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The British Psychological Society has highlighted psychology’s role in supporting people’s mental health to Sarah Murphy, the Welsh mental health and wellbeing minister.
Bell shares her experience of spending eight weeks in Oslo through the BPS Postgraduate Study Visit Scheme and her advice for anyone applying for this year’s Scheme.
The British Psychological Society has welcomed a number of measures in the Scottish Programme for Government (PfG), setting out areas of action for the coming year, but is concerned other critical ...
"Mental health services for children and young people remain concerningly overstretched," says Dr Rachel Bradley.
Seymour Research Limited will be collating the survey feedback and reviewing evidence gathered from the consultation and market analysis to develop different options for the future of the ...
The new findings, published in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology, revealed a strong link between children’s mood and how often their thoughts wander.
The BPS says that politicians should come from the widest variety of backgrounds possible to improve public trust.
What Ball and Collet-Sabé propose is a ' fundamental reimagining of education without the school, beginning from the episteme of commoning, that is, an ethical and political activity of the care of ...
Our brains use associations to guide our bodily states – as anyone who has ever salivated at the sight of a slice of cake can attest. Now, research in Nature shows that mice that have learned to ...
Dr Fiske's award-winning research focused on understanding the development of early years executive functions, particularly inhibitory control, and the associated brain mechanisms. She carried out her ...
Conviction rates for rape in the UK remain comparatively low; despite increases, fewer than 3 in 100 rapes recorded by police between October 2023 and September 2024 actually resulted in someone being ...
More must be done to protect the mental health of leading darts players as they come under massive scrutiny on the world stage, the British Psychological Society has said. The Professional Darts ...