WELCOME

Dr Černis is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK. She works within the School of Psychology and the Institute for Mental Health (IMH).

1) Dissociative experiences: primarily 'felt sense of anomaly' (FSA) dissociation, but also depersonalisation and derealisation.

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2) Psychological factors that may underlie dissociation, including alexithymia, self-efficacy, affect intolerance, and emotion regulation.

· DPhil Biomedical & Clinical Sciences, University of Oxford
· DClinPsy Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford
· MSc Mental Health Studies, King's College London
· BA Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

KEY PUBLICATIONS

A new perspective and assessment measure for common dissociative experiences: ‘Felt Sense of Anomaly’ (Černis, Beierl, Molodynski, Ehlers & Freeman, 2021)

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Psychological mechanisms connected to dissociation: Generating hypotheses using network analyses. (Černis, Ehlers, & Freeman, 2022)

Measuring dissociation across adolescence and adulthood: Developing the short-form Černis Felt Sense of Anomaly scale (ČEFSA-14). (Černis, et al., 2023)

Depersonalisation-derealisation as a transdiagnostic treatment target: A scoping review of the evidence in anxiety, depression, and psychosis. (Černis, et al.)