PsySTAR at University of Glasgow

Professor Chris Williams

Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry (Mental Health and Wellbeing)
BSc MBChB MMedSc MD FRCPsych
Email chris.williams@glasgow.ac.uk 
Telephone 0141 2113912
Link to CV

Professor Williams is Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the University of Glasgow.

His main clinical and research interest is in the development and evaluation of self-help approaches that provide wider access to cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approaches. This includes the widely used www.livinglifetothefull.com life skills course.

He has also developed written and computer-based self-help treatments for anxiety, depression, long-term physical health/unexplained symptoms, anorexia and bulimia and is a Past-President of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies - the lead body for CBT (www.BABCP.com). He is a Director of Glasgow Institute of Psychosocial Interventions (GIPSI) - which has a focus on training and research in evidence-based psychosocial interventions. He is Patron of Anxiety UK (www.anxietyuk.org.uk) and of Triumph over Phobia (www.topuk.org). His research has focused on the evaluation of CBT and CBT self-help interventions in low mood, bulimia, anorexia, medically unexplained symptoms and with carers. The clinical placement would focus on low intensity community based interventions for anxiety and depression.