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Degree(s?), experience, skills and training… but still ‘unqualified’?

Katie Voss and Alice McNamara reflect on the unrelenting standards for Assistant Psychologists.

Who looks and sounds like a psychologist

Khadija Rouf argues that there is 'a real, and as yet, unnamed form of prejudice and discrimination against people who are survivors'.

Adoption and trauma

Dominic McSherry on a debate and a journal special issue.

‘Systemic racism permeates all levels of our society’

A letter from Dr Jermaine Ravalier.

Working under a totalitarian regime

A letter from Dr Jeremy Swinson.

How do we address racism in therapy?

A letter from Jonathan Dawson.

From the President, October 2020

Dr Hazel McLaughlin writes on breaking silos and collaborating; why psychology needs to be agile and creative. How can we leverage the benefits of meaningful collaboration to build the BPS of the future?

Time to ‘go big’ on the curriculum

A letter from Emma Haddleton; with a follow up from Lucy Cooper.

Own goal or progress?

A letter from Tim Artus on the BPS Covid Coordinating Group.

Freedom of expression around diversity guidelines

Numerous psychologists call for review of the BPS Guidelines for Psychologists Working with Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity; plus response.

Work capability assessment: review, reform, or replace?

Mo Stewart writes.

Closer attention to height and weight for anorexia?

Hilary Trevelyan writes.

'We hurt. We suffer. We can sometimes cause harm.'

Dr Anna Chiara Sicilia writes.

Why I no longer wish to be associated with the BPS

Ex-member Kirsty Miller wrote with a letter; here, we explain what happened next.

Psychological support in Multiple Sclerosis

Hannah Morris-Bankole and Dr Aileen Ho on a new survey; now with an update (April 2021).

The view from the political pulpit

Adrian West with a letter to the editor.

Turning reflection into meaningful action

Maia Thornton, Mary Keeling and Christine Ramsey-Wade on racism.

PDA – a new type of disorder?

Richard Woods writes on Pathological Demand Avoidance.

Really 'doing better' on racism

Craig A. Harper and Harry Purser argue that institutional virtue-signalling on racial inequality is not good enough, and suggest alternatives.

Naming the poison

Sasha Priddy and James Randall respond to our June cover feature; plus additional letters from Stephen Munt, and Ian Parker.

Time to rewrite the rules

Rachel Holt on the clinical psychology training process, and inclusion.

ACTing autonomously

Liam Myles writes.

Tackling gender imbalance in psychology

Judith Johnson, Anna Madill, Gina Z. Koutsopoulou, Charity Brown and Richard Harris.

Bridging words and images

Dimitra Theodoropoulou responds to an article on art therapy.

A mosaic of fragmented memories

Mohamed Khougali on the therapeutic dimension of oral tradition.