All Outputs (13)

“Diagnosis in the prime of your life”: Facilitator perspectives on adapting the Living Well with Dementia (LivDem) post-diagnostic course for younger adults (2025)
Journal Article

The Living Well with Dementia (LivDem) group intervention aims to support people to adjust following a diagnosis of dementia and is delivered across the UK and abroad. However, LivDem was designed for older people with dementia and may not address th... Read More about “Diagnosis in the prime of your life”: Facilitator perspectives on adapting the Living Well with Dementia (LivDem) post-diagnostic course for younger adults.

Arts on prescription: Insights, evidence and future directions (2025)
Digital Artefact

Arts on prescription is expanding, with policy recommendations and schemes spreading globally, along with expectations of its positive impact on individual and community wellbeing. But what is art on prescription and what does the research on its eff... Read More about Arts on prescription: Insights, evidence and future directions.

Moving beyond the individual: The impact and importance of sociocultural influences on visible difference (2025)
Journal Article

This paper examines sociocultural factors that shape the experiences of people living with visible differences, highlighting the impact of stigma, societal judgment and appearance-based discrimination, traditional and social media, and the importance... Read More about Moving beyond the individual: The impact and importance of sociocultural influences on visible difference.

Positive humanity, when? Is masculinity worth saving? (2025)
Journal Article

Women have demanded their humanity as full human beings; perhaps it is because this is a women’s demand that so much policy aimed at saving men and alleviating men’s suffering is instead focussed on saving masculinity. Many programmes addressed at th... Read More about Positive humanity, when? Is masculinity worth saving?.

Early maladaptive schemas (2025)
Journal Article

In this study the association of early maladaptive schemas with anxiety, depression and academic self efficacy was explored in a large sample of undergraduate psychology students. Significant correlations were observed with anxiety and depression but... Read More about Early maladaptive schemas.

Shame, Psychology and ME (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2008, when she was 15, Katharine Cheston became ill with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or ME. Over the next decade and more Katharine, and ourselves as a family, encountered many different psychological ideas and therapies, often being offered by non-... Read More about Shame, Psychology and ME.

Benefits of nostalgic landmarks for people living with Alzheimer's disease (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Emerging literature shows that nostalgia induced by autobiographical reflection and music confers psychological benefits to people living with dementia. Objective: Our objective was to test the potential benefits of nostalgic landmarks fo... Read More about Benefits of nostalgic landmarks for people living with Alzheimer's disease.

"How can you think about losing your mind?": A reflexive thematic analysis of adapting the LivDem group intervention for couples and families living with dementia (2024)
Journal Article

Introduction: Despite the psychological challenges that dementia creates, comparatively little attention has been paid to how individuals or families can be helped to adjust to dementia. One of the few interventions to do this is the Living well with... Read More about "How can you think about losing your mind?": A reflexive thematic analysis of adapting the LivDem group intervention for couples and families living with dementia.

“You just can’t do that in dementia care”: Barriers to partnership working within dementia services for people from South Asian communities (2024)
Journal Article

Background: People from South Asian communities are under-represented at all levels of dementia services. Consequently, there is pressure for the statutory sector to deliver services in partnership with Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterpri... Read More about “You just can’t do that in dementia care”: Barriers to partnership working within dementia services for people from South Asian communities.

Beauty, media representations and body image (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the impacts that sociocultural beauty ideals in media have on body image and societal attitudes towards appearance. The chapter begins by outlining how appearance is portrayed in traditional and social media, specifically focusi... Read More about Beauty, media representations and body image.

A long and winding road: Finding justice for people with complex disabilities ‘stuck’ in Social Care - Leading Discussion Panel (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Drawing on personal narrative and an ecological lens (Bronfenbrenner, 1994), the platform will highlight the types of challenges which thwart the pursuit of liberty, independence and social justice for people with complex disabilities ‘trapped’ in in... Read More about A long and winding road: Finding justice for people with complex disabilities ‘stuck’ in Social Care - Leading Discussion Panel.

Using the visual arts and crafts for health and wellbeing: The EPICS framework (2023)
Book Chapter

The use of the visual arts and crafts in health, healing and ritual has a long history. The aim of this chapter is to illustrate how the visual arts and crafts are currently used for health and wellbeing, exemplified through case studies and research... Read More about Using the visual arts and crafts for health and wellbeing: The EPICS framework.

Unpacking the creativity advantage: Lessons from psychology on the benefits of the arts (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter draws on psychology to explore the role of the arts for health and wellbeing, particularly on the psychology of creativity and positive psychology. The chapter begins by defining creativity and describing contemporary models of creativit... Read More about Unpacking the creativity advantage: Lessons from psychology on the benefits of the arts.