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Sara Tai is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in psychology, with a focus on clinical applications and mental health services. Their work spans various subfields, including clinical psychology, social psychology, general health professions, philosophy, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their research topics predominantly cover psychiatric care and mental health services, mental health treatment and access, digital mental health interventions, and the dynamics of attachment and relationships. Additional topics include mental health and psychiatry, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and patient involvement in mental health care.

Sara Tai's recent papers include:

  • The effects of psilocybin on cognitive and emotional functions in healthy participants: Results from a phase 1, randomised, placebo-controlled trial involving simultaneous psilocybin administration and preparation (2022, Journal of Psychopharmacology)
  • Development and Evaluation of a Therapist Training Program for Psilocybin Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression in Clinical Research (2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry)
  • An Artificial Therapist (Manage Your Life Online) to Support the Mental Health of Youth: Co-Design and Case Series (2023, JMIR Human Factors)
  • Agents of change: Understanding the therapeutic processes associated with the helpfulness of therapy for mental health problems with relational agent MYLO (2020, Digital Health)
  • How did mental health become so biomedical? The progressive erosion of social determinants in historical psychiatric admission registers (2020, History of Psychiatry)

Sara Tai frequently collaborates with several researchers in the field, including Warren Mansell, Fritz Handerer, Peter Kinderman, Chris Sutton, and Jasper Palmier-Claus.

The main venues where their research is published include:

  • Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • British Journal of Guidance and Counselling
  • JMIR Human Factors
  • Journal of Mental Health

Best Publications

  • The interpretation of, and responses to, changes in internal states: An integrative cognitive model of mood swings and bipolar disorders.

    Warren Mansell;Anthony P. Morrison;Graeme Reid;Ian Lowens

  • Conversational Agents in the Treatment of Mental Health Problems: Mixed-Method Systematic Review

    Hannah Gaffney;Warren Mansell;Sara Tai

  • Early detection of bipolar disorder : a pilot familial high-risk study of parents with bipolar disorder and their adolescent children

    Steven Huntley Jones;Sara Tai;Kate Evershed;Rebecca Knowles

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

    Sara Tai;Douglas Turkington

  • Stability of self-esteem in bipolar disorder: comparisons among remitted bipolar patients, remitted unipolar patients and healthy controls.

    Rebecca Knowles;Sara Tai;Steven H Jones;Julie Highfield

  • A systematic review of the implementation of recommended psychological interventions for schizophrenia: Rates, barriers, and improvement strategies

    Paul Ince;Gillian Haddock;Sara Tai

  • Coping with depression and vulnerability to mania: A factor analytic study of the Nolen‐Hoeksema (1991) Response Styles Questionnaire

    Rebecca Knowles;Sara Tai;Ian Christensen;Richard Bentall

  • A UK validation of a general measure of subjective well-being: The modified BBC subjective well-being scale (BBC-SWB)

    Eleanor Pontin;Matthias Schwannauer;Sara Tai;Peter Kinderman

  • Predictors of Outcome in Brief Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Schizophrenia

    Alison Brabban;Sara Tai;Douglas Turkington

  • Response styles to depressed mood in bipolar affective disorder.

    Justin Thomas;Rebecca Knowles;Sara Tai;Richard P. Bentall

  • Psychological processes mediate the impact of familial risk, social circumstances and life events on mental health.

    Peter Kinderman;Matthias Schwannauer;Eleanor Pontin;Sara Tai

  • Causal and mediating factors for anxiety, depression and well-being.

    Peter Kinderman;Sara Tai;Eleanor Pontin;Matthias Schwannauer

  • Extreme appraisals of internal states and bipolar symptoms: The Hypomanic Attitudes and Positive Predictions Inventory

    Alyson L. Dodd;Warren Mansell;Anthony P. Morrison;Sara Tai

  • 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

  • The prospective role of defeat and entrapment in depression and anxiety: A 12-month longitudinal study

    Alys Wyn Griffiths;Alex M. Wood;Alex M. Wood;John Maltby;Peter J. Taylor

  • The development and validation of a general measure of well-being: the BBC well-being scale.

    P. Kinderman;M. Schwannauer;E. Pontin;S. Tai

  • Manage Your Life Online: A Web-Based Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Problem-Solving Intervention in a Student Sample.

    Timothy Bird;Warren Mansell;Jason Wright;Hannah Gaffney

  • The effects of psilocybin on cognitive and emotional functions in healthy participants: Results from a phase 1, randomised, placebo-controlled trial involving simultaneous psilocybin administration and preparation

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  • A Transdiagnostic Approach to CBT using Method of Levels Therapy: Distinctive Features

    Warren Mansell;Timothy A. Carey;Sara J. Tai

  • Effective and efficient: Using patient-led appointment scheduling in routine mental health practice in remote Australia.

    Timothy A. Carey;Sara J. Tai;William B. Stiles

  • An experimental test of the role of control in spider fear

    Andrew Healey;Warren Mansell;Sara Tai

  • Qualitative exploration of empowerment from the perspective of young people with psychosis.

    Annmarie Grealish;Sara Tai;Andrew Hunter;Anthony P. Morrison

Frequent Co-Authors

Warren Mansell
Warren Mansell University of Manchester
Richard P. Bentall
Richard P. Bentall University of Sheffield
Anthony P. Morrison
Anthony P. Morrison University of Manchester
Peter Kinderman
Peter Kinderman University of Liverpool
Alex M. Wood
Alex M. Wood London School of Economics and Political Science
Steven Jones
Steven Jones Lancaster University
Peter J. Taylor
Peter J. Taylor University of Manchester
Richard Emsley
Richard Emsley King's College London
Gillian Haddock
Gillian Haddock Manchester Academic Health Science Centre
John Maltby
John Maltby University of Leicester

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