On the 16th of May 2018 Dr Ken Critchfield from James Madison University, Virginia, USA presented at the Psychology Cultures Seminar his research, scholarship, and clinical casework using Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy (IRT). Attached is his PowerPoint presentation from the day, plus a helpful guide to mindful clinical practice with clients. Critchfield – Its about broken…
Dr Laina Rosebrock presents innovative research as part of the Psychology Cultures Seminar Series, February 4th 2020 Dr. Laina Rosebrock’s seminar focused on the potential to deliver powerful psychological therapy to millions more people using immersive technology. Virtual Reality (VR) is a computer-generated, interactive technology where individuals can repeatedly be immersed in different situations. Within…
Sarah Gunn and Edith Lee, Second Year Trainees, report on a recent visit to James Madison University Given our urban UK and Hong Kong backgrounds, visiting a rural American region was always going to be something of a culture shock (made more dramatic by the week we spent on leave in New York just…
Conference hosted by Trainee Clinical Psychologists, University of Leicester, September 25th 2018 “In today’s environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it.” Professor Joseph L. Badaracco, Harvard Business School Whilst Badaracco may have been referring to unethical secrecy in the financial sector, the…
Leicester trainees report back on a very positive second US visit Making our way to Virginia Three trainees at different points in their journey of UK doctoral training set off to the American state of Virginia to experience the mental health system and the beauty of the rural area first-hand. Between us we had the…
Sameen Malik, Third Year Leicester Trainee, introduces her research into self-care amongst psychologists & invites you to have your say Earlier this year, Madalyn Parker’s post about taking a sick day for her mental wellbeing was re-tweeted over 16,000 times. What got social media animated was not her email asking for the day off, but her CEO’s…
Psychology has traditionally been a discipline that focuses on evidence but, as Liz Valentine observed, it is not always clear what ideas the data are evidence for. Moreover, some regard empiricism as highly conservative: it recycles traditional ideas that validate the status quo, mistrusting ideas and the imagination (summarised in Pilgrim 2015). In Logic of…
One of the service users providing regular input to the course has posted regularly this year about experiences of psychological distress and mental health services in a bid to raise awareness. There are some really interesting new posts so please have a look at the Teal Tiger blog by following this link: https://tealtigerblog.wordpress.com.
Announcement of February Psychology Cultures Seminar We are delighted to announce that Bernadette Wren will be speaking at the Psychology Cultures Seminar in February. The details are as follows: Title: ‘Through understanding to the limits of understanding’: Reflections on the crisis of meaning in work with gender variant children and adolescents Public Talk by Bernadette…
Join us on Weds 29 Nov to help form our new group Psychologists for Social Change is a national network of applied psychologists, academics, therapists, psychology graduates and others who are interested in applying psychology to policy and political action. We held an initial discussion evening in Leicester that was widely attended and established that there…
PSYCHOLOGY CULTURES SEMINAR SERIES We are delighted to announce details of our forthcoming Psychology Cultures Seminar. Places are available on a first-come first-served basis. Please book your place by emailing Carl Gudgeon at cmg16@le.ac.uk. (Trainees and course staff do not have to book.) Why ideas matter Speaker: Professor Jennifer Clegg Monday 4th December 2017 2.30 –…
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