Professor Michaela Swales
Professor in Clinical Psychology
Affiliations
Contact info
Professor Swales can be contacted as follows:
email: m.swales@bangor.ac.uk
phone: 01248 382552
Postgraduate Project Opportunities
Self-funded (inc. agency-funded projects): Professor Swales welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. Please contact Professor Swales in the first instance with a 1-2 page draft of your idea, to see if she has any capacity for new students.
Contact Info
Professor Swales can be contacted as follows:
email: m.swales@bangor.ac.uk
phone: 01248 382552
Overview
Professor Swales is Director of the North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme that provides Doctoral level training to 40+ trainees. She is also the Director of the Post-Graduate Diploma in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.
Research
Professor Swales conducts research into Dialectial Behaviour Therapy with a particular interest in implementation of the treatment in routine healthcare settings.
Teaching and Supervision
Professor Swales focuses on increasing competence in evidence-based psychological therapies in both her work on the doctoral programme and on the PGDip in DBT. She also leads a National Team of Trainers in DBT whose skill and expertise are recognised internationally. Professor Swales' team have trained over a thousand practitoners in DBT across the UK and Ireland. More recently they have trained practitioners in Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Hong Kong, Poland and the United States.
Professor Swales supervises PhD candidates and DClinPsy candidates. Current projects are focusing on DBT for children with an ASD diagnosis, understanding effective processes in DBT Consultation Teams, shaping competence in DBT therapists and understanding relationships between ACEs and suicidal behaviour in Jordan.
Education / academic qualifications
- 1997 - PhD , Predictors of Outcome in Adolescents in a Residential Setting , Bangor University
- MPhil , Psychopathology (1989 - 1990)
- MPhil , History and Philosophy of Science (1986 - 1987)
- BA , Natural Sciences (1983 - 1986)
Research outputs (43)
- Published
Personality Disorder Diagnoses in ICD-11: Transforming Conceptualisations and Practice
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
A feasibility randomised controlled trial with an embedded qualitative evaluation of perinatal emotional skills groups for women with borderline personality disorder: protocol for the EASE study
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Emotional and behavioural problems of children with autism spectrum disorder attending mainstream schools
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Projects (2)
PhD Studentship
Project: Research
KTP With Integral Business Support Ltd.
Project: Research