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Kaleidoscope - Volume 220 , Issue 1 (2021)
Journal Article
Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2022). Kaleidoscope - Volume 220 , Issue 1. British Journal of Psychiatry, 220(1), 47-48. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.177

You're only as old as you feel – or think. Certainly, brain senescence has a disproportionate impact on individuals’ abilities and degree of independence. In addition to your actual chronological age, recently developed machine learning algorithms ca... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 220 , Issue 1.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 6 (2021)
Journal Article
Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 6. British Journal of Psychiatry, 219(6), 701-702. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.160

The majority of people treated with antidepressants receive them in primary care, but there are limited data on medication maintenance or discontinuation in this setting. Nevertheless, much of the public discourse centres on primary care practices, w... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 6.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 5 (2021)
Journal Article
Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 5. British Journal of Psychiatry, 219(5), 624-625. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.139

There are ongoing concerns about the impact of antipsychotic use during pregnancy, particularly with respect to increased risks of neurodevelopmental complications. There are few randomised controlled trials in pregnant women, and there is the major... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 5.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 4 (2021)
Journal Article
Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 4. British Journal of Psychiatry, 219(4), 573-574. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.125

Kindness and compassion are important for all of us, not least when working in healthcare. Patients inevitably tell us it is important to them, and we believe that most staff care deeply, but perhaps we lack the hard data to back up its impact; how t... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 4.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 3 (2021)
Journal Article
Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 3. British Journal of Psychiatry, 219(3), 527-528. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.106

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)
Journal Article
Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 2. British Journal of Psychiatry, 219(2), 469-470. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.91

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)
Journal Article
Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 219 , Issue 1. British Journal of Psychiatry, 219(1), 411-412. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.67

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.

Seeing the trees in the forest: Opportunities for inclusive practice within the psychology curriculum (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Albertson, D. (2021, June). Seeing the trees in the forest: Opportunities for inclusive practice within the psychology curriculum. Presented at British Psychological Society’s Division of Academics, Researchers and Teachers conference, Online due to Covid

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.

Challenging conversations with Geraldine Strathdee: Human Factors: Are we forgetting the human? (2021)
Digital Artefact
(2021). Challenging conversations with Geraldine Strathdee: Human Factors: Are we forgetting the human?. [Maudsley Learning. (webinar)]

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?.

Psychology learning and teaching globally: Forging connections among professional organisations (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Albertson, D. (2021, June). Psychology learning and teaching globally: Forging connections among professional organisations. Presented at European Society for Teaching and Learning, Australian Society for Learning and Teaching, and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology’s Annual Conferences on Teaching., Online due to Covid

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)
Journal Article
Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 6. British Journal of Psychiatry, 218(6), 355-356. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.51

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)
Journal Article
Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 5. British Journal of Psychiatry, 218(5), 293-294. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.41

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)
Journal Article
Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 4. British Journal of Psychiatry, 218(4), 235-236. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.23

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)
Journal Article
Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 3. British Journal of Psychiatry, 218(3), 177-178. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.6

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)
Journal Article
Tracy, D. K., Joyce, D. W., Albertson, D. N., & Shergill, S. S. (2021). Kaleidoscope - Volume 218 , Issue 2. British Journal of Psychiatry, 218(2), 123-124. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.254

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.