BA, DipCouns, CertACE, MEd (Guidance & Counselling), MBACP (Accred), PhD, FHEA

BACP Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist   www.bacp.co.uk/
UKRC Registered Independent Counsellor   www.bacp.co.uk/ukrcp/
Art Psychotherapist (HPC Registered)   www.hpc-uk.org
Fellow, Higher Education Academy   www.heacademy.ac.uk/
Fellow, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy  www.bacp.co.uk

 

Lecturer

Room 12
6 College Green
School of Education
Queen's University Belfast

Tel: +44 (0)28 9097 5951
Fax: +44 (0)28 9097 5066
Email: c.sibbett@qub.ac.uk

 

Teaching / Co-ordination:

Lecturing on Masters module ‘Learning Theory & Practice’: emotional intelligence / emotional literacy; wellbeing and readiness to learn; learning paradigms and theories of learning.
EdD module: ‘Arts-Based Research Approaches’.
Masters in Arts Therapy modules (by agreement with Riga Stradins University)
PhD / doctoral thesis supervision
Masters dissertation supervision

Research/Scholarship Interests:

• Promoting children and young people’s emotional / mental health and wellbeing.
• Counselling with children and young people, particularly in schools.
• ‘Nettlesome knowledge’ and threshold concepts in learning & teaching and professional cultures.
• Promoting creativity; emotional intelligence / literacy.
• MSc Art Psychotherapy (with Belfast Health & Social Care Trust).
• Inclusion, social justice, special / additional needs.
• Learning and teaching, also within professional / organisational cultures. CPD needs of teachers, particularly in relation to pastoral care. Learning paradigms. Medical education.
• Arts-based and qualitative research approaches.
• Art Therapy / Art Psychotherapy, counselling, psychotherapy. Wellbeing, mental health, loss, attachment, vicarious stress / trauma, suicide, palliative care.
• Appraisal and performance management training, particularly in Higher Education.

Research/Scholarship Membership:

• Elected member of the Executive Committee of the Children and Young People division of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
• Invited member of the steering group of the Children and Young People Practice Research Network of the BACP.
• Member of the BACP Children and Young People NI Reference Group.
• Member of the Mental Health in Higher Education (mhhe) project of the Higher Education Academy.
• Full member of the Mental Health, Ageing and Learning Disability HSC Translational Research Group (QUB, HSC).
• Member of the BACP Research Network.
• Member of the ‘Psychological wellbeing and resilience’ Expert Advisory Group of the ‘Improving performance through wellbeing and engagement’ project (a national project funded by HEFCE).
• Committee member (past Chair) of the Allied Health Professions Research Forum for Northern Ireland  www.ahprfni.org/
• Invited member of international Advisory Panel of the International Research Centre for Arts Therapies (ICRA) in Imperial College London.
• Hon. committee member of the NI Group for Art as Therapy.
• Member of the Art Therapy Practice Research Network of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT).
• Member of the Research Forum for the Child, QUB  www.qub.ac.uk/sites/TheResearchForumForTheChild/
• Associate Member of the Centre for Effective Education, QUB  www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEducation/CentreforEffectiveEducation/

Research/Scholarship Projects:

• Department of Education – Research Project into Pupil’s Emotional Health and Wellbeing, Groups 1 & 3, Department of Education. £51,637. (With Prof P. Connolly, Dr L. O’Hare, Centre for Effective Education, QUB.)
• Exploring the Phenomenon of Youth Suicide Clusters: Contact Youth / Atlantic Philanthropies. £77,382. (With Prof P. Connolly, Dr S. Miller, T. Forbes, Mrs L. McEvoy, Centre for Effective Education, QUB.)
• Developing All-Ireland Research Capacity in Arts-based Educational Research (ABER). SCoTENS seed funding £7,400. (With Dr R. Leitch & Ms S. Tracey, in partnership with St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra and Dublin City University)
• RCT: Northern Ireland centre Art Therapy component (MATISSE: Multicentre study of Art Therapy In Schizophrenia: Systematic Evaluation). Additional funding by Research & Development Office. £38,354.50. (With O’Neill, A., Medicine QUB).
• RCT: MATISSE: Multicentre study of Art Therapy In Schizophrenia: Systematic Evaluation. In association with Imperial College London and Belfast Health and Social Care Trust et al. Funded by NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme (2006/2012). QUB £160,796.00 of £975,449 national funding. (With O’Neill, A., Medicine QUB).
• Exploration of the CPD needs of heads of year in comprehensive and integrated schools: a comparative study. Collaborative study with School of Education, University of Limerick (2007/2009) (with Thompson, W.T.) (€6,000 phase 1).
• Evaluation of the South East Training Scheme Extended Training for GPs. Commissioned by the South East Training Scheme for GPs. Funded by funded by the Irish College of General Practitioners (2005/2008) (with Thompson, W.T.) (€13,000).

Publications:

• Dowling, S., Rouse, M., Thompson, W., Sibbett, C. & Farrell, J. (2009) Extension of general practice training from three to four years: experiences of a vocational training programme in Southern Ireland. Educ Prim Care, May;20(3): 167-72.
• Thompson, W.T. and Sibbett, C.H. (2009) Performance Management Training Interactive DVD. Belfast: Queen’s University Belfast. Commissioned by Irish Universities Training Network.
• Sibbett, C. (2009) Matisse Research Project - Five Artists - Five Art Therapists. Public art exhibition of studio group art-based research & reflective practice. ARTTANK Gallery, Belfast. 5-18 December 2009. Project affiliated to the International Centre for Research in Arts Therapies (ICRA) in Imperial College London / RCT: MATISSE: Multicentre study of Art Therapy In Schizophrenia: Systematic Evaluation. (Funded by the HTA and the R&D Office, Belfast).
• Sibbett, C. (2009) Integrative and Eclectic Approaches in Art Therapy. In: Mārtinsone K. (Sastād.) Mākslas terapija teorija un prakse. Rīga: Drukātava. [Martinsone K. Art Therapy Theory and Practice.]
• Sibbett, C.H. and Thompson, W.T. (2008) Nettlesome knowledge, liminality and the taboo in cancer and art therapy experiences: implications for learning and teaching. In: Land, R., Meyer, J.H.F. and Smith, J. (Eds) Threshold Concepts within the Disciplines, (Chapter 17, pp. 227-242). Rotterdam / Taipei City: Sense Publishers.
• Sibbett, C.H. (2008) ‘Betwixt and Between’: Crossing Thresholds. In D. Waller & C.H. Sibbett (Eds.) Art Therapy and Cancer Care, (Chapter). Seoul, Korea: Hakjisa Publ.
• Sibbett, C.H. (2008) Liminal Embodiment: Embodied and Sensory Experience in Cancer Care and Art Therapy. In D. Waller & C.H. Sibbett (Eds.) Art Therapy and Cancer Care, (Chapter). Seoul, Korea: Hakjisa Publ.
• Sibbett, C.H. (2008) An Art Therapist’s Experience of Having Cancer. Liminality: Living and Dying with the Tiger. In D. Waller & C.H. Sibbett (Eds.) Art Therapy and Cancer Care, (Chapter). Seoul, Korea: Hakjisa Publ.
• Sibbett, C.H. (2008) Creative Containment. Art Therapy as a Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Approach in Prisons in Northern Ireland. Conference Proceedings. Riga, Latvia: Riga Stradins University.
• Sibbett, C.H. (2006) Art therapy in cancer care: revelatory expression and inclusion of liminal and taboo issues, in Spring, D. (Ed.) Art In Treatment: Transatlantic Dialogue, (Chpt.7: 124-142). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher Ltd.
• Henry, P., McArdle, E., Sibbett, C.H. (2007) Towards a person-centred ‘culture’: the use of community development approaches in the Independent Youth Counselling Service in West Belfast. Scottish Youth Issues Journal, Spring; Issue 9: 57-76.
• Sibbett, C.H. (2005) ‘Betwixt and Between’: Crossing Thresholds. In D. Waller & C.H. Sibbett (Eds.) Art Therapy and Cancer Care, (Chpt.2). Maidenhead: Open University Press / McGraw-Hill Education.
• Sibbett, C.H. (2005) Liminal Embodiment: Embodied and Sensory Experience in Cancer Care and Art Therapy. In D. Waller & C.H. Sibbett (Eds.) Art Therapy and Cancer Care, Chpt.4. Maidenhead: Open University Press / McGraw-Hill Education.
• Sibbett, C.H. (2005) An Art Therapist’s Experience of Having Cancer. Liminality: Living and Dying with the Tiger. In D. Waller & C.H. Sibbett (Eds.) Art Therapy and Cancer Care, Chpt.16. Maidenhead: Open University Press / McGraw-Hill Education.
• Sibbett, Caryl H., Thompson, William T., Crawford, Maureen and McKnight, Agnes (2003) Evaluation of extended training for general practice in Northern Ireland: qualitative study. British Medical Journal, 25 Oct; 327(7421): 971-973.
• Cupples, M.E., Thompson, W.T., Sibbett, C.H., Skan, D. and Bradley, T. (2002) Health and safety - in general practice? British Journal of General Practice, Dec; 52(485): 1024.
• Cupples, M., Bradley, T., Sibbett, C. & Thompson, W. (2002) The sick general practitioner’s dilemma – to work or not to work? British Medical Journal, Career Focus, 4 May, 324(7345): 139s.
• Thompson, W.T., Cupples, M.E., Sibbett, C.H., Skan, D.I. & Bradley, T. (2001) Challenge of culture, conscience, and contract to general practitioners’ care of their own health: qualitative study. British Medical Journal, 29 Sep; 323(7315): 728-731.

Membership of Professional Bodies:

• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) www.bacp.co.uk/
• Member of BACP Division ‘Counselling Children and Young People’  www.ccyp.co.uk/
• British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT)  www.baat.org