Current NHS consultant posts held
I was until September 2017 a Consultant Practitioner Clinical Psychologist working for the NHS in Essex.
Research interests
My research interests are varied and include post-traumatic stress disorder, compassion in a therapeutic context, psychological responses to trauma among older people, sexual compulsivity, the therapeutic relationship, CBT for anxiety among people with dementia, audit and care planning.
Awards received
2009-2012 NHS East of England – Clinical Academic Post Doctoral Fellow, Research award for three years (.2 WTE) to study ‘Barriers to older adult participation in clinical research – the case of reactivated traumatic distress’
1999 - Winner of the Department of Psychology (University of Surrey) Prize for best dissertation (Cross cultural colour cognition: !Xóõ and English compared) and the Russell Wicks Memorial Prize for best student performance in examinations and coursework
Publications
Clapton N & Hiskey S (submitted). Radically Embodied Compassion Training: Cultivating therapist courage, distress tolerance and compassionate responsiveness via traditional Martial Arts. Philosophies.
Clapton N., E. & Hiskey, S. (2023) The Way is in Training: Martial Arts-informed Compassionate Mind Training to enhance CFT Therapists’ Compassionate Competencies. OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine 8(1):19; doi:10.21926/obm.icm.2301001.
Craig C. & Hiskey, S. (2022) Compassion Focused Therapy. In A Guide to Psychosocial Interventions in early stages of dementia (Second Edition) Eds. Guss, R., Middleton, J., Slade, L. Bone, A. & Caryer, F. British Psychological Society, Leicester, UK.
Lindsay, S. Hiskey, S. Irons, C & Andrews, L. (2022) Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Compassionate Engagement and Action Scales (CEAS) in the UK General Population. OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine 7(3), Special Issue Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) - New Insights and Outcomes doi:10.21926/obm.icm.2203039
Hiskey, S. & Clapton, N. E. (2021). ‘The in-betweeners: Therapist between-session self-care’. Private Practice, June, pp 8-11
Hiskey, S. & Clapton, N. E. (2021). ‘Distress Tolerance Imagery Training’. Martial Arts Studies 11, 47-56. doi: 10.18573/mas.121
McInnerney, D. Candy, B. Stone, P. Atkin, N. Johnson, J. Hiskey, S. & Kupeli, N. (2021) Access to and adequacy of psychological services for adult patients in UK hospices: a national, cross-sectional survey. BMC Palliative Care, 20 , Article 31. 10.1186/s12904-021-00724-3.
Clapton, N. & Hiskey, S. (2020) Radically Embodied Compassion: The Potential Role of Traditional Martial Arts in Compassion Cultivation. Frontiers in Psychology, 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.555156, 1-5.
Hiskey, S. & Clapton, N. (2020) Minding the gap: Compassionate maai, social relating and communicating within re-constructed space. Clinical Psychology Forum, 331, July, pp37-41.
Craig, C., Hiskey, S., & Spector, A. (2020). Compassion Focused Therapy: a systematic review of its effectiveness and acceptability in clinical populations. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, doi:10.1080/14737175.2020.1746184
Hiskey, S. & Clapton, N. (2019) Rolling with the punches: The martial arts as a vehicle for personal and therapist self-development. Private Practice, September, 6-9.
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