Keren is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Professions.
Keren is a qualified Counselling Psychologist who has been combining academic and clinical practice. She has been teaching and researching in psychology and psychosocial studies and has a particular interest in the area of trauma and growth including in the context of domestic violence and abuse.
Her teaching involves areas in psychoanalytic and relational psychotherapy, well being and trauma, and research methods.
Research interests are in the area of well being, resilience and positive psychology, trauma and vicarious trauma and domestic abuse.
- 'Cohen, K., Brown, C., & Hoggard, K. (submitted for review). Negative Life Events, Positive and Negative Religious Coping, Compassion, Resilience and Well Being Among Women. Journal of Positive Psychology and Wellbeing.
- Falchi, C. & Cohen, K. (submitted for review), Religiosity and Academic Achievement among Muslims Students and Graduates: The Mediating Effect of Religious Discrimination and Resilience. Youth & Policy
- Jones, C. & Cohen, K. (2022). The Role of Family Environment and Resilience in the Relationship between of Parental Behavioural Addictions and Mental Health. European Journal of Counselling Psychology. https://doi.org/10.46853/001c.38664
- Florez, E.; Cohen, K; Ferenczi, N.; Linnell, K; Lloyd, J; Goddard, L; Kumashiro, M; & Freeman, J. (2021). Linking Recent Discrimination-Related Experiences and Wellbeing via Social Cohesion and Resilience, Journal of Positive Psychology and Wellbeing.
- Mukamel, M. & Cohen, K. (2019). Documenting torture and ill-treatment of children and adolescents: Current practices and challenges. Torture Journal, 29(1), pp. 141-142. ISSN 1018-8185 [Article]
- Cohen, K. & Collens, P. (2013). The impact of trauma work – A meta-synthesis on vicarious trauma and vicarious trauma growth. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 5(6), pp. 570-580. ISSN 1942-9681
- Brockhouse, R., Msetfi R. M., Cohen, K., & Joseph, S. (2011). Vicarious exposure to trauma and growth in therapists: The moderating effects of sense of coherence, organisational support and empathy. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 24, 735-742 DOI: 10.1002/jts.20704
- Evans, K., Law, H., Turner, R. E., Rogers, A., & Cohen, K. (2011).A pilot study evaluating care staffs’ perceptions of their experience of psychological consultation within a mental health setting. Child Care in Practice, 17, 205-219.
- Rose, H.; Cohen, K.; & Kinney, C. (2011). Mothers’ experiences of mental health services following their children’s self harm. Family Science, 2, 196-202. DOI:10.1080/19424620.2012.665379
- Berry, K., Blackburn, C., & Cohen K. (2010). Factors correlated with client attachment to mental health services. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 98, 572-5.
- Splevins, K., Cohen, K., Joseph, S., Murray, C., & Bowley, J. (2010). Vicarious posttraumatic growth among interpreters. Journal of Qualitative Health Research, 20, 1705-1716.
- Splevins, K., Cohen, K., Murray, C., Bowley, J., & Joseph, S. (2010). Post –traumatic growth following adversity: Cross cultural perspective. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 15, 259-277.
- Rose, H. & Cohen, K. (2010). The experiences of young carers: A meta-synthesis of qualitative findings. Journal of Youth Studies, 13, 473 – 487.
- Horridge, G., Cohen, K., & Gaskall, S. (2009). BurnEd: exploring factors influencing a burn-Injured child’s return to education. Burns,36, 630-638. doi:10.1016/j.burns.2009.08.013
- Shmotkin, D., Berkovich, M. & Cohen, K. (2006). Combining Happines's and Suffering in a Retrospective View of Anchor Periods in Life: A Differential Approach to Subjective Well-Being. Social Indicators Research, 77(1), pp. 139-169. ISSN 03038300
- Cohen, K. & Shmotkin, D. (2007). Emotional ratings of meaningful life periods and their relation to subjective well-being among Holocaust survivors. Personality and Individual Differences, 43(3), pp. 495-506. ISSN 0191-8869