Dr Chris Williams
Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Glasgow
Dr Chris Williams is Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the University of Glasgow, UK. His main clinical and research interest is in the development and evaluation of the Five Areas CBT model - which aims to provide wider access to CBT approaches, including the www.livinglifetothefull.com life skills course, and www.fiveareas.com self-help resources.
He has developed written and computer-based self-help treatments for anxiety, depression, anorexia and bulimia and is a well-known CBT trainer and teacher. He is a Past-President of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies - the lead body for CBT in the United Kingdom (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 also a Trustee of the charity Triumph over Phobia and a Patron of the National Phobics Society - two large UK-based user-led self-help organisations addressing self-management of anxiety (www.triumphoverphobia.com and www.phobics-society.org.uk). He has published a number of self-help packages addressing depression, bulimia and anxiety (www.calipso.co.uk)
CBT self-help dissemination: Chris has been involved in service development and training in primary care and secondary care settings. He was project lead for a £500k funded project in Glasgow (Doing Well by People with Depression), and developed an award winning Self-help Treatment Access Resource Team (START project). His website www.livinglifetothefull.com has recently won an award for innovation in the national BACP awards and receives over 1.5 million hits a month. He is author of four self-help books as well as a new series of accessible CBT self-help resources including a DVD, group and College based life skills materials. He is currently leading a large £3million roll-out of the five areas approach in three health board areas in Scotland.
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