Youth Mental Health, Depression and Anxiety, Sleep Problems, Insomnia, Cognitive Biases, Early Intervention and Prevention, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, School-Based Interventions

Faith completed her PhD and Postdoc at the University of Reading, where she investigated the clinical characteristics and cognitive biases associated with adolescent depression, and the causal relationship between sleep and depression in young people. Faith subsequently spent four years working as a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sussex.

My research broadly examines the causal and maintaining factors of child and adolescent anxiety and depression, with a focus on factors that could be targeted in prevention and early intervention.

I am currently pursuing areas of research related to the following:

1. The relationship between sleep, anxiety and depression in adolescence, including mechanistic pathways and early intervention for sleep problems.
2. The development and evaluation of school-based prevention and early intervention, including within Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs).
3. The role of self-perceptions and prosociality in adolescent depression

Mental Health Support Team (MHST) Research Clinic - Co-Lead

Sleep and Insomnia Network of East Anglia - Member