Research and Publications
Stirling has carried out four randomised controlled trials in people with cancer. His current research is in CBT in palliative care, with a particular interest in how palliative care staff can learn to use techniques in their everyday work, and how CBT can be streamlined to be delivered in brief packages appropriate for people with advanced illness.
Books
Hodes M & Moorey S (eds.) (1993) Psychological Treatment in Disease and Illness Gaskell Publications.
Mace, C., Moorey, S.M. & Roberts, B. (eds.) (2001) Evidence in the Psychological therapies: a critical guide for practitioners London: Routledge.
Moorey S & Greer S (2012) The Oxford Guide to CBT for People with Cancer Oxford: Oxford University Press. Moorey S & Lavender A (2018) The Therapeutic Relationship in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy SAGE Publications 
Psychological aspects of cancer
Moorey S, Greer S, Watson M, Gorman C, Rowden L, Tunmore R, Robertson B & Bliss J (1990). The factor structure and the factor stability of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale in patients with cancer. British Journal of Psychiatry, 158, 255-259.
Greer S, Moorey S, Baruch JDR et al (1992) Adjuvant psychological therapy for cancer patients: a prospective randomised trial. British Medical Journal, 304, 675-680.
Moorey S, Greer S, Watson M, Baruch JDR, Robertson BM, Mason A, Rowden L, Tunmore R, Law M & Bliss JM (1994). Adjuvant Psychological Therapy for Patients with Cancer: Outcome at One Year. Psycho-oncology, 3, 39-46.
Moorey S, Greer S, Bliss J & Law M (1998) A comparison of Adjuvant Psychological Therapy and supportive counselling in patients with cancer.Psycho-oncology, 7, 218-228.
Moorey, S., Frampton, M., & Greer, S. (2003) The Cancer Coping Questionnaire: A self-rating scale for measuring the impact of adjuvant psychological therapy on coping behaviour. Psycho-Oncology. 12, 331-344.
Mannix, K., Blackburn, I.M, Garland, A., Gracie, J. , Moorey, S., Reid,B. & Scott, J. (2006) Effectiveness of brief training in cognitive behaviour therapy techniques for palliative care practitioners, Palliative Medicine, 20, 579-584.
Michiyo, A., Tsuda, A. & Moorey, S. (2006) Preliminary Study of Reminiscence Therapy on Depression and Self-Esteem in Cancer Patients. Psychological Reports. 98, 339-346.
Moorey, S. (2007) Breast cancer and body image. [References]. In Nasser, Mervat (Ed); Baistow, Karen (Ed); Treasure, Janet (Ed). The female body in mind: The interface between the female body and mental health. (pp. 72-89). xvi, 288 pp. New York, NY, US: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
Moorey, S., & Steiner, H. (2007) Do depressive symptoms differ between medically ill and non-medically ill patients referred for psychological therapy? Comparing negative thoughts about the self in cancer and non-cancer patients. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. 35, 283-291.
Cort, E., Monroe, B., Hansford, P., Moorey, S., Hotopf, M., & Kapari, M. (2009) Palliative care nurses’ experiences of training in cognitive behaviour therapy and taking part in a randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 15, 290-298.
Moorey, S; Cort, E; Kapari, M; Monroe, B; Hansford, P; Mannix, K; Henderson, M; Fisher, L; Hotopf, M. (2009) A cluster randomized controlled trial of cognitive behaviour therapy for common mental disorders in patients with advanced cancer. Psychological Medicine. 39, 713-723.
Moorey, S. (2010) Cognitive Therapy. In Holland, J.C., Breitbart, W.S. Jacobsen, P.B. et al (Eds.) Handbook of Psycho-oncology pp402-407. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
O’Brien CW.& Moorey S. (2010) Outlook and adaptation in advanced cancer: a systematic review. Psycho-Oncology. 19, 1239-49.
Moorey S (2011) (Book review) A Handbook of Mindfulness in Clinical Practice. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 39, 123-127
Moorey S (2011) Cancer – psychological implications in Bartley, T. (2011). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for cancer: Gently turning towards. John Wiley & Sons.
Moorey, S. (2011) Cognitive behaviour therapy: its past, present and future. In The CBT Handbook (edited by Windy Dryden, Rhena Branch, Alec Grant and Michael Townend).
Mannix K, Baker C, Sage N, Moorey S, (2012) Creating a cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) skills cascade for palliative care professionals. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2, 113
Moorey S (2013) ‘I know they are distressed. What do I do now?’ Psycho-Oncology. 22, 1946-52.
Goodwin L, Price A, Lee W, Rayner L, Moorey S, Monroe B, Sykes N, Hansford P, Higginson IJ, Hotopf M (2014) I’ve had a good life, what’s left is a bonus: factor analysis of the Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale in a palliative care population. Palliative Medicine, 28, 243-55.
Serfaty M, King M, Nazareth I, Tookman A, Wood J, Gola A, Aspden T, Mannix K, Davis S, Moorey S & Jones L (2016) The clinical and cost effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy plus treatment as usual for the treatment of depression in advanced cancer (CanTalk): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials 17, 113. DOI: 10.1186/s13063-016-1223-6
Serfaty M, King M, Nazareth I, Moorey S et al (2019) Effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural therapy for depression in advanced cancer: CanTalk randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Psychiatry, doi:10.1192/bjp.2019.207 
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Moorey S (1996) When bad things happen to rational people: cognitive therapy in adverse life situations. In Salkovskis P (ed.) Frontiers of Cognitive Therapy. Guilford Press.
Moorey, S; Holting, C; Hughes, P; Knynenberg, P; Michael, A. (2001) Does problem solving ability predict therapy outcome in a clinical setting? Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapy. 29, 485-495.
Lomax, JW., Andrews, L.B., Burruss, J.W., & Moorey, S. (2005) Psychotherapy supervision. In Gabbard, Glen O (Ed); Beck, Judith S (Ed); Holmes, Jeremy (Ed). Oxford textbook of psychotherapy. (pp. 495-506). ix, 534 pp. New York, NY, US: Oxford University Press.
Moorey, S. (2007) Cognitive therapy. In Dryden, Windy (Ed). Dryden’s handbook of individual therapy (5th Ed.). (pp. 297-326). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Ltd.
Moorey, S. (2010) The six cycles model: Growing a ‘vicious flower’ for depression. Behavioural and Cognitive psychotherapy, 38, 173-184.
Moorey, S. (2010) CBT and Psychoanalysis. In Lemma, A. & Patrick, M. (Eds.) Off the Couch. London: Routledge. Moorey, S. (2010) Managing the unmanageable: Cognitive behaviour therapy for deliberate self-harm. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 24,135-149.
Moorey, S. (2011) Cognitive behaviour therapy: its past, present and future. In The CBT Handbook (edited by Windy Dryden, Rhena Branch, Alec Grant and Michael Townend).
Moorey, S. (2012) Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies. In Wright, P., Stern, J. & Phelan, M. (Eds.) Core Psychiatry (3rd edition). London: Saunders.
Moorey, S (2013) Cognitive Therapy in The Handbook of Individual Therapy Dryden W & Reeves A Eds. London: Sage.
Moorey S (2014) “Is it them or is it me?” Transference and countertransference in CBT In Whittington A & Grey N Eds. How to Become a More Effective CBT Therapist: Mastering Metacompetence in Clinical Practice. John Wiley & Sons.
Cousins, S, Ridsdale, L, Goldstein, LH, Noble, AJ, Moorey, S & Seed, P (2015), ‘A pilot study of cognitive behavioural therapy and relaxation for migraine headache: a randomised controlled trial’ Journal of Neurology., 10.1007/s00415-015-7916-z <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00415-015-7916-z>
Moorey, S. (in press) Three ways to change your mind: a framework for cognitive restructuring. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.
Other publications
Audini B, Crowe M, Feldman J, Higgitt A, Kent A, Lelliott P, McKee H, Moorey S, Palazidou E & Pilling S (1995) Monitoring inner London mental illness services Psychiatric Bulletin, 19, 276-280. nd Research, DOI 10.1007/s10608-011-9429-
Coid J, Petruckevitch A, Feder G, Chung W, Richardson J, Moorey S (2001) Relation between childhood sexual and physical abuse and risk of revictimisation in women: a cross-sectional survey. Lancet, 358, 450-4.
Richardson, J., Coid, J., Petruckevitch, A., Chung, WS., Moorey, S., & Feder, G. (2002) Identifying domestic violence: Cross sectional study in primary care. British Medical Journal. 324, 274.
Coid, J., Petruckevitch, A., Chung, W.S., Richardson, J., Moorey, S., & Feder, G. (2003) Abusive experiences and psychiatric morbidity in women primary care attenders. British Journal of Psychiatry. 183, 332-339.
Gonzalo, D., Kleim, B., Donaldson, C., Moorey, S., & Ehlers, A. (2012). How disorder-specific are depressive attributions? A comparison of individuals with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and healthy controls. Cognitive therapy and research, 36, 731-739.
Moorey, S. (2021). Step Forward the Cowards!–Humiliation, Shame and Countershame in Memories of the White Feather Campaign. British Journal for Military History, 7(3), 39-56.