For this month’s blog entry Aida Malovic (Year in the Industry coordinator), invited one of the most recent students who’ve completed their placement year, to contribute with an account of their experiences. Kyle provides a very honest and interesting summary of the placement.
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Paws for thought: How ‘man’s best friend’ can support domestic violence victims
Senior Lecturer, Dr Elizabeth Spruin explains how the American practice of using court facility dogs can alleviate stress for victims in court and offer them support.
- February, 7
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- Applied Psychology, Health and Wellbeing, Law, Support Dogs
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Parliamentary roundtable discussing music and mental health
Senior lecturer, Dr. Kate Gee, describes her experience after being invited to speak at a parliamentary roundtable.
- December, 11
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- Academia, Applied Psychology, Conference, Health and Wellbeing, Knowledge Exchange, Music, policitical psychology
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I’m no Mo Farah, but …
Dr. James Cane, Senior Lecturer at CCCU, discusses his personal reflections on mental barriers to both starting a run and chasing a personal best.
- December, 8
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- Applied Psychology, Exercise, Health and Wellbeing
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International Symposium on Performance Science 2017 (or What I did with my summer)
Dr. Kate Gee, Senior Lecturer at CCCU, describes her recent experience of presenting at the renowned symposium on Performance Science, this year held in Reykjavik.
- September, 26
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- Academia, Applied Psychology, Conference, Health and Wellbeing, Performance science, Research, Symposium
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Virtual reality – A Brief History, Current Trends and Future Directions
Technological advances mean virtual reality has gone from a clunky gimmick to the next stage of human-computer interaction and social engagement. Whole worlds can be explored without leaving the room and people can experience others’ perspectives at the flick of a virtual switch. Richard Weatherall, Senior Psychology Technician at CCCU explores current research in the realm of VR.
A relational vision of human distress
Dr. Joe Hinds, Senior Lecturer at CCCU and practising integrative psychotherapist, discusses the distinction between mental illness and eccentricities, and the appropriateness of mental disorder diagnoses on atypical behaviours.
- March, 21
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- Health and Wellbeing, Therapeutic Approaches
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Animal rescues in the spotlight
Dr. Anke Franz, Senior Lecturer at CCCU discusses the regulations, or lack thereof, effecting the wellbeing of animals under the care of animal rescues and sanctuaries.
- January, 25
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- Animal Sanctuary, Animal wellfare, Comment, Ethics, Health and Wellbeing
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Comfort Dogs and the Spiritual Experience
Nicole Holt, research assistant to Dr. Liz Spruin, has been exploring the use of dogs for rehabilitation and wellbeing, and the benefits that ‘comfort dogs’ can provide
- September, 23
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- Health and Wellbeing, Therapeutic Approaches
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