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Mike is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Huddersfield and Associate Director of Research in the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. He has worked as a clinical psychologist in adult mental health and primary care settings and was an NHS psychological therapies service manager for over ten years. He qualified as a clinical psychologist in 1985, completed a PhD in 1994 in the area of health anxiety in medical settings and completed post qualification training in cognitive therapy in 1997.

Mike has been involved in training cognitive behavioural therapists, graduate primary care mental health workers, and primary care practitioners in self-help support for common mental health problems. His main research activity has been focused on self-help/self-management in mental health and psychological therapies process and outcome research in routine NHS service settings. This includes the development and evaluation of self-help interventions for people with common mental health problems and those with more severe and long term mental health problems. His research has involved a range of methodological approaches, including RCTs, practice based evidence and qualitative research.

• Self-help approaches to mental health problems
• Psychological therapies process and outcomes research