Staff Profile

I am the Degree Programme Director for the MSc Foundations in Clinical Psychology and a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychology. I am the Chair of the Board of Examiners for Postgraduate Taught Psychology Programmes. I teach across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, with a particular focus on the MSc Foundations in Clinical Psychology. 

For information about the MSc Foundations in Clinical Psychology and to submit any enquiries relating to applications for the course, please visit https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/degrees/5202f/

For all other enquiries regarding the MSc Foundations in Clinical Psychology, please email masters.director@ncl.ac.uk 

PSY1008: Personality and Abnormal Psychology

PSY3033: Eating and Weight Disorders

PSY3097: Empirical Project - Project supervision

PSY8036: Cultural and Historical Issues in Clinical Psychology

PSY8037: Dissertation (Module Leader and Project Supervision)

PSY8040: Research Apprenticeship (Supervisor)

PSY8067: MSc Psychology Internship Year (Module Leader)

PSY8077: Psychological Techniques in Sport and Exercise Psychology  

PSY8080: Applied Professional Psychology Skills (Module Leader)

I conduct research and supervise student research projects in the areas of anxiety, cognitive-behavioural processes, adult attachment and interpersonal processes. 

• Dale G, Rock AJ, Clark GI. Cue-Reactive Imagery Mediates the Relationships of Reward Responsiveness with Both Cue-Reactive Urge to Gamble and Positive Affect in Poker-Machine Gamblers. Journal of Gambling Studies 2020, 36, 1045-1063.
• Thangavelu K, Talk AC, Clark GI, Dissanayaka NNW. Psychosocial factors and perceived tremor disability in essential tremor. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2020, 108, 246-253.
• Janovsky T, Rock AJ, Thorsteinsson E, Clark GI, Murray CM. The Relationship between Early Maladaptive Schemas and Interpersonal Problems: A meta-analytic Review. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy 2020, 27(3), 408-447.
• Groves D, Clark LH, Clark GI. The relationship between worry and intolerance of uncertainty subtypes. Australian Psychologist 2020, 55(2), 132-142.
• Sheen J, Graj E, Dudley A, Wallace B, Sutherland-Smith W, Kavadas V, Roberts R, Proeve M, Littler S, Clark G, Dunstan D. Occupational risks during clinical placement: Key stakeholder perceptions. Australian Psychologist 2019, 55(1), 73-88.
• Harrison L, Clark GI, Egan SJ, Rock AJ. The impact of information presentation style on belief change: An experimental investigation of a Socratic Method analogue. Clinical Psychologist 2019, 23(1), 71-78.
• Janovsky T, Clark GI, Rock AJ. Trait mindfulness mediates the relationship between early maladaptive schema and interpersonal problems. Australian Psychologist 2019, 54(5), 391-401.
• Read DL, Clark GI, Rock AJ, Coventry WJ. Adult attachment and social anxiety: The mediating role of emotion regulation strategies. PLoS ONE 2018, 13(12), e0207514.
• Clark GI, Egan SJ. Clarifying the role of the Socratic Method in CBT: a survey of expert opinion. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy 2018, 11, 184-199.
• Heiniger LE, Clark GI, Egan SJ. Perceptions of Socratic and non-Socratic presentation of information in cognitive behaviour therapy. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 2018, 58, 106-113.
• Maguire P, Clark GI, Wootton B. The efficacy of cognitive behavior therapy for the treatment of perinatal anxiety symptoms: A preliminary meta-analysis. Journal of Anxiety Disorders 2018, 60, 26-34.
• Wright CJ, Clark GI, Rock AJ, Coventry WJ. Intolerance of uncertainty mediates the relationship between attachment and worry. Personality and Individual Differences 2017, 112, 97-102.
• Clark GI, Hanstock TL, Clark LH. Psychological treatment of co-occurring anxiety disorders in clinical practice: A vignette study. Australian Psychologist 2017, 52(6), 480-490.