Research
My research focuses on applied Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT): how it works in practice with people performing under pressure, and how it translates from high-performance sport to policing and other high-stakes professional settings.
I publish with Dr Martin Turner and colleagues in the Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy and elsewhere, and I remain research-active alongside my practice. The work below spans REBT in policing, REBT in elite sport, stress interventions with senior police personnel, and the measurement of beliefs about how emotion is generated and changed.
Publications up to 2022 appear under my previous surname, Jones.
Somerville, G., McArthur, J., & Smith, S. (2026).
From theoretical frameworks to operational practice in law enforcement. In J. Heil, G. Somerville, R. Owens & T. McDaniel (Eds.), Sport and performance psychology for law enforcement (pp. 153–165). Bloomsbury Academic.
At the coalface: Practitioner perspectives on applying Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) in high-performance sport. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy.
Making a difference: A review and auto-ethnographic account of applying Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) in policing. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy.
Turner, M. J., Wood, A. G., Boatwright, D., Chadha, N., Jones, J. K., & Bennett, R. (2021)
Assessing beliefs about emotion generation and change: The conceptualisation, development, and validation of the Cognitive Mediation Beliefs Questionnaire (CMBQ). Psychotherapy Research, 1-18.
Jones, J. K., Turner, M. J., & Barker, J. B. (2021)
The effects of a cognitive-behavioural stress intervention on the motivation and psychological well-being of senior UK police personnel. International Journal of Stress Management, 28(1), 46-60.
Forsyth, J. J., Jones, J., Duval, L., & Bambridge, A. (2019)
Opportunities and barriers that females face for study and employment in sport.
Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education, 24, 80-89.
Turner, M., Wood, A., & Jones, J. (2019)
Response to Philip Hyland, Demetris Katsikis, and Chrysoula Kostogiannis on the debate point concerning the binary theory of emotional distress. Effective Scientist-Practitioner, 2.
Turner, M., Jones, J., & Wood, A. (2018)
Applying the REBT cognitive disputation technique to the binary theory of emotional distress. Effective Scientist-Practitioner, 1(1), 46-64.