The Psychologist, May 2023

Editor Jon Sutton introduces the issue.

Educational Psychologist Dr Cynthia Pinto, Chair of the BPS Division of Educational and Child Psychology (DECP), spoke to Ella Rhodes about the work the group is doing on issues of equality, diversity, and inclusion, as well as confronting psychology’s history.

The British Psychological Society join other organisations in writing an open letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

Ella Rhodes speaks to Dr Miriam Silver – one of 50 women entrepreneurs to receive a £50,000 Women in Innovation award from Innovate UK. She will use the award to expand BERRI – a set of digital tools she developed to help identify, track, and support the mental health needs of children and young people.

Dr Lisa Cameron MP (Clinical Psychologist; pictured, left) and Hannah Shaw (Trainee Clinical Psychologist) on the latter’s placement programme.

Emma Young digests the research.

John Oates and Kairen Cullen discuss ethics and dilemmas

Fifty years after a seminal study on attitudes to gender, what has changed? We ask Paul B. Hutchings and Katie E. Sullivan, who are part of a major initiative to capture global views on gender.

Michelle Ryan uses the evidence to avoid common pitfalls.

Celia Hodent in conversation with Linda Kaye, around the psychology of video games.

Dr Gillian Shorter asks whether it is time to trial and evaluate an official ‘drug consumption room’, following another year of the highest overdose deaths on record.

Omobolanle Balogun, third year BSc Psychology Undergraduate at Aston University, on a placement experience.

Ian Florance interviews Bill Hester, Global Account Manager at Development Dimensions International (DDI).

Employer: EdPsychs Ltd

Organisational psychologist and author of Time Wise, Dr Amantha Imber tells Deputy Editor Shaoni Bhattacharya how we can best use our days.

Mohsin Hamid's 'The Last White Man', reviewed by Mark Zarwi.

'You’ll Never Walk Alone: Poems for life’s ups and downs', by Rachel Kelly, reviewed by Clinical Psychologist, Dr Poppy Harding.

Our editor Jon Sutton meets Dr Ben Alderson-Day, author of Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other. Plus an extract from the book.

Professor Jo Hart of the University of Manchester reviews BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific.

Chloe Yu has a behind-the-scenes tour…

Kairen Cullen and John Oates review Channel 4's new docuseries, 'Paula' and 'George Michael: Outed'.

By Philip Davis.

Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes on 'Psychologist' as a protected title.

Letters from Bridie Cushion, Jenny Webb and Jennifer Poole.

Professor David Canter on Helene Ansell’s defence of A-level Psychology.

Fauzia Khan Interviews Clinical Psychologist Dr Juliet Young, also known as ‘The Creative Clinical Psychologist’.

Assistant Psychologist Paige Butcher on how lack of funding and recruitment difficulties are impacting on the experience of rehabilitation, for both staff and service users.

Kat Wheatley on compassionate leadership as an antidote to burnout in Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners.

A tribute from the British Psychological Society's Division of Neuropsychology.

A tribute by colleagues from The Institute of Work Psychology, Sheffield University Management School.

…what would it be? We asked on Twitter…