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Prof Rona Moss-Morris
Professor of Health Psychology, Co-director CCAHPDuties
Editor-in-Chief Psychology and Health.
Click here for a link to the journal and to download some free access editorials and articles from leading health psychology researchers.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713648133
Academic Director of the MSc in Health Psychology
Teaching Activities
Teaching on the following MSc Health Psychology courses:
PSYC 6001: Psychosocial aspects of health
PSYC 6003: Psychosocial aspects of illness and disability
PSYC 6002: Psychology and the delivery of health care (course coordinator)
PSYC 6022: Supervising MSc dissertations.
PhD supervision:
Primary supervisor of the following PhD projects in the SchoolofPsychology,UniversityofSouthampton:
1. Emily Aden-Close: The effect of guided written disclosure on distress and quality of life in women with ovarian cancer and their partners.
2. Laura Dennison: Exploring psychological adjustment to Multiple Sclerosis
3. Katarzyna Zinken: Development and evaluation of self-efficacy based interventions for people with diabetes.
4. Angeliki Bogosian: The impact on adolescents on having a parent with Multiple Sclerosis: Developing measurements and an intervention to facilitate adjustment.
Second Supervisor of the following PhD students:
1. Rie Tamagawa (Psychological Medicine,UniversityofAuckland) : Understanding the physiological and psychological sequelae of emotional repression and suppression.
2. Dr Jeanette Lynch: (Primary Medical Care Group,UniversityofSouthamptonof ). Are patient beliefs important in determining adherence to treatment and outcome for depression? Development of a brief questionnaire to measure beliefs about depression in primary care
Research Interests
My key research interests include:
Models which help us conceptualise and treat medically unexplained conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and chronic pelvic pain.
2. Developing and evaluating self-management and CBT based interventions for people with chronic illnesses such as multiple sclerosis, IBS and CFS
3.The relationships between emotional repression, suppression and expression to illness outcomes and neuroendocrine and immune factors.
4. Developing ways to measure people’s perceptions and responses to their symptoms and illnesses and investigating the relationships between these variables and adjustment to illness.
link to the IPQ web site http://www.uib.no/ipq/PDFs of some recent articles (see publications)
Work in Progress
Much of my current work focuses on developing and evaluating interventions for people with chronic illness that can be incorporated within current health care environments.
I currently have a three year grant from the MS society to develop and test interventions for adapting to multiple sclerosis. This trial is called the saMS trial. For more on this project, and to meet some of the team working on the project, click on the video link below and the saMS trial website.
www.southampton.ac.uk/samstrial
We have also just begun work on developing an Internet version of a CBT package which we developed to treat MS fatigue. In a previous RCT, we showed that therapist led CBT was effective in substantially reducing fatigue up to six months post treatment. This is an 18 month project that includes website development and a small pilot study
I am also very interested in the effects of emotional repression and suppression on health. I have been working with colleagues on projects in this area, including laboratory based studies looking at ANS and neuroendocrine responses to emotional expression in repressors and suppressors, and cross cultural differences in repression.
I have a small role in a large international, multi site study of predictors of major diseases of pregnancy outcome. http://www.scopestudy.net/default.aspx. My role in this project is to look at the psychological predictors of pregnancy outcomes such as preeclampsia and preterm birth.