitive-behavioural analysis.

    Roz Shafran;Zafra Cooper;Christopher G. Fairburn

  • Perfectionism as a transdiagnostic process: A clinical review

    Sarah Egan;Tracey Wade;Rosamund Shafran

  • Cognitive assessment of obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Randy Frost;Gail Steketee;Nader Amir;Martine Bouvard

  • Perfectionism and psychopathology: a review of research and treatment.

    Roz Shafran;Warren Mansell

  • The prevalence and long-term health effects of Long Covid among hospitalised and non-hospitalised populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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  • Thought-action fusion in obsessive compulsive disorder☆

    Roz Shafran;Dana S. Thordarson;S. Rachman

  • A cognitive behavioural theory of anorexia nervosa.

    Christopher G Fairburn;Roz Shafran;Zafra Cooper

  • Psychometric validation of the obsessive belief questionnaire and interpretation of intrusions inventory - Part 2: Factor analyses and testing of a brief version

    Gail Steketee;Randy Frost;Sunil Bhar;Martine Bouvard

  • Development and initial validation of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire and the Interpretation of Intrusions Inventory.

    M Freeston;G Steketee;R Frost;N Amir

  • Mind the gap: Improving the dissemination of CBT

    R. Shafran;D.M. Clark;C.G. Fairburn;A. Arntz

  • Psychometric validation of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire and the Interpretation of Intrusions Inventory: Part I

    Gail Steketee;Randy Frost;Sunil Bhar;Martine Bouvard

  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on psychological treatments research in tomorrow's science

    Emily A Holmes;Ata Ghaderi;Catherine J Harmer;Catherine J Harmer;Paul G Ramchandani

  • The Vancouver Obsessional Compulsive Inventory (VOCI).

    Dana S. Thordarson;Adam S. Radomsky;S. Rachman;Roz Shafran

  • Multiple pathways to inflated responsibility beliefs in obsessional problems: possible origins and implications for therapy and research

    Paul Salkovskis;Roz Shafran;S Rachman;Mark H Freeston

  • Conceptual foundations of the transdiagnostic approach to CBT

    Warren Mansell;Allison Harvey;Ed Watkins;Roz Shafran

  • Post-event processing in social anxiety

    S Rachman;J Grüter-Andrew;R Shafran

  • Enhancing recovery rates: lessons from year one of IAPT.

    Alex Gyani;Roz Shafran;Richard Layard;David M. Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

Isobel Heyman
Isobel Heyman University College London
Stanley Rachman
Stanley Rachman University of British Columbia
Gerhard Andersson
Gerhard Andersson Linköping University
Christopher G. Fairburn
Christopher G. Fairburn University of Oxford
Adam S. Radomsky
Adam S. Radomsky Concordia University
Sarah J. Egan
Sarah J. Egan Curtin University
Tracey D. Wade
Tracey D. Wade Flinders University
Per Carlbring
Per Carlbring Stockholm University
Zafra Cooper
Zafra Cooper Yale University
Tamsin Ford
Tamsin Ford University of Cambridge

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