Kevin Gournay - Research and Teaching

Research and Teaching

Gournay has held major research grants, over a period of 23 years, notably in the cognitive behavioural treatment of phobic anxiety, body image disorders, the use of medication, epidemiology, health economics and community mental health. At the present time, he has personal responsibility for 17 research projects and he is the author of approximately 300 journal articles, conference papers (national and international), books, book chapters and reports. He published a textbook on agoraphobia in 1989 and has published widely on anxiety disorders.

Gournay set up and ran the country's first multi-disciplinary Masters programme for mental health professionals in the area of interventions for serious mental illness. He has had attachments to the University of New South Wales, and the University of Wollongong, where he has taught on the subjects of post traumatic stress and the management of severe mental illness. He directs a number of training programmes for mental health professionals (doctors, psychologists and nurses) and his experience includes teaching in a number of countries including other European countries as well as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Czech Republic, and Russia.