28th January 2015
With election season fast approaching the leaders of the main parties have started making big claims already. As ever, healthcare and the NHS is a hot-button issue. Last week the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg called for a “fundamental overhaul of how the NHS tackles suicides”. In the UK over 4,500 people killed More…
27th October 2014
In their recent book ‘The Dyslexia Debate’ Julian G. Elliot and Elena L. Grigorenko argue that dyslexia is no longer a useful label to ascribe to those who experience difficulties with reading. They point out in a recent article in ‘The Psychologist’ that many have acknowledged that the term dyslexia is not necessarily a suitable More…
9th October 2014
The premise of “if I do things that make me happier I am less likely to experience mental health difficulties” has been the thought behind many projects set up to promote mental wellbeing. In fact projects such as Mindapples and Action for Happiness are good examples of such projects aimed at providing preventative strategies to More…
7th September 2014
In amongst the media storm that has engulfed the story of a very sick child and a desperate family, one could be forgiven for not appreciating the common features of this case. Communication between parents and medical teams is highly complex and influenced by a myriad of factors including environment, the nature of the child’s More…
15th August 2014
Baroness Greenfield is a senior research fellow in pharmacology at the University of Oxford. In this recent article Baroness Greenfield alludes to an ever dominant and developing era of digital technology which she argues may contain both good and bad qualities when assessing its impact on the functioning of human beings. Furthermore, she raises considerations for More…
15th August 2014
Mind Change is due to be published 21st August 2014 by Random House. In Mind Change, Susan Greenfield discusses the all-pervading technologies that now surround us, and from which we derive instant information, connected identity, diminished privacy and exceptionally vivid here-and-now experiences. In her view they are creating a new environment, with vast implications, More…
23rd July 2014
In Britain the link between private boarding school education and leadership is unbreakable. It seems that, such as our current Prime Minister, paying out for a child to be sent to boarding school and then on the path to Oxbridge means Parliament will welcome them with open arms as successful leaders. However, as Nick Duffell More…
22nd July 2014
Click play to listen to our interview with Jo Johnson about her recent book, ‘Shrinking the Smirch’: Book Review – Shrinking the Smirch I was recently talking with a young man who was struggling with the ongoing and multiple challenges associated with his spinal cord injury. He described the profound fear he experienced when waking More…
14th July 2014
Senior ministers are considering making psychological treatment a mandatory requirement for those people with mental health problems who are receiving the employment and support allowance benefit. Driving this idea is the attempt to reduce the number of people who are in constant receipt of benefits and who are unemployed but may be able to return More…
2nd July 2014
An article about the recently published research by Kasari in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry suggests that adding an iPad to traditional therapy helped children with Autism to develop their communication skills. 61 children took part in a study to compare language and social communication treatment either with or without More…