Dr. med. (University of Hamburg, 1982) habil. (Free University Berlin, 1991)
Stefan Priebe's extensive research activities have focused on three areas: a) mental health services research including controlled trials and outcome studies, b) patient views (e.g. subjective quality of life and treatment satisfaction) and therapeutic relationships in mental health care, and c) studies on the history and concepts of mental health care. He has a special interest in advancing methodological and conceptual issues.
Current Research
He currently co-ordinates national and international multi-centre studies including clinical trials (on the effectiveness of offering financial incentives to improve medication adherence in patients with psychotic disorders; the effectiveness of dialectical-behaviour therapy in treating patients with personality disorder and self-harm; the effectiveness of body-psychotherapy in the treatment of negative symptoms of schizophrenia) and the collection of service provision data. To improve practice in community mental health care, he is developing a new intervention to structure the patient-clinician communication which is on the DIALOG intervention and incorporates methods of established psychological models. Further activities address non-specific factors in psychiatric treatment, aspects of coercion, the measurement of patient-reported outcomes, and psychiatric treatment for patients with mental disorders following war and other traumatic experiences.
He is author/editor of eight books (e.g. on research methods in mental health care) and has more than 400 scientific publications, more than two thirds of them in peer-reviewed journals. He reviews on social psychiatric issues for most leading journals and research funders and is on the editorial board of several journals, including Psychiatrische Praxis and the International Journal of Social Psychiatry. He is visiting professor at the Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and the University of Belgrade. He has had an advisory roles on mental health care policies and research to regional and national agencies in several European countries.
Selected publications
- Priebe S, Warner R, Hubschmid T, Eckle I (1998) Employment, attitudes to work and quality of life among people with schizophrenia in three countries. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 24:469-472
- Priebe S, Fakhoury W, White I, et al (2004) Characteristics of teams, staff and patients: associations with outcomes of patients in assertive outreach. British Journal of Psychiatry, 185:306-311
- Priebe S, Badesconyi A, Fioritti A et al (2005) Reinstitutionalisation in mental health care: comparison of data on service provision from six European countries. British Medical Journal, 330:123-126
- Priebe S, McCabe R, Bullenkamp J et al (2007) Structured patient-clinician communication and 1-year outcome in community mental healthcare. Cluster randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Psychiatry, 191:420-426
- Priebe S, Watzke S, Hansson L, Burns T (2008) Objective social outcomes index (SIX): a method to summarise objective indicators of social outcomes in mental health care. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 118:57-63.
- Priebe S, Katsakou C, Amos T et al (2009) Patients' views and readmissions 1 year after involuntary hospitalisation (InvolvE). British Journal of Psychiatry, 194:49-54.
- Priebe S, Bogic M, Ajdukovic D et al (2010) Mental disorders following war in the Balkans: A study in 5 countries. Archives of General Psychiatry, 67(5):518-528
- Priebe S, Katsakou C, Glöckner M et al (2010) Patients' views of involuntary hospital admission in 1 and 3 months: prospective study in 11 European Countries. British Journal of Psychiatry, 196:179-185
- Priebe S, Reininghaus U, McCabe R et al (2010) Factors influencing subjective quality of life in patients with schizophrenia and other mental disorders: A pooled analysis. Schizophrenia Research, [Epub ahead of print]
- Priebe S, Bogic M, Ashcroft R, et al (2010) Experience of human rights violations and subsequent mental disorders: A study following the war in the Balkans. Social Sciences and Medicine [Epub ahead of print]
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