Dr Rebecca Knowles Bevis : Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) , Psychology

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Dr Rebecca Knowles Bevis

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Overview

Specialises in

Applied Relaxation
Behaviour Therapy
Behavioural Activation (BA)

CBT with Exposure and Response Prevention (CBT with ERP)
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

Schema focused therapy
Trauma focused CBT

Offers

Video and telephone consultations

About me

I have worked in NHS adult community mental health services for 14 years, and now run a busy private practice alongside my role as a lecturer and researcher on the Oxford Clinical Psychology doctoral training programme. My primary clinical and research interest is in parent, maternal and infant mental health, but I do also work with adults across the lifespan, using a range of therapeutic models, tools and approaches to treat distress and develop resilience.

Areas of interest

perinatal mental health; postnatal depression; postnatal anxiety; prenatal anxiety; prenatal depression; parenting; birth trauma; trauma; PTSD; OCD; anxiety; depression

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

menopause

About me

Current NHS consultant posts held

Research Tutor
Oxford Institute for Clinical Psychology Training and Research
Warneford Hospital
Headington
Oxford OX3 7JX

Research interests

Perinatal mental health, transition to parenthood, birth trauma, video interaction guidance, resilience, attachment, trauma

(Additional) Languages spoken

Publications

Boyden, P., Knowles R., Corcoran, R., Hamilton, S. & Rowse, G. (2015). A preliminary investigation into theory of mind and attributional style in adults with grandiose delusions. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 20(2), 109-121

McCarthy-Jones, S., Marriott, M., Knowles, R., Rowse, G. & Thompson, A. (2013). What is psychosis? A meta-synthesis of inductive qualitative studies exploring the experience of psychosis. Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches, 5(1), 1-16

McCarthy-Jones, S., Knowles, R. & Rowse, G. (2012). More than words? Hypomanic personality traits, visual imagery and verbal thought in young adults. Consciousness and Cognition, 21(3), 1375-1381

Bentall, R., Myin-Germeys, I., Smith, A., Knowles, R., Jones, S., Smith, T. & Tai, S. (2011). Hypomanic personality, stability of self-esteem and response styles to negative mood. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 18(5), 397-410
Knowles, R., McCarthy-Jones, S. & Rowse, G. (2011). Grandiose delusions: A review and theoretical integration of cognitive and affective perspectives. Clinical Psychology Review, 31(4), 684-696

Thomas, J., Bentall, R.P., Knowles, R. & Tai, S. (2009). Indirect measurement of dysfunctional attitudes in bipolar affective disorder. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 82 (3), 261-266

Knowles, R. & Tarrier, N. (2009) Evaluation of the effect of prospective patient diaries on emotional well-being in intensive care unit survivors: A randomized controlled trial. Critical Care Medicine, 37(1), 184-191

Knowles, R., Tai, S., Jones, S.H., Highfield, J., Morriss, R. & Bentall, R.P. (2008). Stability of self-esteem in bipolar disorder: comparisons among remitted bipolar patients, remitted unipolar patients and healthy controls. Bipolar Disorders, 9(5), 490-495

Thomas, J., Knowles, R., Tai, S. & Bentall, R.P. (2007) Response styles to depressed mood in bipolar affective disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 100(1-3), 249-252

Jones, S.H., Tai, S., Evershed, K., Knowles, R. & Bentall, R.P. (2006). Early detection of bipolar disorder: A pilot familial high-risk study of parents with bipolar disorder and their adolescent children. Bipolar Disorders, 8, 362-372.

Bentall, R.P., Tai, S. & Knowles, R. (2006). Psychological processes and the pathways to mania: Exploring the manic defence hypothesis. Chapter in Jones S & Bentall R.P. (Eds) The Psychology of Bipolar Disorder. Oxford: Oxford University Press

My qualifications & training

Qualifications

BA Hons (1st) Experimental Psychology Oxford University 2001
PhD University of Manchester 2004
PG Diploma Cognitive Behavioural Therapy University of Manchester 2009
D Clin Psych University of Manchester 2007

Additional training

Video Interaction Guidance - Accredited Guider Association for Video Interaction Guidance UK 2019

Affiliations / memberships

British Psychological Society
Division of Clinical Psychology
HCPC
BABCP Accredited Psychotherapist
AVIG UK Accredited Video Interaction Guider
Association of Infant Mental Health
Doula UK recognised birth doula

My private practice

Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)

Procedures completed

AA809
Psychology session - (>50)

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