The Practice Board acts as a responsive source of expertise, discusses current issues in psychological practice and engages in regular horizon scanning to proactively identify gaps in practice ...

The team attended a workshop held by NHS England to inform the development of the Department of Health and Social Care's upcoming 10-year plan for the NHS. We also contributed to a workshop held by ...

There is growing evidence to suggest that virtual reality (VR) can be used to support learning. One of the unique qualities of VR is presence – an authentic sense of being in a different place, of ...

Responding to the STV Scotland Tonight 28 January report that highlighted the challenges that people with serious mental health issues face, Dr Claire Stark, Chair of the Division of Clinical ...

Almost a third of people with major depressive disorder find that regular treatments, including anti-depressant drugs, or even electroconvulsive therapy, don't help. Now, a new year-long trial of a ...

I developed symptoms of long covid and ME/CFS in 2020, during my doctoral training. Rather than listen to my body, I numbed out and pushed through, determined to qualify as a clinical psychologist ...

Today (28 January) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published new guidance which outlines the psychological support needed for people impacted by gambling harms. The ...

In November 2024, the Mental Health Bill 2024 was first introduced; a huge step forward in fixing the often unequal and unfair measures in the Mental Health Act 1983. The Bill aims to reform the 1983 ...

We're all aware that jokes can serve as a distraction… they help us to think about something other than our hurt feelings, and in the short term, they can impair our memories, so we no longer remember ...

I was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, moved to the Isle of Man around five-years-old, and continued my schooling there. At A-level, or AS to be precise, I chose to study psychology because it ...

Welcome to our first edition of 2025, we hope you find the updates and information useful. Following a decision late last year to issue the Workforce and Training Update as a separate newsletter, this ...

Could simply making a promise to be honest encourage people to behave in an honest way, even when there's a temptation to lie? A recent study in Nature Human Behaviour suggests that it can — but the ...