Selected Publications 

Sivarajah, N., Radley, J., Knowles Bevis, R., & Johns, L. C. (2025). Me, My Child, and Us: A Group Parenting Intervention for Parents with Lived Experience of Psychosis. Behavioral Sciences, 15(7), 950. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15070950

Vacher, J., Barnbrook, M., Knowles Bevis, R. & Churchard, A. (2025). Improving response to disclosure of infant-related intrusions of harm. Journal of Family and Child Health 2 (4). https://doi.org/10.12968/jfch.2025.2.4.176

El-Salahi, S., Knowles Bevis, R. & Hogg, L. (2024). The relationship between traumatic childbirth and first-time mothers’ social identity and wellbeing: a cross-sectional observational study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 24:437. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-024-06288-3

Susi, K., Stewart, A., Knowles Bevis, R. & Hawton, K. (2024). Self-harm related mental imagery: A content analysis study of imagery reported by young people referred to mental health services. JCCP Advances, e12263;  https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12263

Susi, K., Glover-Ford, F., Stewart, A., Knowles Bevis, R. & Hawton, K. (2023). Viewing self-harm images on the internet and social media platforms: systematic review of the impact and associated psychological mechanisms. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry , 64(8), 1115-1139;  https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13754

Reay, M., Mayers, A., Knowles Bevis, R. & Knight, M. (2023). Understanding the barriers fathers face to seeking help for paternal perinatal depression: Comparing fathers to men outside the perinatal period. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21(1), 16;https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21010016

Lecomte, T., Lamontagne, J., Dubreucq, J., Dubreucq, M., Radley, J., Knowles Bevis, R. & Johns, L. (2023). Les relations amoureuses, le désir de parentalité et les compétences parentales. Chapter in Lecomte, T (ed) Manuel de réadaption psychiatrique (3e edition) pp. 157-194

Insua-Summerhays, B., Knowles Bevis, B. & Barlow, J. (2022). What tools should be used to identify women in need of additional support in pregnancy? Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology 1-35.

Boyden, P., Knowles R., Corcoran, R., Hamilton, S. & Rowse, G. (2015). A preliminary investigation into theory of mind and attributional style in adults with grandiose delusions. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 20(2), 109-121

McCarthy-Jones, S., Marriott, M., Knowles, R., Rowse, G. & Thompson, A. (2013). What is psychosis? A meta-synthesis of inductive qualitative studies exploring the experience of psychosis. Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches, 5(1), 1-16

Rowse, G., McCarthy-Jones, S., Knowles, R., Corcoran, R. & Bentall, P. (2012). Attributional style and theory of mind in people with Alzheimer’s disease and persecutory delusions. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 21(9), 898-905

McCarthy-Jones, S., Knowles, R. & Rowse, G. (2012). More than words? Hypomanic personality traits, visual imagery and verbal thought in young adults. Consciousness and Cognition, 21(3), 1375-1381

Bentall, R., Myin-Germeys, I., Smith, A., Knowles, R., Jones, S., Smith, T. & Tai, S. (2011). Hypomanic personality, stability of self-esteem and response styles to negative mood. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 18(5), 397-410

Knowles, R., McCarthy-Jones, S. & Rowse, G. (2011). Grandiose delusions: A review and theoretical integration of cognitive and affective perspectives. Clinical Psychology Review, 31(4), 684-696

Hare, D., Searson, R. & Knowles, R. (2010). Real listening – using personal construct assessment with people with intellectual disabilities: two case studies. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 39(3), 190-197

Thomas, J., Bentall, R.P., Knowles, R. & Tai, S. (2009). Indirect measurement of dysfunctional attitudes in bipolar affective disorder. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 82 (3), 261-266

Knowles, R. & Tarrier, N. (2009). The intensive care unit diary and posttraumatic stress disorder. Critical Care Medicine, 37(6), 2145-2146

Knowles, R. & Tarrier, N. (2009) Evaluation of the effect of prospective patient diaries on emotional well-being in intensive care unit survivors: A randomized controlled trial. Critical Care Medicine, 37(1), 184-191

Knowles, R., Tai, S., Jones, S.H., Highfield, J., Morriss, R. & Bentall, R.P. (2008). Stability of self-esteem in bipolar disorder: comparisons among remitted bipolar patients, remitted unipolar patients and healthy controls. Bipolar Disorders, 9(5), 490-495

Thomas, J., Knowles, R., Tai, S. & Bentall, R.P. (2007) Response styles to depressed mood in bipolar affective disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 100(1-3), 249-252

Bentall, R.P., Tai, S. & Knowles, R.  (2006). Psychological processes and the pathways to mania: Exploring the manic defence hypothesis. Chapter in Jones S & Bentall R.P. (Eds) The Psychology of Bipolar Disorder. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Jones, S.H., Tai, S., Evershed, K., Knowles, R. & Bentall, R.P. (2006). Early detection of bipolar disorder: A pilot familial high-risk study of parents with bipolar disorder and their adolescent children. Bipolar Disorders, 8, 362-372.

Knowles, R., Tai, S., Christensen, I. & Bentall, R.P. (2005). Coping with depression and vulnerability to mania: A factor analytic study of Nolen-Hoeksema’s (1991) Response Styles Questionnaire. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 44, 99-112