Last week the UK Government’s Child Mental Health Taskforce published a report: Future In Mind – Promoting, protecting and improving our children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Continue reading
I saw the film Birdman recently, where Michael Keaton’s critical alter ego looms so large as to become quite corporeal (and visually reminiscent of the amazing wings in the Digital Revolution exhibition described below). It got me thinking about the idea of the inner critic, how difficult inner criticism can be to live with, and what solutions contemporary talking therapies have to offer us. Continue reading
Top psychological tips on how to stick to it here on HuffPo from yours truly, along with some beautiful hand-lettered resolution reminders from the fab illustrator Linzie Hunter.
Photo by Monogatari on Flickr Creative Commons
A couple of interesting links here relating to using technology therapeutically. Continue reading
A longform piece I wrote for Mosaic Science
here on what makes a well-designed hospital (with robots included!), plus three shorter extras on design for mental healthcare, design for dementia, and the science behind how buildings effect our wellbeing.
Virtual reality, in the form of a unique avatar-based experience, can help people be less self-critical and more self-compassionate, scientists have found. The new study published in PLOS ONE showed positive results in naturally self-critical individuals and is now being tested in people experiencing depression. Continue reading
Baroness Susan Greenfield’s recent book, ‘Mind Change‘, has brought familiar arguments about whether or not computers are a bad influence into the media spotlight again. Greenfield takes an anti-digital stance, which worries about the effects of video games, social media and search engines. Continue reading
The British Psychological Society have published their strategic plan for 2015-2020 and it’s good to see that it includes the aim to maximise the impact of psychology on public policy. A great example of psychology influencing policy was the collaboration between psychologists and government after the London terrorist attacks on July 7th 2005, when psychological research and clinical expertise informed the crisis response. Continue reading
Teens are not so keen on porn, according to recent surveying of 500 18 year olds by think tank IPPR. Continue reading
A blog for the Huff Post here on the psychology of coping with war, and a new exhibition at the Temple Church in London (as featured in the Da Vinci Code).
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