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Book Review: Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton and Betsy Lucal - Food and Society: Principles and Paradoxes (3rd Edn) (2023)
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Benker, B. (2024). Book Review: Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton and Betsy Lucal - Food and Society: Principles and Paradoxes (3rd Edn). Cultural Sociology, 18(1), 173 - 174. https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755231164512

Food is a significant driver, and indicator, of cultural understandings. The food systems in which food is produced informs the way it is consumed – and consumption is a key cultural communicator. Consider regional differences in food choice which in... Read More about Book Review: Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton and Betsy Lucal - Food and Society: Principles and Paradoxes (3rd Edn).

Health promotion in emergency care settings: investigating staff views and experiences (2023)
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Schofield, B., Hoskins, R., Rolfe, U., McClean, S., Voss, S., & Benger, J. (2023). Health promotion in emergency care settings: investigating staff views and experiences. Emergency Nurse, 31(6), 26-32. https://doi.org/10.7748/en.2023.e2156

BACKGROUND: Emergency departments (EDs) afford 'teachable moments' for health behaviour change, but staff may not see themselves as public health practitioners and it can be challenging to undertake health promotion activities in emergency care setti... Read More about Health promotion in emergency care settings: investigating staff views and experiences.

Fraternity-without-terror: A Sartrean account of political solidarity (2023)
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Russo, M., & Tava, F. (2023). Fraternity-without-terror: A Sartrean account of political solidarity. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 54(3), 234-248. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2023.2197952

This article analyses Sartre's conflicting interpretations of human relationality in Critique of Dialectical Reason and Hope Now in order to demostrate two things. First, that the social dynamics leading to the formation of what Sartre calls “fused g... Read More about Fraternity-without-terror: A Sartrean account of political solidarity.

Individuals with intellectual disabilities experiences of the therapeutic relationship (2023)
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Parker, S., Ward, T., & Baldwin, A. (2023). Individuals with intellectual disabilities experiences of the therapeutic relationship. Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 17(2), 84-94. https://doi.org/10.1108/AMHID-09-2022-0036

Purpose: This research aimed to explore individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) experiences of the therapeutic relationship. Design/methodology/approach: Six individuals with ID were recruited who were currently having 1:1 therapy. Semi-struc... Read More about Individuals with intellectual disabilities experiences of the therapeutic relationship.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 222 , Issue 5 (2023)
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Tracy, D. K., Albertson, D. N., Cordoba, E. L., & Shergill, S. S. (2023). Kaleidoscope - Volume 222 , Issue 5. British Journal of Psychiatry, 222(5), 224-225. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2023.38

‘A glass of wine to help my heart!’ is – in the K Team's experience – the most optimistically overused health cry at parties. How strong are the data that suggest moderate alcohol also decreases the risk of depression? A challenge has been the inabil... Read More about Kaleidoscope - Volume 222 , Issue 5.

Do congenital and acquired causes of visible difference predict distinct appearance-related psychosocial outcomes? (2023)
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Zucchelli, F., Dalen, M. V., Bhatia, R., White, P., Hamlet, C., & Harcourt, D. (2023). Do congenital and acquired causes of visible difference predict distinct appearance-related psychosocial outcomes?. Body Image, 45, 355-361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.03.016

Having a visible difference caused by an appearance-altering condition or injury can impact psychosocial wellbeing. It remains unestablished whether the time at which a visible difference manifests, namely pre-memory (congenital) or later (acquired),... Read More about Do congenital and acquired causes of visible difference predict distinct appearance-related psychosocial outcomes?.

Architecture on the couch: A transdisciplinary exploration of buildings as psychological subjects (2023)
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Mosley, J., Crociani-Windland, L., Warren, S., & Williams, N. (2023). Architecture on the couch: A transdisciplinary exploration of buildings as psychological subjects. ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 8(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.55588/378

The paper introduces the research project ‘Architecture on the Couch: The psychology of buildings’ that radically re-conceptualises architecture as a psychosocial subject, entwined with the psychology of its creators and its inhabitants. Seeking to u... Read More about Architecture on the couch: A transdisciplinary exploration of buildings as psychological subjects.

Tackling colourism through storytelling in an online course for public health professionals (2023)
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Santoso, M., Agrawal, R., Tiwari, K., Manjanatha, D., Austin, S. B., McAdams-Mahmoud, A., …Raffoul, A. (2023). Tackling colourism through storytelling in an online course for public health professionals. Health Education Journal, 82(4), 430–443. https://doi.org/10.1177/00178969231164039

Objective: Strategic storytelling can be used to reframe dominant cultural narratives and improve community health outcomes. This pilot study assessed the impact of an original, online 3-week e-course, delivered from November to December 2021, in inc... Read More about Tackling colourism through storytelling in an online course for public health professionals.

Evaluating the efficacy of a social media-based intervention (Warna-Warni Waktu) to improve body image among young Indonesian women: Parallel randomized controlled trial (2023)
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Garbett, K. M., Haywood, S., Craddock, N., Gentili, C., Nasution, K., Saraswati, L. A., …Williamson, H. (2023). Evaluating the efficacy of a social media-based intervention (Warna-Warni Waktu) to improve body image among young Indonesian women: Parallel randomized controlled trial. JMIR, 25, Article e42499. https://doi.org/10.2196/42499

BACKGROUND: Body dissatisfaction is a global issue, particularly among adolescent girls and young women. Effective body image interventions exist but face barriers to scaling up, particularly in lower- and middle-income countries, such as Indonesia,... Read More about Evaluating the efficacy of a social media-based intervention (Warna-Warni Waktu) to improve body image among young Indonesian women: Parallel randomized controlled trial.

Social media, traditional media, and other body image influences and disordered eating and cosmetic procedures in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Hong Kong (2023)
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Chua, S. N., Craddock, N., Rodtanaporn, W., Or, F., & Austin, S. B. (2023). Social media, traditional media, and other body image influences and disordered eating and cosmetic procedures in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Hong Kong. Body Image, 45, 265-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.03.010

In this study, we investigated the association between perceived sociocultural influences and the 3-month prevalence of disordered weight-control behaviors and lifetime prevalence of cosmetic procedures in four Asian countries, and if these associati... Read More about Social media, traditional media, and other body image influences and disordered eating and cosmetic procedures in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Hong Kong.

Machine learning models, trusted research environments and UK health data: Ensuring a safe and beneficial future for AI development in healthcare (2023)
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Kerasidou, C. X., Malone, M., Daly, A., & Tava, F. (2023). Machine learning models, trusted research environments and UK health data: Ensuring a safe and beneficial future for AI development in healthcare. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49(12), 838-843. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2022-108696

Digitalisation of health and the use of health data in artificial intelligence, and machine learning (ML), including for applications that will then in turn be used in healthcare are major themes permeating current UK and other countries' healthcare... Read More about Machine learning models, trusted research environments and UK health data: Ensuring a safe and beneficial future for AI development in healthcare.

The impact of remote arts on prescription: Changes in mood, attention and loneliness during art workshops as mechanisms for wellbeing change (2023)
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Holt, N. (2023). The impact of remote arts on prescription: Changes in mood, attention and loneliness during art workshops as mechanisms for wellbeing change. Nordic Journal of Arts, Culture and Health, 5(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.18261/njach.5.1.1

Purpose: To assess the impact of art workshops delivered remotely, during the coronavirus pandemic, on the wellbeing of participants. To measure the impact of participating in art workshops on immediate experience (mood, attention and loneliness). To... Read More about The impact of remote arts on prescription: Changes in mood, attention and loneliness during art workshops as mechanisms for wellbeing change.

Qualitative story completion: A creative and novel method for psychotherapy and counselling psychology research (2023)
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Clarke, V., & Moller, N. (2023). Qualitative story completion: A creative and novel method for psychotherapy and counselling psychology research. Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin, 35(Spring 2023), https://doi.org/10.53841/bpsqmip.2023.1.35.24

Story completion (SC) – where respondents are presented with the start of a story (the story ‘stem’ or ‘cue’) and asked to complete it – originally developed as a projective technique for clinical and research assessment. While SC continues to be use... Read More about Qualitative story completion: A creative and novel method for psychotherapy and counselling psychology research.

Kaleidoscope - Volume 222 , Issue 4 (2023)
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Tracy, D. K., Albertson, D. N., Lloyd, L., & Shergill, S. S. (2023). Kaleidoscope - Volume 222 , Issue 4. British Journal of Psychiatry, 222(4), 182-183. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2023.26

As core content to the monthly journal, Kaleidoscope highlights and discusses the most interesting recent mental health research

Redefining bioavailability through the 'lens' of migrant egg donors in Spain (2023)
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Nahman, M., & Weis, C. (2023). Redefining bioavailability through the 'lens' of migrant egg donors in Spain. Body and Society, 29(1), 79-109. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X231161319

This article utilises feminist technoscience studies’ notions of bodily ‘materialisation’ and ‘ontological choreographies’, offering a cyborg feminist account of ‘bioavailability’ as embodied becomings, rather than a fixed ontological state of being.... Read More about Redefining bioavailability through the 'lens' of migrant egg donors in Spain.

‘How the other half lives’?: Taking a critical approach to the social psychology of economic inequality and extreme wealth (2023)
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Carr, P. (2023). ‘How the other half lives’?: Taking a critical approach to the social psychology of economic inequality and extreme wealth. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(5), Article e12743. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12743

The negative impact of economic inequality on social issues and wellbeing is of importance to social psychology that historically has an interest in social justice. Social Identity Theory is explored as an approach that acknowledges the wider context... Read More about ‘How the other half lives’?: Taking a critical approach to the social psychology of economic inequality and extreme wealth.

The role of security assistance in reconfiguring Tunisia’s transition (2023)
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Maryon, R. (in press). The role of security assistance in reconfiguring Tunisia’s transition. Mediterranean Politics, https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2023.2183666

In many contexts in the Mediterranean, Security Assistance (SA) is perceived to have contributed to state fracture or prolonged conflict. In Tunisia, in contrast, SA has increased the performance and capacities of the security forces in matters of co... Read More about The role of security assistance in reconfiguring Tunisia’s transition.

“Like putting on an old pair of gloves” or “realising I am actually over it”: A qualitative study exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown restrictions on eating disorder recovery in the UK (2023)
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Lewis-Smith, H., Craddock, N., & Pegram, G. (2024). “Like putting on an old pair of gloves” or “realising I am actually over it”: A qualitative study exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown restrictions on eating disorder recovery in the UK. Current Psychology, 43, 12299–12310. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04353-2

The COVID-19 pandemic lockdown restrictions posed unique challenges for people living with eating disorders (EDs), particularly relating to social isolation and changes in treatment access. However, less is known about the experience of lockdown for... Read More about “Like putting on an old pair of gloves” or “realising I am actually over it”: A qualitative study exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown restrictions on eating disorder recovery in the UK.

Feasibility and acceptability of the promoting resilience in stress management-parent (PRISM-P) intervention for caregivers of children with craniofacial conditions (2023)
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Fladeboe, K., Stock, N. M., Heike, C., Evans, K., Junkins, C., Stueckle, L., …Yi-Frazier, J. (in press). Feasibility and acceptability of the promoting resilience in stress management-parent (PRISM-P) intervention for caregivers of children with craniofacial conditions. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, https://doi.org/10.1177/10556656231157449

Objectives: Few evidence-based psychosocial programs exist within craniofacial care. This study (a) assessed feasibility and acceptability of the Promoting Resilience in Stress Management-Parent (PRISM-P) intervention among caregivers of children wit... Read More about Feasibility and acceptability of the promoting resilience in stress management-parent (PRISM-P) intervention for caregivers of children with craniofacial conditions.