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The new prison framework will be inflexible, costly and do nothing to ease chronic overcrowding and violence (2017)
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Ismail, N., & de Viggiani, N. (2017). The new prison framework will be inflexible, costly and do nothing to ease chronic overcrowding and violence

The Conservative manifesto planned to create a series of legally enforceable standards that prisons, and those who work with inmates, will have to meet. Nasrul Ismail and Nick de Viggiani (University of the West of England) have interviewed 30 prison... Read More about The new prison framework will be inflexible, costly and do nothing to ease chronic overcrowding and violence.

Using the experience-sampling method to examine the psychological mechanisms by which participatory art improves wellbeing (2017)
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Holt, N. (2018). Using the experience-sampling method to examine the psychological mechanisms by which participatory art improves wellbeing. Perspectives in Public Health, 138(1), 55-65. https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913917739041

© 2017, © Royal Society for Public Health 2017. Aims: To measure the immediate impact of art-making in everyday life on diverse indices of wellbeing (‘in the moment’ and longer term) in order to improve understanding of the psychological mechanisms b... Read More about Using the experience-sampling method to examine the psychological mechanisms by which participatory art improves wellbeing.

Brexit and devolution (2017)
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Greer, A. (2018). Brexit and devolution. Political Quarterly, 89(1), 134-138. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12442

A report on debates about Brexit in relation to devolution and the relationships between the 'UK' government and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Time contracts and temporal precision declines when the mind wanders (2017)
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Terhune, D., Croucher, M., Marcusson-Clavertz, D., & Macdonald, J. (2017). Time contracts and temporal precision declines when the mind wanders. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(11), 1864-1871. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000461

© 2017 American Psychological Association. Our perception of time varies considerably from moment to moment, but how this variability relates to endogenous fluctuations in attentional states has been neglected. Here, we tested the hypothesis that per... Read More about Time contracts and temporal precision declines when the mind wanders.

An exploration of shifts in visual fixation prior to the execution of baseball batting: Evidence for oculomotor warm up, attentional processes or pre-performance routines? (2017)
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Roberts, C. (2017). An exploration of shifts in visual fixation prior to the execution of baseball batting: Evidence for oculomotor warm up, attentional processes or pre-performance routines?. https://doi.org/10.5923/j.sports.20170706.02

The visual performance of athletes should be considered high on the list of variables fundamental to elite sport performance. One particular aspect of visual performance that has gained dominance over the last 25 years is the quiet eye. Quiet eye is... Read More about An exploration of shifts in visual fixation prior to the execution of baseball batting: Evidence for oculomotor warm up, attentional processes or pre-performance routines?.

An OMERACT initiative toward consensus to identify and characterize candidate contextual factors: Report from the contextual factors working group (2017)
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March, L. M., Tugwell, P. S., Beaton, D. E., Verstappen, S. M., Nielsen, S. M., Woodworth, T. G., …Pohl, C. (2017). An OMERACT initiative toward consensus to identify and characterize candidate contextual factors: Report from the contextual factors working group. Journal of Rheumatology, 44(11), 1734-1739. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.161200

Copyright © 2017. All rights reserved. Objective: The importance of contextual factors (CF) for appropriate patient-specific care is widely acknowledged. However, evidence in clinical trials on how CF influence outcomes remains sparse. The 2014 Outco... Read More about An OMERACT initiative toward consensus to identify and characterize candidate contextual factors: Report from the contextual factors working group.

Development of a Parenting Support Program to Prevent Abuse of Adolescents in South Africa: Findings From a Pilot Pre-Post Study (2017)
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Cluver, L. D., Lachman, J. M., Ward, C. L., Gardner, F., Peterson, T., Hutchings, J. M., …Redfern, A. A. (2017). Development of a Parenting Support Program to Prevent Abuse of Adolescents in South Africa: Findings From a Pilot Pre-Post Study. Research on Social Work Practice, 27(7), 758-766. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731516628647

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Purpose: Violence against children increases in adolescence, but there is a research and practice gap in research-supported child abuse prevention for the adolescent years. A pilot program for low-resource settings was d... Read More about Development of a Parenting Support Program to Prevent Abuse of Adolescents in South Africa: Findings From a Pilot Pre-Post Study.

Health equity considerations for developing and reporting patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials: A report from the omeract equity special interest group (2017)
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Tugwell, P. S., Guillemin, F., Buchbinder, R., Beaton, D. E., Hofstetter, C., Pohl, C., …Petkovic, J. (2017). Health equity considerations for developing and reporting patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials: A report from the omeract equity special interest group. Journal of Rheumatology, 44(11), 1727-1733. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.160975

Copyright © 2017. All rights reserved. Objective: Despite advances integrating patient-centered outcomes into rheumatologic studies, concerns remain regarding their representativeness across diverse patient groups and how this affects equity. The Out... Read More about Health equity considerations for developing and reporting patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials: A report from the omeract equity special interest group.

'Selfie’-objectification: The role of selfies in self-objectification and disordered eating in young women (2017)
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Cohen, R., Newton-John, T., & Slater, A. (2018). 'Selfie’-objectification: The role of selfies in self-objectification and disordered eating in young women. Computers in Human Behavior, 79, 68-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.10.027

Existing research demonstrates a relationship between social networking site (SNS) use and body-related concerns and disordered eating amongst females. Preliminary evidence indicates that SNS photo activities (e.g., taking and sharing 'selfies’) may... Read More about 'Selfie’-objectification: The role of selfies in self-objectification and disordered eating in young women.

The relationship between Facebook and Instagram appearance-focused activities and body image concerns in young women (2017)
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Cohen, R., Newton-John, T., & Slater, A. (2017). The relationship between Facebook and Instagram appearance-focused activities and body image concerns in young women. Body Image, 23, 183-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2017.10.002

© 2017 The present study aimed to identify the specific social networking sites (SNS) features that relate to body image concerns in young women. A total of 259 women aged 18–29 years completed questionnaire measures of SNS use (Facebook and Instagra... Read More about The relationship between Facebook and Instagram appearance-focused activities and body image concerns in young women.

‘Everyone assumes a man to be quite strong’: Men, masculinity and rheumatoid arthritis: A case-study approach (2017)
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Kirwan, J., Rodham, K., White, A., Noddings, R., Flurey, C. A., & Hewlett, S. (2018). ‘Everyone assumes a man to be quite strong’: Men, masculinity and rheumatoid arthritis: A case-study approach. Sociology of Health and Illness, 40(1), 115-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12628

© 2017 The Authors. Sociology of Health & Illness published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation for SHIL. Current literature has overlooked the impact of chronic illness on masculine identity. We therefore aimed to investigate the im... Read More about ‘Everyone assumes a man to be quite strong’: Men, masculinity and rheumatoid arthritis: A case-study approach.

Book review: Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party; Donatella della Porta et al, Movement Parties against Austerity; Richard Seymour, Corbyn (2017)
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Mathers, A. (2017). Book review: Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party; Donatella della Porta et al, Movement Parties against Austerity; Richard Seymour, Corbyn. Interface, 9(2), 389-444

The crisis of neoliberalism and the associated austerity politics generated a global wave of protests which in turn has produced a renewed interest amongst activists and academics for political parties as means of expressing social movements and addr... Read More about Book review: Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party; Donatella della Porta et al, Movement Parties against Austerity; Richard Seymour, Corbyn.

Bariatric surgery and body image: A complex relationship in an obesogenic world (2017)
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Hamlet, C. (2017). Bariatric surgery and body image: A complex relationship in an obesogenic world. Journal of Aesthetic Nursing, 6(8), 429-431. https://doi.org/10.12968/joan.2017.6.8.429

Bariatric surgery is increasingly being declared as a potential solution to our growing obesity epidemic. However, research tends to focus on the medical benefits of the procedure and little is known about its psychological impact on factors such as... Read More about Bariatric surgery and body image: A complex relationship in an obesogenic world.

‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics (2017)
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Hadjiosif, M., & Coyle, A. (2017). ‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 19(4), 357-377. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2017.1386223

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Despite a plethora of academic and clinical descriptions of psychotherapy, less research attention has been focused on the ways in which psychotherapy is talked about and represented in... Read More about ‘That boy needs therapy’: Constructions of psychotherapy in popular song lyrics.

A study protocol of the effectiveness of PEGASUS: A multi-centred study comparing an intervention to promote shared decision making about breast reconstruction with treatment as usual (2017)
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Harcourt, D., Paraskeva, N., White, P., Powell, J., & Clarke, A. (2017). A study protocol of the effectiveness of PEGASUS: A multi-centred study comparing an intervention to promote shared decision making about breast reconstruction with treatment as usual. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 17(1), 143. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-017-0543-0

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: Increasingly, women elect breast reconstruction after mastectomy. However, their expectations of surgery are often not met, and dissatisfaction with outcome and ongoing psychosocial concerns and distress are common.... Read More about A study protocol of the effectiveness of PEGASUS: A multi-centred study comparing an intervention to promote shared decision making about breast reconstruction with treatment as usual.

Food for life: Evaluation of the impact of the Hospital Food Programme in England using a case study approach (2017)
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Gray, S., Orme, J., Pitt, H., & Jones, M. (2017). Food for life: Evaluation of the impact of the Hospital Food Programme in England using a case study approach. JRSM Open, 8(10), 205427041771270. https://doi.org/10.1177/2054270417712703

Objectives To evaluate the impact and challenges of implementing a Food for Life approach within three pilot NHS sites in 2014/2015 in England. Food for Life is an initiative led by the Soil Association, a non-governmental organisation in the UK tha... Read More about Food for life: Evaluation of the impact of the Hospital Food Programme in England using a case study approach.

A longitudinal study of families formed through reproductive donation: Parent-adolescent relationships and adolescent adjustment at age 14 (2017)
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Golombok, S., Ilioi, E., Blake, L., Roman, G., & Jadva, V. (2017). A longitudinal study of families formed through reproductive donation: Parent-adolescent relationships and adolescent adjustment at age 14. Developmental Psychology, 53(10), 1966-1977. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000372

The aim of the 6th phase of this longitudinal study was to establish whether children born through assisted reproduction involving reproductive donation were at risk for psychological problems following the transition to adolescence at age 14 and, if... Read More about A longitudinal study of families formed through reproductive donation: Parent-adolescent relationships and adolescent adjustment at age 14.