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Waite, Felicity

Title: Research Clinical Psychologist

Department: Department of Psychiatry

Location: Warneford Hospital

Phone: 01865 618192

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2749-1386

Author's Works

  • Weight change, cardio-metabolic risk factors and cardiovascular incidence in people with serious mental illness: protocol of a population-based cohort study in the UK from 1998 to 2020, 2021-11-01
  • Identifying effective characteristics of behavioral weight management interventions for people with serious mental illness: A systematic review with a qualitative comparative analysis, 2021-10-01
  • Sleep in the time of COVID-19: findings from 17000 school-aged children and adolescents in the UK during the first national lockdown, 2022-01-01
  • Physical activity in a pandemic: A new treatment target for psychological therapy., 2020-06-01
  • Parenting behaviour and paranoia: a network analysis and results from the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescents (NCS-A), 2020-08-01
  • Parenting behaviour and paranoia: a network analysis and results from the National Comorbidity Survey‑Adolescents (NCS‑A), 2020-08-01
  • Appraisal of patient-level health economic models of severe mental illness: systematic review, 2021-08-01
  • Automated psychological therapy using virtual reality (VR) for patients with persecutory delusions: study protocol for a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled trial (THRIVE), 2019-01-01
  • Participatory design to create a VR therapy for psychosis, 2021-02-01
  • A compassionate imagery intervention for patients with persecutory delusions, 2021-06-01
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The focus of my work is to develop more effective and easily accessible interventions for people experiencing distressing delusions and hallucinations. This involves identifying and testing the mechanisms underpinning psychotic experiences. Then using this theoretical understanding to develop effective treatments to enable people to feel safer, to feel happier and to reengage with the world. Finally, harnessing innovations in technology, for example virtual reality, to increase access to effective psychological interventions to patients throughout the NHS.

Three exciting projects I am currently involved in are the SleepWell trial, the gameChange project, and the Feeling Safe Study. In the SleepWell trial we hope to find out if treating sleep problems can prevent the onset of serious mental health problems in young people aged 14-25 years. The gameChange project aims to transform services for patients with psychosis by providing psychological therapies using immersive virtual reality. This NIHR invention4innovation funded project involves collaborations with the Royal College of Arts, the McPin Foundation, NIHR MindTech, OxfordVR, and multiple NHS trusts and universities across the UK. The Feeling Safe Study is a randomised controlled trial of a novel tranlsational psychological treatment for persecutory delusions.

Previously I worked on the Better Sleep Trial and SleepWell case series. Both projects tested psychological interventions targeting sleep: a key factor contributing to distressing psychotic experiences.

I am an HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist and completed my clinical doctorate at the University of Oxford. Prior to clinical training I worked on studies evaluating CBT for people at ultra-high risk of psychosis and developing approaches to promote recovery in early psychosis.


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