Our trainers on the psychotherapy programme are:
Dr. Katherine Darton - PhD, BSc, BA
Psychopathology, Pharmacology and Human Development.
Katherine Darton is a physiologist, a flautist and also has a music therapy qualification. After working as a flute teacher and music therapist for some years, she went back to university to study physiology, and then spent some time as a post-doctoral research fellow in rheumatology.
She then followed her life-long interest in mental health, working for Mind for the last 12 years, for 10 of which she was one of the team answering calls on Mindinfoline. She is the author of all of Mind's booklets on psychiatric drugs and ECT in the Making Sense series, the most recent of which is Making sense of coming off psychiatric drugs, published last year. All of these are updated regularly, and can be read on Mind's website (www.mind.org.uk/information).
She also writes Mind's factsheets on medication, as well as factsheets and booklets on other topics, including:
Key facts on genetics and mental Health (2001), Understanding psychotic experiences (with Jenny Sharman), and Notes on the history of mental health care (factsheet), and many articles and reviews for Openmind and Diverse Minds magazine. She was a co-author of Mind reports on the Stress on women and Mind Yellow Card campaigns.
Other publications include chapters in books on neuromuscular reflexes and on Raynaud's phenomenon, papers in physiological and rheumatology journals, and reviews in Music and Psyche Journal.
She regularly provides training on psychiatric drugs for Mind, and has in the past run mental health awareness training. She has been a member of various committees and steering groups for a number of organisations with a mental health interest, was on the Health Technology Assessment Therapeutic Procedures panel, and is currently on the Mental Health Guidelines group of the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health, and the Patient Information Working Group of the Commission on Human Medicines.
MIND reports:
Darton K, Gorman J and Sayce L, 1994. Eve Fights Back: the Successes of Mind's Stress on Women Campaign. Mind Publications, London.
Campbell P, Cobb A, and Darton, K, 1998. Psychiatric Drugs: Users' Experiences and Current Policy and Practice. Mind Publications, London.
Alison Cobb, with Katherine Darton and Kiran Juttla, 2001, Mind's Yellow Card for Reporting Drug Side Effects, A Report of Users' Experiences, Mind Publications,
Scientific paper:
King MB, Darton K, Feld JH and Black CM, 1996. Psychological problems in patients with scleroderma: a controlled, prospective study. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 1,3; 249-257.
Katherine Darton has served on the following panels:
2005- Steering group, mental health guidelines project, Prince of Wales's Foundation for Integrated Health now called the Prince's Foundation. 2002- Patient information working group, Committee on Safety of Medicines 2001- 2003 Steering group of British Library Co-operation and Partnership Programme No.6, Healthinfo4u 1999 -2001 Consumer member, Therapeutic Procedures Panel and Acute Sector Panel of Health Technology Assessment Programme, Department of Health.
