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Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 3 (2021)
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Covid has made us increasingly familiar with using digital technologies, from work team meetings to social and clinical interactions; where might the novel tech opportunities lie? Social anxiety disorders (SAD) can limit individuals’ abilities to lea... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 3.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 2 (2021)
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Clearly, each patient brings unique issues to therapy, but there has been almost no research on allocating therapists based on complementing these. It's an interesting omission when we consider that the therapeutic relationship is an important factor... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 2.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 1 (2021)
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There is little in mental health as controversial as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has a lot to answer for, but equally one can understand public caution about a technique involving anaesthesia and induced seizures.... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 1.

Challenging conversations with Geraldine Strathdee: Human Factors: Are we forgetting the human? (2021)
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As we push ahead with developing advanced mental health care systems, we remind ourselves that those at the core of the system remain the ‘only human’ workforce, patients, families, and carers.

This month we bring together professional experts in... Read More about Challenging conversations with Geraldine Strathdee: Human Factors: Are we forgetting the human?.

Seeing the trees in the forest: Opportunities for inclusive practice within the psychology curriculum (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Within the broader calls for decolonization of universities, Psychology has nowhere to hide. With a history and knowledge base born largely of the white, western, and elite, we have much work to do but as a science we are well placed to rise to the c... Read More about Seeing the trees in the forest: Opportunities for inclusive practice within the psychology curriculum.

Psychology learning and teaching globally: Forging connections among professional organisations (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Leaders from several psychology learning and teaching professional organizations from three continents will discuss the roles that these organizations play in the field, including with respect to faculty and curricula. They will discuss ways in whic... Read More about Psychology learning and teaching globally: Forging connections among professional organisations.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 6 (2021)
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In March, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) was placed on leave after a deputy editor's podcast downplayed structural racism in medicine and the journal tweeted ‘No physician is racist, so how can there be... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 6.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 5 (2021)
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Women are not just small men. Last year, Caroline Criado Perez alerted the public to the very real dangers of male-centred bias in her bestselling book Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. She laid bare that the male-as-de... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 5.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 4 (2021)
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) post-mortem will take years. Causes of variations in national mortality rates will be a prime target, and at the time of writing, the UK, unfortunately, has a sad record of the highest death rate per capita in... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 4.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 3 (2021)
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How has the covid-19 pandemic affected individuals with pre-existing mental illnesses? An estimated 200 000 scientific papers on covid-19 had been published by December 2020,Reference Else1 but some studies were clearly more important and better desi... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 3.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 2 (2021)
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There has been a welcome growth in cross-disciplinary research integrating social, cultural and community engagement (SCCE) to positively have an impact on mental health. The advantages are both gains in enhancing well-being and improving mental heal... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 2.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 1 (2020)
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Predicting future suicide attempts is a challenging area for psychiatrists. Even well-established individual risk factors tend to be quite weak predictors, and most assessment tools have been shown to add little or no value to a comprehensive clinica... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 1.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 6 (2020)
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Individuals with dementia seek intimacy and companionship just like everyone else, but in the face of cognitive decline there are inevitably concerns about their vulnerability. It is an issue often perceived through the prism of safeguarding against... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 6.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 5 (2020)
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Among the criticisms of diagnostic systems is ‘diagnostic inflation’: with time criteria relax, the number of conditions expands and everything is pathologised. It is a common refrain, with the release of DSM-5 attracting particular notoriety. But, i... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 5.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 4 (2020)
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As part of the core content of this monthly journal, Kaleidoscope highlights and discusses the most interesting recent mental health research

Kaleidoscope Live! (2020)
Digital Artefact

Three psychiatrists and a psychologist walk into a pub (or, in these unprecedented times, a Zoom meeting)….to talk science! Kaleidoscope Live takes you behind the scenes of the monthly British Journal of Psychiatry column of the same name. It’s four... Read More about Kaleidoscope Live!.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 3 (2020)
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We're all familiar with the mantra that while self-harm is common, suicide is ‘rare’ and prediction ‘difficult’. Can we at least have confidence in suicide-prevention interventions? A meta-analysis examined subsequent suicide attempts following a bri... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 3.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 2 (2020)
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Perceptions 1. #BlackLivesMatter has reinforced the depth of societal inequities; minority ethnic status is linked with psychosis, but disentangling discrimination from other factors is challenging. Bardol et al included 17 studies (n = 33 211) in th... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 217 , Issue 2.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 215 Issue 1 (2019)
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Part of the core content of the monthly journal, Kaleidoscope highlights and discusses the most interesting recent research in mental health.

SEApower: Navigating student engagement in curriculum transformation (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

University of Bath Student Engagement Ambassadors, Curriculum Development Team, and Student Engagement Team. (2019). SEApower: Navigating Student Engagement in Curriculum Transformation. Poster presented at the Raising, Advancing, and Inspiring St... Read More about SEApower: Navigating student engagement in curriculum transformation.