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Museums, creativity and wellbeing: Community art groups as a route to health (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The use of art in the community to promote health and happiness is both an ancient and flourishing practice. An example of this in practice is demonstrated by the Bristol Arts on Referral Alliance, where general practitioners in the local area can pr... Read More about Museums, creativity and wellbeing: Community art groups as a route to health.

Muscle dysmorphia among males: Is it more common than people think? (2017)
Journal Article

Historically, body image dissatisfaction has been conceptualised as a female phenomenon. Today, the pressure on males to adhere to the widely promoted lean-muscular body ideal is greater than ever before. Matthew Ridley defines muscle dysmorphia, exp... Read More about Muscle dysmorphia among males: Is it more common than people think?.

Conducting a team-based multi-sited focused ethnography in primary care (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Author(s). Focused ethnography is an applied and pragmatic form of ethnography that explores a specific social phenomenon as it occurs in everyday life. Based on the literature a problem-focused research question is formulated before the d... Read More about Conducting a team-based multi-sited focused ethnography in primary care.

Weight gain in mid-childhood and its relationship with the fast food environment (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. All rights reserved. Background Childhood obesity is a serious public health issue. Understanding environmental factors and their contribution to weight ga... Read More about Weight gain in mid-childhood and its relationship with the fast food environment.

Being looked at and exposing yourself: Appearance altering conditions and stigma (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Accepted conference proceedings from the BPS DHP Annual Conference, 2017: Cardiff.

Discussing appearance concerns and support needs in burn care (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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Nostalgia as a psychological resource for people with dementia (2017)
Thesis

Background: Reminiscence interventions for people with dementia ignore the role of nostalgia, despite overwhelming evidence that nostalgia is a psychological resource in social psychology research involving non-clinical populations. To date, research... Read More about Nostalgia as a psychological resource for people with dementia.

Becoming "another brick in the wall": A thematic analysis of Central and Eastern European immigrants' experience of psychological distress and help-seeking (2017)
Journal Article

Background and aims: A great number of Central and Eastern European immigrants have moved to the UK since 2004, and a better understanding of their help-seeking behaviour is needed. This study aimed to explore how the experience of immigration had i... Read More about Becoming "another brick in the wall": A thematic analysis of Central and Eastern European immigrants' experience of psychological distress and help-seeking.

The psychology of ageing: Mind over matter? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Invited expert on Merck Seven Seas roundtable meeting

Knowing where one will hit a moving object influences eye-head-hand coordination (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Does the predictability of a target's movement and of the interception location influence how the target is intercepted? In a first experiment, we manipulated the predictability of the interception location. A target moved along a haphazardly curved... Read More about Knowing where one will hit a moving object influences eye-head-hand coordination.

Making sense of social prescribing (2017)
Other

This booklet provides advice and guidance on all things social prescribing.

Collecting textual, media and virtual data in qualitative research (2017)
Book Chapter

Qualitative research textbooks in the social and health sciences are dominated by a focus on data analysis – the uninitiated could imaging that data collection is simple, straightforward, and probably limited to interviewing either individuals or gro... Read More about Collecting textual, media and virtual data in qualitative research.

Collecting textual, media and virtual data in qualitative research (2017)
Book Chapter

Qualitative research textbooks in the social and health sciences are dominated by a focus on data analysis – the uninitiated could imaging that data collection is simple, straightforward, and probably limited to interviewing either individuals or gro... Read More about Collecting textual, media and virtual data in qualitative research.

Generalised inhibitory impairment to appetitive cues: From alcoholic to non-alcoholic visual stimuli (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Background Prior research demonstrates that individuals who consume alcohol show diminished inhibitory control towards alcohol-related cues. However, such research contrasts predominantly alcoholic appetitive cues with non-alcoholic, non-appet... Read More about Generalised inhibitory impairment to appetitive cues: From alcoholic to non-alcoholic visual stimuli.

Should we use a direct regulation to implement the Healthy Prisons Agenda in England? A qualitative study among prison key policy makers (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author 2017. Background The Healthy Prisons Agenda seeks to reduce prisoners' health risks, balance prisoners' rights with a security regime, ensure equivalent prison health service provisions to community health services, and facilitate the wh... Read More about Should we use a direct regulation to implement the Healthy Prisons Agenda in England? A qualitative study among prison key policy makers.

Vicarious traumatization in maternity care providers (2017)
Book Chapter

Maternity professionals, through providing care during childbirth, may sometimes encounter adverse events that fulfil criteria for trauma. Exposure to events that caregivers experience as traumatic (whether or not the same events are actually experie... Read More about Vicarious traumatization in maternity care providers.

Measuring the social value of prevention and management of type 2 diabetes in a community setting (2017)
Journal Article

Background: Type 2 diabetes affects 1 in 20 people over the age of 65. Although there is growing evidence around the effectiveness of lifestyle interventions to prevent or delay the onset of this disease, there is limited evidence of the wider social... Read More about Measuring the social value of prevention and management of type 2 diabetes in a community setting.

Ethics and Issues of Secondary Prevention Efforts in Child Sexual Abuse (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, The Author(s). This article discusses the ethical, practical, and moral issues surrounding secondary prevention efforts of child sexual abuse from a professional and practice-based perspective. Transcripts of a semistructured consultation eve... Read More about Ethics and Issues of Secondary Prevention Efforts in Child Sexual Abuse.

The impact of treatment for head and neck cancer on positive psychological change within a year of completing treatment (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Head and neck cancer carries a high level of morbidity and mortality. So why could anyone find having such a disease a positive event? The adversity hypothesis of “what doesn't kill... Read More about The impact of treatment for head and neck cancer on positive psychological change within a year of completing treatment.

The role of the family in HIV status disclosure among women in Vietnam: Familial dependence and independence (2017)
Journal Article

© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Insights into disclosure by people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) can inform strategies for treatment and support, yet Vietnamese women's self-disclosure patterns are poorly understood. We conducted interviews... Read More about The role of the family in HIV status disclosure among women in Vietnam: Familial dependence and independence.