Dr Athfah Akhtar

• Mental Health & Well-being
• Therapeutic Interventions
• Culture
• Occupational Psychology
• Stress in the workplace
• Self-harm
• Employment support for those with severe mental illness (e.g. Individual placement and support)
• Randomised Controlled Trials 

• BSc
• MSc
• PhD
• PGCert

• Course leader for two UG courses: BSc Psychology with Criminology
• Module leader and teach on Introduction to Psychopathology and Occupational Health Psychology modules. 

Athfah's research interests are around psychological interventions, what type of interventions do individuals with various psychological disorders and from different ethnic/cultural backgrounds find acceptable.

She is currently working on a qualitative systematic review investigating the acceptability, usability and functionality of Digital Health Interventions for adults with depressive, anxiety and somatoform disorders.

Afsana Faheem - Cross-Cultural Validity of Psychological Interventions in IAPT.

O’Donnell, M., Nelson, L. D., Ackermann, E., Aczel, B., Akhtar, A., Aldrovandi, S., … Bialobrzeska, O. (2017). Registered Replication Report : Dijksterhuis & van Knippenberg ( 1998 ) Multilab direct replication of : A variant of study 4 from Dijksterhuis , A . & van Knippenberg , A . ( 1998 ). The relation between perception and behaviour , or how to win a game of . , 1–38.

Schneider, J., Akhtar, A., Boycott, N., Guo, B., Latimer, E., Cao, Z., & McMurran, M. (2016). Individual placement and support versus individual placement and support enhanced with work-focused cognitive behaviour therapy: Feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Occupational Therapy. 79 (5). pp. 257-269 DOI: 10.1177/0308022615619184.

Wright N, Akhtar A, Tosh GE, Clifton AV. (2016). HIV prevention advice for people with serious mental illness. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2016, Issue 9. Art. No.: CD009639. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009639.pub3.

Boycott, N., Akhtar, A., & Schneider J (2015). “Work is good for me”: Views of mental health service users seeking work during the UK recession. Journal of Mental Health, 24(2), 93-97. 

Schneider, J., & Akhtar, A. (2012). Implementation of individual placement and support: the Nottingham experience. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, spring 35(4), 325-32.

Akhtar, A., Rahman, A., Husain, M., Chaudhry, I.B., Duddu, V., & Husain, N. (2010). Multidimensional scale of perceived social support: Psychometric properties in a South Asian population. Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Research, 36 (4), 845–851.