Marcantonio M. Spada

Spada was educated at St. George's British International School and then attended the University of Bristol (BSc), the London School of Economics (MSc), and University College London (PgDip and MA). He received his PhD from the University of Manchester in 2006 under the supervision of Adrian Wells.{{cite thesis | last = Spada | first = Marcantonio M. | date = 2006 | title = Metacognition and problem drinking | publisher = University of Manchester | oclc = 930688216 | type = PhD thesis}}

Spada is currently Chief Clinical Officer and Executive Board member at Onebright,{{cite web | url=https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/top-appointment-at-leading-york-healthcare-provider/ar-AA1pVGVD | title=Top appointment at leading York healthcare provider | website = www.msn.com/ | date=2 September 2024 | accessdate=12 September 2024}} and Emeritus Professor of Addictive Behaviours and Mental Health at London South Bank University.

He is also the editor-in-chief of the addictions psychology and psychiatry journal Addictive Behaviors,{{cite book | title = Addictive Behaviors – Home Page | url = https://www.journals.elsevier.com/addictive-behaviors | access-date = 8 November 2017}} and the founder and former editor-in-chief of its sister journal Addictive Behaviors Reports,{{cite web | url=https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/news/lsbu-professor-spearheads-scientific-journaladdictive-behaviours/ | title=LSBU's Professor Spearheads New Scientific Journal on Addictive Behaviours | website = www.lsbu.ac.uk | date=11 December 2014 | accessdate=14 April 2024}} both published by Elsevier. In addition, he has served as associate editor of Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, published by John Wiley & Sons.{{cite book | title = Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy – Home Page | url = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10990879/homepage/editorialboard.html | access-date = 28 August 2021}}

Spada has been elected a fellow of the British Psychological Society and the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies for his contribution to the advancement and dissemination of psychological knowledge and practice in the field of addictive behaviours.{{cite web | url=https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/news/lsbus-professor-marcantonio-spada-awarded-fellowship-of-british-psychological-society/ | title=LSBU's Professor Marcantonio Spada Awarded Fellowship of British Psychological Society | website = www.lsbu.ac.uk | date=12 March 2020 | accessdate=27 June 2020}}{{cite web | url=https://babcp.com/About/Fellows/ | title=BABCP Fellows | website = www.babcp.com | date=9 September 2021 | accessdate=9 September 2021}} He has also served as a trustee and the Chair of the Board of Trustees for UK SMART Recovery and as a trustee of GambleAware.{{cite web | url=https://smartrecovery.org.uk/2020/04/02/new-chair/ | title=UK SMART Recovery is pleased to announce Professor Marcantonio Spada as the new Chair of the Board of Trustees | website = www.smartrecovery.org.uk/ | date=4 February 2020 | accessdate=9 March 2022}}{{cite web | url=https://www.begambleaware.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/2018-10-04-new-trustees.pdf | title=GambleAware announces new trustees | website = www.begambleaware.org | date=4 October 2018 | accessdate=9 March 2022}}

Spada has contributed to the understanding of metacognitive mechanisms underlying general vulnerability to addictive behaviours, identifying the role of metacognitive beliefs across addictive behaviours,{{Cite journal | author = Wells, Adrian | title = Advances in Metacognitive Therapy | journal = International Journal of Cognitive Therapy | volume = 6 | issue = 2 | pages = 186–201 | year = 2013 | doi = 10.1521/ijct.2013.6.2.186}}Spada, Marcantonio M.; Proctor, Dawn; Caselli, Gabriele; Strodl, Esben (2013). Metacognition in Substance Misuse. In Peter M. Miller (Editor), Principles of Addiction: Comprehensive Addictive Behaviors and Disorders. Oxford, UK: Elsevier. {{ISBN|9780123983367}}.{{Cite journal | author = Dale, Veronica|display-authors=etal| title = Predicting treatment outcomes: Evidence from the United Kingdom Alcohol Treatment Trial (UKATT) | journal = Addictive Behaviors | volume = 71 | pages = 61–67 | year = 2017 | pmid = 28273487 | doi = 10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.02.023|s2cid=46755661 | url = http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/30125/1/Dale%20et%20al%20-%20Addictive%20Bbehaviors%20-%202017%20-%20accepted.pdf }}{{Cite journal |author1=Hamonniere, Tristan |author2=Varescon, Isabelle | title = Metacognitive beliefs in addictive behaviours: A systematic review | journal = Addictive Behaviors | volume = 85 | pages = 51–63 | year = 2018 | doi = 10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.05.018| pmid = 29852356 |s2cid=44085611 }}{{cite conference | last1 = Spada | first1 = Marcantonio M. | title = Metacognition in addictive behaviours: A 20-year overview | book-title = Invited Keynote Talk, 50th Congress | publisher = European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies | date = 11 September 2021 | url = https://eabct.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BelfastEABCT2021.pdf}} putting forward the first metacognitive therapy model and treatment protocol for addictive behaviours,Spada, Marcantonio M.; Caselli, Gabriele; Wells, Adrian (2012). The metacognitive therapy approach to problem drinking. In Steven Hayes & Michael Levin (Editors), Mindfulness and Acceptance for Addictive Behaviors: Applying Contextual CBT to Substance Abuse and Behavioral Addictions. New York, US: New Harbinger. {{ISBN|1608822168}}.{{Cite journal |author1=Spada, Marcantonio M. |author2=Caselli, Gabriele |author3=Nikčević, Ana V. |author4=Wells, Adrian | title = Metacognition in addictive behaviors | journal = Addictive Behaviors | volume = 44 | pages = 9–15 | year = 2015 | pmid = 25182375 | doi = 10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.08.002| url = http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/29046/1/Nikcevic-A-29046-AAM.pdf }}{{cite conference | last1 = Spada | first1 = Marcantonio M. | title = Metacognition in addictive behaviours: The present and beyond | book-title = Invited Keynote Talk, 3rd International Conference on Metacognitive Therapy | publisher = Metacognitive Therapy Institute (MCT-I) | date = 8 April 2016 | url = https://mct-institute.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MCT-Conference-Abstract-Booklet-2016_FINAL_0.pdf}}{{Cite journal |author1=Caselli, Gabriele |author2=Martino, Francesca |author3=Spada, Marcantonio M. |author4=Wells, Adrian | title = Metacognitive Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Systematic Case Series | journal = Frontiers in Psychology | volume = 9 | pages = 2619 | year = 2018 | doi = 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02619| pmid = 30619014 | pmc = 6305730 |doi-access=free }} and operationalising the construct of "desire thinking".{{Cite journal |author1=Caselli, Gabriele |author2=Spada, Marcantonio M. | title = The Desire Thinking Questionnaire | journal = Addictive Behaviors | volume = 36 | issue = 11 | pages = 1061–1067 | year = 2011 | pmid = 21741178 | doi = 10.1016/j.addbeh.2011.06.013}}{{Cite journal |author1=Caselli, Gabriele |author2=Spada, Marcantonio M. | title = Desire Thinking: What is it and what drives it? | journal = Addictive Behaviors | volume = 44 | pages = 71–79 | year = 2015 | pmid = 25128328 | doi = 10.1016/j.addbeh.2014.07.021}}{{Cite journal |author1=Mansueto, Giovanni |author2=Martino, Francesca | author3=Palmieri, Sara | author4=Scaini, Simona |author5=Ruggiero, Giovanni Maria | author6=Sassaroli, Sandra | author7=Caselli, Gabriele | title = Desire Thinking across addictive behaviours: A systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = Addictive Behaviors | volume = 98 | pages = 106018 | year = 2019 | pmid = 31233946 | doi = 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.06.007|s2cid=195355758 }}

He is an advocate of employing idiographic and functional approaches to the conceptualisation and treatment of psychological problems in cognitive behavioural therapy,{{Cite journal | author = Spada, Marcantonio M. | title = Commentary on Billieux et al.'s article 'Are we overpathologizing everyday life? A tenable blueprint for behavioural addiction research' | journal = Journal of Behavioral Addictions| volume = 4 | issue = 3 | pages = 124–125 | year = 2015 | doi = 10.1556/2006.4.2015.018| pmid = 26551895 | pmc = 4627666 }}Ezzamel, Samia; Spada, Marcantonio M.; Nikčević, Ana V. (2015). Cognitive-behavioural case formulation in the treatment of a complex case of social anxiety disorder and substance misuse. In Michael H. Bruch (Editor), Beyond Diagnosis: Case Formulation in Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapy. London, UK: Wiley. {{ISBN|978-1-119-96076-8}}. supporting psychological therapists in working with clients taking (or withdrawing from) prescribed drugs,{{cite web | url=https://prescribeddrug.info/guidance-for-psychological-therapists/ | website = prescribeddrug.info | title=Guidance for Psychological Therapists – Enabling Conversations with Clients Taking or Withdrawing from Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs | accessdate=17 December 2019}} raising awareness about problematic betting and gambling behaviour, and working with young people to tackle threats to well-being arising from excessive technological use.{{Cite journal | author = Spada, Marcantonio M. | title = An overview of problematic Internet use | journal = Addictive Behaviors | volume = 39 | issue = 1 | pages = 3–6 | year = 2014 | doi = 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.09.007| pmid = 24126206 }}{{Cite journal |author1=Marino, Claudia |author2=Spada, Marcantonio M. | title = Dysfunctional cognitions in online gaming and Internet Gaming Disorder: A narrative review and new classification | journal = Current Addiction Reports | volume = 4 | issue = 3 | pages = 308–316 | year = 2017 | doi = 10.1007/s40429-017-0160-0|s2cid=148869277 |url=http://researchopen.lsbu.ac.uk/2527/1/Marino%2C%20C.%20%26%20Spada%2C%20M.%20M.%20Dysfunctional%20cognitions%20in%20Online%20Gaming%20and%20Internet%20Gaming%20Disorder.docx }}{{Cite journal |author1=Marino, Claudia |author2=Gini, Gianluca |author3=Vieno, Alessio |author4=Spada, Marcantonio M. | title = The associations between problematic Facebook use and psychological distress and well-being among adolescents and young adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis | journal = Journal of Affective Disorders | volume = 226 | pages = 274–281 | year = 2018 | doi = 10.1016/j.jad.2017.10.007| pmid = 29024900 |url=http://researchopen.lsbu.ac.uk/1483/1/Marino%2C%20C.%20et%20al.%20The%20associations%20between%20problematic%20Facebook%20use%2C%20psychological%20distress%20and%20well-being%20among%20adolescents%20and%20young%20adults.docx }} He is the author of the successful self-help book Overcoming Problem Drinking, an NHS recommended 'book on prescription' for alcohol misuse.{{cite web | title = Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council – Books on Prescription | url = https://www.dbth.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Drugs-and-alcohol.pdf | website = www.dbth.nhs.uk | access-date = 11 November 2017}}{{cite web | title = Tameside Metropolitan Borough – Books on Prescription | url = https://www.tameside.gov.uk/LibrariesandLeisure/Libraries/Books-on-prescription-for-adults-annotated-list | website = www.tameside.gov.uk | access-date = 11 November 2017}}

Spada has also developed metacognitive models of cyberchondria,{{Cite journal |author1=Fergus, Tom A. |author2=Spada, Marcantonio M. | title = Moving toward a metacognitive conceptualization of Cyberchondria: Examining the contribution of metacognitive beliefs, beliefs about rituals, and stop signals | journal = Journal of Anxiety Disorders | volume = 60 | pages = 11–19 | year = 2018 | pmid = 30317062 | doi = 10.1016/j.janxdis.2018.09.003|s2cid=52981134 | url = http://researchopen.lsbu.ac.uk/2526/1/Fergus%2C%20T.%20A.%20%26%20Spada%2C%20M.%20M.%20Moving%20toward%20a%20metacognitive%20conceptualization%20of%20Cyberchondria.docx }} procrastination,{{Cite journal |author1=Fernie, Bruce A. |author2=Bharuca, Zinnia |author3=Nikčević, Ana V. |author4=Marino, Claudia |author5=Spada, Marcantonio M. |title = A metacognitive model of procrastination | journal = Journal of Affective Disorders | volume = 210 | pages = 196–203 | year = 2017 | pmid = 28056361 | doi = 10.1016/j.jad.2016.12.042|url = http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/37164/1/Nikcevic-A-37164-AAM.pdf }} and self-critical rumination and self-esteem.{{Cite journal |author1=Kolubinski, Daniel |author2=Nikčević, Ana V. |author3=Marino, Claudia |author4=Spada, Marcantonio M. |title = A metacognitive model of self-esteem | journal = Journal of Affective Disorders | volume = 256 | pages = 42–53 | year = 2019 | pmid = 28056361 | doi = 10.1016/j.jad.2016.12.042|url=http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/37164/1/Nikcevic-A-37164-AAM.pdf }}

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Spada contributed to a growing body of literature regarding COVID-19-related psychological distress, having co-developed, with Professor Ana V. Nikčević, the construct of the "COVID-19 anxiety syndrome", and associated psychometric measure, identifying the impact of the syndrome on COVID-19 anxiety, generalised anxiety and depression, and work and social adjustment.{{Cite journal |author1=Nikčević, Ana V. |author2=Spada, Marcantonio M. | title = The COVID-19 anxiety syndrome scale: Development and psychometric properties | journal = Psychiatry Research | volume = 292 | pages = 113322 | year = 2020 | doi = 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113322| pmid = 32736267 | pmc = 7375349 }} The COVID-19 anxiety syndrome is characterised by avoidance, threat monitoring, checking and worry which are presumed to maintain the fear response associated with COVID-19 and exacerbate psychological distress.{{Cite journal |author1=Nikčević, Ana V. |author2=Marino, Claudia | author3=Kolubinski, Daniel C. |author4=Leach, Dawn | author5=Spada, Marcantonio M. | title = Modelling the contribution of the Big Five personality traits, health anxiety, and COVID-19 psychological distress to generalised anxiety and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic | journal = Journal of Affective Disorders | volume = 279 | pages = 578–584 | year = 2021 | doi = 10.1016/j.jad.2020.10.053| pmid = 33152562 |pmc=7598311 | doi-access = free }}

Spada has publicly advocated for the importance of supporting those affected by the COVID-19 anxiety syndrome when society returned to normal.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/24/fears-covid-anxiety-syndrome-could-stop-people-reintegrating |title=Fears Covid anxiety syndrome could stop people reintegrating |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=24 April 2021}}{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/mind/vaccinated-wont-go-rise-covid-anxiety-syndrome/ |title=Vaccinated but won't go out? The rise of Covid anxiety syndrome |newspaper=The Telegraph |location=London |access-date=3 May 2021}}{{cite news |url=https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1439827/coronavirus-news-britons-struggle-mental-health/ |title=Britons struggling to return to normal life for fear of covid 'ingrained' |newspaper=The Sunday Express |location=London |access-date=23 May 2021}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-getting-back-to-normal-may-actually-feel-terrifying/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520143838/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-getting-back-to-normal-may-actually-feel-terrifying |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 May 2021 |title=Why 'getting back to normal' may actually feel terrifying |magazine=The National Geographic |location=Washington DC |access-date=23 May 2021}}{{cite news |url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/covid-19-anxiety-syndrome-a-pandemic-phenomenon/ |title=COVID-19 anxiety syndrome: A pandemic phenomenon? |magazine=Medical News Today |location=Brighton |access-date=23 May 2021}} Spada has also argued that governments' deployment of behavioural science techniques aimed at shaping behaviour in combination with repeated lockdowns may have, inadvertently or not, fuelled a mental health crisis among the wider population, particularly the young. He advocates for the need to carefully review the consequences of implementing such policies and consider never deploying them again.{{cite news |url=https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1572627/Coronavirus-lockdowns-pandemic-mental-health-Marcantonio-Spada |title=People 'must be weaned off worrying about the virus', says mental health professor' |newspaper=The Sunday Express |location=London |access-date=28 February 2022}}{{cite web | url=https://appgpandemic.org/news/covid-restrictions-fear/ | website = APPG Pandemic Response and Recovery | title=Concerns heard about Government use of fear to increase adherence to Covid restrictions | accessdate=4 March 2022}}{{cite magazine | url=https://time.com/6214829/health-anxiety-covid-19-pandemic/ | magazine = TIME | title=How to Tell If Your Health Concerns Are Normal — Or a Sign of Something More | accessdate=27 September 2022}}

• Caselli, G., & Spada, M. M. (2011). "The Desire Thinking Questionnaire: Development and psychometric properties". Addictive Behaviors, 36(11), 1061–1067.
• Nikčević, A. V., Marino, C., Kolubinski, D. C., Leach, D., & Spada, M. M. (2021). "Modelling the contribution of the Big Five personality traits, health anxiety, and COVID-19 psychological distress to generalised anxiety and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic". Journal of Affective Disorders, 279, 578-584.
• Nikčević, A. V., & Spada, M. M. (2020). "The COVID-19 anxiety syndrome scale: Development and psychometric properties". Psychiatry Research, 292, 113322.
• Spada, M. M., Caselli, G., Nikčević, A. V., & Wells, A. (2015). "Metacognition in addictive behaviors". Addictive Behaviors, 44, 9-15.
• Spada, M. M., Caselli, G., & Wells, A. (2013). "A triphasic metacognitive formulation of problem drinking". Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 20(6), 494-500.
• Spada, M. M., & Wells, A. (2005). "Metacognitions, emotion and alcohol use". Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 12(2), 150-155.

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