Research Group: ChARM
Biography
Ayla Humphrey's work focuses on early identification of young people's mental health and developmental needs and the advancement of services for children & families to meet these needs. She is the Course Director for the MPhil Foundations of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and a practicing Clinical Psychologist in NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
Current collaborations include the “COACHES” study, funded by the NIHR and What Works for Early Intervention and Children’s Social Care, examining mental health referrals and treatment for young people with social care involvement; Parents and Young Children under Extreme Stress (PYCES)"; "Delivery of Cognitive Therapy for Young People After Trauma" (Decrypt); Publications can be found here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ayla-Humphrey.
Her research has also focused on early development in children with Tuberous Sclerosis, autism, and epilepsy. She co-founded the NHS Cambridge Centre for Paediatric Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (CCPNR) and was awarded the 2017 British Psychological Society award for Outstanding Contribution to Applied Practice.
Publications
B. Coughlan, N. Marshall, M. Woolgar, et al., Typological and cumulative approaches to risk and adversity in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS): Retrospective cohort analysis in South London, Comprehensive Psychiatry (2024), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2024.152568
Robinson, J; Russell, A; Johnston, K; Acker, L; Crabtree, J; Humphrey, A; Crouch, E; (2024) Expanding and developing the workforce to serve autistic people and people with intellectual disability. Clinical Psychology Forum , 1 (375) pp. 60-74. 10.53841/bpscpf.2024.1.375.60.
Soneson E, Das S, Burn AM, van Melle M, Anderson JK, Fazel M, Fonagy P, Ford T, Gilbert R, Harron K, Howarth E, Humphrey A, Jones PB, Moore A. Leveraging Administrative Data to Better Understand and Address Child Maltreatment: A Scoping Review of Data Linkage Studies. Child Maltreat. 2023 Feb;28(1):176-195. doi: 10.1177/10775595221079308. Epub 2022 Mar 3. PMID: 35240863; PMCID: PMC9806482.
Childs-Fegredo, J., Burn, AM., Duschinsky, R. et al. Acceptability and Feasibility of Early Identification of Mental Health Difficulties in Primary Schools: A Qualitative Exploration of UK School Staff and Parents’ Perceptions. School Mental Health 13, 143–159 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-020-09398-3
Allen L, Ashford P-A, Beeson E, et al. DECRYPT trial: study protocol for a phase II randomised controlled trial of cognitive therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in youth exposed to multiple traumatic stressors. BMJ Open, 2021;11:e047600. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047600
Howarth E, Vainre M, Humphrey A, Lombardo C, Hanafiah AN, Anderson JK, Jones PB. Delphi study to identify key features of community-based child and adolescent mental health services in the East of England. BMJ Open. 2019 Jun 19;9(6):e022936. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022936. PMID: 31221865; PMCID: PMC6589022.
Humphrey A, MacLean C, Ploubidis GB, Granader Y, Clifford M, Haslop M, Neville BG, Yates JR, Bolton PF; Tuberous Sclerosis 2000 Study Group. Intellectual development before and after the onset of infantile spasms: a controlled prospective longitudinal study in tuberous sclerosis. Epilepsia. 2014 Jan;55(1):108-16. doi: 10.1111/epi.12484. Epub 2014 Jan 13. PMID: 24417555.
Humphrey A, Ploubidis GB, Yates JR, Steinberg T, Bolton PF. The Early Childhood Epilepsy Severity Scale (E-Chess). Epilepsy Res. 2008 May;79(2-3):139-45. doi: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2008.01.007. Epub 2008 Apr 2. PMID: 18387786.
Humphrey A, Neville BG, Clarke A, Bolton PF. Autistic regression associated with seizure onset in an infant with tuberous sclerosis. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2006 Jul;48(7):609-11. doi: 10.1017/S0012162206001277. PMID: 16780633.
