Education
King"s College London.
King"s College London.
She is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at King"s College London, and Director, National Institute for Health Research Clinical Network: Mental Health. She is known for her work on Cognitive Remediation Therapy at King"s College. Her research is focused on rehabilitation and recovery for people with severe mental illness for many years both in the development of services and the development and evaluation of innovative psychological treatments.
Her main current research themes concentrate on how to improve thinking difficulties so people can take advantage of opportunities for recovery and how to increase therapeutic activities in acute mental health services.
Wykes was the director of the National Institute for Health "s Mental Health Network until April 2015 when she became the National Specialty lead for Mental Health.
Wykes has received both the Bachelor of Medicine Shapiro Award and the May Davidson Award. The Bachelor of Medicine Shapiro Award is given to "a clinical psychologist who has achieved eminence in the profession" and the May Davidson award is given to "psychologist who has made an outstanding contribution to the development of clinical psychology within the first 10 years of their work". Wykes received the British Psychological Society"s 2014 Award for Promoting Equality of Opportunity for "her part in championing the active role of mental health service users in research".
Recently she became a member of the scientific advisory board of Psyberguide.
