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Kevin Gournay CBE FMedSci FRCN FRCPsych (Hon) PhD RN CSci Cert CBT is a psychologist and nurse by background. He is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. He is currently a Consultant Psychologist at the Priory Hospital North London and a Professorial Fellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre; University of New South Wales in Sydney. He has been responsible over many years for a very wide range of research, policy and practice development in mental health care. He also works as an Expert Witness; he has provided reports on more than 170 suicides; 20 homicides and hundreds of reports on people who have suffered the consequences of traumatic events.
Contents
- Initiatives
- Affiliations
- Fellowships
- Awards
- Clinical expertise
- Research and teaching
- Publications
- Some Booksmonographs
- Some Journal articles
- References
Initiatives
He has been responsible for a number of initiatives that have improved mental health care, including:
Affiliations
Gournay has served on numerous government bodies. He is President and founding Patron of No Panic, the UK's largest anxiety disorder, self-help charity.
Fellowships
Awards
Clinical expertise
He originally trained as a Behaviour Therapist at the Maudsley Hospital between 1976– 1978 on the famous Nurse Therapy Programme, directed by Professor Isaac Marks. His doctoral thesis focussed on a randomised controlled trial on treatments for Agoraphobia. Throughout his career, since he completed his training in 1978, he has worked as a clinician treating literally thousands of patients with a range of anxiety disorders, OCD, PTSD and mood disorders.
Research and teaching
Gournay has held major research grants, since 1980, notably in the cognitive behavioural treatment of phobic anxiety, body image disorders, the use of medication, epidemiology, health economics and community mental health. At the present time, he chairs the Advisory Board that has oversight of 25+ projects at the Centre for Research Excellence in Comorbidity at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre in Sydney. He is the author of approximately 300 journal articles, conference papers (national and international), books, book chapters and reports. He published a textbook on agoraphobia in 1989 and has published widely on anxiety disorders.
Gournay set up and ran the UK's first multi-disciplinary Masters programme for mental health professionals in the area of interventions for serious mental illness. He has had attachments Universities and Services in the UK, Ireland, USA and Australia, where he has taught on the subjects of post traumatic stress and the management of severe mental illness. He has directed a number of training programmes for mental health professionals (doctors, psychologists and nurses) and his experience includes teaching in a number of countries including other European countries as well as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Czech Republic, Palestine and Russia.
Publications
Gournay is the author of more than 300 chapters, articles, books and conference papers, including: