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Overview

Simon Wessely is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has a significant body of research primarily focused on psychology and health professions. Their scholarly output reflects a sustained engagement with clinical psychology and general health-related topics.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Health Professions

In terms of subfields, the research covers:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Health
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Oncology

Their work addresses a range of topics, with particular emphasis on:

  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Recent publications highlight contributions to current and pressing issues in mental health and public health:

  • The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence (2020, The Lancet)
  • Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science (2020, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal probability sample survey of the UK population (2020, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Managing mental health challenges faced by healthcare workers during covid-19 pandemic (2020, BMJ)
  • The psychological effects of quarantining a city (2020, BMJ)

Frequent co-authors in Simon Wessely's research include:

  • Neil Greenberg
  • Sharon A. M. Stevelink
  • Danielle Lamb
  • Matthew Hotopf
  • Rosalind Raine

Wessely's publications are often found in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • BMJ Open
  • PLoS ONE
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence.

    Samantha K Brooks;Rebecca K Webster;Louise E Smith;Lisa Woodland

  • 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

  • Development of a fatigue scale

    Trudie Chalder;G. Berelowitz;Teresa Pawlikowska;Louise Watts

  • Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal probability sample survey of the UK population.

    Matthias Pierce;Holly Hope;Tamsin Ford;Stephani Hatch

  • Managing mental health challenges faced by healthcare workers during covid-19 pandemic.

    Neil Greenberg;Mary Docherty;Sam Gnanapragasam;Simon Wessely

  • Psychological debriefing for preventing post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

    Suzanna C. Rose;Jonathan Ian Bisson;Rachel Churchill;Simon Wessely

  • Functional somatic syndromes: one or many?

    Simon Wessely;C Nimnuan;M Sharpe

  • Public perceptions, anxiety, and behaviour change in relation to the swine flu outbreak: cross sectional telephone survey

    G James Rubin;Richard Amlôt;Lisa Page;Simon Wessely

  • The psychological effects of quarantining a city

    G James Rubin;Simon Wessely

  • The assessment of fatigue A practical guide for clinicians and researchers

    A.J Dittner;S.C Wessely;R.G Brown

  • Diagnosis and classification of disorders specifically associated with stress: proposals for ICD-11.

    Andreas Maercker;Chris R Brewin;Richard A Bryant;Marylene Cloitre

  • Population based study of fatigue and psychological distress

    T Pawlikowska;Trudie Chalder;S R Hirsch;P Wallace

  • Reasoning in Deluded Schizophrenic and Paranoid Patients: Biases in Performance on a Probabilistic Inference Task

    P A Garety;D R Hemsley;S Wessely

  • The Psychological Impact of Quarantine and How to Reduce It: Rapid Review of the Evidence

    Samantha K. Brooks;Rebecca K. Webster;Louise E. Smith;Lisa Woodland

  • Health-protective behaviour, social media usage and conspiracy belief during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

    Daniel Allington;Bobby Duffy;Simon Wessely;Nayana Dhavan

  • Medically unexplained symptoms: an epidemiological study in seven specialities.

    Chaichana Nimnuan;Matthew Hotopf;Simon Wessely

  • What are the consequences of deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan on the mental health of the UK armed forces? A cohort study

    Nicola T Fear;Margaret Jones;Dominic Murphy;Lisa Hull

  • Health of UK servicemen who served in Persian Gulf War

    Catherine Unwin;Nick Blatchley;William Coker;Susan Ferry

  • Mental Health Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Probability Sample Survey of the UK Population

    Matthias Pierce;Holly Hope;Tamsin Ford;Stephani Hatch

  • Crime and Schizophrenia

    S Wessely;D Castle;P Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicola T. Fear
Nicola T. Fear King's College London
Neil Greenberg
Neil Greenberg King's College London
Matthew Hotopf
Matthew Hotopf King's College London
Trudie Chalder
Trudie Chalder King's College London
Norman Jones
Norman Jones University of Liverpool
Anthony J. Cleare
Anthony J. Cleare King's College London
G. James Rubin
G. James Rubin King's College London
Anthony S. David
Anthony S. David University College London
Robin M. Murray
Robin M. Murray King's College London
David J. Castle
David J. Castle University of Tasmania

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