Dr Keren Cohen
Senior Lecturer
Course Leader for the MA in Integrative Counselling
and the CPD in Counselling skills
Contact Information
School of Psychology
Room CS-214,
Tel: 020 7320 1050
Fax: 020 7320 1236
Email: k.cohen@londonmet.ac.uk
Research Interests
Well Being and Quality of Life; Psychological Trauma; Posttraumatic Growth; Life Stories; Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods
Selected Publications
Cohen, K. & Shmotkin, D. (2007). Emotional ratings of meaningful life periods and their relation to subjective well-being among Holocaust survivors. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 495-506.
Horridge, G., Cohen, K., & Gaskall, S. (2009). BurnEd: exploring factors influencing a burn-Injured child’s return to education. Burns, doi:10.1016/j.burns.2009.08.013
Kaiser, P.; Cohen, K; et al. (2008). Turning theory into practice - the Life Stories Group. PSIGE newsletter.
Mawson, A., Cohen, K., &
Rose, H. & Cohen, K. (2010). The experiences of young carers: A meta-synthesis of qualitative findings. Journal of Youth Studies.
Shmotkin, D.; Berkovich, M.; & Cohen, K. (2006). Combining happiness and suffering in a retrospective view of periods of life: A differential approach to subjective well-being. Social Indicator Research, 77, 139-169.
Splevins, K., Cohen, K., Murray, C., Bowley, J., & Joseph, S. (in press). Post –traumatic growth following adversity: Cross cultural perspective. Journal of Loss and Trauma.
Submitted manuscripts
Splevins, K., Cohen, K., Joseph, S., Murray, C., & Bowley, J. (under revisions) “You’re not experiencing what they’re experiencing but you’re experiencing something as well”: A phenomenological interpretative inquiry into the experiences of vicarious posttraumatic adversity and growth among interpreters. Journal of Qualitative Health Research.
