Associates of CTRN UK
Dr Alex Hassett
Alex is a Professor of Applied Psychology and Deputy Director of the Salomons Institute for Applied Psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University.
The institute delivers clinical psychology doctoral training, training in cognitive behavioural therapy and emotion focused therapy training, clinical neuropsychology training as well as a PhD programme. Alex manages the psychological therapies programmes and the clinical neuropsychology programme and is the programme director of the PhD in Professional Practice: Psychological Perspectives. This PhD programme is designed specifically for practitioners wanting to develop their research skills and to apply theory and evidence to their area of practice as a way of growing their area of practice. Alex works across the various postgraduate programmes in the institute as well as offering knowledge exchange training and consultancy to the health, education, social care sectors and charity sectors.
He develops and delivers training to practitioners in the areas of young people’s emotional wellbeing and mental health and relational approaches to working with young people. This training has a particular focus on working with young people who have been traumatised and neglected.
Alex’s research interests focus on emotional well-being and mental health of children and young people. A particular focus is on foster care and well-being and identity development in care leavers. He also worked as a psychotherapist working with teenagers and their parents.
Recent publications include related to this area:
Adams, Emma, Hassett, A. and Lumsden, V. (2018) What do we know about the impact of stress on foster carers and contributing factors? Adoption and Fostering DOI: 10.1177/0308575918799956
Adams, Emma, Hassett, A. and Lumsden, V. (2018) “They needed the attention more than I did”: how do the birth children of foster carers experience the relationship with their parents? Adoption & Fostering, 42 (2). pp. 135-150. ISSN 0308-5759. (Corresponding author)
Colbridge, Alicia K., Hassett, A. and Sisley, E. (2017) ‘Who am I?’ How female care-leavers construct and make sense of their identity. SAGE Open. ISSN 2158-2440. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2158244016684913 (Corresponding author)
Green, C., Hassett, A., and Zundel, T. (2018). Parental Involvement: A grounded theory of the role of parents in adolescent help seeking for mental health problems. SAGE Open DOI: 10.1177/2158244018807786 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2158244018807786 (Corresponding author)
Hassett, Alexander and Isbister, Chloe (2017) Young men’s experiences of accessing and receiving help from child and adolescent mental health services following self-harm. SAGE Open, DOI: 10.1177/2158244017745112. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2158244017745112 (Corresponding author)
Jones, Siobhan, Hassett, A. and Sclare, I. (2017) Experiences of engaging with mental health services in 16- to 18-year-olds: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. SAGE Open, 7 (3). ISSN 2158-2440.http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2158244017719113 (Corresponding author)