Dave Saxon BA (Hons), MSc
Research Associate/Data Manager
Address:
Mental Health Group, ScHARR
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 30 Regent Street
SHEFFIELD
S1 4DA
Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 0718
Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 4095
Email: d.saxon@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
From a background of psychology in social services and education I began as a research assistant/data manager in NHS counselling/psychotherapy services in 1999. Over the next 8 years I became gradually more involved with NHS/Scharr research collaborations and became F/T at ScHARR in 2008.
I am currently part of the Centre for Psychological Services Research.
Research Interests
My interests are mainly around the use of large sets of routinely collected clinical data for research purposes. I am interested in why some patients benefit from psychological therapies while others do not and in particular the variation in outcomes between therapists and statistical methods to measure and account for this.
Teaching Interests
My teaching interests are in outcomes in psychological therapies and statistics.
Current projects
- IQUEST- improving Quality & Effectiveness of Services, Therapies & Self-management of long-term depression. (CLAHRC)
- AdEPT-Understanding & preventing Adverse Effects of Psychological Therapies (NIHR RfPB)
- ComVets -Community Veterans Pilot Evaluation
- IAPT -Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (SDO Evaluation)
Key publications
Psychotherapy provision, socio-economic deprivation and the Inverse Care Law. (Saxon, D., Fitzgerald, G., Houghton, S., Lemme, F., Saul, C., Warden, S., & Ricketts, T.,) 2007 Psychotherapy Research Vol 17(5) p 515 – 521)
Can CORE assessment data identify those clients less likely to benefit from brief counselling in primary care? (Saxon, D., Ivey, C., & Young, T.) 2008 Counselling and Psychotherapy Research 8(4) 223-230
Who drops out? Do measures of risk to self and to others predict unplanned endings in primary care counselling? (Saxon, D.,Ricketts, T. and Heywood, J.) 2010 Counselling and Psychotherapy Research 10(1) 13-21
The effectiveness of routinely delivered CBT for obsessive compulsive disorder: a benchmarking study (Houghton, S., Saxon, D., Bradburn, M., Ricketts, T. & Hardy, G.) 2009 British Journal of Clinical Psychology (in press)