Peter Stratton

Emeritus Professor of Family Therapy  Leeds Family Therapy & Research Centre
Adjunct Professor of Psychology, University College Dublin
Honorary member EFTA; Fellow BPsS.
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Peter Stratton is a Systemic Family Therapist and developmental psychologist with broad research interests and  involvement in statutory processes that affect families. His research includes development of  outcome measures for families in therapy (the SCORE project); attributional analyses of family causal beliefs and blaming; the relationships of humour and creativity during psychotherapy; public attitudes to terrorism by combining attributional coding with metaphor analysis. Joint Editor of the EFTA-Springer Book series;  Editorial Board of Human Systems: Therapy, Culture and Attachments.;  Recently: Chair of EFTA Research Committee; Academic and Research Development Officer for the UK Association for Family Therapy Relate Research Advisory Group. Chair of the  UKCP Research Faculty. Founding Director of Leeds Family Therapy and Research Centre and Managing Director of The Psychology Business Ltd.

He led the teams that developed the Leeds Attributional Coding System (LACS) and The Leeds Systemic Family Therapy Manual. Recently he chaired the UK Skills for Health team that developed the specification of the competences of systemic family therapists. In 2013 his contributions to  psychotherapy research were recognised by an award by EFTA for his contribution to family therapy research. and an Honorary Fellowship of UKCP. In 2024 was made an Honorary Member of EFTA.
 
Recent Publications

Carr, A., Kieran, A., Sherbersky, H., Shepherd, M., Galbraith, M., Whittinger, N., Pomini, V., Kunsang Yang Yang Nearchou, N., & Stratton, P. (2025). Development and preliminary validation of the C-SCORE: A brief scale for use in systemic couple therapy. Journal of Family Therapy, 47, e12485. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12485

Stratton, P. (2023) The Family as a System. Ch. 15 pp 147-190 in Laura McGrath and Jim Turner (Eds) Exploring Psychological Worlds: Thinking, Feeling, Doing. The Open University.

Mariotti, M. Saba, G.,  and Stratton, P. (2022), Handbook of Systemic Approaches to Psychotherapy Manuals: Integrating Research, Practice, and Training. EFTA series, Springer International.

Hayes, N., & Stratton, P. (2022)  A Student’s Dictionary of Psychology and Neuroscience, 7th Edition. Routledge

Stratton, P., Carr, A. & Schepisi, L. (2020) The SCORE in Europe: Measuring effectiveness, assisting therapy. In Matthias Ochs, Maria Borcsa, & Jochen Schweitzer (Eds) Ochs, M., Borcsa, M., & Schweitzer, J. (eds.) (2020). Linking systemic research and practice – Innovations in paradigms, strategies and methods. Pp 367-384. (European Family Therapy Association Series, Volume 4). Cham: Springer International.