I have joined a number of professional associations over the years but have gained the best value by far from my membership of the British Psychological Society. As a member I have access to a vast archive of research, to informative and educational CPD events and,...
I was reading something about the power of random acts of kindness yesterday and it got me thinking about something that happened to me when I was lucky enough to visit Japan with my family back in 2012. I remembered that I wrote about it on Facebook at the time so I...
A Practical Way to Improve Teen Emotional Health I have been doing a bit of reading over the last few days and re-visited the excellent BPS Research Digest website. The British Psychological Society employ a team to trawl the most recent research and write about it in...
A great deal of the research into mental health and wellbeing that has been conducted over the last few years has resulted in psychology moving further and further away from the medical model. The British Psychological Society published the Power Threat Framework in...
Fundamental Attribution Error is a well-researched area of psychology. It relates to the tendency that we all have in attributing other people’s actions to the kinds of person they are, rather than to them adapting to the situation they are in. So, the fellow driver...
Oliver Burkeman wrote a wonderful article in the Guardian several years ago in which he stated that he is a firm believer that every one of us meditates to some degree every day, whether we know it or not. I would fully agree. Back in the early noughties I...
