Klinik Psikoloji

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi

Klinik Psikoloji YL Program Direktörü

Üçüncü yıl öğrenci danışmanı

Office: Room 217, Second Floor, Sloane Hall
Office hours: Wednesday 14:00-16:00 Please email to schedule.

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Education:

• Postdoc, North East London NHS Foundation Trust, 2023
• D Clin Psych, Clinical Psychology, University of Essex - Tavistock, 2021
  • Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust & Tavistock and
• Portman NHS Foundation Trust
• MSc, Mental Health Studies, IoPPN - King’s College London, 2017
  • St Thomas' Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
• BSc, Psychology, Istanbul Ticaret University, 2014
• BA, History, Bogazici University, 2008

Courses Taught:

• Readings and Research in Clinical Psychology
• Clinical Assessment
• Advanced Clinical Psychology
• Individual Approaches to Psychotherapy
• Diagnostic Evaluation I

Research Interests:

• common mental health difficulties
• trauma
• psychosis
• dissociation
• medically unexplained symptoms
• suicide and self-harm
• psychotherapy effectiveness
• culturally adapted interventions
• migration, race and mental health
• person-centred care
• lived experience, participatory research, ‘mad’ studies
• critical psychiatry, critical psychology

Recent Publications:

• Kaptan, S. K.; Kaya, Z. M; Akan, A. (2024). Addressing mental health need after covid-19: A systematic review of remote EMDR therapy studies as an emerging option. Frontiers in Psychiatry 14, 1336569. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1336569
• Kaptan, S. K.; Dernedde, C; Dowden, T; Akan, A. (2023). “Without it, I am not sure I would still be here”: a mixed methods service evaluation for online EMDR trauma therapy in a primary care network in England. Frontiers in Psychiatry 14, 1301540. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1301540
• Strouza, A.I.; Lawrence, A.J.; Vissia, E.M.; Kakouris, A.; Akan, A.; Nijenhuis, E.R.S.; Draijer, N.; Chalavi, S.; Reinders, A.A.T.S. (2023). Identity state-dependent self-relevance and emotional intensity ratings of words in dissociative identity disorder: A controlled longitudinal study. Brain and Behavior, 13, e3208. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.3208
• Akan, A; Green, G, Blumenfeld, F. (2023). Physical symptoms or somatisation? Turkish immigrants’ experiences and understandings of common mental health difficulties: A systematic review (thematic synthesis). Studies in Psychology 43(2), 215-254. http://dx.doi.org/10.26650/SP2022-1041055

Projects:

• This section will be updated when there is active recruitment for research assistants (voluntary or paid) and participants
• Dr Ayse Akan is open to national and international clinical research collaborations