Research
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I’m working on the creation of an intervention for people working on mental health wards for teenagers, to reduce empathy-based stress and improve compassionate care. I am funded by the National Institute of Health Research.
I’ve published a range of academic articles, many of which are free to access and you can get by clicking on the links below.
Maddox, L., & Barreto, M. (2022). “The team needs to feel cared for”: staff perceptions of compassionate care, aids and barriers in adolescent mental health wards. BMC nursing, 21(1), 1-16. (Open Access). This paper was the result of funding from Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health.
Turgoose, D. & Maddox, L. (2017) Predictors of Compassion Fatigue in mental health professionals: A narrative review. Traumatology, 23(2), 172-185.
Turgoose, D., Glover, N., Barker, C., & Maddox, L. (2017) Empathy, compassion fatigue and burnout in police officers working with rape victims. Traumatology, 23 (2), 205-213.
Ames, C. S., Jolley, S., Laurens, K. R., Maddox, L., Corrigall, R., Browning, S., Hirsch, C. R., Hassanali, N., Bracegirdle, K. & Kuipers, E. (2013) Modelling psychosocial influences on the distress and impairment caused by psychotic-like experiences in children and adolescents. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Maddox, L., Jolley, S., Laurens, K.R., Hirsch, C., Hodgins, S., Browning, S., Bravery, L., Bracegirdle, K., Smith, P. & Kuipers, E., (2012) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Unusual Experiences in Children: A Case Series. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.
Maddox, L., Lee, D., & Barker, C. (2012) The impact of the psychological consequences of rape on rape case attrition: police perspective. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. 27, 1, 33-44.
Maddox, L., Lee, D., & Barker, C. (2011) Police empathy and victim PTSD as potential factors in rape case attrition. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. 26, 2, 112-117.
Maddox, L. (2008) Psychological consequences of rape and rape case attrition. Doctoral Thesis, University College London.
Kielar, C., Maddox, L., Bible, E., Pontikis, C.C., Macauley, S.L., Griffey, M.A., Wong, M., Sands, M.S., Cooper, J.D. (2007). Successive neuron loss in the thalamus and cortex in a mouse model of infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. Neurobiology of Disease 25, 150-62.