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Research interests

Overview: I co-lead the Family Wellbeing and Attachment Relationships research stream in the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme. I undertake research informed by systemic and narrative therapy approaches. 

My research focus is on parental and family wellbeing, primarily in the following areas:

1. Parental mental health: A programme of research within the field of parental and perinatal mental health. This includes qualitative research, involving both parents who experience psychological distress and their children, and focuses in particular on how families communicate together about parental mental health concerns and how families make meaning together and individually about these difficulties.

2. Parental and family loss and bereavement: I collaborate with a number of 3rd sector organisations to research parental journeys through loss and bereavement, including ambigious loss (birth mothers whose children are taken into care or adopted); anticipated loss (parents of children with progressive or life limiting illness) and parental and family bereavement (parental loss of a child).

3. Family meaning-making and communication: Research that investigates how families make sense of and communicate about challenging life events, for example parental mental health contexts, chronic or life limiting illness, or family transitions.

In addition, I undertake research with a focus on:

Diversity and social inclusion: I am committed to research that addresses discrimination and marginalization within training contexts, the wider profession of clinical psychology and within society. This has included qualitative research investigating the experiences of those who experience homelessness and who experience cuts to their disability benefits; as well as the experiences of those from minoritised groups within the profession of Clinical Psychology.

 

Teaching specialisms

Lizette teaches within the areas of:

  • Research Methodology
  • Qualitative research methods
  • Research processes
  • Systemic and Family Psychotherapy and Narrative Therapy approaches
  • Equity and inclusion in mental health and social care

 

Education/Academic qualification

Family and Systemic Psychotherapy, Doctorate in Systemic Psychotherapy

Award Date: 1 Sept 2014

External positions

Academic Quality and Standards Committee Member, Institute of Family Therapy

8 Mar 2024 → …

External Examiner, HEI: University of Leicester

2024 → …

Trustee, SLOW bereavement charity

1 Nov 2023 → …

External Examiner, HEI: The University of Bristol

27 Jul 2023

External Examiner, NHS - Tavistock & Portman Clinic NHS Foundation Trust

202331 Jan 2025

NIHR Reviewer

Mar 2022

Editorial Board - Journal of Family Therapy

Jul 2021 → …

External Examiner, HEI: Coventry University

Jun 2021 → …

External Examiner, HEI: The University of Essex

May 202031 Jan 2025

External Examiner, HEI: Canterbury Christ Church University

Jun 2016Sept 2021

External Examiner, HEI: University of Edinburgh

Oct 2015Sept 2020

Registered Clinical Psychologist, British Psychological Society

1996 → …

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