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Here are some of our publications. For the most up to date list, please see google scholar. 

Book chapter

  1. Pile V, & Lau JYF (2020). Depression in young people: cognitive biases and targets for intervention. In Cohen Kadosh K (Eds.), Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198827474.013.30

 

Peer reviewed journal articles

  1. Lambert JE, Loades ME, Marshall N, Higson-Sweeney N, Chan SYW, Mahmud A, Pile V, Maity A, Adam H, Sung B, Luximon M, MacLennan K, Berry C, Chadwick P (in press). Investigating the efficacy of the web-based Common Elements Toolbox (COMET) single session intervention in improving UK university student wellbeing: Randomized controlled trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research.​

  2. Kingston J, Dunford A, Chau KC, So SHW, Pile V (2025). Vivid images of future harm: The relationship between paranoia, prospective imagery and present moment awareness. Personality and Individual Differences, 113038. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.113038

  3. Dean RL, Lester KJ, Grant E, Field AP, Orchard F, Pile V (2024). The impact of interventions for depression on self-perceptions in young people: A systematic review & meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 102521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102521

  4. Smith C, Ford C, Dalgleish T, Smith P, McKinnon A, Goodall B, Wright I, Pile V, & Meiser-Stedman R. (2024). Cognitive Therapy for PTSD following Multiple Trauma Exposure in Children and Adolescents: A Case Series. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. https://doi:10.1017/S1352465824000444 

  5. McIntyre SA, Richardson J, Carroll S, O'Kirwan S, Williams C, & Pile V. (2024). Measures of mental imagery in emotional disorders: A COSMIN systematic review of psychometric properties. Clinical Psychology Review, 102470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102470

  6. Hutchinson T, Lau JY, Smith P, & Pile V. (2024). Targeting Anhedonia in Adolescents: A Single Case Series of a Positive Imagery-Based Early Intervention. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41811-024-00202-7

  7. Hutchinson T, Riddleston L, Lavi I, Pile V, Meehan A, Shukla M, & Lau J. (2024). Does Prospective Mental Imagery Predict Symptoms of Negative Affect and Anhedonia in Young People? Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-024-01695-1

  8. Pile V, Herring G, Bullard A, Loades M, Chan SW, Reynolds S, & Orchard F. (2023). A multi-stakeholders perspective on how to improve psychological treatments for depression in young people. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 32(11), 2375-2378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-022-02001-x

  9. Pile V, Schlepper LK, Lau JY, & Leamy M. (2023). An early intervention for adolescent depression targeting emotional mental images and memory specificity: a process evaluation. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-021-01902-7. 

  10. Hutchinson T, Riddleston L, Pile V, Meehan A, Shukla M, & Lau J. (2023). Is future mental imagery associated with reduced impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on negative affect and anhedonic symptoms in young people? Cognitive Therapy and Research, 47(2), 168-180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-023-10352-1

  11. Wu AFW, Konac D, Riddleston L, Hutchinson T, Platt B, Pile V, & Lau JY. (2023). Maintaining well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: A network analysis of well-being responses from British youth. Journal of Emotion and Psychopathology, 1(1), 166-174. https://doi.org/10.55913/joep.v1i1.13

  12. Pile V, Smith P, Leamy M, Oliver A, Bennett E, Blackwell SE, Meiser-Stedman R, Stringer D, Dunn BD, Holmes EA, Lau JYF (2021). A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial of a Brief Early Intervention for Adolescent Depression that Targets Emotional Mental Images and Memory Specificity (IMAGINE trial). Behaviour Research and Therapy. 24:103876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2021.103876

  13. Lau JY, Watkins-Muleba R, Lee I, Pile V, & Hirsch CR. (2021). Promoting helpful attention and interpretation patterns to reduce anxiety and depression in young people: weaving scientific data with young peoples’ lived experiences. BMC psychiatry, 21, 1-17. 10.1186/s12888-021-03320-0 

  14. Pile V, Williamson G, Saunders A, Holmes EA, Lau JY (2021). Harnessing emotional mental imagery to reduce anxiety and depression in young people: an integrative review of progress and promise. The Lancet Psychiatry. 1;8(9):836-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(21)00195-4

  15. Pile V, Winstanley A, Oliver A, Bennett E, Lau JY (2021). Targeting image-based autobiographical memory in childhood to prevent emotional disorders: Intervention development and a feasibility randomised controlled trial. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 1;144:103913. 10.1016/j.brat.2021.103913

  16. Pile, V., Smith, P., & Lau, J. Y. (2021). Using imagery rescripting as an early intervention for depression in young people. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 651115. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.651115

  17. Pile V, Smith P, Leamy M, Oliver A, Blackwell SE, Meiser-Stedman R, Dunn BD, Holmes EA, & Lau JYF (2020). Harnessing Mental Imagery and Enhancing Memory Specificity: Developing a Brief Early Intervention for Adolescent Depression. Cognitive Research and Therapy , 45(5), 885–901. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-020-10130-3

  18. Pile V, & Lau JYF (2020). Intrusive images of a distressing future: links between prospective mental imagery, generalized anxiety and a tendency to suppress emotional experience in youth. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 124, 103508. 10.1016/j.brat.2019.103508

  19. Pile V, Shammas D, & Smith P. (2020). Assessment and treatment of depression in children and young people in the United Kingdom: Comparison of access to services and provision at two time points. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 25(1), 119-132. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104519858112

  20. Oliver, A, Pile V, Elm D, & Lau JYF (2019). The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Depression in Adolescents. Current Behavioural Neuroscience Reports, 6(4), 227-235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40473-019-00187-0

  21. Pile V, Smith P, Leamy M, Blackwell SE, Meiser-Stedman R, Stringer D, Ryan EG, Dunn BD, Holmes EA, & Lau JYF (2018). A Brief Early Intervention for Adolescent Depression that Targets Emotional Mental Images and Memories: Protocol for a Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial (IMAGINE). Pilot and Feasibility Studies 4(1), 97. 10.1016/j.brat.2021.103876

  22. Pile V, & Lau JYF (2018). Looking forward to the future: Impoverished Image Detail for Future Positive Events Characterises Low Mood in Adolescence. Journal of Affective Disorders, 238, 269-276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.05.032

  23. Pile V, Robinson S, Roberts E, Topor M, Hedderly T, & Lau JYF (2018). Attention bias for social threat in youth with tic disorders: Links with tic severity and social anxiety. Child Neuropsychology, 25(3), 394-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/09297049.2018.1480754

  24. Pile V, Lau JYF, Topor M, Hedderly T, & Robinson S (2018). Interoceptive Accuracy in Youth with Tic Disorders: Exploring Links with Premonitory Urge, Anxiety and Quality of Life. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48(10), 3474-3482. 10.1007/s10803-018-3608-8

  25. Pile V, Robinson S, Topor M, Hedderly T, & Lau JYF (2018). Reduced Specificity of Autobiographical Memories in Young People with Tic Disorders. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 83, 31-37. 10.1016/j.comppsych.2018.02.010

  26. Lisk S, Pile V, Haller S, Kumari V, & Lau JYF (2018). Multi-session Cognitive Bias Modification targeting multiple biases in adolescents with elevated social anxiety. Cognitive Research and Therapy, 42(5), 581-597. 10.1007/s10608-018-9912-y

  27. Krebs G, Pile V, Grant S, & Lau JYF (2017). Cognitive Bias Modification of Interpretations for Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59(8), 831-844. 10.1111/jcpp.12809

  28. Pile V, Haller SPW, Hiu CF, & Lau JYF (2017). Young people with higher social anxiety are less likely to adopt the perspective of another: Data from the Director task. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 55, 41–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2016.11.002

  29. Reeder C, Pile V, Crawford P, Cella M, Rose D, Wykes T, Watson A, Huddy V, Callard F (2016). The feasibility and acceptability to service users of CIRCuiTS – Computerised Remediation of Cognition – Training for Schizophrenia. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 44(3), 288-305. 10.1017/S1352465815000168

  30. Pile V, Barnhofer T, & Wild J (2015). Updating versus exposure to prevent consolidation of conditioned fear. PLoS ONE, 10(4). 10.1371/journal.pone.0122971

  31. Lau JYF, & Pile V (2015). Can cognitive bias modification of interpretations training alter mood states in children and adolescents? A reanalysis of data from six studies. Clinical Psychological Science, 3(1), 112-125. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702614549596

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