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Clinical work
Rachel is an HCPC registered Chartered Clinical Psychologist, BABCP Accredited CBT Practitioner and trained in systemic and EMDR therapy.
Rachel has spent substantial time working with military veterans with highly complex health, mental health and social needs across a range of settings. She has experience providing psychological assessments and interventions to other specialist populations exposed to trauma (e.g. in-patient groups, first responders, healthcare staff, government agency staff, and students).
Rachel provides clinical supervision to psychological therapists, practitioner psychologists and trainees working across a range of settings (e.g., health, mental health and forensic) and primarily now works clinically in an acute intensive care unit (ICU) with patients, families and staff, and on wider responses to critical and major incidents.
Background
Rachel has previously led and/or managed national projects and programmes including, national clinical audits in mental health (National Clinical Audits | Royal College of Psychiatrists (rcpsych.ac.uk)); NHS patient safety incident reporting and response and other quality and service improvement initiatives. She authored the Royal College of Psychiatrists' original e-learning module on Patient Safety in Mental Health (Quality improvement module 4: Patient safety in mental health (rcpsych.ac.uk)).
Pedagogical research and improvement
Rachel is using her work in the field of psychological trauma to understand and drive improvements in pedagogical practice in higher education. Her work aims to better enable those with trauma experiences to strive to thrive in higher education, and guide the higher education community and systems to better facilitate this.
https://www.bath.ac.uk/projects/trauma-informed-pedagogy-in-higher-education
Other roles
Clinical Psychologist, Intensive Care Unit, Royal United Hospitals, Bath
Author, e.g. An Illustrated Guide to Clinical Psychology | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - UK (jkp.com)
Steering committee member for the Scar Free Foundation Centre for Conflict Wound Research project 'Understanding the Needs and Interventions for the Treatment of Scarring', being undertaken at the University of the West of England by the Centre for Appearance Research.
One of 30 'future research leaders' brought together in the GW4 Crucible 2022 to collaboratively explore 'Building back better: Interdisciplinary approaches to mental health wellbeing research'.
Advance HE's Aurora 2022 women in higher education leadership development programme participant.
External examiner and peer reviewer.
Roles on the Bath DClinPsy
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Psychological Research Methods, Master in Science, Birkbeck, University of London
Clinical Psychology, Doctor of Clinical Psychology, University of Bath
Psychology, Bachelor of Science, University of Surrey
External Examiner, Cardiff University
Author: Patient Safety in Mental Health e-Learning Module, Royal College of Psychiatrists
External Examiner, University of Exeter
External Lecturer, University of Exeter
External Examiner, University of Oxford
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
May, H. (Creator), Paskell, R. (Creator) & Hamilton-Giachritsis, C. (Creator), University of Bath, 23 Feb 2023
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-01079
Dataset
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy)
Paskell, R. (Recipient) & Vacara, C. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)