Edition 12
Chris Athanasiades and Allan Winthrop on the role of psychological support in promoting wellbeing at work.
Psychology has for sometime maintained an interest in the promotion of psychological wellbeing in the workplace. Peter Warr’s seminal work (see Warr, 1996) in the 90s has enabled our conceptual...
Fiona Jones on the media's treatment of schizophrenia
Muddier and Muddier
From time to time, schizophrenia hits the headlines, and typically it gets bad press, being too frequently associated with random attacks on passers-by. It got rather...
Mental fitness; interpersonal psychotherapy; clinical psychology and heart disease; cognitive dissonance; statistics; and more
Perfectionism
The stereotypical student sleeps till midday, leaves dishes in the sink for days on end, and is in far greater danger of playing too hard than working too hard. But for many students the drive to...
Marion Kloep and Leo Hendry on how older people discuss and deal with retirement
With the societal changes and shifts of the last few decades, the elderly population of the UK now matches the numbers of teenagers (Coleman & Schofield, 2005). Does this change in the...
John McAlaney and John McMahon on psychology's role in defining and tackling binge drinking
If media reports are to be believed, binge drinking is an increasingly popular pastime of the British public – particularly amongst teenagers and young adults. But how prevalent is it? Figures...
