Nicholas Troop
Nicholas Troop is a British health psychologist. He is an Associate Professor in clinical psychology at the University of Plymouth. He was formerly a principal lecturer in health psychology at the University of Hertfordshire. His range of works include the role of life events, coping and crisis support in the aetiology of eating disorders, stress- and trauma-responses, and mobility into the social rank and attachment.
Prior to joining the Department of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, Troop was a lecturer at London Metropolitan University and University of Essex. He supervised the founder of Psychreg, Dennis Relojo-Howell for his research project on expressive writing at the University of Hertfordshire.
Education
He received his Bachelor of Science in Psychology from University of Dundee in 1992. Troop undertook his PhD on "Coping and Crisis Support in Eating Disorders" in the Eating Disorders Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London with Professor Janet Treasure as his supervisor.Academic life
Troop has been investigating self-compassion, self-reassurance, involving the use of expressive writing.He explored the use of expressive writing to reduce stress in parents of children with autism spectrum disorders. In 2013, he assessed the use of an expressive writing task to increase self-reassurance and reduce self-criticism using a randomised controlled design. Troop is the author of around 80 peer-reviewed journal articles. He supervised Dennis Relojo-Howell, who is the founder of Psychreg.