Dr Joanna Griffin
Dr Joanna Griffin
CPsychol AFBPsS Registered Member MBACP
HCPC Registered Counselling Psychologist
Email: joanna.griffin@metanoia.ac.uk
Joanna Griffin is a Counselling Psychologist registered with the BPS, HCPC and BACP. She trained at Regents College and Metanoia Institute.
Jo has worked in many different clinical settings, including the NHS and a number of third sector providers. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Research in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (CIDD) at the University of Warwick and offers supervision in her private practice.
Her doctoral research explored emotional wellbeing in parents of disabled children, combining lived experience (as a parent carer herself), theory and research.
She has published a book on her research and runs the website Affinityhub.uk which signposts to emotional support for parent carers. She liaises with other professionals in the field and recently collaborated on producing a discussion document on trauma and parent carers.
Key publications:
Griffin, J. & Steeples, J. (2024) Trauma and Parent Carers – The Psychologist https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/trauma-and-parent-carers
Sutherland, D., Griffin, J., Flynn, S., Thompson, P., Hastings, R. P. (2024). Positive Family Connections for families of children with a developmental disability: cluster randomized controlled trial. Journal of Family Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001211
Griffin, J., Finch, E., Yakeley, M. Bonger, N. & Villierezz, P. (2023) Difficult parent or traumatised parent?, Children, Young People and Families Journal, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), p. 20-23
Griffin, J., Austin, D., Lynham, J., Hafidh, R., Boxill, N., Sutherland, D., Flynn, S. and Hastings, R.P. (2023), "Positive family connections: co-producing a virtual group programme for family carers of children with learning disabilities or who are autistic", Tizard Learning Disability Review, Vol. 28 No. 3/4, pp. 61-70. https://doi.org/10.1108/TLDR-03-2023-0008
Griffin, J. (2023) ‘Different things at different times’: Wellbeing strategies and processes identified by parents of children who have an intellectual disability or who are autistic, or both. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 36(4), 822-829 https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.13098
Sutherland, D., Flynn, S., Kurzeja, O., Griffin, J. & Hastings, R. (2023) Family-systems interventions for families of people with an intellectual disability or who are autistic: a systematic review. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/jir.13068
Griffin, J. (2023) Parent Carers: we can and should do better by them. Professional Social Work Magazine. March/April 2023.
Griffin, J. (2022) ‘You have to re-orientate to this new terrain’: Emotional Wellbeing in parents of children with a learning and/or developmental disability. [Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Middlesex University].
Griffin, J. (2021). Caring for the carers. Therapy Today, 32(10). British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Griffin, J. (2021). Day by Day: Emotional Wellbeing in Parents of Disabled Children, UK: Free Association Books
Griffin, J. (2020, June). Supporting Parent Carers, The Psychologist, 28-31. British Psychological Society. Griffin, J. (2020, December).
Griffin, J. (2020, December) Parenting a Disabled Child. BACP Children, Young People & Families, 15-18. British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.