Dr Kate Rimes
Reader in Clinical & Health Psychology
Academic Director, Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
6 West 0.3
Email: k.a.rimes@bath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 38 4861
Profile
Kate is Academic Director for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Reader in the Psychology Department.
Kate is also a chartered Health Psychologist as well as a Clinical Psychologist. Her main therapeutic approaches are cognitive behaviour therapy and mindfulness-based interventions. She is an Associate Editor for the journal “Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy”.
Research interests
- Mindfulness-based approaches
- Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME
- Long term conditions and medically unexplained symptoms
- Depression
- Emotional processing and different forms of avoidance
Teaching
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
Publications
Book Sections
Rimes, K. A. and Salkovskis, P. M., 2000. Health screening programmes. In: Gelder, M., Lopez-Ibor, J. J. and Andreasen, A., eds. New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 1211-1217.
Rimes, K. A. and Salkovskis, P. M., 2000. Psychological effects of genetic testing for psychological disorders. In: Slife, B., ed. Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Psychological Issues. 11th edition. Guilford, Connecticut: Dushkin / McGraw-Hill, pp. 56-63.
Articles
Lloyd, S., Chalder, T., Sallis, H. M. and Rimes, K. A., 2012. Telephone-based guided self-help for adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome: A non-randomised cohort study. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 50 (5), pp. 304-312.
Brooks, S. K., Rimes, K. A. and Chalder, T., 2011. The role of acceptance in chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 71 (6), pp. 411-415.
Watkins, E. R., Mullan, E., Wingrove, J., Rimes, K., Steiner, H., Bathurst, N., Eastman, R. and Scott, J., 2011. Rumination-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy for residual depression: phase II randomised controlled trial. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 199 (4), pp. 317-322.
Hambrook, D., Oldershaw, A., Rimes, K. A., Schmidt, U., Tchanturia, K., Treasure, J., Richards, S. and Chalder, T., 2011. Emotional expression, self-silencing, and distress tolerance in anorexia nervosa and chronic fatigue syndrome. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 50 (3), pp. 310-325.
Rimes, K. A. and Wingrove, J., 2011. Pilot study of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for trainee clinical psychologists. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 39 (2), pp. 235-241.
Oldershaw, A., Hambrook, D., Chalder, T., Rimes, K. A., Tchanturia, K. and Treasure, J., 2011. Emotion recognition and emotional theory of mind in chronic fatigue syndrome. Psychology and Health, 26 (8), pp. 989-1005.
Rimes, K. A. and Wingrove, J., 2011. Forthcoming. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Still Experiencing Excessive Fatigue after Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: A Pilot Randomized Study. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
Dittner, A., Rimes, K. A. and Thorpe, S., 2011. Negative perfectionism increases the risk of fatigue following a period of stress. Psychology & Health, 26 (3), pp. 253-268.
Salkovskis, P. M., Rimes, K. A., Bolton, J. and Wroe, A. L., 2010. An experimental investigation of factors involved in the decision to undertake genetic testing for schizophrenia. Journal of Mental Health, 19 (2), pp. 202-210.
Rimes, K. A. and Chalder, T., 2010. The beliefs about emotions scale: Validity, reliability and sensitivity to change. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 68 (3), pp. 285-292.
Caseras, X., Mataix-Cols, D., Rimes, K. A., Giampietro, V., Brammer, M., Zelaya, F., Chalder, T. and Godfrey, E., 2008. The neural correlates of fatigue: an exploratory imaginal fatigue provocation study in chronic fatigue syndrome. Psychological Medicine, 38 (7), pp. 941-951.
Quarmby, L., Rimes, K. A., Deale, A., Wessely, S. and Chalder, T., 2007. Cognitive-behaviour therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome: Comparison of outcomes within and outside the confines of a randomised controlled trial. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45 (6), pp. 1085-1094.
Sherwood, C., Salkovskis, P. M. and Rimes, K. A., 2007. Help-seeking for depression: The role of beliefs, attitudes and mood. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 35 (5), pp. 541-554.
Rimes, K. A., Goodman, R., Hotopf, M., Wessely, S., Meltzer, H. and Chalder, T., 2007. Incidence, prognosis, and risk factors for fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome in adolescents: a prospective community study. Pediatrics, 119 (3), e603-609.
Watkins, E., Scott, J., Wingrove, J., Rimes, K. A., Bathurst, N., Steiner, H., Kennell-Web, S., Moulds, M. and Malliaris, Y., 2007. Rumination-focused cognitive behaviour therapy for residual depression: A case series. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45 (9), pp. 2144-2154.
Salkovskis, P. M., Rimes, K. A., Stephenson, D., Sacks, G. and Scott, J., 2006. A randomized controlled trial of the use of self-help materials in addition to standard general practice treatment of depression compared to standard treatment alone. Psychological Medicine: A Journal of Research in Psychiatry and the Allied Sciences, 36 (3), pp. 325-333.
Rimes, K. A., Salkovskis, P. M., Jones, L. and Lucassen, A. M., 2006. Applying a cognitive behavioral model of health anxiety in a cancer genetics service. Health Psychology, 25 (2), pp. 171-180.
Caseras, X., Mataix-Cols, D., Giampietro, V., Rimes, K. A., Brammer, M., Zelaya, F., Chalder, T. and Godfrey, E. L., 2006. Probing the working memory system in chronic fatigue syndrome: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study using the n-back task. Psychosomatic Medicine, 68 (6), pp. 947-955.
Rimes, K. A. and Watkins, E., 2005. The effects of self-focused rumination on global negative self-judgements in depression. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43 (12), pp. 1673-1681.
Rimes, K. A. and Chalder, T., 2005. Treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome. Occupational Medicine, 55 (1), pp. 32-39.
Rimes, K. A. and Salkovskis, P. M., 2002. Prediction of psychological reactions to bone density screening for osteoporosis using a cognitive-behavioral model of anxiety. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 40 (4), pp. 359-381.
Salkovskis, P. M., Rimes, K. A., Warwick, H. and Clark, D., 2002. The Health Anxiety Inventory: Development and validation of scales for the measurement of health anxiety and hypochondriasis. Psychological Medicine: A Journal of Research in Psychiatry and the Allied Sciences, 32 (5), pp. 843-853.
Wroe, A. L., Salkovskis, P. M. and Rimes, K. A., 2000. The effect of nondirective questioning on women's decisions whether to undergo bone density screening: An experimental study. Health Psychology, 19 (2), pp. 181-191.
Ehntholt, K., Salkovskis, P. M. and Rimes, K. A., 1999. Obsessive–compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders, and self-esteem: an exploratory study. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 37 (8), pp. 771-781.
Rimes, K. A., Salkovskis, P. M. and Shipman, A., 1999. Psychological and behavioural effects of bone density screening for osteoporosis. Psychology and Health, 14 (4), pp. 585-608.
Rimes, K. A. and Salkovskis, P. M., 1998. Psychological effects of genetic testing for psychological disorders. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 26 (1), pp. 29-42.
Wroe, A. L., Salkovskis, P. M. and Rimes, K. A., 1998. The prospect of predictive testing for personal risk: Attitudes and decision making. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 36 (6), pp. 599-619.
Salkovskis, P. M. and Rimes, K. A., 1997. Egezeggel kapcsolatos problemak kognitiv megozelitese [A cognitive approach to health anxiety and obsessional problems]. Psychiatrica Hungarica, 12, pp. 313-335.
Salkovskis, P. M. and Rimes, K. A., 1997. Predictive genetic testing: Psychological factors. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 43 (5), pp. 477-487.
Salkovskis, P. M. and Rimes, K. A., 1997. The cognitive-behavioural approach to health anxiety ('hypochondriasis') [El Enfoque cognitivo-comportamental para la ansiedad por la salud ('Hipocondia'). Revista de Psicopatologia y Psyicologia Clinica, 2, pp. 113-122.
