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Biography
Dr Patrick Callaghan RN BSc MSc PhD CPsychol. CSCi, FHEA, Professor of Mental Health Nursing, Chartered Health Psychologist and Chartered Health Scientist, University of Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, UK. Visiting Professor of Mental Health, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Fellow Higher Education Academy, UK. Associate Director (NHS Engagement) Mental Health Research Network and External Education Peer Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
Professor Callaghan is a Mental Health Nurse and Chartered Health Psychologist. He is Professor of Mental Health Nursing at the University of Nottingham, UK and Nottinghamshire NHS Healthcare Trust where he heads a research programme designed to enable people to recover from mental distress, leading on service evaluation, testing the effect of psychosocial interventions on health and well being and investigating links between mental health nursing and service user outcomes. Patrick is past Area Commissioner and Non-Executive Director of the Mental Health Act Commission in England, and Associate Commissioner with the Healthcare Commission. He is an advisor to the Department of Health in England on mental health nursing and research, and is a past advisor on health and social policy issues to the Royal College of Nursing, UK. He was a member of the reference panel for the Chief Nursing Officer's Review of Mental Health Nursing that reported in April 2006; he co-chaired the education sub-group of this review. He has generated more than £1million in externally funded grant income from prestigious sources including the European Union, National Institute of Health (NIHR) in England as well as charitable foundations. He has published approximately 65 papers in nursing, psychology and medical journals and presented more than 40 conference papers worldwide. He is an Investigator with the NIHR, a Professorial Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health and has 23 years experience in working in Universities in England and overseas.
Expertise Summary
Social Cognition Models of Health-related Behaviour
Psychological Interventions
Mental Health Nursing Processes and Outcomes
Quantitative Research Methods
Mental Health Service Evaluation
Teaching Summary
Social Cognition Models of Health-related Behaviour
Psychological Interventions
Mental Health Nursing Processes and Outcomes
Quantitative Research Methods
Mental Health Service Evaluation
Research Summary
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2009
Callaghan, P et al
£241,000
H.E.A.L.T.H. project revised: Pragmatic RCT of exercise with young people diagnosed with anxiety and depression
NIHR Research For Patient Benefit Programme
2010
Lovell, Callaghan et al al
£100,000
Service user involvement in care planning
NIHR Programme Grant Development Grant
2010
Repoer, Callaghan et et al
£390,000
Evaluation of peer support workers in mental health
Health Foundation
Recent Publications
HIGGINS, A, CALLAGHAN, P, DEVRIES, J, KEOGH, B, MORRISSEY, J, NASH, M, RYAN, D, GUJBELS, H and CARTER, T, 2012. Evaluation of mental health recovery and Wellness Recovery Action Plan Journal of Advanced Nursing. (In Press.)
CALLAGHAN, P, DAVID, A, LEWIS, S, MARSHALL, M, SZMUKLER, G, WYKES, T, ASHCROFT, J and BURNS, S, 2012. Developing support for clinical research: the Mental Health Rseearch Network experience Clinical Investigation. 2(5), 459-463
Past Research
1992
P. Callaghan & R. Adams
£60,000
Identifying and evaluating the effect of therapeutic nursing on patient outcomes with particular reference to Quality of Life in a special hospital
University of East London
Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire
1994
P. Callaghan, H.P.French,
E. Holroyd, K. Sellick
S. Dudley-Brown
HK$31,860
(£2548)
The Effectiveness of Tutorials in Behaviourial Sciences for Nurses: An Action Learning Project
University Grants Committee of Hong Kong
1998
P. Callaghan
HK$77,000
(£6160)
Designing equivalent, reliable and valid measures of variables that may predict exercise behaviour in young Chinese people
Hong Kong Government Health Services Research Committee
1998
A.Molassiotis, P. Callaghan
S.F.Twinn
HK$307,000
(£24,560)
Randomized Controlled Trial of the effectiveness of group cognitive-behavioural interventions and peer support/counselling in symptomatic HIV patients.
Hong Kong AIDS Trust Fund
2000
P. Callaghan, T. J. Coats
L. Leigh, A. Smith
L. Bowers
£67,000
An evaluation of the laison mental health service at the A & E department of the Royal London Hospital
NHS R & D Levy
2000
L.Bowers
P.Callaghan and 5 European
partners
EU 491,000
(£250,000)
The European Violence in Psychiatry Research Group Dissemination Project
European Union (5th Framework Programme)
2001
L. Turner & P. Callaghan
£20,000
Evaluating the introduction of a pilot client attachment scheme in mental health nursing education
City University research award
2001
L. Bowers, P. Callaghan et al.
£106,129
The right people for the job: choosing staff that will adjust positively and productively to working in the new personality disorder (PD) services
The Home Office
2002
L. Bowers, P. Callaghan et al
£300,000
City Nurses Project: evaluating care of young people with mental health problems in East London
Square Smile Appeal of Lord Mayor of London
2003
P. Callaghan
£25,000
Evaluation of Blood Borne Virus Project
ELC MH Trust
2004
P.Callaghan
£156,000
Developing international excellence
RAE Development Fund City University, London
2005
J.Jones, P.Callaghan et al.
£78,475
Developing Strategies for the Management of Disruptive Patient Behaviours in the Haemodialysis Units at Barts and the London Trust
Research Advisory Board Barts and the London NHS Trust
2006
P.Callaghan, E. Khalil and S. Owen
£99,307
Pragmatic randomised controlled trial of a preferred intensity exercise programme to improve physiological and associated psychological, social and wellbeing outcomes of women living with depression
Burdett Trust
2006
J.Schneider, P Callaghan et al
£25,068
Better outcomes for the most excluded: evidence review of aclmn and mapping of existing services
Care Services Improvement Partnership
2007
P. Callaghan et al.
£248, 750
An evaluation of the Chief Nursing Officer's Review of Mental Health Nursing.
National Institute of Health Research - Policy Research Programme
2008
J. Schenider, P. Callaghan et al
£299,000
Inpatient care of people with dementia
National Institute of Health Research - NCC SDO programme
2008
C.Adams,P Callaghan & P.Liddle
£479,000
Dental Care Trial for People with Severe Mental Illness: Part of £14m CLARHC mental health theme
NIHR
2009
Callaghan, Higgins et al
€58,000
Evaluation of the impact of a Mental Health Recovery and Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Education Programme
The Irish Mental Health & Recovery Education Consortium
Future Research
The role of self-efficacy in exercise adherence
Care Planning in Mental Health Services