Counselling Directory Articles
I’ve been writing short articles for Counselling Directory on specialist topics since 2010. Topics include moral injury, parenting, boarding school trauma, anger, and relationships. You can find them by scrolling to the foot of my Counselling Direvtory profile page https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellor_24507.html.
Academic Publications
Boarding school trauma:
Sherborne, V., 2026. Provision of Counselling and Psychotherapy for Boarders and Ex‐Boarders From Elite Boarding Schools: A Scoping Review. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 26(2), p.e70116.
Duffell, N. ed., 2025. The Un-making of Them: Clinical Reflections on Boarding School Syndrome. Taylor & Francis.
Patient and carer experience of cancer/mesothelioma:
Sherborne, V. and Ejegi-Memeh, S., 2025. Mental health and mesothelioma. Understanding Mesothelioma: The Experiences and Care Needs of People with Mesothelioma and their Families, p.14.
Westbrook, S., Ejegi-Memeh, S., Sherborne, V., Warnock, C., Wood, E., Stanford, S., Taher, R., Creech, L., Squibb, L., Twist, C. and Gardiner, C., 2025. Variation in the Diagnostic and Treatment Pathway in Peritoneal Mesothelioma: A Mixed‐Methods Study in the United Kingdom. European Journal of Cancer Care, 2025(1), p.8875835.
Sherborne, V., Ejegi-Memeh, S., Tod, A.M., Taylor, B., Hargreaves, S. and Gardiner, C., 2024. Living with mesothelioma: a systematic review of mental health and well-being impacts and interventions for patients and their informal carers. BMJ open, 14(6), p.e075071.
Sherborne, V., Wood, E., Mayland, C.R., Gardiner, C., Lusted, C., Bibby, A., Tod, A., Taylor, B. and Ejegi-Memeh, S., 2024. The mental health and well-being implications of a Mesothelioma diagnosis: A mixed methods study. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 70, p.102545.
Sherborne, V., Tod, A. and Taylor, B., 2024. Mesothelioma: exploring psychological effects on veterans and their family Caregivers. Cancer Nursing Practice, 23(2).
Sherborne, V., Tod, A. and Taylor, B., 2024. The psychological effects of Mesothelioma in the UK military context from the Carer’s perspective: A qualitative study. Illness, Crisis & Loss, 32(2), pp.171-191.
Ejegi-Memeh, S., Sherborne, V., Mayland, C., Tod, A. and Taylor, B.H., 2024. Mental health and wellbeing in mesothelioma: A qualitative study exploring what helps the wellbeing of those living with this illness and their informal carers. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 70, p.102572.
Taylor, B., Tod, A., Gardiner, C., Ejegi-Memeh, S., Harrison, M., Sherborne, V., Couchman, E., Senek, M., Brook, H.B., Ross, J. and Zhang, X., 2023. Mesothelioma patient and carer experience research: A research prioritisation exercise. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 63, p.102281.
Ejegi-Memeh, S., Sherborne, V., Harrison, M., Taylor, B., Senek, M., Tod, A. and Gardiner, C., 2022. Patients’ and informal Carers’ experience of living with Mesothelioma: A systematic rapid review and synthesis of the literature. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 58, p.102122.
Ejegi-Memeh, S., Darlison, L., Moylan, A., Tod, A., Sherborne, V., Warnock, C. and Taylor, B.H., 2021. Living with mesothelioma: A qualitative study of the experiences of male military veterans in the UK. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 50, p.101889.
Sherborne, V., Seymour, J., Taylor, B. and Tod, A., 2020. What are the psychological effects of mesothelioma on patients and their carers? A scoping review. Psycho‐Oncology, 29(10), pp.1464-1473.