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Podcast: What is Home?

Podcast: What is Home?

On the edge of Brexit the panel discuss the meaning of home. You could fairly say the UK is on the cusp of a huge change. When we recorded this […]

9th April 20199th April 2019 Comment, PodcastLeave a Comment on Podcast: What is Home?
Podcast: The politics of mental health

Podcast: The politics of mental health

The panel try to make sense of mental health policy and politics This week Anne, Rachel and John are joined by two special guests to discuss the politics of mental health. What […]

17th January 20195th February 2019 Comment, PodcastLeave a Comment on Podcast: The politics of mental health
The top ten films about growing up

The top ten films about growing up

John McGowan gives a quick psychological tour of some coming-of-age classics   Our term is up and running in Tunbridge Wells and our Clinical Psychology doctorate course has recently welcomed […]

16th November 201818th November 2018 CommentLeave a Comment on The top ten films about growing up
Podcast: Working so that people don’t need us anymore

Podcast: Working so that people don’t need us anymore

John McGowan talks to six clinical psychology trainees just about to qualify   Every September we say goodbye to a qualifying cohort of our clinical psychology trainees. They’ve been with […]

8th November 20188th November 2018 Comment, PodcastLeave a Comment on Podcast: Working so that people don’t need us anymore
The trouble with penalties

The trouble with penalties

With England having a rare penalty win in the World Cup, John McGowan considers what shoot-outs tells us about national prowess . Though football is, perhaps briefly, looking like it’s […]

5th July 20185th July 2018 CommentLeave a Comment on The trouble with penalties
Podcast: Understanding Your Teenagers

Podcast: Understanding Your Teenagers

  This week Alex Hassett discusses how brain research may help us understand the teenagers in our lives In this podcast we have the audio from our most recent public […]

2nd July 2018 Comment, Podcast3 Comments on Podcast: Understanding Your Teenagers
Guest Post: Fewer Conferences, More Conversations

Guest Post: Fewer Conferences, More Conversations

Photo: Pushing Up Daisies Festival. Skull cake: Thyme for Tiffin   Akiko Hart makes a plea for mental health to go outside mental health I am, for my sins, a […]

18th May 201819th May 2018 Comment, Guest Post1 Comment on Guest Post: Fewer Conferences, More Conversations
Podcast: Race and Mental Health

Podcast: Race and Mental Health

Rachel Terry, Laura Lea, John McGowan and guests discuss two recent high profile publications on the subject of race in mental health   Though the effects of race and ethnicity on mental […]

17th May 201821st May 2018 Comment, Podcast1 Comment on Podcast: Race and Mental Health
Don’t turn Britain’s schools into mental health centres

Don’t turn Britain’s schools into mental health centres

Jennie Bristow argues that government plans for ‘Mental Health First Aid’ risk pathologising ordinary childhood while doing little for those with more serious difficulties Britain’s schools are changing: not just in terms of […]

29th March 201829th March 2018 Comment3 Comments on Don’t turn Britain’s schools into mental health centres

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