Christopher Fairburn
Christopher G. Fairburn | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 September 1950 |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Malvern College |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford(MA, BM, BCh, DM) University of Edinburgh(MPhil) |
| Known for | Nature and treatment ofeating disorders Transdiagnostic conceptualisation ofeating disorders Guided self-help Measures of eating disorder features |
| Awards | WellcomeSenior Lecturer 1984, 1987, 1990 WellcomePrincipal Research Fellow 1996, 2006 Royal College of PsychiatristsFellow, 1992 Academy of Medical SciencesFellow, 2001 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences(Stanford) – Fellow, 1989, 1998 Academy for Eating Disorders - Outstanding Researcher Prize, 2002; Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015 Academy of Cognitive Therapy – Beck Prize 2011 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mental health |
| Website | www |
Christopher James Alfred Granville FairburnOBE(born 20 September 1950) is a British psychiatrist and researcher. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at theUniversity of Oxford.He is known for his research on the development, evaluation and dissemination of psychological treatments, especially foreating disorders.
Education
[edit]Fairburn was educated atMalvern College.He trained in medicine at theUniversity of Oxford,and in psychiatry at theUniversity of Edinburgh.[1]
Career
[edit]Fairburn has been engaged in full-time clinical research since 1981, initially funded by theMedical Research Counciland subsequently by theWellcome Trust(1984-2017).[2]Between 2007 and 2011, Fairburn was a Governor of theWellcome Trust,[3]and from 2011 to 2016, he was a founder trustee ofMQ: Transforming Mental Health.[4]
Fairburn was appointedOfficer of the Order of the British Empire(OBE) in the2021 Birthday Honoursfor services to psychological treatments and the treatment of eating disorders.[5]
Research
[edit]Eating disorders
[edit]Fairburn's programme of work has led to the development of three treatments foreating disorders.The first is acognitive behavioural treatmentforbulimia nervosa.[6]This was the first psychological treatment to be endorsed by England'sNational Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).[7]The second is a self-help treatment for people with recurrent binge eating.[8]This is designed to be used either on its own or accompanied by a scalable form of support termed "guided self-help".[9]Guided self-help has been endorsed byNICEas the first step in the treatment ofbinge eating disorderandbulimia nervosa[10]and is used in the treatment of many other mental disorders.[11]The third treatment istransdiagnosticin its clinical range and is termed "enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy" or CBT-E.[12]In 2015 NHS England and theChief Medical Officerrecommended that this treatment be made available for all patients with aneating disorder,whatever their eating disorder diagnosis and whatever their age,[13][14]and in 2017 it was endorsed byNICE.
Digital technology and the dissemination of psychological treatments
[edit]Fairburn is working on the conversion of therapist-delivered psychological treatments into scalable digital interventions, either delivered on their own or with remote support.[15]Fairburn has also developed a digital method for training therapists. This is capable of simultaneously training large numbers of geographically dispersed therapists.[16] Fairburn is collaborating withVikram Pateland colleagues in India who are developing psychological interventions for common mental disorders suitable for delivery by lay counsellors.[17]
Measures of eating disorder features
[edit]Fairburn has developed several measures of eating disorder features and their effects. These include the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE),[18]the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q)[19]and the Clinical Impairment Assessment (CIA).[20]These are in widespread use and are available in multiple languages.
References
[edit]- ^"FAIRBURN, Prof. Christopher Granville".Who's Who.2018.doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U2000176.
- ^Wellcome."Principal Research Fellowships: People we've funded".Retrieved1 December2018.
- ^Wellcome Trust Annual Report and Financial Statements, 2011
- ^"Trustees".MQ: Transforming Mental Health.Retrieved22 December2015.
- ^"No. 63377".The London Gazette(Supplement). 12 June 2021. p. B12.
- ^Fairburn, Christopher (1981). "A cognitive behavioural approach to the treatment of bulimia".Psychological Medicine.11(4): 707–711.doi:10.1017/S0033291700041209.ISSN0033-2917.PMID6948316.S2CID11422055.
- ^NICE (2004).Eating Disorders: Core interventions in the treatment and management of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and related eating disorders.London: Royal College of Psychiatrists and British Psychological Society.
- ^Fairburn, Christopher (2013).Overcoming binge eating(2 ed.). New York: The Guilford Press.
- ^Carter, JC; Fairburn, CG (1 November 1995). "Treating binge eating problems in primary care".Addictive Behaviors.20(6): 765–772.doi:10.1016/0306-4603(95)00096-8.ISSN0306-4603.PMID8820529.
- ^National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2017).Eating disorders: recognition and treatment | Guidance and guidelines | NICE.National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.Retrieved1 December2018.
- ^"guided self help | Evidence search | NICE".www.evidence.nhs.uk.Retrieved1 December2018.
- ^Fairburn, CG; Cooper, Z; Shafran, R (1 May 2003). "Cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders: a" transdiagnostic "theory and treatment".Behaviour Research and Therapy.41(5): 509–528.doi:10.1016/S0005-7967(02)00088-8.ISSN0005-7967.PMID12711261.S2CID13059162.
- ^National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (2015).Eating Disorders: Access and Waiting Time Standard for Children and Young People with an Eating Disorder.London: NHS England. p. 25.
- ^Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer (2014).The Health of the 51%: Women.London: Department of Health. p. 11.
- ^Fairburn, CG; Patel, V (1 January 2017)."The impact of digital technology on psychological treatments and their dissemination".Behaviour Research and Therapy.88:19–25.doi:10.1016/j.brat.2016.08.012.ISSN0005-7967.PMC5214969.PMID28110672.
- ^Fairburn, Christopher G; Allen, Elizabeth; Bailey-Straebler, Suzanne; O'Connor, Marianne E; Cooper, Zafra (16 June 2017)."Scaling Up Psychological Treatments: A Countrywide Test of the Online Training of Therapists".Journal of Medical Internet Research.19(6): e214.doi:10.2196/jmir.7864.PMC5493785.PMID28623184.
- ^Fairburn, Christopher G.; Kirkwood, Betty R.; Velleman, Richard; Wilson, Terry; McDaid, David; Park, A.-La; Vijayakumar, Lakshmi; King, Michael; Hollon, Steve D.; Araya, Ricardo; Dimidjian, Sona; Katti, Basavraj; Bhat, Bhargav; Anand, Arpita;Weiss, Helen A.;Weobong, Benedict; Patel, Vikram (14 January 2017)."The Healthy Activity Program (HAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for severe depression, in primary care in India: a randomised controlled trial".The Lancet.389(10065): 176–185.doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31589-6.ISSN1474-547X.PMC5236064.PMID27988143.
- ^Cooper, Z; Fairburn, CG (1987). "The Eating Disorder Examination: a semi-structured interview for the assessment of the specific psychopathology of eating disorders".International Journal of Eating Disorders.6:1–8.doi:10.1002/1098-108X(198701)6:1<1::AID-EAT2260060102>3.0.CO;2-9.
- ^Fairburn, CG; Beglin, SJ (1994)."Assessment of eating disorder psychopathology: interview or self-report questionnaire?".International Journal of Eating Disorders.16:363–370.doi:10.1002/1098-108X(199412)16:4<363::AID-EAT2260160405>3.0.CO;2-#.S2CID24916438.Retrieved12 December2018.
- ^Bohn, K; Doll, HA; Cooper, Z; O'Connor, ME; Fairburn, CG (1 October 2008)."The measurement of impairment due to eating disorder psychopathology".Behaviour Research and Therapy.46(10): 1105–1110.doi:10.1016/j.brat.2008.06.012.ISSN0005-7967.PMC2764385.PMID18710699.
