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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Both in and out of work, Kim was a person with great warmth and humour who loved the Arts and was a regular attender at music festivals. Her family, friends and colleagues are struggling to come to ...

The British Psychological Society has appointed a new Chair for its Research Board. Dr Richard Stephens, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Keele University, told us he is looking forward to his remit ...

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 ...

When the famed journalist and author Norman Cousins was diagnosed with a severe form of arthritis, his doctors gave him only 1 in 500 chance of recovery. Unfazed, he developed an unusual way to combat ...

Our mission is to support the development of Clinical Psychology, both as a profession and as a body of knowledge and skills. By working collaboratively with a number of organisations including the ...