Senior Lecturer
- Clinical Psychologist registered with HPC (Health Professions Council)
- BPS Chartered Psychologist (254181)
- BPS Associate Fellow (AFBPsS)
Dr Kaviani is a clinical psychologist and has several years of research and teaching experiences. He has approximately 15 years experience in the study of emotional and cognitive aspects of mental disorders, with specific regard to emotion, autobiographical memory, executive function and problem solving in both normal and clinical populations.
His PhD was awarded in 1998 through King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry. During his PhD under the supervision of Professor Jeffrey Gray, and then his post doc, he investigated modulation of human startle reflex through mood induction in patients with major depressive disorder and healthy controls. His work is published in several high impact journals.
Since 1997, he has also had psychotherapy experience with clients suffering from depression, anxiety, OCD, academic problems, drug abuse and family conflicts.
Qualifications
- 1998 - Ph.D. Psychology, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry
- 1995 - Diploma in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry
- 1994 - Diploma in Clinical Neuropsychology, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry
- 1987 - M.Sc. Clinical Psychology, Tehran Institute of Psychiatry
- 1985 - B.Sc. Psychology, Esfahan University
Professional Membership, Affiliations, Registrations
- BPS Associate Fellow
- BPS Chartered Psychologist
- BPS Member
- Honorary Research Associate of, King’s College, IoP
- Clinical Psychologist registered with Health Profession Council (HPC)
Teaching Role
- Unit-coordinator for MSc Psychological Interventions in Primary Care
- Unit-coordinator for BSc Approaches to Counseling and Well-being
- Contributor to BSc Coaching and Therapies
- Contributor to BSc Counseling and Interpersonal Psychology
- Contributor to BSc Psychology of Mental Health
- Contributor to BSc Research Method
Research Interests
- Emotion, Cognition, and Culture
- Social cognition
- Personality issues
- Therapy outcome, specifically in:
- Memory bias
- Problem solving
- Emotional reactivity
- Biological theory of personality
- Emotional processing
- Psychophysiology of emotions
- Cultural differences in emotional expressions
- Cognitive behaviour therapy
Clinical Interests
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Depression, anxiety and personality Disorders
- Depression: Phenomenology, psychopathology, and treatment
- OCD: Exposure therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Preventing Relapse
Recent Research Projects
- Phenomenology of Autobiographical memory
- Problem-solving Deficits
- Emotion-related Words in Persian Dictionaries: Cultural, East\West differences
- Cognitive, Emotional and Behavioural Components of Stigma towards Mental Patients.
- Cognitive Processing and Culture
- Mindfulness-based cognitive behaviour therapy in sub-clinically depressed participants
Service to the Academic/Professional Community
- Officially affiliated to King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, and Tehran University of Medical Sciences, involved in collaborative research projects.
- Reviewer for Personality and Individual Differences (PAID) and Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Psychology (English), Advances in Cognitive Sciences, Tehran University Medical Journal (TUMJ).
- Member of editorial boards of Iranian Journal of Psychiatry (English) and Iranian Journal of Health Psychology
Recent Conference Presentations
- Autobiographical memory and problem-solving performance in life-death continuum: A research on depressed patients. Congress of European Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Therapies. October 7-10,2010, Milan, Italy
- The study of validity and reliability of Persian version of PADUA inventory. Congress of European Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Therapies. October 7-10 2010, Milan, Italy.
- Rater training on PANSS and SANS. 2nd Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference, SIRS, 2010 Florence, Italy.
- Revisiting Max Hamilton's model of consensus ratings- A new approach to increasing signal detection in CNS trials. 27th CINP Congress, 2010, Hong Kong.
- Phenomenological characteristics of autobiographical memory in healthy and depressed participants: impact of absorbtion, relatedness-individualism, and mood. 9th European Congress of Psychology, 3-8 July 2005, Granada, Spain.
- Influence of social context on parenting style and adolescents' learning style: the case of Iran. 28th International Congress of Psychology. August 8-13 2004, Beijing, China.
- Cultural picture of depression and anxiety, VIth European Congress of cross-cultural psychology. July 12-16, 2003, Hungary, Budapest.
- Mental health of managers with different personality traits: personality traits as buffer against stress. XXVth International Congress of Applied Psychology, 7-11 July 2002, Singapore.
- Autobiographical memory retrieval deficits and problem-solving strategies of Iranian parasuicidal patients, 27th International Congress of Psychology 23-28 July 2000, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Autobiographical memory and problem-solving in depressed patients with or without suicide Ideation, VIIth European Congress of Psychology, 1-5 July 2001, London, England.
Recent Publications
- Kaviani, H. Mirbaha, H. & Pournaseh, M. (submitted). Music training increases children’s performance on IQ test. Music Education.
- Amini, H., Sharifi, V., Kaviani, H. (in press). Students’ Attitudes toward psychiatry as a career choice before and after undergraduate psychiatry internship in Iran. Academic Psychiatry.
- Kaviani, H., Hatami, N. & Javaheri, F. (in press). The Impact of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) on Mental Health and Quality of Life in a Sub-clinically Depressed Population. Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.
- Basseda,Z. Amini, H. Sharifi, V., Kaviani, H. et al.(in press). Emotional intelligence in a group of patients with first-episode psychosis in Iran. Acta Medica Iranica (English).
- Kaviani. H., Kumari, V. et al (submitted). Does Haloperidol affect Emotional Reactivity? Journal of Psychpahrmachology.
- Kaviani, H. Javaheri, F. & Hatami, N. (2011). Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) reduces depression and anxiety induced by real stressful setting in non-clinical Population. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 11, 285-296.
- Kaviani H., Rahimi, M., Rahimi-Darabad, P & Naghavi, H.R (2011). Overgeneral memory retrieval and ineffective problem-solving in depressed suicide-ideators: implication for therapy. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 11, 413-423.
- Kaviani, H. & Hamedi, R. (2011). A quantitative/qualitative study on metaphors used by Persian depressed patients. Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, 4, 5–13.
- Rezvanfard M. Ekhtiari H. Mokri A. Djavid GE. Kaviani H. (2010). Psychological and behavioral traits in smokers and their relationship with nicotine dependence level. Archives of Iranian Medicine (English), 1, 395-405.
- Gaur R., Sajatovic M., Lee N., Pattnaik C., Kaviani H. (2010). Revisiting Max Hamilton's model of consensus ratings- A new approach to increasing signal detection in CNS trials. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 13, 147-148.
- Kaviani, H, Kumari, V. & Wilson, G. D. (2010). A Psychophysiogical Investigation of Laterality in Human Emotion elicited by Pleasant and Unpleasant Film-clips. Annals of General Psychiatry, 9, 38.
- Kaviani, H., Seifourian, H., Sharifi, V., & Ebrahimkhani, N. (2009). Reliability and validity of Anxiety and Depression Hospital Scales (HADS): Iranian patients with anxiety and depression disorders. Tehran University Medical Journal (TUMJ), 5, 379-385.
- Kaviani, H. (2009). Normative data on Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI): Complimentary findings. Tehran University Medical Journa (TIMJ)l, 4, 262-266.
- Tayebi Maybodi, K & Kavaini, H. (2009). Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of Chicago Multi-Scale Depression Inventory. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry (English), 4, 137-142.
- Kaviani, H., & Mousavi, A. (2008). Psychometric properties of the Persian version of Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). Tehran University Medical Journal (TIMJ), 2, 136-140.
- Assadi, S.M., Zokae, N. Kaviani, H., Mohammadi, M.R. & Ghaeli, P. (2007). Effect of socio-cultural context and parenting style on scholastic achievement among Iranian adolescents. Social Development, 16, 169-180.
- Ayatollahi, P., Nafisi, S.,…Kaviani, H, Tarazi, A. (2007) Impact of depression and disability on quality of life in Iranian patients with multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis, 13, 275 – 277.
- Kaviani, H., Pournaseh, M. & Sayyadlu, S. (2007). Efficacy of stress management Training in decreasing depression and anxiety in students applying for entry exam of Iranian universities. Advances in Cognitive Science, 24, 61-68
- Tavakoli, S. Kaviani, H. et al (2006). Examining cognitive, emotional and behavioural components of public stigma towards persons with mental illness. Advances in Cognitive Science, 30, 31-43.
- Kaviani, H. (2006). Effects of d-Amphetamine and Haloperidol on modulation of Haloperidol on modulation of the human acoustic startle response. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry (English), 1, 19-26.
- Kaviani, H. & Pournaseh, M. (2005). Validation of Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI). Tehran University Medical Journal (TUMJ), 2: 89-98.
- Kaviani, H. & Mousavi, A. S. (2005). The effects of left vs. right stimulation on human startle reflex modulation. Acta Medica Iranica (English), 43, 43-59.
- Kaviani,H., P. Rahimi-Darabad, and Naghavi, H.R. (2005). Autobiographical memory retrieval and problem-solving deficits of Iranian depressed patients attempting suicide. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 27: 39-44.
- Kaviani, H., Gray, J.A., Checkley, S.A., Raven, P.W., Wilson, G.D. & Kumari, V. (2004). Affective modulation of the startle response in depression: influence of the severity of depression, anhedonia, and anxiety. Journal of Affective Disorders, 83: 21-31.
- Sadeghi, M., Kaviani, H. & Rezai, R. (2003). Stigma of mental disorders among families of patients with major depressive disorder, Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Advances in Cognitive Science, 2: 16-25.
- Kaviani, H., Rahimi, M., Rahimi-darabad, P., Kamyar, K. and Naghavi, H. (2003). How autobiographical memory deficits affect problem-solving in depressed patients. Acta Medica Iranica (English), 41, 194-198.
- Kumari, V., Kaviani, H., Raven, P.C., Gray, J.A and. Checkley, S.A. (2001). Enhanced startle reactions to acoustic stimuli in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 158, 134-136.
- Kaviani, H., Gray, J.A., Checkley, S.A., Kumari, V. and Wilson, G.D. (1999). Modulation of the acoustic startle reflex by emotionally-toned Film-clips. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 32, 47-54.
- Kaviani, H., Wilson, G.D., Checkley, S.A., Kumari, V., Gray, J.A. (1998). The use of affective-toned odours to modulate the human startle reflex. J. Psychophysiology.,12, 353-361.
- Kaviani, H., Gray, J.A., Checkley, S.A., Kumari, V., Corr, P.J., Wilson, G.D. (1996). Modulation of the acoustic startle reflex by emotionally-toned video sequences. Journal of Psychology, 10, 89.
- Kumari, V. Corr, P.J., Wilson, G.D., Kaviani, H., Thornton, J.C. Checkley, S.A. and Gray, J.A. (1995). Personality and Modulation of the startle reflex by emotionally-toned film clips, Personality and Individual Differences, 21, 1029-1041.
Contact Details
Dr Hossein Kaviani
Dept of Psychology
University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton LU1 3JU
UK
E: hossein.kaviani@beds.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1582 743765
F: +44 (0)1582 489212
