Steven Livingstone

Steven Livingstone works with the Doctorate of Clinical Psychology training programme, as an Academic Tutor and Lead for the Systemic Family Therapy stream.

Steven’s clinical background is in working with people with serious mental health problems, particularly psychosis, in both inpatient and community settings. He is a Clinical Psychologist, Systemic & Family Psychotherapist, and is also trained as a Behavioural Family Therapy supervisor and practitioner, and an Open Dialogue supervisor and practitioner.

In addition to his role at Kings, Steven works as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at East London NHS Foundation Trust, where he is Psychological Therapies Lead for Tower Hamlets.imarily in working with people psychosis and complex mental health problems.

Research interests

• Family therapies and interventions
• Psychosis
• Population health

Teaching

• Systemic Family Therapy
• Open Dialogue

Expertise and public engagement

Member of the British Psychological Society’s Psychosis and Complex Mental Health Faculty Board.

Publications

Livingstone, S. & Allen, J. (Eds), (2021). Family interventions in psychosis: Guidelines for psychologists and practitioners supporting families and social networks. British Psychological Society. https://www.bps.org.uk/sites/www.bps.org.uk/files/Policy/Policy%20-%20Files/Family%20interventions%20in%20psychosis.pdf

Zheng, Y., Xu, T., Zhu, Y., Li, C., Wang, L., Livingstone, S., Zhang, T. (2021). Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for prodromal stage of psychosis - outcomes for transition, functioning, distress and quality of life: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Tribe, R., Freeman, A., Livingstone, S., Stott, J. & Pilling, S. (2019). A qualitative study of Open Dialogue in the UK. British Journal of Psychiatry. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2019.38

Sin, J., Livingstone, S., Gamble, K. & Griffiths, M. (2013). Family intervention for psychosis: Impact of training on clinicians’ attitudes, knowledge and behaviour. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches. doi: 10.1080/17522439.2013.806569

Ruddle, A., Livingstone, S., Huddy, V., Johns, L., Stahl, D. & Wykes, T. (2012). A case series exploring possible predictors and mechanisms of change in hearing voices groups. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Training Research and Practice, 85 (2). doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8341.2012.02074.x/pdf

Livingstone, S. & Wykes, T. (2011). Cognitive Behaviour Therapy groups for psychosis in acute inpatient settings. In J. Radcliffe (Ed.) Psychological groupwork with acute psychiatric patients.

Livingstone, S. & Csipke, E. (2009). Improving the provision of psychological therapies in inpatient care; the DOORWAYS project: preliminary results. Poster session presented at the British Psychological Society, Division of Clinical Psychology Annual Conference, London, UK.

Davison, K., Livingstone, S., McArthur, K., Dickson, L. & Gumley, A. (2007) An integrative complexity analysis of cognitive behaviour therapy sessions for borderline personality disorder. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 80,513–523. doi:10.1348/147608307X191535

Jones, B., Bruce, G., Livingstone, S. & Reed, E. (2006) Alcohol-related attentional bias in problem drinkers with the flicker change blindness paradigm. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 20 (2),171–177. doi: 10.1037/0893-164X.20.2.171