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Overview

Tom Sensky is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a significant emphasis on Psychiatry and Mental Health. This includes extensive work within several subfields such as Philosophy, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Family Practice, and General Health Professions.

The main topics of Tom Sensky's work include:

  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Microscopic Colitis

The scientist has published in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • BMC Medical Education
  • Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
  • CNS Spectrums

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Tom Sensky are:

  • Mental Pain and Suffering: The "Universal Currencies" of the Illness Experience? (2020), Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • A Global, Prospective, Observational Study Measuring Disease Burden and Suffering in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis, Using the Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self-measure Tool (2020), Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • Mental Pain as a Global Person-Centered Outcome Measure (2021), CNS Spectrums
  • Mental Pain Questionnaire: Clinimetric Properties of a Potential Global Person-Centred Outcome Measure (2024), Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
  • Rasch Analysis and Its Relevance to Psychosomatic Medicine (2024), Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Fiammetta Cosci
  • Gerhard Schmalz
  • Stefan Büchi
  • Dirk Ziebolz
  • Subrata Ghosh

Best Publications

  • Systematic review of the effects of shared decision-making on patient satisfaction, treatment adherence and health status

    E.A.G. Joosten;L. DeFuentes-Merillas;G.H. de Weert;T. Sensky

  • A randomized controlled trial of cognitive-behavioral therapy for persistent symptoms in schizophrenia resistant to medication.

    Tom Sensky;Douglas Turkington;David Kingdon;Janine L. Scott

  • Diagnostic Criteria for Use in Psychosomatic Research

    Giovanni A. Fava;Harald J. Freyberger;Per Bech;George Christodoulou

  • Antonovsky's sense of coherence: trait or state?

    Ulrich Schnyder;Stefan Büchi;Tom Sensky;Richard Klaghofer

  • Broadening Options for Long-term Dialysis in the Elderly (BOLDE): differences in quality of life on peritoneal dialysis compared to haemodialysis for older patients

    Edwina A. Brown;Lina Johansson;Ken Farrington;Hugh Gallagher

  • The course of depression in recent onset rheumatoid arthritis: the predictive role of disability, illness perceptions, pain and coping.

    Louise Sharpe;Tom Sensky;Tom Sensky;Simon Allard

  • A blind, randomized, controlled trial of cognitive-behavioural intervention for patients with recent onset rheumatoid arthritis: preventing psychological and physical morbidity.

    L. Sharpe;T. Sensky;N. Timberlake;B. Ryan

  • Methodological Recommendations for Trials of Psychological Interventions.

    Jenny Guidi;Eva Lotta Brakemeier;Claudi L.H. Bockting;Fiammetta Cosci

  • A randomized controlled trial of cognitive-behavior therapy for persistent symptoms in schizophrenia: a five-year follow-up.

    Douglas Turkington;Tom Sensky;Jan Scott;Thomas R E Barnes

  • Systematic review of mental health interventions for patients with common somatic symptoms: can research evidence from secondary care be extrapolated to primary care?

    Rosalind Raine;Andy Haines;Tom Sensky;Andrew Hutchings

  • Preliminary validation of PRISM (Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure) - a brief method to assess suffering.

    Stefan Büchi;Claus Buddeberg;Richard Klaghofer;Erich W. Russi

  • How different from pacemaker patients are recipients of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators with respect to psychosocial adaptation, affective disorders, and quality of life?

    F Duru;S Büchi;R Klaghofer;H Mattmann

  • Congenital heart disease and cardiac surgery in childhood: effects on cognitive function and academic ability

    J Wray;T Sensky

  • Grief and post-traumatic growth in parents 2-6 years after the death of their extremely premature baby.

    Stefan Büchi;Hanspeter Mörgeli;Ulrich Schnyder;Josef Jenewein

  • General practitioners' perceptions of chronic fatigue syndrome and beliefs about its management, compared with irritable bowel syndrome: qualitative study

    Rosalind Raine;Simon Carter;Tom Sensky;Nick Black

  • Graphic representation of illness: a novel method of measuring patients' perceptions of the impact of illness.

    Stefan Büchi;Tom Sensky;Louis Sharpe;Natalie Timberlake

  • Shared decision-making reduces drug use and psychiatric severity in substance-dependent patients.

    E.A.G. Joosten;C.A.J. de Jong;G.H. de Weert-van Oene;T. Sensky

  • PRISM: Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure. A brief nonverbal measure of illness impact and therapeutic aid in psychosomatic medicine.

    Stefan Büchi;Stefan Büchi;Tom Sensky;Tom Sensky

  • The results of a multi-centre audit of the prescribing of antipsychotic drugs for in-patients in the UK

    Maria Harrington;Paul Lelliott;Carol Paton;Chike Okocha

  • The influence of patient variables on polypharmacy and combined high dose of antipsychotic drugs prescribed for in-patients

    Paul Lelliott;Carol Paton;Maria Harrington;Maria Konsolaki

  • The Unconscious at Work: Individual and Organizational Stress in the Human Services

    Tom Sensky

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Schnyder
Ulrich Schnyder University of Zurich
Louise Sharpe
Louise Sharpe University of Sydney
Giovanni A. Fava
Giovanni A. Fava University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Jan Scott
Jan Scott Newcastle University
Claus Buddeberg
Claus Buddeberg University of Zurich
David Kingdon
David Kingdon University of Southampton
Luigi Grassi
Luigi Grassi University of Ferrara
Peter Tyrer
Peter Tyrer Imperial College London
Andrew Macleod
Andrew Macleod Royal Holloway University of London
Angelo Picardi
Angelo Picardi Istituto Superiore di Sanità

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