Zafra Cooper
BA (Hons), DPhil, Dip Clin Psych
Honorary Member
- Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology
- Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry Yale School of Medicine
I was formerly joint director of the Wellcome Trust funded Centre for Research on Eating Disorders at Oxford (CREDO) (1991-2016). Our work at CREDO has led to the development of the most widely used interview for the assessment of eating disorders and effective, NICE endorsed, transdiagnostic treatment for the range of eating disorders. As part of our work on the dissemination of psychological treatments for eating disorders, we developed a popular and effective digital method of training clinicians and assessing their competence., These digital methods have subsequently been successfully extended to disseminate a variety of psychological treatments in low resource settings.
While at Yale, I have jointly directed federally funded research on eating disorders, comorbid conditions and risk factors in military veterans and overseen the development of a measure of provider competence for non-specialist health care workers delivering brief psychological interventions for depression.
In 2023 I received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Eating Disorders.
My research interests include further treatment development to improve interventions for eating disorders and comorbid conditions and making existing evidence-based treatments more widely available.
Link to publications found here.
Recent publications
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Physiotherapist-delivered cognitive-behavioural interventions are effective for low back pain, but can they be replicated in clinical practice? A systematic review.
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Hall A. et al, (2018), Disabil Rehabil, 40, 1 - 9
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Assessing Therapist Competence: Development of a Performance-Based Measure and Its Comparison With a Web-Based Measure.
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Cooper Z. et al, (2017), JMIR Ment Health, 4
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Using the Internet to Train Therapists: Randomized Comparison of Two Scalable Methods.
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Cooper Z. et al, (2017), J Med Internet Res, 19
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Scaling Up Psychological Treatments: A Countrywide Test of the Online Training of Therapists.
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Fairburn CG. et al, (2017), J Med Internet Res, 19
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Predictors and moderators of response to enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy for the treatment of eating disorders.
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Cooper Z. et al, (2016), Behav Res Ther, 84, 9 - 13