David Kessler
Biographic Data
| ID | 144590 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Kessler |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Kessler |
| SIGNATURE | KESSLER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5333-132X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dynamic Cognitive Load Assessment in Virtual Reality
Background Recent advances in non-invasive physiologic monitoring leverage machine learning to provide unobtrusive, real-time assessments of a learner’s cognitive load (CL) as they engage in specific tasks. However, the performance characteristics of these novel composite physiologic CL measures are incompletely understood. Objectives We aimed to 1) explore the feasibility of measuring CL in real time using physiologically-derived inputs; 2) eval…
Defibrillator Training in the Virtual Setting is Feasible and Improves Medical Student Self-Efficacy; A Pilot Study
Background Management of in-hospital cardiac arrest includes many component skills that require considerable training in order to gain mastery. Practicing defibrillation skills in a simulated setting improves performance and time to shock delivery but is cumbersome and costly. Virtual reality (VR) simulation training may provide an alternative platform to help medical students learn and build confidence in the critical steps required to operate a…
The lived experience of withdrawal from Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants: A qualitative interview study
BACKGROUND: Our knowledge of the broader impacts of antidepressant withdrawal, beyond physical side effects, is limited. Further research is needed to investigate the lived experiences of withdrawal, to aid clinicians on how to guide patients through the process. AIM: To explore antidepressant users' experiences and views on the withdrawal process and how it affected their quality of life across multiple life domains. DESIGN AND SETTING: We condu…
Patients' and Therapists' Views of Integrated Online CBT for Depression
BACKGROUND: CBT is an effective treatment for depression, but access varies across the United Kingdom. Online CBT increases access. The INTERACT platform was designed to support patient engagement in CBT, enabling therapists to deliver high-intensity CBT via typed instant messaging and allowing patients and therapists access to an integrated online library of resources during and between sessions. METHODS: The INTERACT trial aimed to evaluate thi…
Med Sim Studio: An Open-Access Simulation Platform for Running and Sharing Dynamic Display of Patient Data in Package Scenarios
Background/Objectives Specialized software may augment in-situ simulation, remote learning, oral boards preparation, and personalized remediation through simulation. Simulation educators often lack access to simulation software that meets their needs because existing software packages are cost prohibitive, have design gaps, or are not user friendly. Additionally, educators require the ability to easily author their own customized cases and share …
Acceptability of integrating smoking cessation treatment into routine care for people with mental illness: A qualitative study
INTRODUCTION: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPTs) Services could offer smoking cessation treatment to improve physical and psychological outcomes for service users, but it currently does not. This study aimed to understand participants' views and experiences of receiving a novel smoking cessation intervention as part of the ESCAPE trial (intEgrating Smoking Cessation treatment As part of usual Psychological care for dEpression and…
Setting national research priorities for difficult-to-treat depression in the UK between 2021-2026
Background: Difficult-to-treat depression (DTD) presents a substantial health care challenge, with around one-third of people diagnosed with a depressive episode in the UK finding that their symptoms persist following treatment. This study aimed to identify priority research questions (RQs) that could inform the development of new and improved treatments, interventions, and support for people with DTD. Methods: Using an adapted Child Health and N…
Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: A Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Network Meta-analysis
Importance Personalized treatment choices would increase the effectiveness of internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) for depression to the extent that patients differ in interventions that better suit them. Objective To provide personalized estimates of short-term and long-term relative efficacy of guided and unguided iCBT for depression using patient-level information. Data Sources We searched PubMed, Embase, PsycInfo, and Cochrane L…
Views about integrating smoking cessation treatment within psychological services for patients with common mental illness: A multi‐perspective qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking rates are significantly higher in people with common mental illness compared to those without. Smoking cessation treatment could be offered as part of usual outpatient psychological care, but currently is not. OBJECTIVE: To understand patient and health care professionals' views about integrating smoking cessation treatment into outpatient psychological services for common mental illness. DESIGN: Qualitative in-depth i…
Synthesizing Qualitative Data Sets to Improve the Design of Trials and Complex Health Interventions: A Worked Example
Qualitative researchers are increasingly reanalyzing and synthesizing data sets from different studies, and this method has now been used across trials to inform trial methodology and delivery. Despite this work, however, limited guidance exists about how this method should be employed. This article details an example in which interview data collected during three primary care depression trials were brought together to explore trial participants'…
Weaving Objects: Spatial Design and Functionality of 3D-Woven Textiles
3D weaving is an industrial process for creating volumetric material through organized multiaxis interlacing of yarns. The overall complexity and rarity of 3D weaving have limited its market to aerospace and military applications. Current textile design software does not address the ease of iterating through physical trialing so necessary for designers to access this medium. This paper describes the development of a series of volumetric textile s…
Using conversation analytic methods to assess fidelity to a talk-based healthcare intervention for frequently attending patients
‘She believed in me’ . What patients with depression value in their relationship with practitioners. A secondary analysis of multiple qualitative data sets
BACKGROUND: Clinical guidance promotes the practitioner-patient relationship as integral to good quality person-centred care for patients with depression. However, patients can struggle to engage with practitioners and practitioners have indicated that they want more guidance on how to establish effective relationships with their patients. OBJECTIVE: To identify what practitioner attributes patients with depression particularly value or find prob…
Managing clients’ expectations at the outset of online C ognitive B ehavioural T herapy ( CBT ) for depression
BACKGROUND: Engaging clients in psychotherapy by managing their expectations is important for therapeutic success. Initial moments in first sessions of therapy are thought to afford an opportunity to establish a shared understanding of how therapy will proceed. However, there is little evidence from analysis of actual sessions of therapy to support this. OBJECTIVE: This study utilised recorded session logs to examine how therapists manage clients…
The Illness-Disease Dynamic: Psychological Wellbeing in Type 2 Diabetes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Distress and depression often go unrecognised in people with diabetes. In this article, I present an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) of the lived experience of people with Type 2 diabetes, based on individual in-depth interviews with 10 patients. The purpose of this research was to gain a deeper understanding of these psychological symptoms through a detailed examination of how patients interpret and respond to their experience of …
Orienting to Emotion in Computer-Mediated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Exploring emotions is a defining feature of psychotherapy. This study explores how therapists orient to emotions when they cannot see or hear their clients. In analyzing 1,279 sessions of online text-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), we focused on therapists’ commiserations (e.g., “I’m sorry to hear that”) and their affective inferences (e.g., “that sounds very scary for you”). Both practices routinely prefaced moves to pursue a range of …
Faut-il encore un ministère de la Culture: Guillaume Cerutti, David Kessler : un échange
Primary‐care patients’ expectations and experiences of online cognitive behavioural therapy for depression: A qualitative study
Objective To explore expectations and experiences of online cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) among primary‐care patients with depression, focusing on how this mode of delivery impacts upon the therapeutic experience. Design Qualitative study, using repeat semi‐structured interviews with patients before and after therapy. The study was conducted in parallel with a randomized controlled trial examining the effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of…
Medication career" or "Moral career"? The two sides of managing antidepressants: A meta-ethnography of patients' experience of antidepressants
The organization of the grain trade in the early Roman Empire
Rome was an exceedingly large city at the start of the Roman Empire, and it required massive grain imports to feed its population. We argue that Roman merchants organized these imports and that they used a variety of mechanisms to deal with the informational problems of long-distance trade at that time. They used general institutions of Rome, such as its legal and social structures, as well as specific mercantile institutions, such as contracts, …
Money and Prices in the Early Roman Empire
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
A Question Of Intent: A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry
From the controversial former FDA commissioner: the surprisingly gripping, suspenseful, inside story of how the FDA confronted the tobacco industry.. Tobacco companies had been protecting their turf for decades. They had congressmen in their pocket. They had corrupt scientists who made excuses about nicotine, cancer and addiction. They had hordes of lawyers to threaten anyone--inside the industry or out--who posed a problem. They had a whole lot …
The Falashas: A Short History of the Ethiopian Jews
The Falashas: A Short History of the Ethiopian Jews
For anyone interested in this remarkable people, Kesslers book is surely the most readable and entertaining guide. Tudor Parfitt, Jewish Chronicle International Journal of African Historical Studies A useful and cool-headed account of the external involvement of organizations and governments in the Falasha issue since 1941
Medication career" or "Moral career"? The two sides of managing antidepressants: A meta-ethnography of patients' experience of antidepressants
The organization of the grain trade in the early Roman Empire
Rome was an exceedingly large city at the start of the Roman Empire, and it required massive grain imports to feed its population. We argue that Roman merchants organized these imports and that they used a variety of mechanisms to deal with the informational problems of long-distance trade at that time. They used general institutions of Rome, such as its legal and social structures, as well as specific mercantile institutions, such as contracts, …
Using conversation analytic methods to assess fidelity to a talk-based healthcare intervention for frequently attending patients
Synthesizing Qualitative Data Sets to Improve the Design of Trials and Complex Health Interventions: A Worked Example
Qualitative researchers are increasingly reanalyzing and synthesizing data sets from different studies, and this method has now been used across trials to inform trial methodology and delivery. Despite this work, however, limited guidance exists about how this method should be employed. This article details an example in which interview data collected during three primary care depression trials were brought together to explore trial participants'…
Orienting to Emotion in Computer-Mediated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Exploring emotions is a defining feature of psychotherapy. This study explores how therapists orient to emotions when they cannot see or hear their clients. In analyzing 1,279 sessions of online text-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), we focused on therapists’ commiserations (e.g., “I’m sorry to hear that”) and their affective inferences (e.g., “that sounds very scary for you”). Both practices routinely prefaced moves to pursue a range of …
Weaving Objects: Spatial Design and Functionality of 3D-Woven Textiles
3D weaving is an industrial process for creating volumetric material through organized multiaxis interlacing of yarns. The overall complexity and rarity of 3D weaving have limited its market to aerospace and military applications. Current textile design software does not address the ease of iterating through physical trialing so necessary for designers to access this medium. This paper describes the development of a series of volumetric textile s…
Falashas: A pattern of prejudice
The Falashas: The Forgotten Jews of Ethiopia
The Falashas: The Forgotten Jews of Ethiopia
Laïcité: Du combat au droit
The Falashas: A Short History of the Ethiopian Jews
For anyone interested in this remarkable people, Kesslers book is surely the most readable and entertaining guide. Tudor Parfitt, Jewish Chronicle International Journal of African Historical Studies A useful and cool-headed account of the external involvement of organizations and governments in the Falasha issue since 1941
The Falashas: A Short History of the Ethiopian Jews
A Question Of Intent: A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry
From the controversial former FDA commissioner: the surprisingly gripping, suspenseful, inside story of how the FDA confronted the tobacco industry.. Tobacco companies had been protecting their turf for decades. They had congressmen in their pocket. They had corrupt scientists who made excuses about nicotine, cancer and addiction. They had hordes of lawyers to threaten anyone--inside the industry or out--who posed a problem. They had a whole lot …
Money and Prices in the Early Roman Empire
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
The organization of the grain trade in the early Roman Empire
Rome was an exceedingly large city at the start of the Roman Empire, and it required massive grain imports to feed its population. We argue that Roman merchants organized these imports and that they used a variety of mechanisms to deal with the informational problems of long-distance trade at that time. They used general institutions of Rome, such as its legal and social structures, as well as specific mercantile institutions, such as contracts, …
Primary‐care patients’ expectations and experiences of online cognitive behavioural therapy for depression: A qualitative study
Objective To explore expectations and experiences of online cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) among primary‐care patients with depression, focusing on how this mode of delivery impacts upon the therapeutic experience. Design Qualitative study, using repeat semi‐structured interviews with patients before and after therapy. The study was conducted in parallel with a randomized controlled trial examining the effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of…
Medication career" or "Moral career"? The two sides of managing antidepressants: A meta-ethnography of patients' experience of antidepressants
Faut-il encore un ministère de la Culture: Guillaume Cerutti, David Kessler : un échange
Managing clients’ expectations at the outset of online C ognitive B ehavioural T herapy ( CBT ) for depression
BACKGROUND: Engaging clients in psychotherapy by managing their expectations is important for therapeutic success. Initial moments in first sessions of therapy are thought to afford an opportunity to establish a shared understanding of how therapy will proceed. However, there is little evidence from analysis of actual sessions of therapy to support this. OBJECTIVE: This study utilised recorded session logs to examine how therapists manage clients…
The Illness-Disease Dynamic: Psychological Wellbeing in Type 2 Diabetes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Distress and depression often go unrecognised in people with diabetes. In this article, I present an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) of the lived experience of people with Type 2 diabetes, based on individual in-depth interviews with 10 patients. The purpose of this research was to gain a deeper understanding of these psychological symptoms through a detailed examination of how patients interpret and respond to their experience of …
Orienting to Emotion in Computer-Mediated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Exploring emotions is a defining feature of psychotherapy. This study explores how therapists orient to emotions when they cannot see or hear their clients. In analyzing 1,279 sessions of online text-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), we focused on therapists’ commiserations (e.g., “I’m sorry to hear that”) and their affective inferences (e.g., “that sounds very scary for you”). Both practices routinely prefaced moves to pursue a range of …
‘She believed in me’ . What patients with depression value in their relationship with practitioners. A secondary analysis of multiple qualitative data sets
BACKGROUND: Clinical guidance promotes the practitioner-patient relationship as integral to good quality person-centred care for patients with depression. However, patients can struggle to engage with practitioners and practitioners have indicated that they want more guidance on how to establish effective relationships with their patients. OBJECTIVE: To identify what practitioner attributes patients with depression particularly value or find prob…
Using conversation analytic methods to assess fidelity to a talk-based healthcare intervention for frequently attending patients
Synthesizing Qualitative Data Sets to Improve the Design of Trials and Complex Health Interventions: A Worked Example
Qualitative researchers are increasingly reanalyzing and synthesizing data sets from different studies, and this method has now been used across trials to inform trial methodology and delivery. Despite this work, however, limited guidance exists about how this method should be employed. This article details an example in which interview data collected during three primary care depression trials were brought together to explore trial participants'…
Weaving Objects: Spatial Design and Functionality of 3D-Woven Textiles
3D weaving is an industrial process for creating volumetric material through organized multiaxis interlacing of yarns. The overall complexity and rarity of 3D weaving have limited its market to aerospace and military applications. Current textile design software does not address the ease of iterating through physical trialing so necessary for designers to access this medium. This paper describes the development of a series of volumetric textile s…
Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: A Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Network Meta-analysis
Importance Personalized treatment choices would increase the effectiveness of internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) for depression to the extent that patients differ in interventions that better suit them. Objective To provide personalized estimates of short-term and long-term relative efficacy of guided and unguided iCBT for depression using patient-level information. Data Sources We searched PubMed, Embase, PsycInfo, and Cochrane L…
Views about integrating smoking cessation treatment within psychological services for patients with common mental illness: A multi‐perspective qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking rates are significantly higher in people with common mental illness compared to those without. Smoking cessation treatment could be offered as part of usual outpatient psychological care, but currently is not. OBJECTIVE: To understand patient and health care professionals' views about integrating smoking cessation treatment into outpatient psychological services for common mental illness. DESIGN: Qualitative in-depth i…
Setting national research priorities for difficult-to-treat depression in the UK between 2021-2026
Background: Difficult-to-treat depression (DTD) presents a substantial health care challenge, with around one-third of people diagnosed with a depressive episode in the UK finding that their symptoms persist following treatment. This study aimed to identify priority research questions (RQs) that could inform the development of new and improved treatments, interventions, and support for people with DTD. Methods: Using an adapted Child Health and N…
Med Sim Studio: An Open-Access Simulation Platform for Running and Sharing Dynamic Display of Patient Data in Package Scenarios
Background/Objectives Specialized software may augment in-situ simulation, remote learning, oral boards preparation, and personalized remediation through simulation. Simulation educators often lack access to simulation software that meets their needs because existing software packages are cost prohibitive, have design gaps, or are not user friendly. Additionally, educators require the ability to easily author their own customized cases and share …
Acceptability of integrating smoking cessation treatment into routine care for people with mental illness: A qualitative study
INTRODUCTION: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPTs) Services could offer smoking cessation treatment to improve physical and psychological outcomes for service users, but it currently does not. This study aimed to understand participants' views and experiences of receiving a novel smoking cessation intervention as part of the ESCAPE trial (intEgrating Smoking Cessation treatment As part of usual Psychological care for dEpression and…
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