Meet the team: Dr Adrian Neal
Adrian qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2003 and for the first 10 years worked within NHS England Adult Community and Acute Adult Mental Health Services. He was also a part time Lecturer Practitioner on the Coventry and Warwick Universities Clinical Psychology Doctorate. After completing an MSc in Organisational Psychology he has specialised in Occupational Health and Wellbeing within the public sector. Moving to Wales in 2014 to take up the role of Head of Wellbeing within an NHS healthboard.
He has been involved in a number of collaborative projects with the Welsh Ambulance Service, Welsh NHS Finance Academy, Gwent Police, Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service (EMRTS), London Air Ambulance, Health Education and Innovation Wales (HEIW), Powys University Health Board, National Academy of Head Teachers (Wales), and Welsh Government.
Adrian views psychosocial factors (e.g.: leadership, culture and psychological safety) as the cornerstones to organisational health and wellbeing, and ultimately sustainability. He co-leads the innovative Leading People programme in South Wales.
Adrian is Co-Chair of the Applied Psychologists in Health National Special Advisory Group, past Co-chair of the DCP’s Leadership and Management Faculty, and DCP Wales, and Chaired the British Psychological Society's working group examining the impact of the pandemic on psychologist’s wellbeing.
Adrian is an Academic supervisor at Cardiff and Cardiff Metropolitan universities and has published academic articles and book chapters relating to mental health, occupational health, organisational culture and well-being.
Adrian's publications
Highfield, J. & Neal, A. (2022) Strategic working and supporting leadership within a healthcare context, in Psychological staff support in healthcare: Current thinking & Practice. Edited by Dr Harriet Conniff. Consultant Editor: Dr Arabella Kurtz
Neal, A. & Highfield, J. (2022) A relational guide to establish and maintain a psychologically healthier workplace: Individuals and systems. In Psychological staff support in healthcare: Current thinking & Practice. Edited by Dr Harriet Conniff. Consultant Editor: Dr Arabella Kurtz
Roa, A., Lavender, T., Bhutani, G., Farndon, H., Neal, A., and Waites, B. (June, 2021) Leadership development and support for clinical psychologists working in health and social care. Leadership Development and Support for Clinical Psychologists (Health and Social Care).pdf (bps.org.uk) British Psychological Society.
Roa, A., Kemp, N., Bhutani, G., Morris, R., Summers, E., Brown, K., Jeremy Clarke, J., and Neal, A. (April, 2021) Building a caring work culture – what good looks like. Building a Caring Work Culture.pdf (bps.org.uk) British Psychological Society.
Turner, K., Neal, A., and Moses, J. (2021). “I think it does just open it up and… you're not hiding it anymore”: Trainee Clinical Psychologists' experiences of self-disclosing Mental Health Difficulties. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy.
Neal, A. et al. (November, 2020). The impact of covid-19 on the wellbeing of psychologists. https://www.bps.org.uk/sites/www.bps.org.uk/files/Policy/Policy%20-%20Files/Impact%20of%20Covid-19%20on%20the%20Wellbeing%20of%20Psychologists.pdf British Psychological Society.
Williams, R., Murry, E., Neal. A., and Kemp, V. (March 2020). The top ten messages for supporting healthcare staff during the covid-19 pandemic. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.13439.76968 Affiliation: Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Neal, A., Kemp, V., and Williams, R. (2018). Chapter 28. Caring for the carers. In Kemp, V. and Williams, R. In Social Scaffolding, Royal College of Psychiatry.
Flowers, S., Potter, R., Bradfield, C., Stott, N, Waites, B. and Neal, A. (2018). ‘Taking care, giving care’ rounds: An intervention to support compassionate care amongst healthcare staff. Clinical Psychology Forum, March. British Psychological Society.
Kemp, V., Williams, R, and Neal. A. (2016) Chapter 26. Compassion, care of staff, and the moral architecture of health services. In Bhurgra, D., Bell, S., and Burns, A. Management for Psychiatrists. 4th Edition. Royal College of Psychiatry.
Pooley, P., Highfield, J., & Neal, A. (2014). The experience of the long-term doctor-patient relationship in Consultant Nephrologists. Journal of Renal Care. Dec. Issue 4.
Kahlon, S., Neal, A., & Patterson, T. (2014). The experiences of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Formulation in clients with depression. The Cognitive behaviour Therapist, Vol 7, page 1-15.
Wigg, R., Cushway. D., & Neal. A (2011). Personal therapy for therapists and trainees: a theory of reflective practice from a review of the literature. Reflective Practice: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 1470-1103, Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 347 – 359.
Neal, A. (2010). Chapter 65. Mental health at work: Psychological interventions. In Baxter, P.J., Tar-Ching, A., Cockcroft, A., Durrington, P. & Harrington, M. (Eds.), Psychological Hunter's Diseases of Occupations, (10th Edition), London, Hodder Education.
Highfield, J., Markham, D., Skinner, M., & Neal, A (2009). An Investigation into the Experience of Self-Conscious Emotions in Individuals with Bipolar Disorder, Unipolar Depression and Non-Psychiatric Controls. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 17, p395–405.
