Starting your first-ever assistant psychologist post is both challenging and exciting. You're thrown in at the deep end, learning new skills, developing existing ones, getting to know a new team, ...

Any opportunity to have a proper conversation about mental health is always very much welcomed, especially at a time when poor mental health costs the NHS an estimated £300bn every year. We should ...

Most of us like to believe we're independent thinkers, immune to outside influence. But just as a recommendation from a friend or a celebrity can boost our interest in a product, new research reveals ...

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 ...

Researchers in childhood food insecurity and poverty, and eating disorders and autism, are among the British Psychological Society members named on this year's New Year Honours list. Professor of ...

The funding, part of wider investment to be targeted at achieving the executive's vision of a 'society where women and girls are free from all forms of gender-based violence, abuse and harm', is ...

Responding to the news that police officers in Scotland have taken over 440,000 days off sick due to poor mental health since 2019, Associate Professor Dr Adam Mahoney from the Division of Forensic ...

This is something the BPS has emphasised in its SEND campaign, which calls among other things for more preventative support for children and families. The SEND reforms, announced by NI education ...

For more than a century, we've known that sleep boosts cognitive performance. The big question is: how, exactly? One popular idea is that toxins which accumulate in the brain while we're awake are ...

Responding to the government's plan to cut the NHS waiting list backlog, President of the British Psychological Society Dr Roman Raczka said: "We welcome the government's plans to reduce NHS waiting ...

What sets Sensorimotor Psychotherapy apart from other approaches? People gravitate towards it. They see me work and they want to study this method – but they often don't know what they're getting into ...

Hello to all DoN Members, Attending the DoN Conference in Edinburgh this year was a major professional highlight for me and the culmination of two years preparatory work by our conference committee, a ...