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Experiencing the surveillance society (2016)
Journal Article
Ellis, D., Tucker, I., & Harper, D. (2016). Experiencing the surveillance society. Psychologist,

The images that circulated following the November 2015 Paris attacks and the August 2011 UK disturbances have reminded us of the ubiquity of surveillance. In the UK we may be aware of the CCTV owned by local councils and shops; the helicopter-borne c... Read More about Experiencing the surveillance society.

Farewell, dear friend: The sociology of pet grief (2016)
Journal Article
Mackay, F. (2016). Farewell, dear friend: The sociology of pet grief

An introduction to the sociology of pet grief, looking at data from the British Mass Observation Project and considering theories from the field of Animal Studies as well as Butler's theory of 'grievability'.

Blurred lines: Performance enhancement, common mental disorders and referral in the U.K. athletic population (2016)
Journal Article
Roberts, C. M., Faull, A. L., & Tod, D. (2016). Blurred lines: Performance enhancement, common mental disorders and referral in the U.K. athletic population. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(JUL), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01067

© 2016 Roberts, Faull and Tod. Through the awareness-raising efforts of several high-profile current and former athletes, the issue of common mental disorders (CMD) in this population is gaining increasing attention from researchers and practitioners... Read More about Blurred lines: Performance enhancement, common mental disorders and referral in the U.K. athletic population.

What are the characteristics of perinatal events perceived to be traumatic by midwives? (2016)
Journal Article
Sheen, K., Spiby, H., & Slade, P. (2016). What are the characteristics of perinatal events perceived to be traumatic by midwives?. Midwifery, 40, 55-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2016.06.007

Objective: there is potential for midwives to indirectly experience events whilst providing clinical care that fulfil criteria for trauma. This research aimed to investigate the characteristics of events perceived as traumatic by UK midwives. Methods... Read More about What are the characteristics of perinatal events perceived to be traumatic by midwives?.

Individual and group psychotherapy with people diagnosed with dementia: a systematic review of the literature (2016)
Journal Article
Cheston, R., & Ivanecka, A. (2017). Individual and group psychotherapy with people diagnosed with dementia: a systematic review of the literature. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 32(1), 3-31. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4529

Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Objectives: Psychotherapy provides a means of helping participants to resolve emotional threats and play an active role in their lives. Consequently, psychotherapy is increasingly used within dementia care.... Read More about Individual and group psychotherapy with people diagnosed with dementia: a systematic review of the literature.

The malleability of stigmatizing attitudes: Combining imagined social contact with implicit attitude feedback (2016)
Journal Article
Pennington, C. R., Pennington, C., Campbell, C., Monk, R. L., & Heim, D. (2016). The malleability of stigmatizing attitudes: Combining imagined social contact with implicit attitude feedback. American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 19(3), 175-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487768.2016.1171175

© 2016, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Research is reported that examines whether imagined social contact combined with implicit attitude feedback may be an effective intervention for inducing changes in attitudes toward mental ill health... Read More about The malleability of stigmatizing attitudes: Combining imagined social contact with implicit attitude feedback.

Beyond the blank cheque: Arming iran during the ford administration (2016)
Journal Article
McGlinchey, S., & Moran, A. (2016). Beyond the blank cheque: Arming iran during the ford administration. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 27(3), 523-544. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2016.1196074

© 2016 Taylor & Francis. When President Gerald Ford decided tomaintain and deepen arms relations with Iran, he cemented a momentum that became near impossible for a successor to break by continuing the policy of his predecessor Richard Nixon. Nixon... Read More about Beyond the blank cheque: Arming iran during the ford administration.

Evidence-Based Decision Making When Designing Environments for Physical Activity: The Role of Public Health (2016)
Journal Article
Pilkington, P., Powell, J., & Davis, A. (2016). Evidence-Based Decision Making When Designing Environments for Physical Activity: The Role of Public Health. Sports Medicine, 46(7), 997-1002. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-015-0469-6

© 2016, The Author(s). The important role that the environment plays in health and well-being is widely accepted, as is the impact that the built and natural environment can have on levels of physical activity. As levels of physical activity are a ke... Read More about Evidence-Based Decision Making When Designing Environments for Physical Activity: The Role of Public Health.

Perceptual inference in chronic pain (2016)
Journal Article
Tabor, A., O'Daly, O., Gregory, R. W., Jacobs, C., Travers, W., Thacker, M. A., & Moseley, G. L. (2016). Perceptual inference in chronic pain. Clinical Journal of Pain, 32(7), 588-593. https://doi.org/10.1097/AJP.0000000000000305

Objective: The experience of chronic pain critically alters one's ability to interact with their environment. One fundamental issue that has received little attention, however, is whether chronic pain disrupts how one perceives their environment in t... Read More about Perceptual inference in chronic pain.

Achieving consensus in the measurement of psychological adjustment to cleft lip and/or palate (2016)
Journal Article
Stock, N. M., Hammond, V., Owen, T., Kiff, J., Shanly, A., & Rumsey, N. (2016). Achieving consensus in the measurement of psychological adjustment to cleft lip and/or palate. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, 53(4), 421-426. https://doi.org/10.1597/15-071

Background: Psychological adjustment to cleft lip/palate is multifaceted and can fluctuate over time and across different situations. Consequently, a comprehensive understanding of adjustment is difficult to capture, and the challenge of achieving co... Read More about Achieving consensus in the measurement of psychological adjustment to cleft lip and/or palate.

The continually expanding limits of hermeneutics: Heidegger on poetic expression, nature, and the holy (2016)
Journal Article
Keane, N. (2016). The continually expanding limits of hermeneutics: Heidegger on poetic expression, nature, and the holy. Research in Phenomenology, 46(3), 349-368

This article sets itself the task of explicating and assessing Heidegger's hermeneutically expansive analyses of the 'holy,' 'poetic expression,' and 'nature' in his 1934/35 and 1944 Hölderlin lectures. The piece looks specifically at how Heidegger... Read More about The continually expanding limits of hermeneutics: Heidegger on poetic expression, nature, and the holy.

A cross-sectional investigation of public attitudes toward dementia in Bristol and South Gloucestershire using the approaches to dementia questionnaire (2016)
Journal Article
Cheston, R., Hancock, J., & White, P. (2016). A cross-sectional investigation of public attitudes toward dementia in Bristol and South Gloucestershire using the approaches to dementia questionnaire. International Psychogeriatrics, 28(10), 1717-1724. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610216000843

© Copyright International Psychogeriatric Association 2016. Background: To date, surveys of attitudes toward dementia have largely been conducted using unvalidated materials or have focused on healthcare professionals supporting people affected by de... Read More about A cross-sectional investigation of public attitudes toward dementia in Bristol and South Gloucestershire using the approaches to dementia questionnaire.

Causal factors of anxiety symptoms in children (2016)
Journal Article
Valadao Dias, F., Duarte Bonini Campos, J. A., Velez Oliveira, R., Mendes, R., & Maroco, J. (2016). Causal factors of anxiety symptoms in children. Clinical and Experimental Psychology, 2(2), https://doi.org/10.4172/2471-2701.1000131

Aim: The present work aimed to investigate the impact of the child's cognitions associated with ambiguous stimuli that refer to anxiety, both parents' fears and anxiety, and parents' attributions to the child's interpretations of ambiguous stimuli on... Read More about Causal factors of anxiety symptoms in children.

What’s in a “research passport”? A collaborative autoethnography of institutional approvals in public involvement in research (2016)
Journal Article
Donald, C., Laterza, V., Evans, D., Davies, R., Donald, C., & Rice, C. (2016). What’s in a “research passport”? A collaborative autoethnography of institutional approvals in public involvement in research. Research Involvement and Engagement, 2(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-016-0033-z

© 2016 Laterza et al. Background In the growing literature on public involvement in research (PIR), very few works analyse PIR organizational and institutional dimensions in depth. We explore the complex interactions of PIR with institutions and bure... Read More about What’s in a “research passport”? A collaborative autoethnography of institutional approvals in public involvement in research.

Cohesion, leadership, mental health stigmatisation and perceived barriers to care in UK military personnel (2016)
Journal Article
Jones, N., Campion, B., Keeling, M., & Greenberg, N. (2018). Cohesion, leadership, mental health stigmatisation and perceived barriers to care in UK military personnel. Journal of Mental Health, 27(1), 10-18. https://doi.org/10.3109/09638237.2016.1139063

© 2016 Taylor & Francis. Background: Military research suggests a significant association between leadership, cohesion, mental health stigmatisation and perceived barriers to care (stigma/BTC). Aim: Most studies are cross sectional, therefore longi... Read More about Cohesion, leadership, mental health stigmatisation and perceived barriers to care in UK military personnel.

(Mis)conceptualising themes, thematic analysis, and other problems with Fugard and Potts’ (2015) sample-size tool for thematic analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2016). (Mis)conceptualising themes, thematic analysis, and other problems with Fugard and Potts’ (2015) sample-size tool for thematic analysis. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 19(6), 739-743. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2016.1195588

One of us (VC) was having a conversation with a student recently about the origins and history of thematic analysis (TA). The student had read Qualitative Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy (McLeod, 2011), a text which presents TA as a variant... Read More about (Mis)conceptualising themes, thematic analysis, and other problems with Fugard and Potts’ (2015) sample-size tool for thematic analysis.

The brave struggle: Jan Patočka on Europe’s past and future (2016)
Journal Article
Tava, F. (2016). The brave struggle: Jan Patočka on Europe’s past and future. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 47(3), 242-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2016.1180854

© 2016 The British Society for Phenomenology. This article proposes to investigate Jan Patočka’s idea of “postEurope”, in the context of his understanding of European contemporary history. Therefore, I first stress how important it is for Patočka to... Read More about The brave struggle: Jan Patočka on Europe’s past and future.