Responding to the news of the end of lifetime licences for people who have previously served an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence, Professor Nic Bowes from the British Psychological ...

To support the Member Network in contributing to the society's strategic plan and achieve the objectives set out by the society, and to be the 'voice' of the Member Network To assist the committee ...

We know that older people are at high risk of falling prey to scams, and that a number of factors related to ageing can contribute to this. A tendency to evaluate faces more positively is one example, ...

Responding to the sheriff principal Nigel Ross's call for mandatory cognitive testing of all drivers over the age of 80, Chair of the British Psychological Society's Faculty of Psychology of Older ...

In 2020 and 2021, plenty of attention was paid to how Covid-19 might affect mental health. Much of this coverage was related to the consequences of lockdown, and how social isolation, grief, and ...

The level of pain that you'd feel after being poked, or having a wound attended to, can be affected by all kinds of factors. Playing a distracting VR game can reduce pain substantially, for example, ...

Responding to the launch of the Sentencing Review from the government, Professor Nic Bowes from the British Psychological Society's Division of Forensic Psychology said: "We enthusiastically welcome ...

On the evening of Friday 27 September, the British Psychological Society North West of England Branch held the third of their networking events. In collaboration with the University of Chester, the ...

In the Spring of 2022, I secured an interview at Dose of Nature, a unique organisation that looks to support people with mental health difficulties by reconnecting with nature. After two previous ...

Governments do not wage war on stupidity. International organisations such as the United Nations or IMF have no plans to eradicate stupidity. Yet arguably, it's the root cause of a wide range of ...

It takes, on average, less than 20 seconds for a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Single Point of Access clinician to respond to a crisis call. As such clinicians, we pick up not knowing ...