bringing the latest research into leadership coaching

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Is it essential for all coaches to maintain a strong practice of Supervision and Continued Professional Development. And a s a researcher key  for me  to ensure I add value to my clients and their stakeholders by bringing  the latest  evidence for what really works into Leadership Development  and Executive Coaching. 

Alongside my gold-standard Senior Practitioner accreditation with Tavistock Consulting's Executive Coaching Programme, 2024-5; other recent CPD  informing my coaching includes:-

- Burnout webinar,  British Psychological Society,  2025

- Coaching Leaders In Times of Crisis, 20-week evidence-based training,  Animas Centre for Coaching, 2024

Alongside coaching, I am a trainer, consultant and researcher, chartered with the British Psychological Society (BPS).  I am also an Associate Fellow of the BPS and member of the BPS Division of Coaching Psychology.  I work with charities and local authorities to help embed strength-based psychological assessments and have particular expertise in attachment styles - the patterns of relating and support seeking  we have as children and adults. 

Over my career with the Centre for Abuse & Trauma Studies, Middlesex University, I have developed training packages for  semi-structured  interviews  in childhood neglect and abuse, adult stress and coping, attachment style, self-esteem, relationships with partner and in parenting roles.  Please contact me if you'd like a copy of any of these papers. 

•  Bilfulco, Antonia,  Jacobs, Catherine, Oskis, Andream Bunn, Amanda, Spence, Ruth (2021) The child attachment style interview (Child-ASI) and depression: preliminary findings. Educational and Child Psychology 38 (1). pp. 62-74.
• Bifulco, A., Damiani, R., Jacobs, C., Bunn, A. and Spence, R. (2019) Partner violence in women – Associations with childhood maltreatment, attachment style and Major Depression. Maltrattamento e Abuso all’Infanzia, Aug (16), 13- 28
• Jacobs, Catherine, Boyce, Nichola, Ilan-Clarke, Yael and Bifulco, Antonia (2019) Assessing attachment style in traumatized adolescents in residential care: A case approach. Maltrattamento E Abuso All’infanzia: Rivista Interdisciplinare Child Abuse and Maltreatment: Interdisciplinary Journal, 21 (1) pp. 39-54.
• Spence, Ruth, Jacobs, Catherine and Bifulco, Antonia (2018) Attachment style, loneliness and depression in older age women. Aging and mental health
• Bifulco, Antonia, Jacobs, Catherine, Ilan-Clarke, Yael, Spence, Ruth and Oskis, Andrea (2017) Adolescent attachment style in residential care: the attachment style interview and vulnerable attachment style questionnaire. British Journal of Social Work, 47 pp. 1880-1883.
• Oskis, Andrea & Clow, Angela & Hucklebridge, Frank & Bifulco, Antonia & Jacobs, Catherine & Loveday, Catherine. (2013). Understanding alexithymia in female adolescents: The role of attachment style. Personality and Individual Differences. 54. 97–102
• Jacobs, Catherine, Ilan-Clarke, Yael and Bifulco, Antonia (2012) Caring about attachment in young people in residential care: the use of the attachment style interview. Report of a voluntary sector and university partnership. Community Care Inform.
• Bifulco, Antonia and Moran, Patricia and Jacobs, Catherine and Bunn, Amanda (2009) Problem partners and parenting: exploring linkages with maternal insecure attachment style and adolescent offspring internalizing disorder. Attachment and Human Development, 11 (1). pp. 69-85
• Bifulco, Antonia, Jacobs, Catherine Bunn, Amanda, Thomas, Geraldine and Irving, Karen (2008) The Attachment Style Interview (ASI): a support-based adult assessment tool for adoption and fostering practice. Adoption and Fostering 32 (3) pp. 33-45
• Bifulco, A., Kwon, J-H., Jacobs, C., Moran, P.M, Bunn, A. and Beer, N. (2006). Adult attachment style as a mediator between childhood neglect/abuse and adult depression and anxiety. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 41(10), 796-805.
• Bifulco, Antonia and Kwon, Junghye and Jacobs, Catherine and Moran, Patricia M. and Bunn, Amanda and Beer, Nils (2006) Adult attachment style as mediator between childhood neglect/abuse and adult depression and anxiety. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 41 (10). pp. 796-805.
• Bifulco, Antonia and Mahon, J. and Kwon, J.-H. and Moran, P. M. and Jacobs, C. (2003) The Vulnerable Attachment Style Questionnaire (VASQ): an interview-based measure of attachment styles that predict depressive disorder. Psychological Medicine, 33 (6). pp. 1099-1110

• Bifulco, Antonia, Jacobs, Catherine, Oskis, Andrea, Cavana, Francesca and Spence, Ruth (2019) Lifetime trauma, adversity and emotional disorder in older age women. Maltrattamento E Abuso All’infanzia: Rivista Interdisciplinare | Child Abuse and Maltreatment: Interdisciplinary Journal, 21 (2) pp. 29-43.
• Bifulco, A., Schimmenti, A., Moran, P. Jacobs, C Bunn, A., and Rusu, A. C. (2014). Problem parental care and teenage deliberate self-harm in young community adults. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, Spring; 78 (2), 95-114.
• Bifulco, A., Schimmenti, A.,Jacobs, C.,Bunn, A., and Rusu, A. C. (2014). Risk factors and psychological outcomes of bullying victimization: A community-based study. Child Indicators Research, 7(3), 633-648.
• Fisher, H.L., Bunn, A., Jacobs, C., Moran, P., and Bifulco, A. (2011). Concordance between mother and offspring retrospective reports of childhood adversity. Child Abuse & Neglect, 35 (2), 117-122
• Moran, Patricia, Jacobs, Catherine, Bunn, Amanda and Bifulco, Antonia (2007) Multi-agency working: Implications for an early-intervention social work team.Child and Family Social Work, 12 (2). pp. 143-151
• Evans, Phil & Forte, D & Jacobs, Catherine  & Fredhoi, C & Aitchison, E & Hucklebridge, Frank & Clow, Angela. (2007).Cortisol secretory activity in older people in relation to positive and negative wellbeing. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 32. 922-30
• Bifulco, Antonia and Bernazzani, O. and Moran, P. M. and Jacobs, C.  (2005) The childhood experience of care and abuse questionnaire (CECA.Q): validation in a community series British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 44 (4). pp. 563-58
• Bifulco, A., Moran, P.M., Ball, C. Jacobs, C.,  Baines, R., Bunn, A., and Cavagin J. (2002).  Childhood adversity, parental vulnerability and disorder: examining inter-generational transmission of risk  Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43(8), 1075-1086.
• Moran, Patricia M., Bifulco, Antonia, Ball, Caroline, Jacobs, Catherine and Benaim, Kate (2002) Exploring psychological abuse in childhood. I: developing a new interview scale Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 66 (Summer) pp. 213-240
• Moran, Patricia,  Jacobs, Catherine, Bunn, Amanda and Bifulco, Antonia (2007) Multi-agency working: Implications for an early-intervention social work team Child and Family Social Work, 12 (2). pp. 143-151
• Caspi, A., Moffitt, T., Morgan, J., Rutter, M., Taylor, A., Arseneault, L., Tully, L., Jacobs, C., Kim- Cohen, J, & Polo-Tomas, M. (2004).  Maternal Expressed Emotion Predicts Children's Antisocial Behaviour Problems: Using MZ-Twin Differences to Identify Environmental Effects on Behavioural Development Developmental Psychology 40 (2), 149 – 160
• Moffitt, TE, & the E-risk Study Team  (2002). Contemporary teen-aged mothers in Britain.  Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
• Sayal, Kapil & Checkley, Stuart & Rees, Melinda & Jacobs, Catherine & Harris, Tirril & Papadopoulos, Andrew & Poon, Lucia. (2002). Effects of social support during weekend leave on cortisol and depression ratings: A pilot study. Journal of affective disorders