Simon Hackett (0000-0002-7861-5991)

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I am a Senior Clinical-Academic Allied Health Professional (AHP) with roles as Consultant Arts Psychotherapist (50%) based at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW) and a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Applied Mental Health Research (50%) at Newcastle University, Population Health Sciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences. I am the Deputy Lead for the NIHR Mental Health Implementation Network (5%).

I have held three NIHR Fellowships. I currently hold an NIHR Advanced Clinical Academic Fellowship within the HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic (ICA) Programme - Senior Clinical Lectureship (2021 to 2026), and previously as a NIHR Clinical Trials Fellow (2019), and HEE/NIHR ICA Clinical Lecturer (2015 to 2018).

My current leadership roles include, Programme Lead for the NIHR Mental Health Implementation Network (MHIN), a National Priority Programme, NHS management, professional group leadership, network development and leadership, research project design, development, leadership, delivery and dissemination. I am CI and PI for a number of studies, including national multi-centre RCTs, complex intervention studies, practice and service evaluations, systematic reviews and mixed method and qualitative enquiries.

My research interests include expressive/arts psychotherapies, psychosocial complex intervention development, learning disability and neurodiversity, mental health (adults and children and young people) and secure care. I have led research on primary and social care for people who have learning and developmental disabilities.

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NIHR Mental Health Implementation Network: London, London, GB

2024-04-01 to present | Programme Lead (NIHR South London Applied Research Collaboration)

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Simon Hackett

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Employment (7)

NIHR Mental Health Implementation Network: London, London, GB

NIHR Mental Health Implementation Network: London, London, GB

NIHR Mental Health Implementation Network: London, GB

Newcastle University: Newcastle upon Tyne, GB

Cumbria Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust: Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, GB

Newcastle University: Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, GB

Mental Health Implementation Network: London, London, GB

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Northumbria University: Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, GB

Funding (24)

Making every community asset count: improving health and reducing inequalities for people experiencing homelessness

Mental Health Initiative. Phase 2. NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North East & North Cumbria

NIHR Applied Research Collaborations Social Care Capacity Building NIHR200173-SC

OPAL Study. DevelOPing a primary care trauma. A screening tooL and a practitioner/staff trauma training resource: influencing the implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan for people with learning disabilities

Additional Infrastructure Funding Support for Mental Health Research

HOME: Understanding and addressing the cycle of housing instability for people with intellectual disabilities in NENC: A whole systems evaluation of knowledge equality

Art at the Start: A research consortium exploring art-based intervention to support perinatal and infant mental health

Improving outcomes for children and young people with an intellectual disability in mainstream schools: facilitating early identification and support

Effectiveness and acceptability of public mental health interventions delivered by Allied Health Professionals. A Systematic Review

GAIN: Group Art Psychotherapy for Anxiety and Depression in Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

SCHEMA - Secure Care Hospital Evaluation of Manualised (interpersonal) Art-Psychotherapy: A Randomised Controlled Trial.

A multi-levelled evidence-based creative psychological intervention to support NHS clinical staff affected by the COVID-19 pandemic: a feasibility study

A Scoping Review of Factors Associated with the Identification of Mental Health Conditions by Primary Care Providers in people with Intellectual Disabilities.

Non-Medical Researcher Development Internship Programme

IMPROVE: Improving access to primary health care for people with a learning disability (an evaluation of annual health checks).

Effectiveness and acceptability of public mental health interventions delivered by Allied Health Professionals. A Systematic Review

PaRental intimate partner viOlence and abuse: measuremenT of the risk of Exposing Children and the menTal health impact: PROTECT study

Mental Health and Substance use in Children and Families Experiencing Adversity or OveRcoming Adverse ChiLdhood Experiences (ORACLE).

PhD Studentship. Feasibility and acceptability of group art therapy for adults with a learning disability and mental illness: development and piloting of a model for practice.

Hon. Senior Clinical Lecturer in Mental Health

Improving mental health for children and young people with long term conditions. A systematic assessment of facilitated Art Psychotherapy in clinical settings.

Clinical Trials Fellowship

Art psychotherapy for adult offenders with intellectual and developmental disabilities: a randomised, multiple-baseline single-case study.

Clinical Lecturship Fellowship

Works (42)

Secure care hospital evaluation of manualised interpersonal art-psychotherapy (SCHEMA): A randomised controlled trial protocol

Developing online group art psychotherapy for children with long-term health conditions

Models of care in secure services for people with intellectual and developmental disability: Implementing the Walkway to Wellness

Including psychosocial approaches in paediatric and adolescent rheumatology: a service evaluation of an online art therapy group intervention for children, young people, and families

Primary school mentalisation-based art therapy (Primary-smART): a Person-Based Approach optimisation study

Including psychosocial approaches in paediatric and adolescent rheumatology: a service evaluation of an online art therapy group intervention for children, young people, and families

Art therapy in acute inpatient care

Evaluation of an arts therapies approach to team development for non-acute healthcare teams in low control and high-pressure environments

Interpersonal Art Psychotherapy for Adults with Autism and Intellectual Disabilities Being Treated in Secure Care: A Single Case Study

The Get Going Group: Dramatherapy Groups Supporting Adults with Learning Disabilities and Mental Ill Health after Discharge from Hospital

Art therapy as a treatment for adults with learning disabilities who are experiencing mental distress: A configurative systematic review with narrative synthesis

Exploring the views of UK regional primary care practitioners on the use and role of screening tools for learning disabilities in their services

Public mental health and wellbeing interventions delivered by allied health professionals (AHPs): mapping the evidence and identification of gaps. A systematic review

Interpersonal Art Psychotherapy for Adults with Autism and Intellectual Disabilities Being Treated in Secure Care

Factors associated with the identification of mental health conditions among people with learning disabilities in primary care: A scoping review

Interventions to Reduce Parental Substance Use, Domestic Violence and Mental Health Problems, and Their Impacts Upon Children’s Well-Being: A Systematic Review of Reviews and Evidence Mapping

Improving access to primary care and annual health checks for people who have a learning disability: a multistakeholder qualitative study

Exploring potential for occupational therapy practice models within areas of social deprivation: A qualitative inquiry within a community-centred food cooperative

Advances for future working following an online dramatherapy group for adults with intellectual disabilities and mental ill health during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A service evaluation for Cumbria, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust

A review of recent innovation in psychosocial interventions for reducing violence and aggression in adults using a horizon scanning approach

A systematic review of community psychosocial group interventions for adults with intellectual disabilities and mental health conditions

Parental intimate partner violence and abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic: Learning from remote and hybrid working to influence future support

Art psychotherapy for adults who have experienced psychological complex trauma: an international survey

Developing art therapy practice within perinatal parent-infant mental health

Art Therapy in the Digital World: An Integrative Review of Current Practice and Future Directions

The bagatelle of human flourishing: Using realist evaluation to disentangle the multiple wellbeing benefits of participatory music activity

Correction to: A randomised controlled feasibility study of interpersonal art psychotherapy for the treatment of aggression in people with intellectual disabilities in secure care (Pilot and Feasibility Studies, (2020), 6, 1, (180), 10.1186/s40814-020-00703-0)

A randomised controlled feasibility study of interpersonal art psychotherapy for the treatment of aggression in people with intellectual disabilities in secure care

Online art therapy practice and client safety: a UK-wide survey in times of COVID-19

Using Arts-Based Therapies to Improve Mental Health for Children and Young People With Physical Health Long-Term Conditions: A Systematic Review of Effectiveness

Learning from support workers: Can a dramatherapy group offer a community provision to support changes in care for people with learning disabilities and mental health difficulties?

Treatment of Aggression in People with Intellectual Disabilities in Secure Hospital: A Randomised Controlled Feasibility Study of Interpersonal Art Psychotherapy

Psychodynamic art psychotherapy for the treatment of aggression in an individual with antisocial personality disorder in a secure forensic hospital: A single-case design study.

The 4P participatory arts recovery model: Peers, product, personhood and positive interaction

A systematic review to investigate dramatherapy group work with working age adults who have a mental health problem

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